Mattb1612

This guy has some really nice fish for a great price. I go there when I'm looking for something exotic for my tank. I got my Copperband butterfly fish and a Potter angle fish for great price.

I have one if you need it.

Oh boy. Well I know I over feed a little I'm trying to get better at it but my tang and potter hide in the rock work then sneak up when the see food floating and nibble then go back to the rocks they are the hardest to feed. Maybe I'll get a coral banded shrimp are they good cuc

Honestly it sucks but wait till morning if you stress about it you will go crazy. Keep him in its home and comfortable that's all you can do. Don't stress him out more.

So I was watching movie on the couch and I went to grab a beer passed the tank and to my surprise I spot bristle worm. I have never seen one before but it has to be. It was 4 inches long and have spikes on its side slightly reddish. So the question is how do I remove it? Should I remove it? Will it hurt anything(corals, fish shrimp)? The rock is 2 years old the previous owner bought it off of BRS. So it could have come in on that or could it have come in on coral? Anyways thanks for any help!

Can garlic extreme add to much nutrients to the tank I use 5 drops in 3 cups defrosted and placed in Rodi water.

Ugh so why would the red slime come back again. I haven't run any test however I just added seagel with some extra phosguard to assist in phosphate removal in my reactor and I used red slime remover which cleaned my tank up. It's back again though and I know my nitrates are low since I've been dosing nopox Red Sea nitrate removal. Am I doing something wrong please help I am at my wits end. I feed once a day a half a cube however I try spot feeding but the potter is still shy of the turkey baster so he hides. Any help guys? I will run some test this weekend and give you some hard facts but my corals look amazing my torch grew another head my frog spawns are wide open and my nems look beautiful. Everything seems happy so I have no idea

Have you thought about a algae scrubber I am on the fence between both I have the same problem

Oh that's sucks with the radions you can control intensity so you can create better environments and also not melt your corals.

What's the intensity?

I love my xr15 I have two of them over my 65 gallon. I also have a reef link which allows me to easily play with them. That is also the downside cause you will be messing around a lot with it lol. And the nice thing is if you upgrade you just add another light to your reef link and you bam schedule sinks. Couple members are selling some nice xr30 check them out

Hmm okay sounds good does anything eat them

I have found 7 baby blue hitchhiking starfish in my tank. Can't determine which species it is or if there bad please advise.

Thank you. I guess I will watch him closely and he seems healthy though like he is fully extended out.

So I made a mistake. My rock work was pilled up and I was doing some water maintenance and I bump the rock it fell and the anemone look like he gashed him foot, However I picked the rock up and placed him back where he was. He has inflated again and looks okay. Any suggestions besides keeping an eye on him. UGh I feel so bad...

Never mind it just came back on. Mods please close thank you. Sorry I got panicked I know what I'm buying tomorrow lol

Power just went out how long can a 14 gallon bio cube last without power I have one battery power airstone for the 65 gallon I didn't prepare for the biocube yet

It's changed monthly I am changing it this week to seagel though and hopefully that helps. I might pick up a algae scrubber just to assist on the nitrate removal

Sorry the pictures are so blue I will take some more and add them later when I get home. These were the only ones I had on my phone. But you can see in some of the pictures the brown on the sand and the red on the rocks. Trust me its not Coraline algae on the rocks its red slime im able to blow it off. So I think I am going to go with this model for algae scrubber unless someone has any cheaper options:http://www.santa-monica.cc/DROP12x-drop-in-upflow-algae-scrubber-with-Xtra-LED-and-Green-Grabber-surfaces--12-cubes-feeding-per-day_p_70.html

My tank is 65 gallons. I do 15-gallon water changes weekly but my nitrates are still high due to my heavy bioload: 2 chromis, sixline, yellow tang,potter angle fish. I think my nitrates are the issue since I vacuum the sand bed weekly and turkey baster the rocks daily almost. Here are some pictures to show you my issues:

Hi Everyone, I am having some issues with Cyano Algae due to high nitrates. My nitrates sit right around .6-.8. I feed once a day with a turkey baster however with some new fish ( potter and tang) they wont eat unless it floats by them. Where the chromis and six line eat straight from the baster. I feed half cube a day to three-fourth a cube a day however some food does hit the sand bed. I always thought the peppermint shrimp and snails would handle it. But anyways I am running red sea reefer 250 with 2 radion x15 and I have 152-s classic octo skimmer which is over kill for the tank. I am also running media reactor with GFO and carbon. I am thinking about purchasing a bio pellet reactor till one member said he didn't have any luck lowering his nitrates with it. So I started researching Algae scrubbers and I have seen some very convincing videos where is works amazing. I was looking at buying a Santa Monica Algae scrubber drop in for my sump since i have a small footprint sump. So the question is what are the pros and cons of each and would anyone recommend one over the other? I know everyone's tank is different and everyone's experience is different but before I buy a new piece of equipment i want to make sure I make the best decision possible. Thanks ahead of time for all the help guys :-). Parameters temp:81 Salinity :1.26 Ph:8.3 Pho4:0 Nitrates:.6-.8 Alk:9.5 Calc:450 Mag:1480

I got some Peppermint shrimp from Blue ribbon koi where he showed me them feeding there peppermint shrimp aptasia. So its a cheap easy option that helped me. good luck

I've seen two of them before. I pulled them out, however when you see a few there is probably many. Would my six line eat them

Yea it could be them. But that doesn't explain why my hammer exploded but my frogspawn thrived. My question now is the bottom of my tank is reading 40-50 pars middle tank is 150-170- top of the tank is 200s low but what should I have my LEDs at I have two radion x15s running at 45 percent

Would high nitrates and by high I mean .8 have any affect on hammers and zoas