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Size of coral reefs

Take "GroTheory "brand TDS meter out of box. I bought it off Amazon. It was highly rated. Put it in the solution HM Digital 1000ppm TDS Calibration Solution It reads 1300. Retested after rinsing and drying probes but same result. Reset it? Replace batteries? Heard you need to stir probe in solution. The seller contacted the factory in China I'm my behalf: "Hi Scott, Thank you for your reply. The factory replied that if the TRS Meter displays about 1000, it is relatively standard, but if the TRS Meter is bought and placed for more than 1-2 days, there will be an error in the value. If you meet any thing, you can contact us at any time. Best regard! " I think something got lost in translation.

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I saw dead funghia on healthy reefs but on sick ones too. Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

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On the North shore of Bali the other day (I know you have cold rain back there not trying to rub it in) swim out about 200 yards maybe --everywhere funghia plate corals. All the size of dinner plates or soup bowls. And just about all of them are pale white, the color of bone not single bit of flesh on them. Dozens in the small area that I swam. I did see one the size of a dinner plate with a bright pink color. It was beautiful. Two years ago in Raja Ampat I saw the thing same thing. A handful had a patch of flesh. Wamas taught me when the flesh dies, babies are born on the stoney remains. I'm thinking in their natural environment they spend 99% of their life growing to full size and then stay like that for a very brief period --maybe 5% of their life. Could explain why we see a lot of things die in our tanks. No? Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

https://reefbuilders.com/2019/06/18/fuschia-pink-lava-coals-diaseris-coming-soon-to-the-divers-den/ Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

I have no quarantine but I dip most frags with bayer pesticide and examine the frag very carefully with a big magnifying glass. I once saw a zoa eating nudibranch on a frag and killed it before it became a problem. Not a perfect method but it helps.

I wish I had one thin dime for every harem of clownfish I saw on the reefs of Indonesia hosting a carpet anemone.

Happy reef-birth day

Yes, that's right I'm having trouble growing Xenia. Also, my cheato is shrinking. My zoas and other soft corals are fine although the zoas, the GPS and the clove corals are growing slowly. There is no trace of algae on the rock. If the problem is too-clean-water then what do you do? Make it dirty? Overfeed? Add a fish?

I've had the red light for about year and it did not make any dramatic difference.

Why has my chaetomorpha shrunk from a basketball size clump to almost nothing? I have a regular plant grow bulb and a red light grow bulb ("ABI 25W Deep Red 660nm LED Light Bulb Bloom Booster for Flowering, Fruiting, and Grow Spectrum Enhancement", https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071Z12H67/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1) I guess the obvious answer is low phosphates. Is the red light thing nonsense? Maybe phosphates are low because of the cheato but then shouldn't it have grown bigger? More light? Add another fish?

This and of course rinse it with tank water not fresh.

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With HOBs it depends. I had a newly setup 20 Long turn green once.The water was so green that you could not see through to the other side. A HOB with carbon floss cleared it up in a day. Also, a year ago I had bad nitrate spike and I could not for the life of me find the source. Ran my finger on the inside of the freshwater reservoir and felt a slime. TDS showed 300 in the reservoir. Cleaned the reservoir out, refilled it, tested it to zero TDS and did water changes. Nitrates went away.

Hello. I'm new to this hobby and I'm having trouble growing mushrooms. What do?

Sleepin with the fishes?

I have always been able to reduce their spread. Power head right on them and they fall off Cover them with a thick rock and they come off Also, I only put them on smaller rocks to begin with. If they spread I sell that rock and put a new rock in it's place Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk

I've been fighting aptasia for months. I kill it the moment I see it and then a new one pops up. I may need a AP Taser

Why? Too much light? They are under 40 - 50 par. Not enough light?

I've seen Mandarins eat bristle worms. You have those? The tank bred ones will eat frozen.

Cheato in my fuge grows a ridiculous amount of pods. Bigger fuge? Unless you have a giant tank, you can't grow enough pods to feed a scooter and 2 mandarins.

There are mixes with lower alk. Why don't you try a 50% water change with one?