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thats because gregb is a twelve year old teenager living with mum and dad. the only fish she has / had is burried in the back garden next to granny. (or he lives in some kind of institution?

no wonder you need that much then, just shows how much a Ca reactor pumps into tanks.

holy cow whats wrong with your co2 from your calcium reactor? is it not able to keep the alk up? over sixty tablesppons seem excessive even for a large tank. you must have massive growth to bind all that carbonate somewhere! :-?

what do you hope to find? that a higher PH increases growth? if thats the case i better lower mine to 7.8 from 8.1 maximum.

have you got any algae the rabbit fish can graze on? its on of his major food sources. hair algae would do to

well it sems to inhibit leather/soft coral growth so i can't see why it could not have an impact on sps

what about vinegar as the only "added" carbon source? instead if vodka, in conjunction with kalkwasser!

i would raise them quite a bit and use only the center one. at lower level lighting the algae within the coral should come (brown in colour) back if the bleaching wasn't to severe. shaded area's are great for LPS and they should expand the tissue pretty quickly to reach / get maximum light.

good gear doesn't neccessary make a good tank. money alone does no grow corals or keep them alive for that instance. knowledge does! otherwise every deltec tank would be awesome. but i have to admit that good gear would help a lot. 8)

i strongly agrree with that, but how long will it take a coral eating nudibranch to reach that size? how did it get in my tank? i use NSW but do not believe that those little buggers exist in local waters. and i had that coral for almost 3 years and it showed no ill effect until just recently. go figure. :-?

that very interesting as most leather eating nudi's never leave their food source and hence are hard to spot. all the once i came across over the years that moved around freely ate sponges and the like and were always looking out for more food sources. the only reason i found mine was because i put the knife right next to it with the intent of cutting a frag of the leather. otherwise i would have not seen it at all.

found this little beauty tonight whilst doing some major fragging again. i have been wondering why my colt gor smaller (ok i did cut heaps of frags but it never seemed to mind before and stayed the same size or even grew quite a bit. so it was a bit strange. i have not added a fish for over 4 months now (if not longer) and no coral for almost a year and then it was a single p.daminicornis. i also dip all my new arrivals in reef dip to prevent any nasties. so i assume that this one has been with me foe a rather long time. the nudibranch looks awesome well so it should as it has eaten at least $50 over the last few month. does anyone else has a similar senario with their colt / leather corals? free to a "good home" or it will go into the "big white telephone" :-?

i have to agree that stock seems to be poor to say the least. if there is nothing in the shops then how do you expect to sell more?

you're right not everyone does!! send me a pm.

here is your biggest challenge! :-? and they have to be alive and move otherwise the fry will not take them. they also have to be present in huge numbers. good luck. the algae is the main food the rotifer is almost just a carrier (algae needs to be high in HUFA's)

single celled algae enriched rotifers for the first 5 days. sounds easy, well its not.

but thats perfectly ok as its tank grown and you still have the mother colony and mavbe even some more daughter colonies. and in that way people spend less, learn from/with it (one hopes) and are not depleting the natural resources to much.

if you feel guilty buying wild caught corals then check out trade me for available frags which are all home grown. they are also a lot hardier and adjust better then newly imported wild specimens.

how big is the tank. its acrylic isn't it?

strongly disagree here nothing wrong with M/H's. don't cost much more then flouro's. but you can keep all sorts of stuff plus it looks so much better!!!!!!!! it gives you a real reef feeling. and fay will agree with me too!

i will see you on the weekend . joke aside. it seems by looking at the first picture (acro.) that growth has ceased almost completly. why would be the question. are you coral's starving? or using all their energy (the little thats left to block harmful UV? until they reach the point when they just RTN. now some people on this forum would argue that a tank will contain "enough" food, which is something i don't agree with (after seeing "snowstorms" of particles with incoming tides just recently in fiji). i also believe that corals once established are quite hardy and take a while before they die so it be more then one factor which causes your problems, and not just one "easy fix solution". the recovery if possible would also take some time. i reckon that you "fried" your corals with that lighting upgrade and would say its the main culprit (not necessary the only one), but couple that with low food availability, nice clear strong flowing water and perhaps being low with certain trace elements (but looking at the amount of water you have been changing lately i doubt that anything is ultra low to cause problems) good luck, as it will be a hard choice what to do next. (easiest is to go back to the same setup 6 month ago and see what happends) ripping out rock for more flow will most likely not do any good, more the opposite it will create even more stress. if you want to save small frags i will be more than happy to keep them for you for a while (no rent charged ) chris

give it to me. you will get it back minus a small frag! patience is the name of the game. didn't you just upgrade your lights? all i can see are changes and more changes all the time! rtn? what is rtn? change things slowly! "lets get some bigger lights, and get a much bigger skimmer. lets start zeovit. lets buy large newly imported acro's. etc etc."

you most work in petone and live in hataitai! hang on thats 17 minutes. damn :-?

hang on. picture one shows a large single elephant ear below a toadstool leather. next post/picture shows a colony of green hairy mushrooms above the toadstool. now which one did eat your fish??

"this is the starship enterprise "we are going were no reefer has gone before. not to wrong is it?