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Moved one of the frags up and they seem much happier, the other not so much... I think it is more than lighting. My monti are all doing very well under the T5HOs. I may do a dip for the zoa frag. Any suggestions? I have heard of doing a peroxide dip or an iodine dip. Also how long and how much water vs. other stuff.

Thanks in advance.

This is going to be an awesome tank! Where did you get the rock? I just got into the hobby, but I am wanting to do my next tank like this. What brand of light fixture is it?

I like those. Did you go with the pro strip or just the normal 4 led strip? I was thinking about getting two of the 4 led strips one 12k and one actinic. Any suggestions? I dont have much room since I bought a huge light fixture that cant hold but two bulbs but i was thinking of attaching them inside the fixture i have?

Do you think they'd be ok here? And is that enough to make a difference, I dont know much about leds and how much is need

If you can see the boxes and arrows... I just mean inside the fixture

I have mine under a zoomed fixture. It works great for my other corals, but my zoas kinda look crappy, well at least to me. What do you recommend for led strips? I would like to grow the coral i have now and keep the few fish i have and move it down to austin but next december i plan on upgrading the tank completely. I will keep the fish and coral and as much LR as possible. I want to get a tank with the same basic setup as the biocude.

innovative marine 16g

Have you heard anything good about the 30g from innovative marine? lighting? filtration?

I moved them out of an area of pretty high flow into one with not very much and the are looking better after only 3 hours of being moved.

Thanks for the birdsnest! Its looking great!

I have them low in my tank, under two T5 HOs, 24w each, 10k and actinic. Would hermit crabs eat them or would they eat stuff off of them?

Thanks for the replies

So my recently added zoa frags are having issues, one has had two die and it has one that is always open with its outside turning gray and the middle has lost alot of color. The other frag has some that wont open and has some that the outside is looking horrible.

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what dorms? I lived in jester for a year and we only had someone come in once because the music was too loud, and it was an RA. I think a 10g is allowed in most dorms and the more room the better!

Hook'em Horns!

Can't wait, ready to get that membership!

yeah, i dont think that is what it is. This is much thinner, dont know if that changes anything but I cant find any pics that are similar.

yeah man, Im going to get pics up of the tank and all the happy coral They are spiny but white and are attached to the LR, they dont look like they are bothering anything or could bother anything because they cant get close enough to touch anything else. But i will watch them, just was curious what they were.

yes, parameters are good. I can get pics of the worm thing later today.. im at work. all the coral have been in there for about 4 days. So not long, think they are still just getting used to the tank and the trip from atx to east texas?

I am having alot of pods that come out at night mostly and climb all over my coral, which was just added last thursday. Some are small that i think are just copepods, but there are much bigger ones too. They are going under my zoa frags. I dont really know if they are harming them, just worried. Should i be? Also I have these long worm looking things that are attached to my LR, I thought they were that stuff snails leave behind sometimes but they react to light and seem to be living. Along with that one of my zoa frags (different one than the one that has pods on/under it) has some polyps that dont come out when the light is on, at all.. Any thoughts?

And when work is going slow it make the time go by faster

thanks, I will make sure do to a water change and get a new test kit. Thanks for all the input! I would be screwed if I didnt find this site

yeah, i heard the same thing from one of the guys i picked my coral up from this week. I am going to look for something else. How long can my coral survive without excellent cal and a stabel alk, or is there too mcuh variation to tell?

The tests were 5 days apart. I added water before work, went to work for 9 hours and then came home and tested. I will go get

another test and do a water change, also shoudl i pick up some food for my LPS and if what should I get?

Thanks

Thanks, I am going to go get another one today after work. I was told to dose the essential elements by my LFS. I was using it to build up cal and alk. What do you recommend?

I just added my first coral to my tank, around 13 frags. Before I went to get them (live in east texas, went to austin to get good coral) my water parameters were perfect. My calcium levels were slightly lower than I wanted but still pretty high.

They have been in my tank for about 24 hours now, everything is looking very happy and polyp extension on everything is great. But i just tested my water and it is like everything went down hill. This is my before and after

Before:

Salinity: 1.021

Temp: 78

pH: 8.0-8.2

ammonia: undetectable

nitrite: undetectable

nitrate: 5ppm

phosphate: undetectable

calcium: 400-420

alkalinity: 11dkh

Now:

Salinity: 1.024

Temp: 78

pH: 8.0-8.2

ammonia: 0.25-0.5

nitrite: undetectable

nitrate: 15ppm

phosphate: undetectable

calcium: 340-360

alkalinity: 2dkh (this is bad, right?? how do i fix it??)

I added a pura filtration pad to my filter about 14 hours ago. Could that affect it? Should I do a water change or would that shock it even more?? I have been adding Kent: Essential Elements to my tank. Should I add more of that? Would it help?

Thanks in advance.

ok, then ill leave them unless they start to hurt anything. Thats awesome!! How long ago were yall up here? I may just have to get the fish and see if i can get it to eat frozen foods, just cuz they are so cool! lol

So, I have these little bugs that come out at night all over my LR, and was wondering if they are bad? Most are pretty small but some are getting pretty big.. I have been told that a mandarin goby would be good to help control these little bug things, will that work? And by having so many little bugs to eat will that help the process of getting them to eat frozen food?

I got the little sucker

I am pretty sure it killed two of them.. so he had to go

Thanks! I think I'm going to epoxy them. They are pretty stable but i just don't want any issues.

Thanks again for the replies