Recent content by Abscam

My bulbs have been replaced, I'm showing negligable phosphates, everything else seems to be in order, but the darn algae is growing on my sand bed and creeping about. I've added 20 crabs and 16 new snails to the mix as well. Feeding of fish is minimal and every other day. Not sure how to rid...

I'm due a water change. Father, it has been at least two months since my last water change. During this time I have committed sins - i've not kept up on the cleaning of my protein skimmer and two corner jets. Nor have I blown my rocks recently. I'm planning on a 10 gallon water change this...

My MH bulbs just turned a year, and my 50/50 VHO are about 13 months old. Do they all need to be replaced? Recently I've noticed an algae bloom over and above the normal growths I get if I don't scrape the sides at least weekly. There is a brown/greenish carpet algae growing on the sand bed...

Eli; I ran two 100wat 50/50 for about 10 hours a day and had two 250 MH bulbs running at about 6-8 hours a day, as long as calcium is above 400. Corraline growth rocks!

All seems well. Both animals are fully extended again. I cleaned the power head above them and have nice flow over them and they are happy. Interesting one animal has 3 1.5 inch sprouts of new growth, the other one (which closed up) has not shown any growth.

ok, I cleaned the powerhead and directed it down and across it and the polyps are starting to come out....so looks like we are out of the woods. I was told by LFS that they are quite hardy and not to give up on them....

That would be to hack at, change out, swap out, components.

ok, so here is a slightly out of focus, shot through a somewhat algae laden plexiglass window...but should give you a basic idea of what is going on. I'll try and imrove my photo technics...

I don't know...as I recall they weren't very specific and I haven't identified them yet. It isn't a fan variety, but appears to be more of a branching type. brown is retracted, purple is doing fine, both have brownish polyps. I'll try and snap a photo tonight and update this thread w/...

I got a pair of Goragonia mounted on a cement plug from the unmetionables folks in Idaho earlier this year. One of the two has completely retracted and stayed retracted for about two weeks now - very suddenly w/o any apparent change in conditions. It touches up to the other Goragonia that has...

great book by an author out of Australia. http://www.publish.csiro.au/books/detail.cfm?Key=2187 I bought the book and CD together. Way more than I can use as beginner coral keeper but a great resource - both book and CD. It covers every known acropora in the world... The book is a large...

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