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Yeah there's a little bit of room, but I have a very mobile and very curious toddler roaming the house now, so if I do get a sump I'd want it to be enclosed.

I got the green light for a bigger tank, which is great, but I’ve got some restraints – the tank has to be upstairs. I have two available spots, one against an outside wall, but the joists are not perpendicular to the wall. The other spot is an inner wall where the joists are perpendicular to...

I gave a frag to @tribbitt today. This post was automatically created by BARcode

I took out the Green Branching Hammer, it was exhibiting the tell tale sign: tight/minimal polyp extension during peak light. Once I took it out of the tank and it inspected further, there was a section of flesh coming off the skeleton, just like all the others. One thing I noticed was that in...

I used to use a refractometer and calibrated with 35ppt solution, but I would have to re-calibrate it more than I would like and therefore didn't really trust it. Also, if you use calibration solution, that can get out of whack over time due to evaporation, so for me that's two things I can't...

Using Brita filtered water as your top off water probably isn't helping, use RODI if you can.

I gave a frag to @MichaelB today. This post was automatically created by BARcode

It looks like my smaller clown is starting to get curious about hosting in my Candy Cane, pretty cool to see.

I second the Hanna checkers, at least for alkalinity, phosphates, and nitrates. I do the nitrate test first since that test has the longest wait time after shaking, then phosphate, then alkalinity. If you time it right, you'll get all three test results at the same time.

I'll start with big water change and carbon first. I'll look into cipro and KFC dip, KFC dip looks sold out, but I'd like to avoid either of those if I can.

The hammer I got from @Invictus had a couple heads that were acting weird so I pulled it out. Same symptoms as the others - polyps not extending and tissue starting to come off the skeleton, but no obvious brown jelly. I put the hammer in a Tupperware container and let it sit overnight. I...

Still alive...

I think something bacterial happened in my tank which caused the loss of those corals. Shortly after a bit of cyano showed up on the sand on the right side of my tank where the flow is the slowest. I made some coral snow with some Microbacter7 mixed in and turkey basted directly onto the cyano...

Is that 250 reading just under the surface of the water or at the top of your rock work? Do you have diffusers on your Radions? Those reduce PAR by about 20-25%.

Depends how high your light is mounted as well - 50% intensity with lights mounted 4 inches off the surface vs 12 inches off the surface is a big difference in PAR. I'd test out what PAR readings you get at different intensities. Once you figure out the intensity for the PAR level you want...

Are your wavemaker and return pumps turned off? The surface waves make the readings jump around.

Lost the Aussie Ice Tips Hammer in the front. Same symptoms as the frogspawns except this time I saw some brown goo coming from one of the heads. It looked like expelled zooxanthellae, except a bit slimier. I syphoned it up and in the process saw some of the tissue coming off the skeleton, so I...

I agree, aquacultured/tank grown frags are the way to go.

Pulled the pink tip frogspawn out. No improvement in polyp extension and I noticed a small sliver of bare skeleton. The base of the flesh looked darker than normal (I think because it was pulled in tight) but nothing looked like the brown jelly pictures I've seen. Everything else looks ok, for...

Looking good!