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I have a 150G tank and a 1300 g/h return pump, mix corals. Do you think adding two Koralia 3 pumps will be too much?

The cleaner shrimps spawn about once two weeks. They need two together to reproduce. I tried to raise the babies few years ago with no success. I can only keep the babies for 20 days max.

Don't you need to replace the carbon like once a month? Seems a lot of work and pretty messy to take it in and out. No experience with phosphate. Does it need to replaced like carbon in a regular basis?

What do you use fluidized reactor for? Do you run it 24x7?

Standard Six footprint is 10"x13" and 26.5" height. There is a Modified Eheim 1262 recirculating pump on this skimmer. Air draw is 700lph. Twist lock flange is standard and needs about 250-300 gph to feed it. Should handle 200 gallons heavily stocked with ease.

interesting read about brooder and broadcaster. http://www.coral.noaa.gov/cleo/coral_spawning.shtml

I took some pictures but I don't think they are going to be any good. I can't do any good close up shots and I still don't know how to set my white balancing.

Few nights ago, I was watching TV and I noticed my clowns were feeding in the water column but I did not feed the tank anything. I was wondering that were they eating. All of a sudden I saw a white cloud came out of the frogspawn. It did that off and on for about few hours. I can actually see the eggs in the translucent tentacles rising slowly from the base to the top. Very interesting night.

I had those a while back. It is almost gone by now. This algae is VERY VERY hard, like a brush. It attaches to the rock like no others. You can't pull it. If you hold just a few you can lift the entire rock and it wouldn't break. It started with a very small area then grew like half of a fist size. I had a yellow tang that ate the algae from time to time. I added a purple tang later. They both plucked the algae from time to time. The algae became smaller and smaller. I had a little other type of algae at the same time. I am not sure it was the tangs that did the trick or my water quality got improved. All the algae will gone later. I do believe add another tang helped for sure.

Yes, wondering how many people use oyster shell.

Can someone comment on the following? "Oyster Shell is nothing but Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Carbonate. When the Oyster shell dissolves due to the presence of acid water, it liberates Calcium, Magnesium, and Carbonates. These mineral liberations increase the hardness of the water (contributing nothing to Buffering capacity) and the Carbonates increase the Alkalinity. Thus, the pH is stabilized. Crushed Coral is Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Carbonate but also contains a central structural molecule of Calcium Hydroxy-appetite. (I didn't name the stuff.) The significance of this is that when the crushed coral dissolves, it leaves behind the insoluble Calcium Hydroxy-appetite which is not a contributor to pH stability. While crushed oyster shell dissolves and vanishes, letting you know when to add more, the crushed coral remains, looking good but doing nothing."

Yes I bought that pair of A. chrysopterus from BRK. Never had good luck with them before. Does not matter if I do copper, formalin or hyposalinity. Hopefully they will do well this time.

Ok thanks. I might have to sell the ocellaris.

It is a 5' tank.

I am going to pick up a pair of blue strips clownfish. I am debating if I should remove my ocellaris pair. Can 2 pairs live peacefully in a 150G tank?

I am sorry but i hate it.

Everything back to normal. Did not lose any coral or fish. Product works well.

I used a turkey baster to blow them off the rock and I have the socks also. I did not see much in the socks. Maybe I don't have that many FW.

My tank got infected lately. I want to use FWE before they are out of control. I have a 150G tank + a sump. I estimated I have about 150G of water total. I played around in a small container for a while to see how much FWE I need to use. I have a lot of mini serpent sea stars. I like to find a dosage that kills the FW but not the sea star. I put some in a 5G container with FW. Two drops FWE kill both in less than 30 minutes. A small drop makes them stressed but not dead for an hour. That means almost two drops for a gallon. The recommended dosage is 4 drops for 5 gallons but many people reported they need to use 2X recommended dosage. Each bottle is 200 drops. I went ahead put in 190 drops which is much lower than my calculation but stronger than the recommended. To my surprise , FW started dying in 5-10 minutes (at least floating in the water column). Sea starts came out their hiding places. I used a net to catch all the FE in the water column. I siphoned out stressed sea stars. Did a 30G water change and use fresh active carbon. Corals and fish seem OK. Will keep you posted.

Everything is about 6 month old, prefilters, membrane etc. I will check the TDS reading pre and port membrane.

Does anyone have some for sale or point me to a good vendor? My RO started with 0 PPM 6 month ago now it back to 60 PPM.

How is the eating habbit of the Rainford? Do they take flake?

I am trying to get couple of gobies for my tank (150G with sand bed). Does anyone here have experience with Twin Spot or Rainford? Twin Spot is my first choice but I had problem keeping them before. Not sure if Rainford will be easier. Are they compatible with 6 line Wrasses?

I asked this question lately in the forum. My RO is in the basement and my tank is on the first floor. I ran the tube from my RO to the tank through air duct (hope it doesn't leak) since my basement is all finished. I use the top off system from fishbowl-innovations.com. It works quite well. I don't see any problem if your tank in on the top floor. The only issue is that if two tanks need water at the same time it goes to the one that has less pressure. At least that is how mine works. Maybe the pressures on the two outlets are too much of a difference. You may or may not have that problem. Bob

Does it put in too much presure to the reactor from a return pump?