Recent content by Gravesj1s

You should start to see a fairly immediate improvement in polyp extesion (within a few days) The color should start to improve over a few weeks,ime.

I have a red serpent and pistol shrimp that were fine through a full dose interceptor treatment.Hermit crabs were wiped out though. Im not sure about how other types of starfish, shrimp and cleanup crews would handle it.Someone else may be able to help with this. Fwiw -you should dose...

I agree most photos are enlarged as the bugs are really difficult to see. I personally could not see them on this acropora until I took a pic and zoomed in did they become visible.You can try that or a magnifying glass to spot the culprits. Fwiw-I used interceptor and found it very effective...

~Dave,thanks for the response. Honestly,I don't really have an answer to what the problem is.I was told to take the probe out of the sump and put it in a glass of tank water to see if the readings were different.Doing that I did find the probe varied from in tank to the glass.I purchased a...

Thanks for the response dave. The probes were both used on a continuous basis,kept submerged in tank water.They seem to go when doing a waterchange.Its at this point I shut all powerheads and pumps off ,do the waterchange.Then something happens when the power is turned back on to the...

Ive just had my 2nd ph probe go south and looking to replace it ,yet again.This is the 2nd over an 8 month period,whitch Im not sure why or what causes them to go bad. Anyone have information to share in regards to longevity,brand,maitenance to followup with. I've seen some reefers comment on...

From the responses here,its been an eye opener for me.I took your advice Ben doing a brief search and found it surprising to see some of these threads showing pictures of chalices,favias and some acropora with blister like appearences.Honestly Ive never seen any of this before or heard of it for...

Hi Ben.Thanks for that information. Your response has certainly changed what I was thinking was occuring.I posted a thread in one of the popular forums and from the majority of responses posted, it would eventually spread to other corals with rtn as a final outcome.From that,I felt it would be...

Taking a crack at pics here.Pic # 1 is how it starts progressing from there.

Hi, yes, I was able to locate an article from 85' that was interesting to read.Though I found the pics to difficult to compre with. Honestly, I haven't been able to find any new growth sprouting up. I dont know if it will help but I have some good macro shots if you'd like to take alook.Im...

Hi, thanks for the welcoming. My tank info. 72 gal with plumbed 20 gal sump.I use a controller (rke v2) to keep temp @ a basepoint of 78.5F.Limewater is dosed through it as well 24/7 with the aid of a floatswitch and diaphram pump; no other chemical additives.Iuse seperate reactors for regular...

Hello to all. I have a question that pertains to a birdsnest colony whitch (I think) is experiencing polyp bailout.It develops blister-ish polyps <--my best description in random areas.Despite any attempts in stable on par water I could never get this to stop.Its shown no signs of color loss...