Recent content by Dolomiteclay

how did you cut this thing.

Awesome idea. I installed a little fan behind the light and it helped for sure, but I will do this as well for piece of mid. Thanks for the great tip.

I have 250 Coral Life MH fixture on my 65 gallon tank right now, and I noticed yesterday that the center plastic plastic strip in the middle of the aquarium gets really hot when the MH bulb is on. I run it for 6 hours per day and I really don't want to go any less than that. I'm worried about...

Law...I think it was a parasite. I added what I thought was my last clam and shortly after they all died. Yet another reason for a good quarantine tank.

Thanks for the replies. I have yet to verify my test kits yet and that is something I need to do. I haven't tested the makeup water for TDS, but I have checked my water after I mix it before I added it to the tank. All parameters were good...nitrate and po4 were zero as they should. I'm...

I have ran out of options here, and I wanted to try here first before I try something extreme. My 75 gallon tank has been up and running for a year. Its stocked with the following 1 yellow tang 1 green chromis 2 false clowns 1 possum wrasse 1 six line wrasse 1 lawnmower blenny xenia colonies...

I guess I need to set up a quarentine tank then. I have a 20 gallong long that I was going to use as my sump that wouldn't fit under my 72 that is just sitting in my basement now. Would that be big enough....I always thought that nano reefs were a little tougher. So I could use that as a...

well that's a bummer.....I'll have to get some emerald crabs.

They will eat the bubble algae? I got a foxface after doing more research. It is doing well, but not eating algae.

After doing more reading that seems to be the concensus. The book I have used during most of my reef building says 8.3 to 8.4, but I was fine before. Everyone seems to be doing fine today and the pH was at 8.19 this morning at 7 and is currently at 8.32. Thanks for all of the help

So far so good....everything seems to be ok as of now. I went on ahead and cleaned out the kalk reservoir with ro water......now I have to wait until I can make more.

So I recently got a pH controller and I would notice that the pH would drop down to around 8 or even 7.9 at times at night, and it was only getting up to 8.2 during the day. My corals were doing fine and so were the fish, but I was trying to get it up to around 8.3. So I figured that I would...

What about a foxface....I have a little bit of the "bubble algae" and I have read that they eat them.

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll do some more research and probably wait until the spring. That way if I order it online it will be less likely to die off if they leave the package on my front door.

My reef has been setup for around 8 months now, and I want add another fish. Currently I have two clowns, three blue chromis, a lawnmower blenny, various snails and crabs, a starfish, and a possum wrasse in my 72 gallon reef. I feel that things are established and I would like to get a yellow...