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GARF is also selling the red's. www.garf.org Gary

The GARF site says that the reds are being aquacultured by villagers in the sea of cortez using nylon fishing rope as substrate. GARF is fragging them. Gary

I'd thin them out, get them started on new rocks and trade them at your LFS for supplies and livestock. If you'd like info on how to frag them, check the GARF website, www.garf.org. I have button polyps and sea mat all over my tank too. We have to thin out our xenias and clove polyps at least...

Yes it is. Its a photosynthetic bacteria. Sometimes called hair algae. Check out the garf site for more info on it. www.garf.org. You might have a water quality problem. I would check for phosphates. It can over grow a tank in a few days. The best thing I have found to control hair algae...

Your calcium level may depend on what brand of salt you are using. 450 wouldn't be that unusual for a reef salt. The Kent Marine is fine. That's what I use. They are all basically all the same, sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate. If you are going to be doing corals, you probably need...

Ich does through several stages in its lifes cycle. Some are sensitive to chemical treatment and low salinity, some aren't. The parasitic form is in the fish's tissue and very resistant to any form of chemical treatment. The trick is to catch the cysts when they emerge from the host and are...

I think some people in this discussion may be confusing two issues. Supplementing iodine vs, overdosing iodine. Many of the supplements we add can be toxic if overdosed. A good analogy is vitamin E and many of the other fat soluble vitamins that humans require. At high levels they can be...

I thought I would just throw some chemistry at the question of mixing Kalk and vinegar. Chemically, kalk (Calcium Hydroxide) is a basic material abd is related to caustic (Sodium Hydroxide). By adding white vinegar (5% acetic acid) you are doing an acid/base neutralization). The resulting...