gmubeach

Nice clean looking tank

Did you ever find the clownfish? Glad to see your found some fish.... I'm still fighting the cyno and grape culerpa its going ok, but its a long and ardoius process!

I deal with these issues every day, raising alk/ph to help waste burn. For my reef tank, I just always dosed two part/ did regular water changes used "good expensive salt" Every once in a while I'll add trace elments... and I heavly feed my coral. I guess I should probably start keeping an eye out considering I've been using prodibio and its finally starting to kill the grape culerpa in the tank or infact lowering the nutreints to a managable level. Thanks for all your guys help.... I'm still trying to help my coworker with his tank. MY tank runs with a protien skimmer a hang on the back refugium and thats about it... SO I'm knew to all these biopellet reactors and stuff... I have another question hes got a trickle filter with bioballs that he cleans when it gets deitritus in it. Hes got way more out dated equipment then I know what to do with so far hes got the following a trickle filter/ small live rumble and an attempted cheato growing sump. 2 canister filters 1 with uv. A couple of cooling fans a brand new biopellet reactor that looks like its functioning optimiumly. Hes got a fan cooled hood and a glass top with 2 par38's and 1 large compactflourences.... He put a small fan in the stand to cool off the tank. He was running 84degrees or so and his house is like 76 degrees. He claims his large protein skimmmer pump is driving up the tempurature... His nitrates and amonia are slowly leveling out... The tank may or may not have had copper we keep testing, but find none. I've read a lot on it the past couple of days about leaching. and stuff so the next step I think is to get a polyfilter? Thanks as always for your guy's help. Some things he does really well others hes very stuborn. Hes a good bit older then me. GOOD example hes got a mandrin thats fatter healthier then mine, but he has no pods or even starfish.... thing eats frozen and only frozen... Bad Example: he doesn't do the research before he buys hes got this wrasse thats killing his fish, he claims they are playing? GOOD example: Hes very good at constructing stuff .... If I need any thing shopped I'm sure he can do it... Anyway He works with me so I guess I'm in it for the haul. Last night I noticed the top fin of his butterfly was missing he said it was lost during play. The butterfly was clearly attacking the lunar wrasse he thought they were playing. Anyway I can only help can't overstep... just a little frustrated.

Alright I will see if I can pick some up. Any other suggestions?

Its been 7 years as a matter of fact, I just havn't tested for ph in a long time I test alkanity and calcium every few months and my ph never seems to change. Also hes got power compacts and hes using the par 38's as spot lights to grow the coral. I'm sure he could of grown basic corals without the par 38's, but I told him it would be a good upgrade. Maybe I'm wrong but isn't ph controled by 2 part or water changes? I've never had an issue? Anyway need to read more on ph.

Wow and you had such pretty rock work I know your efforts will pay off!

Yep I know about the lunar wrasse hes got a type of butterfly without its long fin...I keep trying to tell him to get rid of the wrasse but he claims its his favorite. So I hate not having control of the tank its his. I'm going to see if I can get a hold of a salifert copper test kit this week.... but if the wrasse will nip at zoos thats probably the culperit hes so big too its like a 6 inch long in a 75 gallon its obvious why his fish are dispearing. Anyway MY tank is doing really well for the first time in a long time!

hmm from what I read it leaches back from the live rock and the silcon on the tank. I still am unsure as the copper test kit reads zero or right below zero. Let me see if the mushrooms grow any if they do its defenlty not copper... I'm so frustrated!

Its a lyretail wrasse/moon wrasse/lunar wrasse. I was concerned about copper and bought a test kit for it? Tested out at zero. We can test it again, is there any way to get rid of the copper if it is in the tank? That was one of my first suspicions copper, but the test kit reads zero and if it was used it hasn't been used in the last year maybe never. Also if copper was used why would the feather duster live for a month? I thought copper harmed all invertabrates not just corals. We just reran the copper test its zero or less then 0.25.... So hard to read these api tests. Any one have experience with copper in the marine aquarium.

