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I'd use pure vinegar. It'll kill anything, disolves calcium carbonate and a small amount is harmless to your fish if some gets missed.

I believe that E Quadricolor (bubble tips) are the most common and most often successful in aquaria. I would recomend the rose variety for color, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While you can do without MH, I'd get them anyway if you're buying lights - it'll give you more options...

One of my tanks (seahorse tank that is high in nutrients) gets that every time I clean my remora HOT protein skimmer. The LFS explanation that makes sense to me is that more bubbles make it through the skimmer and into the tank after I break up the biofilm that coats the inside of the skimmer...

All of that food would add enough nutrient to your tank to give you an algae bloom, especially in a tank that small.

I had some that stayed closed for about a week, never did figure out why.

Getting sucked into powerheads is a common problem for anemones. Put something around the intake on the PH to prevent it. I use just the plastic housing from a hagen filter zip tied to my maxijet intake.

We feed ours krill and silversides

My LFS did it for $25 including the bulkhead, but they said I bore the risk if the tank cracked. They said chances of it breaking was <10%.

You might solve your problem by adding live rock (about 1 lb per gal) and a refugium with some macroalgae, but I'd bet using good water will be it. Test the tap water you are using before you put it in and see what the level is.

I use a limitted amount of bioballs and biobale as a way to trap microbubbles. I haven't had a problem with Nitrate, but I also have a fuge with macroalgae.

Found the reference: quote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some tank raised ocelleris sometimes are slow to accept an anemone. Here’s an amusing but effective trick: buy one of those plastic clownfish clips used for holding nori or lettuce and put it...

That edge represents a clean break- the first time I tried to scrape off the brown gunk, I accidentally broke off a small piece that was overhanging that damaged region. Should I do something with the edge? I figured it was the same kind of break that would have happened if I had fragged it...

sick coral pics Well, I finally managed to both take some pictures (albeit a bit blurry, since I have digital zoom on) and figure out how to make the file size sufficiently small to post. The first pic shows the whole coral, the second shows a close up of a portion of the underside, where the...

thanks It's a Montipora species- I thought those were SPS corals? At least, that's what my coral book claims. In any case, I will post a pic when I get home late tonight. I sure wish that the link describing bacterial infection in corals had a pic with it. the stuff on my coral is not...

We bought a beautiful pink plate coral (about 3" diameter) from the LFS about 3 weeks ago, which had a very small white patch in the center. Slowly, brown algae has grown in that region (at least, I assume it's algae), exuding bubbles of ?air or ?mucous that sit suspended right over it. The...

I'd leave room between the rock and the front and sides (for cleaning the glass) but not the back.

Our local petstore is great. Free advice, knowledgable staff, free water testing, 10,000 square feet, almost everything I want in stock or available. All fish in a QT for at least a week before going on the sales floor.

If you don't have the filter on, add a filter over the bulkhead. That solved our problem. If that's not enough search the net for Durso standpipe.

What other options do we have to keep Ca and KH up, without the expense and hassle of setting up a Ca reactor? Despite adding 2x recommended amounts daily, our KH was once again down to 8 this morning (we don't have a Ca test kit, so only our LFS can measure it for us).

bounces around between 300 and 400, not steady like everything else.

We have a 46 GAL bowfront, with a 15 GAL sump and an 18 inch Aquafuge HOT refugium. I'd guess 50 gallons of water after subtractign space for LR and adding fuge and sump. We're using Tech CB buffer. Per the bottle we should dose 12.5 ml of each part A & B (10ml/40 gal) daily. Even dosing...

Our BTA still seems to be doing well. He too ate krill, though one of the two pieces I gave him was stollen by a cleaner shrimp (who was then harassed by the orchid dottyback until he dropped in and our blue spotted jawfish took it into his hole). The cleaner shrimp walked right into the...