Max

You pretty much nailed it ozark. I can't catch a break with the cyano or the keys trees. Every time I get rid of them, they come right back.

Thanks Ty. You have any more of that scroll coral left?

I just realized I actually posted here once before with the same question. My bad... Still, I never found out what they are. Green button polyps?

A couple of these came on some rock i bought awhile ago. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what they are? Thanks for looking, Max.

10g, What is the length of the light and how much are you thinking for it?

That would be awesome, but I'm never in San Antonio to get it. Would you be coming to Austin anytime soon?

One of my stock lights broke, and I'm trying to get my fish out of the dark. Lmk, thanks.

What do you have fishcraze:)

Thanks for the help Derrick:)

Thanks for the quick reply lucky. The system sounds great, but out of my price range.

I'm wondering if anyone has an RO/DI unit for sale?

Let me know-Max

I'm also interested in joining in

I'm also interested in joining in

I wouldn't worry about the chemistry side of it too much at the beginning. The factors that vary the most, and the ones you should focus on, are salinity and temperature. Both of which are easily controlled. Ph, Alkalinity, magnesium and the rest of the reef chemistry do stay relatively stable depending on the needs of your reef inhabitants. Most of the time frequent water changes do the job of replenishing "salt" levels in your aquarium. Exceptions are when your aquarium is stock with organisms that use high levels of these inorganics to produce their skeletons(as mentioned above). Personaly I would go with a system with a sump just because it give you options to add mechanical devices later depending on your wants.

As every member here at ARC will tell you, research first and do second. I would buy a book on the hobby and take some time to familiarize yourself with the hobby. There's also a lot of info online here.

(Kalkwasser means calcium/lime(like limestone) water fyi)

I'm guessing the reduced metabolic rates of arthropods in lower water temps possibly makes them better suited for life in an artificial environment? I recently started an undergraduate research focused on aquatic insects and from that I know that temp. is a key piece of information used to determine life-span, growth rate, and so on of arthropods.

I wish you needed bulbs in February. I would've joined in! I've ordered from 1000bulbs twice and both times it's taken a looong time.

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking for any type of SPS frags on the cheap. If anyone has any $5 frags there looking to sell It would be much appreciated.

-Max

I thought they may be palys. That's where I got chocolate chip mint sunflower from. The only difference is these have a pale green center.

The only thing I found that was similar was Chocolate Chip Mint Sunflower zoanthid.

Any idea on what I got?

Most dinoflagellates use multiple feeding strategies, being both heterotrophic and autotrophic, so cutting out lighting may not be the best way to rid your tank of them. In addition, they can also revert to a hibernation like state when nutrients/lighting is limited, reverting back to the original state when conditions are more favorable. Reducing phosphates is probably your best bet at controlling their populations since it plays a key role in their life cycle.

It's just recently that I've truely taken a notice of them. I've had some problems with algae in the fuge but I've been able to kill off most of it with my macro algae. Now that I've cleaned the acrylic I'm actually able to see them and have to say there awesome! I watched one of them repeatedly flick a 8" bristle worm and cause it to retreat.

After a closer look, I've concluded that what I thought was a pistol shrimp, is simply a very large Amphipod. I've seemed to have lost my former pistol shrimp, although I'm still not sure. I still hear clicking noises every once in awhile and I assumed that this was what I was hearing. Who knows maybe it still in there? At some point I'll have to get another, my goby seems to be missing a freind.

Enjoying the new view I found out that I had a small (1.5-2 cm.) pistol shrimp living in my refugium.

I had some difficulties figuring out how to load the video. It was taken with my iphone, so excuse the not so great quality.

I cleaned the glass of my refugium today and got a cool video of amphipods and brine shrimp . At one point an amphipod starts fanning it's swimmerets in what I believe was her releasing it's clutch.