I seeded it with live rock from another wamas member and from my tank. Its growing currently. API is the brand of test kit is salfurt a better test kit? Hes cut back feedings to 1 time a day to control amonia. I've just never seen zoo's and mushrooms in the same tank with the same lighting parameters take diffrenlty. We've been trying diffrent placement in his tank. Doesn't seem to do much. I had these corals for 3 months in my tank and the zoos had double in size. and were all the way open when we put in his tank. At first I thought maybe its the ph adjuster maybe? His salnity is 1.024 checked with a refractometer. Not terribly sure about the temp the thermometer says 82-84 We are hooking up a fan in the sump. Still would like to try and save the zoo's.

I'm helping a coworker with a tank. He had fish only setup for the last 10 years. He took one look at my tank and decided he wanted to try and go reef. So we've been trying to convert the tank. I noticed I didn't see any corraline growing anywhere. I thought at first maybe lighting and then maybe calcium or alkalinty. We've been adjusting the water with 2 part. Well somehow I made a mistake and he added too much of the calcium part. Readings are as follows 30 drops of an api test kit so thats well over 520ppm of calcium Everything else was ideal according to several test kits accept one thing The test kit had a ph test on it and it was low. I've never tested for ph on my tank wouldn't even know what it does. Its between a 7.8-8.0 The alkalinty fell in the "ideal range". About 2 weeks ago his nitrates were high very high. So he installed a biopellet reactor the nitrates fell and so we put in some coral. I started him off with green mushrooms, zoos and one lps. All the previous attempts to add coral have failed. This time everything but the zoo's seem fine.... the zoo's won't open at all... Lighting is 2 par 38's and he had a power compact perviously. The tank is 75g so the tank is considerably deeper then mine. So it might be a light issue, but I doubt it the tank looks like its getting enough light. The coraline is starting to grow its the red kind not the purple kind it is not cyno. He had a very happy feather duster in the tank, but he has some kind of wrasse that made short work of it after 1 month of being in there. I told him to put the worm back encase it only got the brim. I need to id this wrasse asp need to get my camera out. Hes also using some kind of PH adjuster raises ph to control the ph I'm new to the whole ph concept. SO what would your next move be? I want to get the water right first and then focus on the problems of species and ecology. I got him a do/ro machine and hes been putting di/ro water in the tank for about 2 months. Any help would be appreacated I just don't see how some corals can grow and some won't.

and the rics were sweet!

Pet smart charges per cricket I have 5 lizards:( I'm defenlty going to go to super pets either today or tommorow for thier midnight madness sale.... I feel bad for all the animals that are going to have to be rehomed..... Least they don't carry dogs/cats..... Anyway is anyone else from the club going?

Anyone know of a good place to get crickets near springfeild?

Yea I can co confirm we get crickets there, sadly they are moving:(

I'm intrested in how this turns out my friend has a pool and wants to collect rain water during the spring clornated it and feed warm water back in the summer.

Wow what a scam:) If its too good to be true it usually is!

Go on a tank tour see whats out there.....My friend always tells me unless you see it with your eyes... He hates when I order random "stuff" off theintenrenet.

Welcome to wamas:)

Where did you get the xenia from? Its very pretty I would think its blue xenia... and if it is you got a huge peice...

You can also find whale bones and fossilized turtle shells.. SO don't throw away things that aren't teeth.

I love distracting people in the night time, makes time at the plant more intresting... Anyway I have a hang on the back and when mine overflows it gets on the carpet:(

So its blue xenia or another type? The peppermints are the ones I was talking about I've heard people loosing xenia to them. The type of xenia is very important for instance I can grow pulsing xenia day and night, but blue xenia is a lot harder in some tanks. If it was me I'd go in at night with a flash light and see if the peppermints were picking on it. I had xenia growing like a forest in my biocube back in the day. There are like 6 types of xenia do you know what kind it is?

Whats your lighting/flow. What kind of xenia are we talking about. I can't tell from the picture, but its its pusling and its in high flow it won't pulse. I've also heard of some types of shrimp eating it.

This is a dumb question, I've heard of people having trouble with xenia if their tanks are too clean my guess would be that some corals would be the same way what are you using to control your nitrates?