Recent content by burt reynolds

The biggest lessons I have learned (so far) are: 1) Try to plan out all the livestock you eventually want in your tank, then bounce your plan off people on BB's, they will be able to tell you what you can and can't have together and when things should be added. 2) Inspect everything you add to...

I think you are right about the pocillipora, I should have acclimated it to the light better. I will move it further down and see how it does.

I already run carbon a few days a month. I use a Red Sea test kit which I know is not the most accurate. I think I probably have some excess nutrients, and got some good tips from responses on "another board." I'm going to cut back on my fish feeding a bit, add some faster growing macro to my...

Within the last few months I have started to keep SPS with mixed results. A pocillipora damicornis I added a couple of months ago at first was pale brown but fuzy with polyps for the first month or so, but now is almost completely bleached and hardly any polyps left. It never did turn pink...

I've had the skimmer running fine for a year, when a couple of weeks ago it started filling the collection cup way too fast with almost completely clear skimate, and filling the tank with micro-bubbles. The guys who run CPR's bulletin board tell me that something I added changed the viscocity...