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this happened to me shortly before i had a slimy green algae appear. my advice is to nip this in the bud. cut your feeding down to about half and do a couple of water changes over 2 or 3 wk period. this small change in feeding habits got rid of quite an invasion of this type af algae in my 90...

i'll take credit for the siphoning method post thank you

the subject says it all. i have this crud that grows in the shaddy areas on the substrate in one little spot in my tank. i can tell where it's going to pop up because it makes gas bubbles in the sustrate before it grows to the surface. none of my snails or crabs seem to want to have anything to...

Dewman, What kind of test did you get your hands on. For $18.00 bucks you should get about 50 tests at least. Go to marinedepot.com and buy your self a Salifert test kit for the same price you paid.

I run the 400w 6500k pfo eye and i'm not impressed with the yellow color these bulbs put out. This just goes to show you, don't take opinions off the board, experience them yourself. Everyone has a different opinion of what crisp white is. And everyone raved about how great these lights looked...

anyone??????

i had a problem with my kalkwasser having a fishy smell to it. i figured out that it has something to do with my di water. when i used regular ro water without the di cartridge it smelled fine. the cartridge is supposed to change color when it is exhausted, but mine appeared to be fine. i have...

mariner hit it right on the head.

besides marine depot, i'm looking for other sources for pc bulbs and related equipment. also is there any bulb that you think are better that others.

First and foremost figure out what you want to keep in your tank. The depth of you tank is also big consideration. I made the mistake of buying a dual 400w, 6500k PFO set up and realized that this system was too intense for the softies i wanted to keep, and the mushrooms i already had. But my...

I never was much for intoducing new critters to my tank in order rid it of other critters. I just took a piece of rigid tubing (approx 3/16") and a mating piece of flexible tubing and siphoned the little guys out of there. They don't have much grip power so they come off and up real easy. I did...

I run the pfo with the dual 400w, 65k iwasakis and agree with a few of the posts when they say that it is ugly yellow. But i must say that my corals do love the light spectrum it provides. I,m also running a dual 46" VHO actinic blue bulb to bring out the colors in my corals, but it's not enough...

This particular shroom requires intense lighting. Most of your run of the mill shrooms do better in dim conditions.

Just looking for a few recomendations to feed my new xenia. I'm currently using marine snow and was wondering if there were other products that would better suit my needs for the above mentioned softy.