Juiceman

Yesterday I did 2 1 hour lighting periods at 50% power. Everything looks happy. Didn't go for the screen thing. I'm now wondering should I increase the photo period first or the power first? I figure to make an increase of some type every 4-5 days. Thoughts?

I got mine off eBay brand new for 75

And where do I get some where I won't have to buy a jimungous roll?! Lol

Ok, I'd heard of that before. So would I run a full lighting period but just have the screens over the tank?

yeah Robb is right, fresh media time! I didn't factor that it had already brought it down alot.

I just got 2 400w lumenmax halides with coralvue dimmable ballasts. I'm researching the best way to acclimate my corals to the switch. I'm currently running 4 48" vho bulbs at 110 watts a piece. And 2 vho separate actinics for dawn and dusk. Should I dimm the halides all the way down and only do a few hours a day for a while? I won't have a way to raise them in the apartment. Open for suggestions

Rowaphos lasts a while from what I understand, just check your levels every now and again, and once they start to rise again, switch it out. My HC GFO lasts about a month usually.

I will donate some green star polyps if you like, add lots of movement and flow, could probably pull some xenia too. very hardy corals

That's what I was thinking, I made a point to do a water changed as soon as I figured out what happened. Fish seem fine, ate great the following day, Corals look good too, exept for the ones that were already doing bad.

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I have a dosing pump on a timer for my ALK and Calc that was maintaining my ALK at about 10 and my CALC at about 450. Well yesterday the timer froze in the on position and dumped my entire half gallon of BRS ALK buffer and about 3/4 gallon of BRS Calcium solution into the tank. When I got home, everything was covered in white dust, etc, so I cleaned all the filters, and pumps, and did a 20g water change. I tested the water today this was the reading ALK 7.5 CALC 500 MG 1400 I used the same salt I always do at the same SG, so It shouldn't have dropped it that much. Could the ALK and CALC overdose actually caused a drop in the ALK? Why?

Live rock, dead sand. For sure. I got my live rock from fishy business. He pre cures it for you so you can hop right in.

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When I had them, I Raised the PH to 8.3+ lessened the lighting period daily siphon out about 5 gallons and replace with clean water pulled some rocks out and scrubbed them ran carbon changed rockscape to be more open kept up with cleaning and small changes, and they slowly dissapeared.

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Wow, what happened to all the coral. And all that green algae. This has been for sale for a long time. U need to start parting it out.