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JDM do you feed them anything?

:lol: :bounce: :bounce: good replies, when I got the starfish it had one missing,now there's three missing, am I right in thinking that they grow back?

Hi have a chocolate starfish that is losing its tentecales, any ideas as to why?

the anemone has now died, some of it had got into filter system nitrates went up to 20, and i have now lost some touch coral, have been doing 20% water changes to get nitrate down, any ideas as what would be best to use inside the Ehium canister? thinking of puting some live rock in. any help or ideas would be great.

Tank has been running 5 months Tank is 500 deep Has four pumps plus filter pump Filter canister hes ceramic tubes and small brown balls in the top Have two other anemonies and they are doing well, had them for five weeks. Got this anemone few days and is same colour as in the shop. Nitrate is just over 10 Have now got the anemone out of tube

how long is safe to leave filter system off for?

T5s got it from Hollywood and they had it under high light

Filter has been turned off, now waiting for it to come out of tube

Hi, got an anemone and put it at the top of my rocks, it puffed itself up and rolled down knocking corals out of it way it then made its way to back of rocks away from the light, it is now trying to go up the tube to the filter system. any ideas as to why this one does not like the light?

leather umbrella coral now has started to fall apart

the stuff is called proper pH8.2, recommend by pet shop :oops: it says: perfect for salt water, automatically sets pH at 8.2, but now I read it, it also increases KH, but says to repeat teatment if there is a change of more them 0.2 in the pH. think I will throw this stuff away.

hi cookie have ceramic bio rings in the filter unit. how low can the Ph fall too before it becomes unsafe?

oh :oops: very little evaporation, tank has hood, only top 1-2 lt every couple of days. do 10% water once a week.

test the NSW before I use it and add OR water to it, salitily is 0.29 these are what I add if needed. Ph is 7.8 ( added 10ml of proper PH 8.2 just now) use coral grow as instrutions strontium Iodine, 5ml every second week Tank is 180lt Filter is eihum, changed filter pads last week removed and replace 1/3 filter media.

just tested Kh and its 16.0 What makes the Kh rise? any help on this would be great. thanks

I got yellow tang from hff albany for $85.00,

thanks for the advise, will leave it where it is, was slime coming off it and now looks clean of slime. still limp and lifeless. will keep thread posted on its progress.

Hi, got a leather umbrella last week, which looked great until monday when it started to look limp , did water tests and found KH off the chart. added few drops of white vinegar, which helped a little bit. Calcium started to drop, so now have done 20% water change. Can someone tell me what effects the KH to go up? Leather umbrella has not opened yet and still looks limp. Test results as 22/11/06 Ni=0 Na=5-10 Am=0 Po4=0 PH=8.2 Ca=380 Kh=13.1 Mg=1380 would I be best to use NSW in small tank and remove Leather umbrella out of maun tank? I dont want to lose it. many thanks ady

If you look at top photo you will just see skimmer on left of tank. My temp goes from 26.9 in morning to 28 in evening. see you was asking about shrimps from rock pools, I got two snails from beach, and they are doing a great job of cleaning the rocks. Was thinking, has anyone thought of starting some sort of club, or maybe hire a village hall where frangs and bits and pieces to do with this hobbie could be sold, just a thought, I would be first in the door.

see if this works :oops: first photo is a green tank which lasted four weeks until uv was fitted.

Hi Mark, I started Sept this year, tank finished its cycle few weeks ago. Have 1 clown, 1 sail fiish, 1 damsel, a fire shrimp and a peppermint shrimp. Tank is 180L with hang on skimmer, and just got a uv light, which has made alot of diffance, had a alge bloom for five weeks, that went within two days of useing the uv light. Have some soft corals, thanks to chris, plus lots of advise which has been great, just wish I had heard of this site before I started the tank, would have saved loads of cash, and time. Thanks to all on the forum, for all your help to us newbies. :oops: cant work out how to put photo of tank here :roll:

yes, do NSW changes. Have been testing tank from word go, Nitrite was at 3 when we were told thats ok to add mushroom corals and some sps corals, which are all doing great, did test to day and Nitrite is now 0.50, so hope to add some fish soon when Nirite is 0 Just wish I had known of this site sooner, may have got some tips on how to cycle tank quicker then 3 months.

thanks reef, how offend do you recommend I do these tests?

Hi all, just started few months ago and trying to find out what test's I need to do, shops I go to keep giving differant stories, have a few small frags of soft corals and proberly will stick to soft carols plus few small fish. any help would be greatful, many thanks. :bounce:

live in albany, yes skimmer is great, shop said not to get one as not necessary:-? . as for lighting tank came with two T 5s have one white and one blue, wanted to get a metal light ( like thats what it's called, about 150 w ) spoke to steve and because I have a closed in lid, was unable to get the height I need, space is tight in the lid steve had one double T 5 unit but it was too wide, in the end I found a unit to fit, now have : tri light 1500 30w and 1000 30w blue plus the two T5 s . just need help on what tests to use for soft corals? which is all I have, as no fish yet and the corals are small frags