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Treat it like SPS. Lots of light and moderate flow to keep the tissue free of debris.

Yup. I recommend injecting the peroxide directly into the cyano with a syringe or baster, as opposed to a broadcast dose. You'll see the results immediately.

Nice video and tank! Thanks for sharing.

Cool reads -- thanks for sharing.

I posted it because if your freshly cut zoas are battling some bacteria or fungus then peroxide may be an easy thing to try.

This is different.

So when you make fresh salt water, what is your concentration? And what is the measured Ca, Mg and KH values? After you spike in Mg and Ca what are the new values?

In a larger sense -- The values of Mg, Ca and KH don't matter too much (within reason). What matters is that the balance of those levels relative to each other do not change rapidly. So adding baking soda but not calcium chloride will not make your corals happy.

Why do you add calcium and magnesium to your fresh saltwater?

Dang -- sorry to hear about this.

I moved my tank with professional help. Wasn't expensive and well worth the money. Even if you get a bunch members to help you out, it is nice to have an experienced foreman. +1 When I moved my tank we kept the sand in place barely covered by water. Water and rock was added back carefully to minimize stirring. Didn't cause a cycle, but I did have another diatom bloom as well as some algae problems for a couple of weeks. +1 My 30 gallon tank won't budge and its on carpet.

Cool tip. Thanks for sharing

In my experience, a tank move is a tank move. Moving a tank 1.5 feet from the wall doesn't make it any easier -- the process is still the same. There are plenty of professional tank maintenance people here who can help out. It may cost a little of money, but it will be well spent. If you want recommendations then PM me.

LOL But true.

Yeah I don't know why I just didn't put my user name on the ticket. Maybe I didn't think I would win.

I just took the trip out the BRK to pick up the two chalice corals that I won in the raffle at the Winter Meeting. Wow! I feel very lucky to win both of the chalices -- it was a VERY generous donation. I cannot wait to place them on my rock. If you haven't been to BRK -- go. It is a great shop with great livestock and well maintained tanks. Plus -- tons of supplies so I was able to pick up everything I was looking for. WAMAS is lucky to have John and BRK as a sponsor and the area is lucky to have BRK as a LFS.

It was me Tom. I have the certificates and I'm going to pick them up today. Thank you to Wamas and I will certainly thank Johnny at Brk.

With the hobby grade devices you don't have to do much. All it takes is for the prism to shift slightly for the scale to be off.