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Thanks I re-checked calcium with Hanna test and you're right I'm 480 still high but not that high , i follow your advice , thanks again

Hi ... All corals look perfect in my tank but I ran a test today and all Is ok but the alk Is way to low : 95ppm (about 5.5 dkh) . Calcium Is 600 . What can I do to move both without any adverse effect . Thanks

Can you ID this acro ? Thanks! :)

Hello everybody , any clue?

Hi , I got this hard coral without id, looks like hairy mushroom but has skeleton ! Thanks

Thanks for the reply, I just test my alk test :) with ocean water and I think the reagent is too old because it could not test the natural sea water either. I will get another test kit. thanks again.

I've been dosing kalkwasser for years but I got lazy reading my alk levels since March... well , a week ago my xenia started shrinking and its polyps are not fully open then I check parameters and everything looks ok but the alk seems too high that I could not even test it: I added the reagent...

I've been doing some research and I have a ballast to drive plain MH bulbs and no hqi bulbs even though I've been using hqi bulbs for years 8O . could somebody explain me more about hqi ballast and plain MH ballast ? do you know any article that I can read to learn more about this issue. thanks...

Thanks for the replies ... Well you can read in my ballast : "AQI 175 MH" it's from Prolighting INC The bulb is a HQI bulb 175 watts from Blau aquaristic. I've always used hqi bulbs without any problem, right now the ballast is working with the old bulb (another hqi different brand)... Any...

I got a new hqi MH bulb and stored for more that two months, the guarantee is over :( ... I try to use it in my tank and it started ok but after 30 seconds it turned off by itself, I wait and I try it twice and it happened again... it almost get the max potency but when is going to make it...

Thanks for the reply. Yep the problem here is both are twitching! No one wanna be the female :) The parameters are ok I think the last female was sick since I receive her.... Supouse the new "male have complete the sex change .... the change has no return so could two males fight?... I want...

This is the story... I had a tomato pair, they used to laid eggs and everything but the female got a weird infection and she died a couple months ago leaving the male alone, he is three years old, I decide to get two more tomatos, why two? just in case, if one die during the shipping or...

My copperbanded is rubbing against the rocks but I spent more than one hour looking for any parasite and I could not see any.... Is there another possibility besides a parasite? Thanks in advance.

Thank you guys, I move it already but the cleaner doesn´t want to jump over the copperbanded yet...

I´ve got a copperbanded butterfly fish yesterday with two peppermint shrimp in a separated aquarium full of aiptasia and this morning he just started rubbing against the rocks, the tank has a uv sterilizer. I have a cleaner shrimp in another tank and I was thinking to place the cleaner with the...