Supernova26

That's just the photo. It is solid red.

My RBTA has been looking kind of funny lately. It retracted half of the tentacles and it's been like that for about a week. Other than that seems ok. It does eat and the mouth looks fine. My water parameters have been steady. Let me know if you have this happen or seen this before and if I should be doing something about it. Let me try to post a pic. http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb405/Supernova_26/IMG_0310.jpg

The main difference that I have noticed is their fin. If you look at the beginning of their spiny fin the male's first pin per say is way longer than the female's.

Funny, and yet we wake up the next morning and go at it again. It's not a hobby. It's an addiction.

Just watched that. Pretty cool. Those sharks were not small.

Welcome to Wamas.

Thank you for your responses. The membranes are the same length an the old one sits in housing just fine. I fix it by placing some thread seal tape on the o-rings. I will order a new housing.

It's 75 gpd vs the 50 i had but they have the same dimensions. I also upgraded the flow restrictor to match.

I changed my RO membrane today but it does not stay in. It clicks back out. I pushed it in the unit and both black o-rings went in. I ran it and withing a few minutes it popes back out and the water flows thru the membrane. Can someone chime in. It's my first time changing the membrane and I could be doing something wrong. Thanks

Welcome to Wamas. Now get to work and fix my STN problem .

Looks good Bruce. Nicely done.

I think I figured it out what killed my sps. I had a leak at my faucet upstairs and it was going thru the basement ceiling and dripping in the very left corner of my sump. It was a very very slow leak so I never noticed while I was working on the sump. I figured it out when a drop hit my hand as I was doing a water change. I can't believe my luck. In all the places that could have dripped it chose my sump. I building a canopy over my sump now. Loosing corals like that was super frustrating.

I really like the sunburst anthias. If you can get a few of those it would look awesome.

Soak some nori in selcon before feeding for some extra nutrition.

Man my ground probe was out of the water. I wonder if that was what was causing it. I am glad you said something. I would have never checked it.

Well, things are going downhill and I can't do anything to stop it. Pretty much 90% of my sps are showing signs of STN. Thanks to Bruce I verified today that my Alkalinity has been fairly stable at 9.6 . There is nothing more that I can do at this point other than dip every single coral in revive and hope for the best. Any suggestions would be appreciate it.

Thanks Bruce, I would really appreciate it. I could use it to double check my test kit.

Hmm I have salifert alk test kit. It's about 9 months old. Salifert kits are usually pretty good but I will double check with the calibration solution.

Cool thanks for the response guys. I will try frag it tonight and see if it makes it.

Is that any way I can stop STN? My california blue tort coral started to lose tissue at the base and on the tips. It is slowly taking over the coral . Is that a way to stop this process. I think I raised my calcium to fast (from 390 to 450 over the course of 2 days.) and my Alk dropped from 11 to 9.5. I thought that was safe but I guess not.

Looks like dragon breath or red flame algae. Grows well in high flow areas. Tangs love to eat it.

Which pump are you running? If it is the maxijet they should be fairly quiet.

Is your skimmer located in the sump? If so you need to install some baffles between your skimmer and the return to trap the bubbles. I have an AVAST skimmer on my 120 and I like it. They are a sponsor here and their service is top notch.

very cool. Those chromis seem really happy.

I assumed that my tank did not have enough calcium consumption due to the size of the frags, and the fact that I moved everything to a new tank. With nothing being established and no coralline algae the reactor was an overkill. I increased the bubble rate a bit and I ran the reactor every other day for a while and the PH came back down slowly. It's stable now at 8.40 during the day.