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ph should be at its peak during your peak lighting hours, rising when your lights go on, and falling when they shut off. I drip kalk overnight to help keep it stable overnight at about 8.2 . the spike from kalk is usually pretty quick. I like to keep a slow steady drip, it takes about 9hrs for a...

Do you have a open top or is it covered? is your house very well insulated? I had the same issue so I put my air intake for my skimmer right by a drafty window and took my glass top off, and my ph went from a 7.7(night)-7.9(day), to 8.0(night)-8.2(day). I also keep my fuge lights on opposite...

if you have enough live rock you really shouldnt need any additional filters, unless you need a place to put carbon or gfo.

your alk and mag seem a tad low but nothing too bad, as long as your amm and trite are actually 0. any amount in a reef is bad. I would guess its your butterfly munching on them, or possibly your lighting isnt strong enough? have you tried moving them up closer to the light?

i use lugols solution by brightwell. i drain 1/2 -1 gal tank water into bucket, depending on the size of coral I need to dip. I then stir in 15drops for 1/2 gal, 30 drops for a full gallon. water should be a very light tea colored. I then place affected coral, making sure to get it to retract...

looks like some tissue ripped. keep him in lower flow and try to keep the area free of algae. he should recover. if he starts looking worse maybe try an iodine dip.

what are your other levels at? calcium, alkalinity, nitrates, phosphates, magnesium, nitrite, ammonia? how old is your tank? how long have you had these corals? what lighting and other inhabitants?

My ebili was good for about 9 months. a perfect reef citizen. then all of a sudden i lost a few zoa colonies, and my blastos. now a year+ in a bigger tank and he nips at everything, especially if i'm looking at the tank. he knows i'll feed him to make him stop eating the corals. thats the thing...

I bought a ywg at same time as firefish, and he's doin great! probably because he found the pistol shrimp and lives in his tunnels where angel cant find him. I see angelfish looking around in that spot alot waiting to get him, just like he did with the firefish. Its like he's on patrol or...

angels can be mean! what size tank do you have? what other fish are in there? I have an ebili in my 55g that I think killed 2 purple firefish I recently added to HIS tank... they can be real bullies.

what corals are you thinking of getting?

I get a good feeding response when I use coral frenzy. my goni's seem to like it the most:)

saw your fish list. not sure about alot of those, but i know the catalina goby is not a tropical species- they need colder water. LA says 60-70*F.

try moving it to a different area of your tank. it might not like the flow or lighting it is in

i can get reg epoxy off most of the time, but when used with superglue its a little harder. if i try hard enough i can usually get it to pop loose.