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well, if you have a qt tank, i would suggest placing him in the QT and treating with the right meds, you can got to your lfs and get the meds, each med pack will tell you what that med treats, good luck

your general powerhead will not support the head flow. You are gonna have to go with a pump for the return. you can run 2 pumps, just plumb them together at somepoint during the return line. make sure that you place a ballvalve somewhere in the line as well, to adjust the amount of flow.

what size tank do you have? you also need to test for other elements in your water, am, ni, na, ph, ca and sg most importantly. Your lighting will have a very big impact on how your corals live and die.

if your tank spikes like that again, and a fan is not redily accessable, i would suggest having a waterfilled milk contanier in the freezer. when your temp spikes, it wont hurt to have a back up plan. just float the frozen contanier and let it drop the temp slowly.

well first you are going to have several factors that will come into play. The first thing you need to know is the height and vertical amount of return water, Which will give you your head, this will consist of vertical height, horizontal height, elbows, ball valves etc. Use a Head caculator to...

they probably are babies, my peppermints eggs are kinda green spheres under the belly. either way unless you wanna keep em consider it a good food source for the time being.

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Atinics are mainly eye candy for us

hmm, intresting, i never bothered with the dipstick tests, IMO SALIFERT kits are the best to go with, costly master kits, but are very accurate and imo the best on the market

well if your tank has been treated with copper, or even the presence of copper, you can hang up having inverts in your tank. you are gonna be better off getting a new tank, and building it from there. I have 2 tanks a 29g and a 40g, on both my tanks i have taken extra precautions to ensure...

first thing you need to look at are your Water Params, and lighting. once you establish the problem you can find a solution.

brine shrimp? ACK!! try some mysis, or some crustacean meat.

could be green, white or brown star polyps. more than likley they are gonna be your brown stars.

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