chris1017

I am torn on this subject. On one hand I hate to see any animal hunted, especialy when it is a mammal. On the other hand, whale hunting has been part of a lot of cultures for hundreds of years and in some cases still heavely relied upon as a major food source. Whales have always been a passion of mine so it is difficult to stand on the side line and watch, but the situation you are refering to deals with a commuinity that all pull together for the hunt and all share in the spoils. I don't agree with large scale commercial hunting but don't feel as if I have the right to judge community's who are hunting for their own survival. Especially when I live in a country that not longer hunts it's food, but rather raises stock to be slaughtered by the thousands, usually while beign mistreated. Even after trying to reason it still stings me to see it happen, but it is a part of life. chris

my fuge is sand, rock and 3 macros and a couple snails. this is fed from 1 of my over flows wich passes over my turf scrubber. chris

Granular Ferric Oxide chris

I think it was Santamonica who said you can discolor your tank water if you scrape in the tank. chris

should be fine, but i would make sure there is no salt creep after they dry. chris

Never give up is right. I also had lost a few things over the years just to find them in a back corner a few months later still hangning on. good luck chris

congrats, it's always nice to have good customer support.

that is why I stopped using glass thermos. I don't think I would use the water though. better safe than sorry. chris

glad you caught it in time. I had a close call myself a few years ago, very scarry. chris

Good luck getting back in. chris

I am with you forrest, I try not to add any chemicals if I don't have to. this is just driving me crazy. I would like to get deeper into coral husbandry but find it hard to get past sofites when I feel the tank is unstable. I would really like to get a few lps in there and mabey a few lps frags. Patience is key though.

i changed the sand bed when I got it. it is about 2 years old now. i have tried blasting the sand so hard that it blows all the sand off the front of the tank but it did not seem to make a difference. chris

I would like to find a way to solve this without chemicals. dav- I have done all the things you have listed and it just keeps comming back jon- i currently run a 6 bulb nova pro but running for 12 hours but it is new and up until this week only 2 bulbs were running for most of the time. the light i had been running was a 4 bulb nova. i had this issue even when i changed out the stock bulbs for ati bulbs. I have tried limiting the light but as i have heard and seen is cyno is not as light dependent like algae are. but I have tried days of lights out with little results. bkl- i have used red slime remover a few times when i first got the tank becaue it covered the whole tank when i got it from my friend. It still keeps comming back. diver- skimmer is good size for tank. tds is fine though there was no difference it it's out break with r/o or with tap, which i swithced to afeter no effect. though i have started using r/o again. chucelli- though i have not dosed vodka, i may give the bacteria a shot. is it easy to find? thanks for all the replies. chris

I could really need some help here. I have had my 75g w/55g sump up for about 2 years now and can't get rid of this cyno. I bought the tank from a friend who left the hobby because he could not get rid of it either. I have a light stock (2 occ. clowns, 1 ornate wrasse), I only feed every other day. I run an asm g3 and a phosban reactor. i have a k-4 and k-3 powerhead.I do weekly 5-7 gallon water changes with r/o water. My ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and phosphate are at 0. I have tried eveything I could think of but still can't knock off this cyno. I have never allowed it to take the whole tank over but every few days it all over the sand bed and starting to creep onto corals and rock. Is there something that I am missing, what elese can or should I do to stop this. I don't have any other real trouble with the tank at all except for some bubble algae wich is not really bad. what should I do. thanks, chris

here is a pic of my 29g and my green terror in the 125g note the tiger in bottom right hand corner

now all I need is a yellow tang, a royal gramma and mabey some blue green chromis and of course many coral additions. I will be doing sps on the left, lps or a bta on the right and softies on the bottom. Any donations are welcomed. Thanks for taking a look, hopefully I will have some new pics to show off soon. chris

Here is an updated tank shot and some of it's creatures. I just pulled everything out and re-worked the rocks a few days ago. I also upgraded to a Nova pro T-5. ornate wrasse clowns (who are not spawning but do share the same cave and spend most of their time together. brittle star

I have worked on getting this tank tank together over the last two years but it has been a slow process. I was not ready for task with time or money, plus I wanted to learn as much as I could before I started adding things to the tank. My first goal was to try and bring some life back to the inverts that came with the tank. Of course some things were lost along the way. Some were from his doing and some were mine, but I think I am at a point where I am ready to move on with it. Here is a before and after of one of the corals I was able to save. If you can't tell it is a hammer and it took 6 months before it would extend it's polyps. BEFORE AFTER

this is what the tank looked like when i first got it It was in real bad shape. The first thing I had to do is make a sump for it. Mind you at this point I have no clue what I am doing.

thanks for the help. I think I have it now.

and if someone would be kind enough to assist me in adding more pictures I might be able to show you all the rest. I don't post alot and am not sure of the process of posting full size pics. thank you

]Hi, my name is chris and I love fish. Think I came to the right place? I am 27 and have been keeping fish and aquatic pets most of my life. I seriously got into the freshwater hobby about 7 years ago but just got into the reef wolrld about 2 years ago. I bought my first reef tank 2 years ago from a friend who lost intrest in his tank. I had very little understanking of salt water but did not want to see his tank decline any more than it had, so I bought, more like stole it from him. The tank was in bad shape when I got it and I had no clue what I was doing. So I started to read everything I could get my hands on.