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This is an interesting metric I would like to know. I wounder what would be the best way to gather this data? Something a statistician would know.

I just noticed there's a Monti of some sort growing on one of my (live) welks. Please help me understand the implications to the snail and my tank.

Wanted to update on some better pictures The Marine Land Bio-wheel HOB is pretty *@ty even as far a HOB's go, but It would probably be better to go with a reactor in the first place. I plan on replacing it with an aquatop UV HOB. Hair Algae is still a problem but it's neither dying or growing, just unsightly. My Phosphates are likey to blame but I haven't really measured them. Currently only running a Jebo-mp10 for water flow. Most of the corals are from the last fragfest. The "functional" backside in the office.

Hi I just want to show off my work nano which you can publicly see at the new Arlington Wakefield Highschool pool. You can see from an office window that faces the pool deck. Originally the tank was the old sump for a 110gallon oceanic tank I bought on Craigslist two years ago, from a guy in MD who I think is a member here. In any case I setup the tank in march after much badgering from my fellow coworkers after I mentioned I was working on building a saltwater aquarium at home. What was supposed to be a simple experiment has turned into a neat public attraction in what is a brand new gorgeous state-of-the art pool. I made a post about it in the newcomers board but it really isn't the place for a tank thread and so much has changed in the last five or so months. Still having issues with light GHA and lack of coraline growth but otherwise the tank is healthy.

Great store, these guys bring everything to a real down to earth level. Pretty much got me started on everything Also sorry confusing you with Vince, Steve. hah

I don't think it's the coral snow. From what I understand it's a binder that adhears to organic particulates and helps to make the skimmer more efficient. I aways rinse my frozen food, I use 1/2 cube of the mini-mysis shrimp. I feed once a day, alternating between a tiny pinch of the pellets and 1/2 defrosted mysis the next day. Should I feed only every other day? only frozen for now on?

I'm dealing with a hair algae problem. It hasn't reached plague proportions as of yet but it has the potential. Should I cut back feedings to every other day and switch fully to frozen? Also is a 5gallon waterchange every week too little or too much?

I doubt it's the Calcium even thought it's really high, there's no positive or negative effect with a higher then normal Ca level other then scaling and perhaps making it harder to maintain a balance. My green torch does the same thing sometimes and I am assuming it's some kinda growth or purge mecanism since it usually happens in the mornings or late evenings. Also OP did you get that torch from Quantum Reefs? It looks like the same one I have.

@ Incredible Corals, yes infact I bought the torch (the one that unfortunately bleached out on me) and one brain frag I forgot to mention which doing fine. I should've acclimated the torch a little longer. Anyway its fine and growing but it's easy to underestimate how strong high end LEDs are.

Hi I'm new to WAMAS, I was a member for about a year (expired in '13) and I've never posted here or been to any events because of other things in my life. Anyway I just wanted to post my first SW tank. This my office/work tank which is located in a public indoor pool in Northen Virginia (http://www.apsva.us/Page/16657). I had a ton of extra equipment lying around for my WIP 110gal home tank that I got off craigslist and not much else to do with it but try and do something with it. So here goes An older view of what it looked like 2 months ago. Equipment 1 Ecotech Radion Pro Gen 3 1 Jabeo Mp10 power head wavemaker (cheap and gets the job done 1 Marineland HOB bio-wheel filter, Kinda worthless but it's a good place out of sight to put one of bag of chemipure elite carbon/GFO media which I change out every 2 months and helps to add some flow. 1 TUNZE 9002 in-tank protein skimmer good skimmer as far as I see, but has clugy adjustment. There is no heater, the HVAC system keeps the tank exactly at 81-79 degrees. I'm more concerned with over heating because of it's small size and the high humidity in the area (an indoor swiming pool). Livestock 3 Blue/green Cromies 1 green torch coral 1 somewhat bleached out torch coral (top right) 1 Sand sifting sea star 1 turbo snail a few zoas on a rock Some GSP's 1 peppermint shrimp 3 other smaller snails (donno what the exact species is) a few blue legged hermits 1 sand conch a sps frag that was randomly given to be by a patron (no clue on the ID) a few zoas on a rock a Kenya tree softy ( Was given to me from the tank in a suba store called "The Dive Shop" in Vienna) Maintence I do a roughly 15-10% waterchange every week on a monday, which is basicly 1/2 of one of those home depot buckets. I alternate feedings between a pinch of high quality pelets and 1/4 cube of frozen mysis shrimp once a day. Alkalinity and Calcium is maintained with regular dosing of B-ionic. BRS was kind enough to send a free bottle of Zeo Coral snow and Coral vitalizer. Which I dose every night. I'm not sure how it really works (or if it's doing anything) other then making my skimmer more efficent and perhaps adding some kinda carbon. However the coral vitalizer smells like vinigar which makes me really skeptical on it's worth.