Recent content by Porksound

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OK, hey everyone... I think I've got a problem basic parameters are right where I want them, the tank is really coming along... and everything is healthy and growing (various LPS and soft corals)... But (there's always a but...) my cup mushrooms are starting to get a little whitening right...

Well, I think your angle is good... but I wonder about it's depth. It doesn't need a ton of light... but I'm thinking it would open more if it were higher up in the water column. Of course, you'd need more rock to do that, hehehe... It looks healthy enough, nothing that says it's doing...

cheers... thanks Steve... p

Never posted a pick on this forum before... let's see if this works p [/img]

I'm pretty sure what wandered in on my new star polyp rock is a cowrie.. he's pretty big (just over an inch) and pretty freaky (he wears his mantle over his shell and has crazy little flower like appendages, very frightening hehehe)... So I've heard these are desireable but BAD for a reef. I'm...

"it is gonna happen sooner or later while you're sleeping or off doing something else." hehehe, you mean you do other stuff? :wink: I intervene, I can't just sit there and watch something torment or kill something else... I've never been able to suspend my disbelief enough to think my...

Whoops... :oops: Sorry, didn't realize there was a whole page more to this story when I posted. Glad to hear it worked itself out!!! p

I didn't see your previous post... so I'm a bit ignorant on the particulars. But from what I've read here, it doesn't sound much like precipitation. You can usualy see bits of matter in the water column when calcium precipitates. Plus as mentioned above you get what looks like salt creep all...

for a decent spectrum the light really should be power compact. Which I believe is set for the one in your e-bay link. Which is decent for a tank that small... I wouldn't try SPS's or clams, but most LSP's and mushrooms should be OK under those conditions. You can get 50/50's at 24 watts in...

That is funny... I wonder though, might the worm have been dead? Serpent stars are consumate scavengers. And mine never ate MY worms... hehehe p

Bio Balls and other media cause competing bio filtration organisms to take root in a system... LR and LS do the job better than these competing bio media when stocked to the levels reefrunner suggests. Bio media is sold with a lot of tanks because not everyone uses LR and of course, in a...

I got the same hood in the 24" model for my 29 gallon tank! it was $125 at my LFS... Except that it comes with coralife bulbs (which I'm not a big fan of... actinics are way too "blacklightish" for my taste) it's a great little number... Seperate ballast for white and actinic bulbs on seperate...

sounds like my Cyano... grows like mad, KILLS coraline algae on site! hehehe, no realy, my healthy LR is looking more and more like a boneyard each week as this cyano crap strangles my coraline. Haven't beat it yet... post a pic, that would help... p

just as an update... my local hippie water guy (he really is a hippie) swears that they do not remineralize and that they have no measureable silicates, nitrates etc... my own tests have confirmed this... in fact, he says he has several customers who buy bulk water from him for fishkeeping...