Recent content by Txcachem

My lights are T5HO and I just bought the fixture in December.

We have cut back feeding because of this. We were feeding daily and apparently too much. We have also cut back the lights. They were on for too long. Our levels are testing fine, but I still intend to do weekly waterchanges for a while. Just until everything is completely gone. Other than...

Well, We blacked out the tank for 3 days. It killed the red slime completely and helped a lot with the green hair. The green hair is not gone completely but it is considerably better. I also vaccumed and did a water change along with redoing the rock set up in my tank. We added a new sump...

We have had the protein skimmer since we got the tank 2 years ago. It is a Marineland that is supose to do a tank size up to 200 gallons. We bought one size larger than recommended. It worked for a very long time, but has only had trouble since the last cleaning. I think I will remove it and...

The skimmer is causing problems of its own. If we turn it all the way the bubbles go all the way to the top and basically drain the tank. If I turn it one notch below that the bubles go half way down and the water level in the skimmer is below the neck of the skimmer. I thought I finally got...

Thank you so much. I thought about the blanket but I was worried about the corals. We slowed our feeding down considerably when this started. I only feed once every two days. What kind of sump would you suggest, I have been wanting to get a bigger one (kinda like a PM- but it so overwhelming)

I need some advice. I have a 90 gallon reef tank that has been set up for almost 2 years and run perfectly until recently. I have not changed anything other than adding coral and we had a lighting change to the new T5s about 3 months ago. The hair algae has grown crazy. I cannot get rid of...

And here are some earlier pics!

We have had our reef tank set up since Oct 31, 2010. I decided I would like to post some of our current pictures and also some of the earlier ones as well. I can't wait until our corals take off. We are open to suggestions if you have any, especially about corals. Thanks for looking.

Does anyone know what my frogspawn is doing. It is almost turning itself inside out.

Here are the pictures.

I have a 90 gallon reef tank that has been set up for 8 mo. It has cycled. We have fish and lots of coral. Almost overnight a bloom of brown algae looking stuff has covered everything. The rocks, sand, and even pumps. I did have my protein skimmer off for a week because we were treating red...

The other pump fit in the space but I just didn't know if that holds enough volume. What is the easiest way to remove the baffles. We silicones them in on ever side. I was silicone happy!!!

Ok. I do have a sicce syncra silent 3.0 1100gph that we got from a friend. I had forgotten about it. We installed it and it is pushing a lot more water. Our overflow is a HOB tidepool silent and after installing the new pump it is no longer silent. The only way I can get it to stop gurgling...

300 gph.