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Replied to PMs, edited my description. I also have a NIB Coralife Aqualight Advanced Hang/Clip-on 150w HQI light fixture I would be willing to sell along with this tank. It is what I had planned on using with this tank to keep the clean rimless aesthetic.

No, sorry, there is no sump, this is just the tank only.

just do it, Mama....just do it...............

Hi folks, I've got an Oceanic Illuminata 57g ReefReady Rimless Aquarium for sale. New, never touched water. About 4 Months old. Comes with Megaflow system w/Stand Pipes. $350 OBO Price Drop $300 Oceanic.com Reefbuilders w/Pics & Video Can take pics myself if wanted but its exactly the same as above. EDIT: This is the tank only, the sumps, pumps, lights, and the tech series stand is not included. It seems my description could cause some confusion. the Megaflow overflow system by Oceanic includes the drilled reefready tank, overflow box, and an accessory kit which includes Durso Stand Pipes, as well as flow accelerators.

Does your light still work without a bulb or two? If so, and you really think it is the light, you could try removing a bulb. I've also heard of cheap, or bad bulbs browning out corals, but I don't know too much about that.

It seems as if I need to reevaluate my strategy to get rid of my six-line.

It is one of reefing's greatest tragedies BUT I can remedy the situation by dropping my six-line off in Mark's tank during the meeting!

That is a starting dose, and you will need to adjust it accordingly. There is a max of 1ml per gallon of each component daily. Just do daily testings of calcium,dkh, and pH, adjusting the dosages until everything is normalized. BTW, I use B-Ionic in addition to water changes to regulate my calcium, hardness and pH with good success. It's also supposed to provide all the important trace elements. I think it is a great product so far.

*Pending Still available. SOLD

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How do the copepods get from your sump to the display?

Bump. Still available $200 OBO.

i've got a spare light you can borrow if you need it.

Not to mention if you ditch the Coralife lamps and replace them with MH lamps with very high PAR performance like the Reeflux's.

You will also come to find out that the Kelvin "ratings" put on these bulbs can mean very little but marketing. One 14K will be yellow/white, another very blue, and some right in the middle. It is better to examine their spectrographs if you can find them, as well as their PAR output. Also one lamp's "blue" will be a pale blue, another a deep rich blue, and another kind of a greyish blue. There are differences in T5 lamps as well, and as with anything in this hobby or others, you usually get what you pay for quality wise, although I suppose there are some exceptions. Hamilton is supposed to make a good lamp; I know their 20K is a very popular bulb as it is supposed to produce the right kind blue to make your corals "pop".

That is funny I thought Grays Papaya was almost the worst food I'd ever had LOL. Actually, there were very few places in NYC where I enjoyed the food at all, and the few places that were great were hellishly expensive. In 7 years I did not find anything even resembling Mexican food, or BBQ. Italian was hit and miss, as was Chinese- some really great places mixed in with really awful ones. Pizza was the same; now I miss some really good NY style pizza, but you had to hit up the right place, which was surprisingly difficult sometimes. Deli's were hit and miss too, some of them were actually pretty scary. And I think I had found one place that had served up a real, handmade, good-old fashioned delicious hamburger. Sure, you could always find a fancy-pants Kobe beef "burger" with triple trouffle sauce and served with "pomme frites"LOL but who wants to spend $48 on a burger? </offtopic> Laura, glad to hear you are doing OK, that looks like one awful wound. Are there gloves available that are a bit more sturdy than the disposable ones, or is that all we have to choose from?

Make sure water params are good. Water flow is moderate to low. In my experience, they need to be on the sand bed, and not on rock. Try feeding it mysis shrimp or marine snow. I had pretty good luck with my plate coral, but I had a hermit crab that would walk all over it and steal food from it, so perhaps one of your livestock might be causing it stress.

Price drop to $200

I have noticed with regularity, that if I work in my tank for any extended period of time, I will feel rundown/queasy the next day. I think gloves are a real good idea, even if its just precautionary. I have read that you can catch all sorts of marine diseases or toxins out of a reef environment, even if its rare. Nonetheless, I'm sure precaution is always prudent. Laura, I'm sorry to hear (and see) about your wound. I hope you feel better, and thanks for the warning.

It was great to meet everyone today and put some faces to screen-names. But where was the strict bullet-point agenda and meeting minutes??? J/K!

Just an update, as of today my Royal Gramma is virtually spot free. I think I may see at most 2-3 spots, but it's almost all gone. I don't know if that is just the natural cycle of the parasite, and if it is gone for good, or if they will return.

Would like to attend.

Derek, thanks for the quick replies! That puts my mind better at ease. None of my other fish got spotty after I introduced them, so that knowledge is new to me. But I suppose a trip from California is a bit more stressful, than a simple car drive from Austin.

Really? That is good to hear. Will my other fish be in any danger once the parasites complete their cycle?

Huge incoming pic... I left it large so that hopefully what I am describing can be better seen. It's rather difficult trying to snap a macro shot of moving fish thankfully my new RG decided to give me a quick little pose!