[Mandrins]

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.

[Sometimes I think my fish tank hates me .....]

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

[cbs rate now has a special on reefs]

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

[New To WAMAS]

Welcome to Wamas.

[RO Membrane help]

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.

[RO Membrane help]

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

[RO Membrane help]

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

[New to WAMAS]

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

[Blue Spot Jaw Fish Home]

Looks good Bruce. Nicely done.

[STN is that any way I can stop it.]

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.

[Cha-cha-cha-changes]

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

[Help the Hippo Project]

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

[STN is that any way I can stop it.]

aw geez man sorry to hear, start checking things

electricity (if you dont have a grounding probe get one) from heaters, pumps, etc

look for anything that could have fallen in the tank (i had a AA battery kill almost all my sps) mine happened really quick but if there is a penny or anything like that somehting suprisingly small can affect it.

 

....wish i had an anwser let me know if i can help at all, i have a holding tub thats 100g and a 30b breeder you would be welcome to borry for a little while, (has a stand and i have some lights we could rig up if needs be)

 

just let me know, im around most of the day tomorrow

 

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.

[STN is that any way I can stop 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.

[STN is that any way I can stop it.]

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

[STN is that any way I can stop it.]

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.

[STN is that any way I can stop it.]

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

[STN is that any way I can stop 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.

[Algae id?]

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

[Noisy Dual reactor pump]

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

[Micro bubbles issue]

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.

[My Red matrix crab releasing her eggs ~cool video~]

very cool. Those chromis seem really happy.

[Why is my pH 8.6+]

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.

[Why is my pH 8.6+]

Hey man I was in the same boat until I increased the CO2 bubble rate on the calcium reactor. My co2 was running about 20hrs per day and PH was up at 8.6. Now that it runs less but PH is 8.4. Check this out.

 

http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f67/calcium-reactor-question-tdwyatt-20300.html

[Calling all zoanthid keepers]

From what I have observed each zoa has a slightly different requirement. I think you would be safe with medium flow and medium lighting. I have notices that my pink and orange zoos like higher lights than my green ones.