Recent content by RevDaniel

I really don't think it's from leftover food, as my clowns and shrimp eat everything. I only feed a little at a time. Any thoughts on it being my lighting? I doubled up on lights, so I'm running two t8's, 10,000k and actinic, and the same in a t5 setup. It grows really fast, we pick it off as...

To make this short and sweet, I've got a 100 gallon that houses a snowflake moray, a 29 gallon with two clown fish and an assortment of polyps and coral, and a 55 gallon sump. All three share the same water as they are all tied into the same system. All my parameters are at zero, but i'm having...

Well I tested water from another tank, and it checked out so it's not my test kit. I've been doing large water changes using ro/di water I bought at the lfs and keep in a 15 gallon drum, with no decrease in ammonia. (my levels are still off the charts, so dark green it's almost black) I got a...

Everything in my tank was perfect until 3 weeks ago, all my levels were zero, and then I had a huge ammonia spike. I counted my critters and nothing was dead, so I did a water change. This only made the problem worse. The LFS is hospitalizing all my corral, anemone, and clowns until the ammonia...

Does anyone know what could cause this sulfur smell? And if so what could prevent it?

Okay, so after my tank crashed, killing everything other than a few hermits, snails and a yellow tailed damsel, I decided to start over from scratch. As I was scrubbing my live rock with a toothbrush under fresh water, I noticed some white areas under the bottom side of some of the rocks. It...

The lighting is a 24 inch floresent bulb. It came with the tank. no, i have not checked the tds of the water. i'm not sure what kind of water purifier it is, i know it has 4 or 5 different cyllinders it goes through. i'm using a reeflife liquid test kit for the calcium, alk, nitrate and nitrite...

i was spot feeding flake/baby shrimp ground up together with a syrynge to my peppermint shrip every day or so, same went for the yellow tailed damsel. maybe 6 ml of water/food mix. i had the anemone about 3 or 4 weeks. lighting is a 24 inch 10,000k. I have essential trace elements i've added a...

I have a liquid test kit but I'm not home yet so I can't give exact numbers. I don't feed often since I only have one yellow tail damsel. I'll feed flakes and occasionally bloodworms. 20 percent water changes with premixed salt water. 29 gallon tank with 20 sump. 8 hermits, some nassarius...

My alkalinity test strip turns blue, so its off the charts. I'm using instant ocean salt mix. I'll buy another powerhead to create more surface ripple. Is there anything else I need to know?

My sg is at 1.0255. My condy has died and I can't seem to get my alkalinity down and Ph up. My Ph is at 7.8, nitrates 0, nitrites are high and so is ammonia. Grrr.

Haha yes! I didn't want it to rot in there and poison my tank

so my kenya tree died a few days ago, and now my condy has shriveled up and looks very limp! help!

Hi everyone! I'm new here, and have a few questions. I've had some issues with my tank lately since my Kenya tree bacame ill and died. This was my first piece of coral, my tank parameters were all zero, and since it bacame ill I have had a huge ammonia and nitrite spike. Help!! I'm using ammo...