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Mine turned white and is slowly recovering.

I thought the same thing. Maybe that's two.

ORA says it "loosely anchors to substrate". And it's a slow grower.

if you had been using MH or T5, and then put your LEDs at 100%, you *will* kill all your corals.

Victoly, *Will* seems pretty convinced. Now I'm not claiming to be an expert just sharing my experience, but I recently switched from MH to LED and did no acclimation at all. 6 weeks later my coral is still doing fine. No bleaching at all. I have zoas, gonoporia, mushrooms, candy canes and torches and a few other unidentified pieces. Am I lucky or do I just have less sensitive animals?    

I HEARD TY AND BIGE VANISHED FROM THE EARTH. NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. 

Rumor is that they were overgrown by macro.

In his skimmer less lagoon tank.

I heard he's going to stop using protein skimmers cause it's snake oil.

I can't post pics cause tapatalk says I'm not signed in. When I try to sign it it says I'm already signed in. Any ideas?

I just bought the last of it. It's really cool. It's green out of the water. Then changes to multiple shades of blues and greens under my lights.

It's really easy to build one yourself. Austin plastics (I think that's what it's called) has everything you need. And cut to order. Then you just "glue" it together. Easier then glass.

Did hunter say when delivery was? Or what day they get Ora stuff?

That's pretty. Who sells it?

Looks great as usual. How old is that little blue maxima?

That sponge is cool. Your tank has a nice balance of colors.

Looks great Patrick!

Looks nice. I guess being photodude I should beat myself up too badly that your cell phone pics are better than what I can to take with my real camera .

That's one nice thing about the bml lights...pics come out much better with your cell phone.

Your tank looks awesome. I love my bml lights too.

Trade for low end zoa?

Since you would need a new stand (because the existing frame probably would fall over time) you could accommodate the wider tank and just put sheet rock over the new wood frame. Then adding the top of the tank to match the surroundings. Not too hard todo. I have a 65" wide tank so I bet you could find a tank to fit. Or make one. That's fun diy too.

Who knows why. I've had them split when I didn't see any stress. But now you have 3!

Does it have a shell? That thing looks huge.

Looks real good.

That's cool. Good luck. I've read the collection methods are particularly harder on mandarins. So if you can breed them, then great.

Do you happen to have any of those sea world raised corals?

Use plumbers silicon grease. That's what is usually used. Lowes or Home Depot has it. It comes in a really small grey container about the size of four stacked quarters.

Are hydrometers random? If sample A constantly reads 1.025 and sample B consistently reads 1.021, doesn't that imply it is not just hydrometer error?

That said, unless your are having major salt creep, or having a leak, I can't imagine wat it would be. I would not figure rock would be eating it. But I have accidentally lowered my SG by acclimating fish, discarding the water, and forgetting until I top off with fresh water. Cat went swimming and did it once, to.

For what it's worth (I haven't admitted this one to anyone here) but to raise my salinity I just let the water evaporate to the SG I want and then use SW to top it off. Seems easier to me than to mix SW to various levels and doing lots of math.

Not necessarily. There are variable with the hydrometer that don't play in so much as a refactometer. Ie not rinsing properly. But I don't think it's a big deal. How old is the tank? Ime new tanks take awhile to settle down. After a few months of keeping it at 35ppt or what ever your shooting for, it seems to stay pretty steady. I would check it against a refactometer.