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John, Thanks for letting us know. I hope to stop by this weekend.

Thanks John ..... Ron

I lost power at 4:00 pm in Sterling this afternoon. Power came back up at 7:45 pm. I had immediately wrapped my 120g tank with blankets and I have Hurrican Cat 5 back for my airstones. All appears well. That was close!

I will keep your offer in mind. I will have to see how the next couple of days turn out. The tank is only partly cloudy this evening. As Tom said, I need to pay attention to my current amonia levels. Thank You very much.

Nate, I didn't have the solution but I sure do have it now thanks to BRK.

I thought that I had a high salinity problem. I kept doing water changes to see if I could drop the salinity down. I have a 120g DT. After abt a month with about three - 20 gal water changes I notice another jump in salinity 1.031. I started to worry even more. Now I was more agressive by taken out about 5 gallons out and adding about 5 gallons of straight RO/DI water about twice a day. Still no changes to the readings (1.031). Oh no, corals appear to be in trouble. So I stopped what I was doing and asked John out at BRK for help. He said to bring in the Refractometer and some water. Some of you might have already suspected what I'm about to tell you. Somehow the adjustment knob on the Refractometer had been moved. John recalibrated my meter. My water sample tested was somewhere about 1.012. John suggested the following of which I was surprise of the magnitude. First he ask me to leave BRK and get home to start the following process. Once home, measure your new baseline salinity reading. Take a 5g bucket and add 10 cups of salt. Wow Mix it well with a power head and add about 2.5gal to the DT. Take a reading in one hour. He suggested that the recommended salinity increase per hour of .001 would be acceptable. That is precisely what happened. So every hour or so I would remove water from the DT when necessary and replace it with additional SUPER saturated salt water. This morning my 120g DT is still quite cloudy but the salinity is right at 1.026. The fish are doing fine but most of the corals at this point look like a lost cause. Most on my criters have also been lost. To say the least I am very disapointed as it appears that I have lost just about all of my inverts. $$$$ I'm not sure if I'm quoting anybody specific but a quote such as "A wise man shouldn't ever repeat his mistakes, but a wiser man shouldn't repeat the mistake of others". I hope that the above situation never happens to any of you and if it does you'll remember this post. Thanks again to John Bianchi at BRK.

That is interesting as I do have a Coco worm located at the other end of the tank. At the moment the Coco worm has either pulled into its sleeve or as you suggested it is now trying to eat it. I'll have to keep an eye on this. Thanks

Can anyone tell me what is going on with this coral. Notice the red/white polyps ?? or whatever it is that is growing out of this coral. I have had this frag for about one year and it is only recently that it appears to me multiplying but this red/white growth from within is something that I have yet to previously see. Any idea whats happening here?? Thanks

I have the following: Lawnmower blennie Pacific Blue Tang Kole Tang Yellow Tang 4 Anthias Copperband Angel 4 blue Cromies Small Yellow Gobie The Blennie was occasionally chased by the Kole. Maybe be decided for a little revenge.

The Kole is getting better and the injuries appear to be healing. It has never acted like that there was anthing wrong with it during this past week. I have feed twice a day and have included the garlic supplement by Brightwell in their afternoon feedings. Thanks for the advice and support from eveyone.

Bob, That definitely cross my mind but I hadn't seen my Yellow tang ever go after the Kole. Although the Yellow has gone after my smaller Hippo tang. I guess the re-aquascapping has created a new turf struggle. I appreciate you all looking at the pictures. Ron

Thanks for the comments guys. As I'm still very new to the hobby (15 months) my worse fear was some sort of disease. So I gather that no one thinks that I should try to remove him from the tank for now. Getting him out would be quite the task.

Need ID No new fish for at least 2 months and no new frags place in the tank for a couple of weeks. I did re-aquascape my tank without adding anything new to it three days ago. Is this nothing more than stress from my aquascaping or whatever? The blemishes that you see is located on both sides on this fish. He is acting and eating as normal. No other fish seems to have a problem. Appreciate your help. Thanks

Chip, That is actually what I do and I had just cleaned out my Kalk stirrer and reloaded for the week on Friday afternoon. My ATO going through the stirrer was on for about 20 min. This happen at 3:30 today and the tank is now showing signs of clearing a bit. That pinned post and my current ph of abt 8.3 has relaxed me a bit. Thanks

nelson_crn, Thanks for providing me with this pin. My ph hasn't changed from it's normal 8.3 to 8.4. It is definitely not 8.6. I will continue to monitor and in the meantime I've got my RO/DI unit running. Again, many thanks for the pinned information. PS. Ron - Retired USAF