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I have a 55 with 20 gal sump below and a 10 gal refugium above. I am trying to grow feather calupera in the refugium but it seems the cyno bacteria is chocking it out . I have a lil cyno in the main tank but i can control it its the refugium that is out of hand. Any suggesstions?? Ive tried...

I use feather calupera because it has greater surfac area and most important seems to be less toxic than the other types....Be very carefull in which kind you choose I had a freind kill off his entire 220 gal reef tank becauase he choose the wrong type. Als prunig is important to keep this toxic...

I have a 10 gal refugium that currently houses a 4 lb pice of live rock feather calupera and a 5 inch dsb. My problem is that i have algae every where even killing off the calupera.

can anyone help me out in with this??

do just cut the head off leaving most of the stalk then quarter the head??

anyone have any suggestions??

I have a couple of soft corals I would like to propagte in my tank.. I am kinda nervous in this undertaking and would like to start slow. Ihave a rock that had 3 mushrooms on it now i have 3 new ones and would like to progate the larger ones to cover another rock in my tank. Is there anyone...

I saw a previous post about somenoe needing xenia> I would also be very interested in acquiring a good bit of this stuff.. Would be interested in paying for shipping posibly discussing a trade...

my 55 gal reef has been up and running for about 6 mo. but I have just accepted a new job about 7 hours away and need to relocate it. I alos have a 10 gal refugium and 20 gal sump attatched. Please help with a detailed brekdown and setup for me.... Also could use som suggesttions on how to...

My refugium sits above my main tank and is built into my canopy for display purposes... I have a 20 gal sump below my main tank. Why the statement of if you add seahorses it is no longer a regugium. It still houses macroalgae and performs the same duties with or without the seahorses.... [...

colt corals are a very large producer of mucous when injured or are not happy.....usually see this when shipped and some kid of damage occurs...

I just added 2 seahorses to my 10 gal refugium that is about 3 weeks old they have been doin fine...I use a pretty low turn over rate as far as over flow and return goes.. the refugium mainly houses feather calupera

What is he currently eating?? do you supplement vitamins ??

I use liqiud galic to mix with the food. I believe it works similiar to the way it does in humans when the fish ingests it it has to come out either in food waste or excreted through the scales. Supposablly the garlic works like an insectaside.....

I have the quickgrete brand playsand in my refugium. I rinsed it "extremely extremly" well. But I made sure that mine did not contain silica...Most playsands are not allowerd to contain silica because it might be ingested by the kids....I also have carib sea aragonight and live sand mixed with...