Recent content by dabears1983

Osama, You have to make sure you are posting pictures during your set up of your next tank, stage by stage so we can all see the excellent water flow system that you have. I would assume you are going to be putting the same one in your the next tank. Or at least you should. Your current...

To all the people looking at this tank, these pictures are beautiful yes. But to see this tank in person, you will not be able to take your eyes off of it. You stare and stare and then stare some more. Its like you are in a mini reef looking straight into the glass. This tank is absolutely...

My fish load is a follows 1 yellow watchman gobie 1 yellow tang 1 blue sergin tang 2 purple tangs 1large 1small 1 blue green chromis 2 yellow tail damsels 1 austrailian pseudochromis 1 bi colored pseudochromis 2 lier tail antheis 1 coral beauty 1 10 in orange surpant star sorry I forgot to add...

Just to clear up some things that we might have been unclear about. We have a 135 living reef with a 30 gal sump. And a 11 gal refugum separate from the sump. The tank water if being gravity fed from the top of the tank to, the refugum, to the sump. There are several pieces of live rock...

No its not sargaussum,,, I also have caulerpa in the sump, along with some live rock...

The caulerpa is doing fine, has not gone asexual, I harvest a couple of handfulls every week. My refugium is 10 gallons, and its seperate from my sump.I am battling a strange type of algea, its has a dark red color, its definately not red slime, its really hard to get of the rocks{not...

I`m using DI water, amonia and nitrites are zero,,thanks

Yes I have my lfs can came up with same readings I did, and my top off water tested 0 nitrates,,, by the way thank you for the fast response..

Help anybody,,,,,, I don`t know what else to do short of tearing my tank down... No matter what I do I can`t seem to get my nitrates below 30 ppm. I tried several major water changes, at least 40 %. I`ve added a refungian with 4 inches of live sand and grape culerpa, keeping lights on 24/7...