Recent content by cvye

Chad - 2 lbs of carbon per week seems excessive. How did you come up with this metric? Thanks! -Christian

It wasn't my experience that high nutrients (high means still undetectable but high by reef standards!) favored macros over micros, and it also appears to be the case with Mr. Baker's refugium, quoted with permission from reefcentral:

You only get to be a guru in this hobby after you've stopped keeping a tank. And the longer it's been since you've kept one, the more respected you get. Otherwise, you're just a "hobbyist". :roll:

If given a choice between using a salt that kills sea urchin larvae and one that doesn't, I'd take the one that doesn't.If shown analyses that one salt contains lethal levels of copper in it and one doesn't, I'd also choose the latter. Hmm, seems pretty simple...

Might be a good thing to use in the middle over my thick center brace, which probably attenuates the light but good.

You'll get another theory on color if you goto http://www.korallen-zucht.de/

Yeah, my tangs won't leave me alone...I'd always thought it was "ooo- big blob might feed me!" but since my nephews/niece came by and scared them off, I actually think they might recognize me (or my movements, at least)! What species of Pocillipora spawned in your tank? I'm amazed that some...

Your tank is very exciting to watch - now that we have videos! Are the chromis et al. reversing direction due to a reversal in current that happens every few seconds?

I think that jury is out on nutrient control. While there was a study often quoted about how macro algae predominate in nutrient rich reefs, and micro algae with less nutrients, these were in real-world conditions where grazing factors were not controlled for. There's also the work done by Adey...

Before I made a misstep, I thought I'd try an algae filter in isolation. I have a "crashed" 40g breeder with not-so-live rock, Derbesia, a few featherduster worms, and Chaetomorpha in the water column. So far the micro algae do very well competing against the chaetomorpha, even with...

Boyd's Chemi-Clean

Man, you guys have gotta get over to reefcentral - nobody there runs a reef tank without a refugium/algae filter! and the gist is that they feed heavily and their hair algae goes away! lol, albeit with LOA flourescents, not MH's over the filter. For the life of me, I can't understand it, but...

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Cyano definitely use calcium. I no longer know the exact relationship...it'd been written in the past that increasing your KH would fend it off, but I just read an article by (yipes!) Thiel that said it happens in high KH (low pH) situations - which I have in my current setup. I overdosed the...