Recent content by brad3314

this came on the live rock seems to be doing quite well has grown a fair bit thanks

i can see why some people would prefer a brace less tank after almost a cut arterie and half a dozen stitches later lucky the timber frame stopped the front of the tank from collapsing :facepalm: have had better days

:dance: new corals

I dont know a great deal about corals yet but one that i love is elegance coral

When i had the phophate problems they where very low also but i still had an ongoing battle with hair algae

I'd say if your source water only has low phopsphates it couldnt be good it should be right on 0 i still have alot to learn but all the studying up i've done shows its better to use ro water with o tds although my lfs only uses tap water with dechlorinator and their tanks look fine

Do you use ro water ? I had phosphate problems once from using tap water

Definatly having corals :-) i'm having a slight diatom problem at the moment but once thats sorted i'll look at getting some

have just installed a humidistat to control the exhaust fan to keep the humidity down :)

No i havent didnt know there was such a thing thanks will see if i can get some

Cool thanks it isnt that great yet will be once i put a few corals in there though :-)

yeah so other than what i already have here is a list of fish i would like obviously not all of them don't want to overstock so not entirely sure which ones yet Flame angel, mandarin, blue cheeked goby, a few chromus, firefish or purple firefish, cleaner wrasse, coral beauty are some that i...

The frozen food has brine shrimp in it

does anyone have a banggai cardinal if so what do you feed them i have 1 but i struggle to get him to eat i understand they are more active at night but no matter what i do he just doesn't go for anything so far have tried dropping new life spectrum sinking pellets right next to him but he just...

having a bit of trouble with algae at the moment have brought an api reef master test kit and everything tests pretty much perfect except for kh which is a little bit low as for nitrate , phosphate etc all are 0 thinking it may be because when i first set the tank up i used an old coral life...