robertmi

Looking good. Great choice on the inside.

You cant overdose on bottled bac. Using existing live rock should shorten or even remove the cycling process. If you use new sand you should rinse it until it is not cloudy anymore. You should be fine with what you have mentioned.

Looks like Purple chronic acropora if you google it.

is that a purple tipped efflo?

Big fan of millis also. Yours look very happy.

How long will the repair take? If it is only a couple days couldn't you cover the tank with a tarp and let it ride, so to speak? Maybe drain the water and slide it out of the way, if it is, than put the water back in and cover it. I had bug bombed a house with a reef tank before by covering it with plastic and taping everything up so it was sealed up. Would not recommend doing that but it worked being completely sealed. Drywall dust shouldn't be a problem if prepped properly.

You can message me if you have trouble setting it up to do something.

I found 50g containers on CL for $50 each. At tractor supply they are $230 each. You can find good deals sometimes.

Hello, I took a 6 year break but now I am back. I went on a 2 week vacation and had a non-reefing friend house sit. Well a week into the vacation I got a call and he said there's water everywhere and I got shocked trying to see where it is coming from. I told him to just shut the power down at the breakers and I will deal with it when I get home. I found out when I got home a return line popped off and the pump sprayed water everywhere and on outlets. That must have been why he got a shock. Everything was basically dead when I came home. I only had a school of chromis for fish and they somehow made it. Lost over 100 different types of coral mainly sps. The tank was low tech and I never had any issues so I didn't expect any. Now I'm back. I've had my tank running about 6 months now (150DD). I use the Zeovit method and also dose other bacterias like microbactor7 and vibrant. I added a few inexpensive corals to make sure the tank is ready to be stocked with more expensive sps. The only fish I have is a Moorish idol. He is fat and healthy. I figured if there is a time to have one this is it because it would be easy to acclimate him being the only fish. He won't get picked on and can focus on eating stress free. It worked. Soon I will start to adding other fish. BTW this time I used all hard plumbing and glued it.

Hello, As for the calibration fluid, to keep it good and accurate for a long time don't forget to keep the lid tight and try to have the lid off for as little a time as possible. The main reason for calibration fluid going bad is due to evaporation and the reading (ppt) drifting high.

Nobody can compare to reef chief. He is in suffolk.

I used to make my own phyto as well. I really had good success with feeding about one liter a week. I also dosed vodka and peroxide daily. I got tired of the manual dosing so quit the phyto as well. No real difference on coral growth but the colors of my corals was better when dosing and phyto. Also had lots of pods.

I bought this kit. http://www.rapidled.com/48-ultra-premium-led-diy-kit-with-dimmable-drivers/ Then bought the heatsink, cover, hanging kit and fans seperate. I got the "P" series drivers so that I could use the typhon controller. It has 4 channels and you can combine 2 drivers for each channel, so 8 total drivers. Here is a link to the controller. http://www.rapidled.com/48-ultra-premium-led-diy-kit-with-dimmable-drivers/ I didn't take pics along the way because it went so fast. Once I got to soldering I didn't stop. A note to make soldering leds easy is to melt solder on the gun where it is about to drip off the gun then just touch the gun to the wire and led pad and boom, move to the next led.

Grows on the sandbed. 4"x4".

I had that happen to me also. Best to do a good water change. The gametes aren't toxic and they can be a very nutritious food source for many other things in an aquarium but the problem is that they'll all die and basically rot. This happens quickly.

Second pic from the bottom, but that is an old pic. Its bigger now.

A few pics from my tank.

I had that happen to a miami hurricane too. It happened when I moved it from a high light area to a lower light area. I would try moving it back up.

I suspect that your coral is getting all of the energy that it needs that's why it is growing fast and not showing much polyp extension. If it needed more light or food it would need more PE to get the energy that it needs. Every coral is different as for what normal PE is but you said that it used to have more PE but lately it is less.

I am using a Typhon controller to dim them. I have 2 fixtures, 48 total leds (32RB 16CW).

I'm new here so I wanted to show off my DIY stand, canopy and leds. I have a 2 tank system tied together with a common sump. I also wanted it to be interesting to look at and also to experiment with. The lower tank has a 400wt 20K XM MH on the right side of the tank and the left side has a 175wt 20K XM MH. The top tank has DIY Cree leds from rapid led. The point was to put lots of the same corals in both tanks from one system and see the difference in colors of the corals. I have had this up and running for over a year with this set up. I am still a fan of the MH's. Whenever I get a large tank I would like to mix both. I have different albums on the link so click through them all and tell me what you think. http://s1156.photobucket.com/albums/p562/robertmi/

I know of other people that have full spectrum leds and they have said that the violet leds caused the pink look so they replaced them with other colors.