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Hey thanks for the insight, I'll keep an eye on it for the next week or so...as it is a little too tough to catch in my 120 gallon tank to put into iso.

Can you remove the infected rock? If you can remove the rock, place it in an isolation tank/tub and inject directly with boiling water. You can use the iso tank to observe the rock over a period of days to make sure everything is taken care of. If not, well its a different battle and I'm sure...

IMO - the reef tank primarily takes time in the setup, i.e. curing the live rock, doing water changes to reduce your nitrates etc, however once established it does become its own ecosystem and mostly takes care of itself. There is generalized maintance - just like feeding or grooming your...

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I transferred my coral beauty into my reef tank and he has been hanging low with what looks like the clear lens of his eye popping out? We acclimated him slowly, and he received a bit of grief from the other inhabitants (Purple Tang mostly) but for the most part everyone leaves him alone. Any...

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For mail order I found Champion Lighting or Reef Fanatic have equally low prices. HTH

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I have had a Maroon Gold Stripped Clownfish for some time (since it was a juvenille) and now it is 3+ inches. I had the curious idea of trying to introduce it to another maroon gold stripped and found a small juvenille < 1/2" in size. I setup a small acrylic tank inside my reef tank to keep the...

Last week I added more scarlet hermit crabs to my existing system, and in the last day or so I am finding body parts from all of my scarlet hermit crabs - even some whole bodies dragged out of their shells. Any idea on whats going on? My reef tank has a variety of critters like blue legs, red...

My sump has a series of baffles I built into it for the specific reason of creating stilling area for adding algae/plants on top of a sand bed. I'm using 4x96 powercompacts (actually the old bulbs I replace out of my tank) for lighting, temparature about 79-81, normal reef parameters. I have 1...

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I've thought about MTC Mini's but that is sort of pushing capacity, without much room for upgrade, and I can't justify (or afford) the cost of a Pro-Cal. Anyone else have ideas on what works or does not work?

Good Points - The Rock was well established and cared for (over 2 years) while in the tank with good corraline algae growth. In the buckets I used the water from my 75 gallon, heater, and a circulation pump (small rio). I varied lighting from natural daylight to artificial (I oly had two extra...

My established 75 gallon reef tank leaked and I was forced to pull everything out and put it into spare tanks and buckets. My questions is this: I am expecting some transitional die off with my rock from going from tank to a circulated bucket to new tank, but should I expect the lengthy cycle I...