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    Does anyone ever shut off their skimmer during the week for a period of time?

    I can in no way call myself an expert, but I do have some experience and I have read pages upon pages of information on how other people do it, and the results they acheive. While it is considered to be standard practice to run a skimmer 24/7, there are those out there who have achieved great...
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    PH question

    Test Kits I don't know about test strips but I have recently experienced inaccuracy with RedSea brand PH test kits. I performed the test exactly to directions and got a reading in excess of 8.6, at which point I became a little concerned and dug out my laborotory grade PH meter and found my PH...
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    Purple Coraline

    Hey, Got another one for you guys... Someone told me that scraping coraline algae from a rock with the filters temporarily shut down and the powerheads still running will promote faster spreading of coraline algae by spreading it about. This sounds fairly logical, but before I go sacrificeing a...
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    Scratches in a glass tank

    Removing a glass panel I know you already acomplished this but I figured I would make a comment here for any future readers of this thread as I have completely disassembled and reasembled my 250 gallon tank and learned a little along the way... I found that when cutting out panes, patience is...
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    SCS - Surprise Coral Stony

    I'm working on putting pictures up right now... Thanks for the help Nikki -Dave
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    Another Mystery

    Thanks alot guys I appreciate the help. That is definitely them, though I couldn't get a decent picture of them to post. Thanks again.
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    Another Mystery

    Ok here's another one, On the sides of my tank I am finding small (.050" - .100") creatures I cannot identify. They are white, translucent, and appear to be made up of not much more than a mouth and two trailing "tails" kind of like on the back of one of those tuxedoes that musical...
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    SCS - Surprise Coral Stony

    I got some liverock and it had some apparently dead coral skeletons on it. After only a few days it became apparent that one of them was not dead. It slowly began spontaneously regenerating. The problem is I am having a problem identifying it and am therefore unable to determine how to keep it...
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