Recent content by brad789

how old is your tank? honestly, you have too many fish in that size tank and too few pounds of live rock to be able to deal with the waste products your bioload is going to produce. i would drop your fishload down to 2. your mandarin will eventually starve to death unless you are really...

which has a higher par, and thus more beneficial for photosynthetic inverts: aquasun or actinicwhite? what am i loosing or gaining (other than visual appearence) if i switch out one of my super actinics with one of the above mentioned bulbs? i'm currently running a 10k hallide in addition to...

i don't know if this will help but i had to find a way to keep my snails from getting stuck in the outflow of my refugium tube. all i did was super glue plastic toothpicks in a fence formation every 1/2" across the tube opening. brad

looking for a lighting change. i find my current setup too white and harsh on the eyes (175w 10k and 2-95 vho actinics). is there such a thing as a 65k 175w hallide? thanks. brad

i have a toadstool that is getting too large for my tank. the lfs doesn't want it because of lack of room in their tanks. it's very beautiful, about 2.5" diameter stalk and about a 7" diameter crown when fully extended. i'm looking for red mushrooms, blue frilly mushrooms, colorful ricordia...

here's my update.... my maxima has not shown pinching. he gaped for two days afterward and his color was very drab. it's been almost a week since his dip and his color is beginning to come back. keep your fingers crossed. since the maxima was working out well i decided to dip the crocea...

this is a great discussion. two days ago i dipped my maxima. no more pinching, but time will tell if this works especially since i did not dip the other two clams. i have no idea what it is but the hypoteses presented here seem sound. minh, so after three months are your clams looking as...

texman- did you follow the dipping method that minh used? what were your results?

i'd like to get a discussion going on a condition that possibly contributes to or is a symtom of something causing clam death. minh nguyen has a thread going on over at reefs.org about it, with pics ... http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=169654#169654 i have seen a similar condition with...

so should i not worry about my ph spiking by 3/10ths of a point within 30 seconds? that's really my concern is the fast spike from 7.9-8.2 in a matter of seconds. thanks.

question for those who use b-ionic or those familiar with it... i slowly add 15ml of each component to my tank (specs below )every morning. i have noticed that BEFORE i add component #1 the tank water is consistently around 7.9 every morning. upon ADDING #1, the tank ph jumps to about 8.2 for...

i'm looking to try out beginner sps frags and need suggestions on what types would do well in my system: tank is 8 mos old, 40g (36"x18"x16"), 1x175w 10k (on 10hrs) and 2x95w vho actinic (on 12hrs) both 4" from surface, about 80 lbs of live rock, 50lbs of live sand, cpr bakpack 2 skimmer...

would it color up better if i move it under more light?

i keep seeing pics of incredible coloring on ricordias. i've had mine for 4mos now and it is a blah grey under mh lighting. however, under actinics is is fluorescent green and purple. it appears to be in good health, expanding to about 6" in diameter, nice full polyps, and i think starting to...

thanks...the tang is about 3" in diameter and will be returned to the lfs once he's bigger. he's the only fish in the tank and seems happy enough for now.