Recent content by reefkeeper

Get yourself a Copper Banded Butterfly. He will eat em up.

I am looking for a single controller that can time and dim all my lighting. I have 2 icecap VHO ballasts and 3 250watt metal halide ballasts. Any recommendations?

I used the calculator on Andys SPS aquarium page.

This morning I added 10 teaspoons of CACL (255 gal of water in my system). I waited about 2 hours and retested. The Ca went up 4ppm. I had calculated it should have gone up 20ppm. Am I doing somthing wrong or should I just increase the amount ?

Presently I am having a lot of trouble keeping the Ca levels up in my tank. The alk was also a bit low, so I replaced my reactor media (ARM) and turned it up a bit. I also used some commercial buffer. I now have a DKH of 14.5 and have struggled to get the calcium to 330ppm. Specific gravity is...

I have had my eleagance coral for 5 years and have never fed it. It has quadrupled in size.

I recently lost 3 percula clownfish from a rapid acting disease. I noticed a slight film on one of them prior to it's demise, but other than that I had no indication anything was wrong until I saw the fish having difficulty swimming. All the other inhabitants of the tank are fine. I have 4...

I mail ordered them from saltwaterfish.com and I was irate when I got them. They eventually sent me the gigantea I ordered but I had to to get tough with them to get it. All three are doing well after about a year now. The purple one was supposed to be pink and was brown when I bought it at a...

They are happy, healthy and good sized. I would have to dismantle my reef to get them out so I don't think they are going anywhere. They are a drab olive color so not much to look at.Thanks for the offer though. How do you post pics in here anyway?

I want to buy another anemone via mail order and would like to hear from others that have done so. I did this once before and got 2 haddoni instead of the gigantea I had ordered and don't want to repeat the experience. I have 2 green haddoni (the ones I didn't want) a purple haddoni and a green...

I have 3 fans that I am very happy with, and they are already plugged in to go on with my lights. However if the temp is above 80, I want them to remain on. They are extremely efficient in cooling the tank.

I would like to control the fans in my hood with a sensor that monitors water temperature. Anyone doing this?

After reading a post in here a few weeks ago,I purchased a radio shack temperature control module to regulate when my hood fans go on and off. Unfortunately for me the module alone is worthless without the other hardware to make it work, but I don't know what else it is I need to buy. Anyone...

Thanks but pH is about the only value I don't need a standard for. Ca, Mg, alkalinity and specific gravity are what I'm lookin for.

From what I have read here and elsewhere, many people including myself have problems with test kits trying to determine if the values we are getting are correct. This includes the various devises for measuring specific gravity. As a med tech I know the importance of running known standards...