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quick move to a new place, change your name on this forum and tell people from now on that your name is Duncan Layton and they must have you confused with some other dude. 8)

another piece of flash equipement = another headache!! don't worry to much about your PH, you are not a newbee to this hobby! do your corals look bad? have they stopped growing? do your fish look bad? do you see anything wrong in the tank? if you answered all the above questions with no then remove your PH probe, put it in a box and chuck it under the tank (or sell it on trade me to some poor soul who up til now had a peaceful goodnight sleep). then go bed and sleep well without worrying about PH. dream instead about your new setup.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod ... CatId=1706 big price for a plain fish, but i guess its the location that drives the price. how much did you pay for your crosshatch if you don't mind me asking?

who is AQUANET???

isn't that a contradiction in itself. (blaming and praising the same people???)

i would recommend not to move in. it can't be good for you!!

26.5 with my lights on in the morning and late in the evening, plus aircon for the room. and i haven't looked back.

how is your tank? any coral loses over the last few months? positives you may want to share?

my dog does it all the time its called recycling.

i have seen a very large tank once in germany and it had the front glass pannel "siliconed" in. the front glass pannel had a frame around it that was fixed to the rest of the tank and the viewing glass was kind of glued in by the silicon but was also held in place by the weight of the water in the tank pressing against the glass. that tank held about 3000 liter which was for most people huge in the mid eighties. the tank was concreted in to a corner in the living room. (reminder make sure you own the house if you do so )

just as pies said. the acro seems more potent and both die a bit, the monti more then the acro. but and its a big but the monti grows so much faster that most acro's can't keep up. monti moves closer and the battle start again and again and again. in the long run the monti (esp. capricornis) will win. i have been scrapping it back with tweezers and it still keeps coming back. kalkwasser paste works too. it can become a real nuisance in the long run. :-?

no the corals couldn't care less, but my poor blue hermit crab seems a bit confused he goes to bed in the pink monti digitata twice a day now. :-?

you could adjust your lighting times. mine runs in winter from 1130 til 2200 pm. in summer my halides kick in at 630 to 9 and then again from 1530 to 2100 (150w) my 400 w 700 to 930 and 1730 to 2130. that alone helps heaps with temp plus my lounge got aircon.

first 2 pic's are of my green alvepora (colour doesn't really show in picture, the other is a gray one that grew out of a rock full of mushrooms. sorry for the quallity of the las picture.

first 2 pic's are of my green alvepora (colour doesn't really show in picture, the other is a gray one that grew out of a rock full of mushrooms.

we are all right!! :bounce: Family acroporidae includes acropora, montipora, anacropora, astreopora its just that most reefers call acropora acro's and montipora monti's.

just make sure its an alvepora (12 little leaves per stalk). when i got mine i lost about half to recession within the first 3 months. then it stopped and its growing well now.

will do once i get home. (slaving at work at the moment )

why would you want to ruin the looks? unless you like to create a LFS aquarium set up look.

mine seems to be easier to keep compared to goniopora. its always open during the day, likes good flow (mine gets mostly laminar flow which may not be ideal but it doesn't seem to mind) and medium light (under 150 M/H partly sheltered by a coral pinnacle).

looks like montipora digitata. it will go prurple under lots of light, but grows better when its brown.

males lift a fin when doing weeee's. no serious, buy from a tank that has lots of small clowns and get a smallish one. it will be a male as the hirachy has not been established yet. all clown fish are born as male. but if you have lots of bullies then it may not work and you new purchase may end up as dinner!!

why? buy a small male and one will turn into a female rather quickly. if you get a new female and your old fish started changing sex you may be into trouble. just surviving? or thriving? are any of the fish chase the new clowns when first put into the tank? as most of your fish are very territorial.

hi duncan, welcome back from your holiday! we all missed you (not! ). how did the tank survive while you relaxed in the states?

question here would be = why do your fish get white spot??? over stocking?, bad water management?, putting to much stress on new additions? why is white spot so greatly accepted as an normal occurance? it shouldn't be. if it develops in your tank you have done something wrong. :-?