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    Milky water

    in New to the Hobby

    That's interesting. I've never had snails spawn to the level that the water gets noticealy cloudy. Then again, my tank is pretty large. 

    A few years ago I had a huge Turbo (golf ball sized) in a Biocube 14. For some reason the temp got up to about 84 or 85 and he just cut loose. The water looked like someone dumped a half a bottle of purple up in there. I did a partial water change to try to clear it up and it just kept coming (no pun intended). He finally stopped and everything cleared up eventually, no damage done. 

    Death-co live rock

    in General Discussion

    I don't have a QT. I don't imagine it would cost much. Tank heater filter. Airstone. I think Walmart has a 10G setup for like $27. Might start that today.

     

    Why not just use the Petco gift card to set up a decent QT system. 

    Ultra aggressive midas blenny

    in General Discussion

    Only thing I could suggest would be to tape a small mirror to the side of the tank that he hangs out. I had an aggressive coral beauty and tomini tang and it cured them. Left it up for a month or so and they didn't care about any other fish except their reflection. When I took the mirror off, no agression returned

     

    Thanks for this! I have an aggressive Coral Beauty and will be employing this tactic as soon as a find a small mirror. 

    Best LEDs

    in General Discussion

    I know mine are not the "best" but for the price I have always enjoyed the IT series. I have had 2 IT2040's and now have an IT2080. The hardest part with any LED is fiddling with the channels to get the desired effect with them.

     

    I'm dealing with that now. I have to be really careful not to bleach. I switched from a 150W MH to an IT2040 and I'm running both channels at 20% or lower and some of the corals are still kind of light shocked. 

    Should I dose Kalk via ATO to raise alkalinty?

    in General Discussion

    1 dKH per day is roughly 0.35 meq/day. It's plenty slow. If concerned, you can drip it in or bump it up in stages over several hours.

     

    A mature tank with a lot of SPS can drop a couple of dKH or more in a day simply due to normal consumption.

     

    Good to know. Is it safe to assume that once the alk is up that the available calcium will be more easily consumed and both should be dropping to some extent over time? 

    Should I dose Kalk via ATO to raise alkalinty?

    in General Discussion

    It is probably worth noting that you don't want to raise the alkalinity in large amounts with certain livestock such as sensitive sps. 1dkh should be safe, but I wouldn't push it too fast.

    I read that 1.5 dkh per day was about the max which seems a little drastic when it's so easy to just bump it up slowly. 

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