Recent content by Will C1

you put live sand and some rubble rock in there and grow different types of algeas or culerpa in there to help naturlly reduce your nutrients. when you trim the plants and throw them out you are exporting nutrients allong with them. good luck.

the corals you want will be just fine under your current lighting.

get rid of the dls roll and dont add another one. its making your nitrates high. also do yo u have a dsb in there? i dident notice a mention of substraight.

well i dident buy it! it was given to me by my friends at my lfs because it was dieing on them. and i have a wonderfull tank so im trying to save it.

your choclate chip probably ate it. i had a huge seabae anemonie and a huge star, and woke up one mourning to find he was eating it and it was almost gone. sorry to hear your bad luck. chalk this one up to expierience.

they had it for a month under a single 175 mh. and it did that to it. i guess a lot can be said for good lighting in this instance. its mid level right now and responding well. it allready is way greener than it was in their tank. and i placed it right in front of my hagen 900 (its 10 years old...

here's a pic of a coral i rescued from my lfs. they had him in low current and under low lighting. from most of my research i would say he's a leptoseris cuculata from the bahamas. i placed him under my 400 mh hoping to save him. my calcuim is 420 my water is now good and he is fully colored...

i think thats the 600 gph. however im running a 1000gph pump split between two returns and mine is handelling it fine. do you have a make or model number i can look up?

i still just cant believe that the levels havent bugged an inch from set up to now. you should be getting some sort of readings it just sound too good to be true to me. i like sailfert test kits. or the red sea ones. they seem to work the best. mabe try getting the sailfert nitrate test kit and...

i can get you better than that lol. what size is the pipe coming out of the over flow? that will tell me how much you can handel.

good for you bud! but i still wont buy one lol. i still would rather build one.

saw the new post and i have seen it before. as stated before your tank is rather new to have any corals in it, but since you cant change that. when they spit their guts out like that it means ther real pissed off. i have only seen this when i cut them to spread them. so theres something wrong...

that sucks john. it ate your cool creepy crawlies. oh well you live and learn. im gonna get a maited pair of clown triggers when i move and get the larger tank. at the trop in romulus they are selling a few pairs of them for $300 a pair. there quite huge 7-8" and playfull. i want one so bad now...

oh a condy :oops: i was thinking of a giant clam :lol:

something in your water is turning into nit. for the algeas to eat. i would guess its the tap water as its hard to say exactllt whats in it. get some ro and do a good change it will help.