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I was wondering if anyone out there could help me with my dilema.I have some sun coral polyps and quite a bit of coraline algae.The problem is that the coraline has begun growing up and around the polyps attempting to cover them completely.How can I attempt to remove the coraline(purple) without...

I would definetely say the price is right.(Around here anyway).$65 for the ballast in an aluminum enclosure,the socket,and a bulb.(which of course I cannot use).It' a big bulky egg shaped bulb.I am not to sure if I want to run two 400 watters plus vho.(Hydro),I may still purchase it and hold out...

Thanks.I thought that I should go with the two,but then again the vho has been my sole lighting up until now.I just thought with it being a 400 watt balast there may be hope mounting it centrally.

Hi.I have a chance to pick up a 400 watt metal halide ballast and socket pretty cheap and was wondering if it may be ok to use just the one bulb over a 4' tank?Right now I am currently using a ice cap 660 with 4 110 watt bulbs.Should I place the 400 watt in the center of my canopy and continue...

star polyps perhaps?I have a clump of bright green (encrusting) star polyps in my tank that are really starting to spread.

I have used chemi-pure,good product.Does not last as long as they say though.The purigen I put in has polished the water quite nicely though.I'll have to wait and see if it has any impact on the cyano.Funny thing is that I cannot understand though is that it appears about midday,builds up...

Thanks.They seem to be a lot cheaper than "aquarium"rated ones.

Does anybody here use the hanna instruments line of metering devices to measure water quality in their tank?I see they have several that will measure an array of parameters but do not know if they can be used in a reef enviroment.Or even if they will be accurate.The one I am looking at measures...

Yes I do use a ro unit that I have also installed a di unit to it.I also drip kalk 24/7.Maybe I am mixing the kalk too strong and it is not performing as it should.No hair algae though.The red slime came in on a lfs purchase that I made approx 3 months ago.It had to be the live rock purchase...

thanks.I was initally going to use red slime remover.A product containing erythromycin,but thought to myself"hey that wouldn't be good".So I bought a fighting conch,a cucumber and a sand sifting starfish.Maybe the s.s starfish is actually stirring the bed up so much it is making my problem...

Will either of these products help in my battle with red slime?Will they have any negative impact on my reef?Any advice on these two products would be appreciated.Thanks.

I was thinking on getting a few alternative products to carbon.Anybody have any experience with these two by seachem?Renew and purigen.Any input would be appreciated.

Anybody ever use these products?good results?bad results?side effects?Any input would be appreciated.

OK here goes.If the K rating on a bulb means what colour spectrum the bulb burns at howecome we have to supplement our higher K lamps with 03 actinic?For example the uri actinic whites are supposed to be a 12000K bulb.So why not just use "say" 4 of them instead of 2 and 2?Anything over 10000K is...

check the floor,he may have jumped out.I had on dissapear on me and when I moved the tank about 6 months later I found him all dried up stuck to the carpet behind the tank.