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I figured I'd add to this instead of starting a new thread. I have a Coralife Lunar Aqualight with a Actinic/10K/Lunar light built into it. My plan is to run the Lunar light overnight, the Actinic only for about half an hour in the morning, Actinic/10K combo all day and then Actinic only for...

That's it EXACTLY. Thousands of them. Well...maybe not exactly thousands, but a whole lot. And the little shrimp guys which seem to be occasionally camping out in my filters or under LR look like this.

PS. The tank is a 50 gallon. With not enough LR, I know, about 30 lbs of LR. Fish. 2.5" Yellow Tang. 2" royal grama 1" yellow tailed blue damsel, 1.5" true percula clown, 1.5" tomato clown, 1" pink skunk clown. I used to have a carpenter flasher wrasse, but the poor guy kicked the bucket once...

Well, this is a sort of two fold question, it has become apparent that my Yellow Tang is suffering from HLLR. It has two white spotches on either side of his body, his color has faded and his top fin has cuts in it. And I also believe that the cause of this is the fact that I've been very busy...

Well... For the last month or so, I've been running into this issue. Water level drops very quickly. I have a 50 gallon tank and water level drops like an inch a week. And the substrate and LR quickly seem to be covered with this rust colored red algae. I've been doing like 40% water changes...

Whoa yeah, exactly like that, but not nearly as bad.

I dunno, I got this book that was very helpful. It's basically called Marine Fishes. It was a little pricey, I don't remember how much I paid. Has about 600 pages of all kinds of fishes, their habits, growth, feeding, pictures, compatibility etc ISBN Number for i is 1-890087-38-6 And according...

Well. I kinda taught my Yellow Tang how to play peekaboo, well atleast he was interested in it. You see when I approach the tank, he usually goes and hides behind some LR. So one night when the lights turned off the moonlight was on, he kinda saw me approach, so he hid behind the LR. I ducked...

I see. So I should keep them, I guess they clean the tank?

Should I try to get rid of them?

Is that bad?

Just white. About the size of a pinhead and they don't come off easily. I was trying to take one of the castle thing. It won't come off, I used the opposite end of a spoon to scrape it off.

Basically, I've had this tank for about 6-8 months now. It's pretty much established. I do about 40% water changes every 2-3 weeks because I had a bad algae issue. Anyway, besides the algae problem, I've got new problem. Just yesterday I took a look at this castle thing that inside of the tank...

Since winter is around the corner, I've decided to upgrade my water heater. I'm planning to buy 2 150W water heaters. A little more than what my tank needs. So, if money wasn't an issue. Well...big issue. Ebo Jager TS, Visi-Therm Deluxe, Rena Cal Top Light Excel or Pro Heat Titanium I or II?

No, I don't use the Bio wheel as it doesn't fit. Since I have the protein skimmer, emp 400 etc etc. No room left. When I upgrade later next year to a 125 gallon, I'll use the bio wheel. The Emp 400's Biowheels and the LR are doing all the biological filtering. I have the magnum setup with...