Recent content by Idaho-Tank

Ahh.. gotcha. Yeah Im pretty good on flow in the tank in general. I have the unfortunate pleasure of having a fair amount of star polyp in my tank and its a great indicator of flow... I would say for the most part I have good or at minimum adequate flow around rocks/corals. Anyone have...

Explain what you mean... If you are asking if I have enough flow.. Yes Im am fairly certain of that.. I have two pumps on each end plus the main pump. Sometimes I worry I have to much flow actually. Also remember I had SPS and LPS doing very well for well over a years time with the exact same...

I assume you are using RODI water? Do your tests show any phosphates? Have you considered or are you using a phosban reactor?

^Well I have just about beaten it... once a week I would carefully pick it out by hand... Would take an hour or so.. I lost a fair amount of sand from picking out the stuff that grew on the bottom... but fortunately its almost all gone... I still have small amounts but my tank actually looks...

Ok, so things have improved since my last post... Things look good and the algae is all but gone.. I finally added a couple fish another clam and decided to try a frag of cats paw... well like before the cats paw isn't doing so hot after 4 days. So something isn't right.... Just to be sure I...

^ not bad ideas.. Im not set up to run that test very easily however. My gut tells me it is the salt.. Thats kind of what I have been thinking and didn't want to say anything here until a theory or two were tossed in. I guess one test would be to see how things go over the next few weeks as I...

Im 99.9% positive its not a fish. Ive had problem fish in the past and would always see any issues fairly quickly. And like most of us I watch my tank a lot.. I have not to date seen any of my current fish picking on any coral. As far as a monster... Also doubtful that I have a monster based...

It is a good checklist - thanks.. however There isn't much there that I haven't addressed. Im also as much as anything trying to figure out what caused the crash months ago... and looking for thoughts on the salt & lights as a possible cause. Not sure about blacking out the tank for a week...

^ This isn't my first rodeo with algae at all.. I've dealt with algae before over the past 20 years of keeping salt water tanks... So I know most of the common algae causes.. This tank has been in the same spot for the past 7 months... no direct sun light. RO Filters were changed out about 4...

Thought Id start a thread and ask for some advice/help. Have had tank up and running for over a year. Tank was moved about 7 months ago and did lose some coral and a few fish during the move but it did stabilize and again begin to thrive. Here is my build thread...

^Thanks guys. Question... I bought a working chiller for $25... Its an older one and it has a metal coil that the guy I bought it from said he would stick into the sump... said it worked great... I have never needed a chiller and am still not sure I even need one now (after my move to a warmer...

So I figured I would take a few minutes and bump this thread and get caught up... We moved back in January and I had to move my tank... we moved about 2.5 hours South. Middle of winter. Im not going to go into what happened with the tank move - but will say it didn't go well. By the time I...

some updated tank shots

Full tank shots as of tonight:

Some of the new Zoas: