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Paul B: "Fish get Pop Eye all the time" Not if you give them decent growing conditions. Paul B: "Bleach is just chlorine gas in water. If you left a bottle of bleach un opened, it would become fresh water as the gas evaporates. After the bleach does it's job, it evaporates leaving just pure water." Really? Paul B: "Don't do this." Good advice.

Here are "Big Mama" and "Baby Boy," my mated pair of black false perculas. *** -R

Typical of cyano "cures"... -R

Why not just be patient and wait for your tank to get in balance? Cyano "cures" are just bandaids on the problem. Instead of relying on quick fixes, keep basic tank params normal, and your cyano will vanish in a few months. No need for silly Bio- this or Pro- that. -R

Yep, they're fun pets until they crawl out of your tank two weeks later and die. -R

This is why I'm starting to like WAMAS even less than reefcentral....too many "experts" who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, or changed three or four things and got a result they were happy with, or tried one thing and it worked for them, ignoring the fact that their unique circumstances don't necessarily apply to anyone else. Without even knowing what Jan's "clusters of bubbles" are, how can you be so self-congratulatory in solving her problem? -R

Congratulations to Steve Mihelarakis (SteveM) for being selected as March '09 TOTM. You can see Steve's set up and interview by clicking on TOTM in the menu above or clicking this link Congratulations to Dan Lichens (Dandy7200) for being chosen as August '09 TOTM. You can see his awesome set up and interview by clicking on TOTM in the menu above or clicking this link Congratulations to Onyx for being chosen as May '09 TOTM. You can see their set up (it's really her tank) and interview by clicking on TOTM in the menu above or clicking this link. Congratulations to Justin Casp () for being chosen as June '09 TOTM. You can see his awesome set up and interview by clicking on TOTM in the menu above or clicking this link. -R

Necrosis can develop when a coral gets to a certain size...it's a prelude to asexual reproduction. It can also develop as a response to stress, i.e. the coral thinks it's going to die, so it deliberately "rots" parts of itself, in hopes that the remaining healthy bits will survive. -R

Jan, are you sure the clusters of bubbles are algae? I only ask because IME bubble algae (or the ones that will turn into nuisance algae, like Bryopsis) are hard to dislocate with a turkey baster. Could they just be oxygen bubbles? If they are indeed algae, you are just making the problem worse by blowing them around :( It may just be a coincidence...you can have zero (measurable) phosphates and still have problems with bubble and/or other nuisance algae. -R

+1, tunicates, not a sponge. And they may die off suddenly. -R

I just don't see the point...instead of subjecting freshwater fish to a too-high salinity, and saltwater fish to a too-low salinity, why not just keep two tanks? -R

Thx James. Not much flow at all...basically two Hagen 802s (or whatever they're called now). A little flow from the skimmer and refugium, and that's it! -R

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I'm wondering how difficult it would be to keep an "audit trail" of posts, i.e. archive the entire message when it's first posted, but then keep a record of any changes. That would allow users to edit posts as they wished, but if there any question of impropriety, would allow the admins to retrace what was said, and take appropriate action. Some message board software can do that, dunno (obviously) about this one. Not sure that this is a good idea, unless you can read the state of mind of the poster. Sometimes people say things in the heat of the moment, or just carelessly.... -R

Ah....thank you! I wondered why my water was giving off such a smell of chlorine these past few days. -R