Recent content by andyman

I'm using a denitrator from koralin. https://www.korallin.us/s1501eng.html. Even with the denitrator my nitrates is not close to zero. Its not super low either. Right now I wouldn't change anything in your tank. If you have slow STN in your sps then I would turn down your lights a little until...

I've been in your situation and your looking at the wrong parameters. First your ph is swings over time. but even with a ph of 8.0 its low. Corals have an easier time when pH are higher (8.1 at nite to 8.4 when the lights are on.) Your po4 are high but not too bad. Heck my po4 are 0.3-0.5...

thanks for the offer. I got my pump back online in 1hr. It was just calcium buildup and all I needed was citric acid to dissolve it. Plus the pump is a skimmer pump so its custom to the skimmer. I love royal exclusiv though, it threw an error and shut down the pump before damage occured...

I just wanted to post some observations the last week and I didn't really realize how much difference CO2 makes to the pH in the tank. A little background, I plumbed the skimmer intake to the outside of the house a while ago and the pH in my tank has never dipped below 8.1 and reaches a peak of...

i've got a peel 3d scanner. where you located?

Don't want to be the spoiler but how does insurance work for something like this? Or theft? Hate to say it most people are pretty honest. But there is that 1 percent someone will fake an injury or pocket something.

stupid sun fish!! My kids wasted 1hour of my fishing time at the farallon island because they saw a school of baby sun fish at the surface and wanted to catch one ( we didn't have a net because they broke it trying to catch a sun fish.) Atleast it was entertaining watching them try to use a...

I have the F5 on my acrylic tank. My tank is approx 18mm or little under 3/4". It works pretty well but sometimes I wish I got the F6. I can scrub my tank with one hand using this. I believe my tank was similiar to yours where it got so bad that I couldn't see thru it anymore. I started...

Be sure to reduce the light intensity for a few weeks to let the corals recover. I noticed that made a huge difference for me.

You can have a frag of anything in my tank. I think I got a WD but its pretty small still. merlin staff, vivid confetti if yours decline, and a few other corals I have no names for. I think a pearl berr? , bonsai, etc.

One of the symptoms I noticed when I started loosing corals (not all at once btw) was that as the corals get weak from infection, the ones closer to the light STN first. They seem to hang on for dear life when they are at the bottom of the tank or shaded. Unfortunately I didn't realize this...

I saw a rebalance of bacterial colony to move more toward what a healthy tank should be. The score on AB site for me is. diversity before: 312 (72). (below 170 is yellow. red is below 120) after: 355 (82) balance: 0.26 (41) (0.20 is the start of the danger zone). above 0.20 is green. scale...

When this happened to me I tried everything. I had the typical old tank syndrome and I had no clue what was killing my corals and fish (tanks atleast 10yrs old). what I tried: I was originally on T5 and went to AI Vegas when they first came out. Things were fine for a while. but as I...

australia strippie will solve your aiptasia problem. how big is your tank? these fishes are easy to keep, they eat pellets once the aiptasias are gone. Berghias may die off before they eat all the aiptasia. Wrasses can eat berghias if you have them. And berghias can have issues in sps tank...

fill your tank with live rock from someone elses tank and you can skip the ugly phase. But you may get unwanted pest too like aptasia and asterinas.