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Looks nice!

I have a flame angel I added to my reef and it is picking on the corals and causing the corals not to extend their polyps. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to catch it without tearing up the tank?

I ordered an RO/DI from Bulkreef Supply. I works well and I have a dual TDS meter and it comes out 0. It is fast and knowing the quality of the water is reassuring.

Mine eats everything. Nori, mysis, arctic pods and flake. I have had it for almost 2 years. Not sure how I got him to do that. I think he just followed the lead of the tangs.

Love the new chalices. Where are you buying them from.

Sorry to hear that Brooks. I will also give you some frags. Let me know when you are ready.

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2 bulb Actinic on 1 pm

8 bulbs on 2 pm

8bulbs off 8 pm

2 bulb Actinic off 9 pm

Thanks Dave and Robin for taking the position. I would like to request that we try not to have meetings on the same day as MAAST meetings.

This should answer all of your questions.

http://www.melevsreef.com/allmysumps.html

WTB a Kalk reactor for a 185.

Thanks for sharing. That was very informative. Can't wait to see the growth progress.

There is wet skimming and dryer skimming. To get dark colored skimate you need to dry skim. This means only the foam comes to the top and goes over. You can wet skim if that is your preference. to get it set just requires patience. when you first set it have the foam come up 1/4 to 1/3 of the inside of the cup. Then wait and see if it collects. If not raise the level a cm or 2.

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The tetra KH test kit is inexpensive and suppose to work well. I also will be changing all my test kits since all but Mg are API. Aquatek caries the elos. They are kind of expensive but killing my corals would be much much worse. Would you recommend elos for Ca.

My coral have been looking a little off. So I took my water to Aquatek and asked them to check my water. I found that my KH was 5. My API test kit said it was 8. The kit was only one month old. I bought a new test kit from Aquatek. I will dose to get it back to 8.

Thanks Bruce.

I also have been reading and want to start vodka dosing, vsv or vgv. (vgv: vodka glucose vinegar) I read that glucose causes less problems. What is your formula? What I remember is that vsv was recommended as like 90% vodka, 10% vinegar and 2 teaspoons of sugar for 250 ml of solution or 90% vodka, 10% vinegar and 6 teaspoons of glucose for 1000 ml solution.

Would like to hear what you are doing Andrew.

Thats a great collection of acans.

I am interested in hearing more about your journey. Are you adding more supplements or just vsv dosing?

Well I run carbon but not gfo. I did a water test tonight and as follows:

Ca 540, Alk 9, pH8.2, Mg 1440, nitrates undetectable.

I do not have a reliable phosphate test kit. Must have phosphates due to algae growth.

Ben thinking about dosing VSV or Zeovit. What is the basic difference? Both shoot for low nutrient system.

Sounds good. But pictures would be nice.

I guess we were thinking like you were. It does seem to stick to everything but your teeth.

I made my own fish food and have been feeding more. I have been getting a slight algae problem but the corals are growing great and look good. What would be some suggestions on what to do? I know I could cut back the feeding but then the corals were growing very slow. Hoping for better suggestions.

Wow! Great job guys. I can''t wait to see the pictures. I saw the presentation and would like to do it some time with an rbta or gbta. Let me know when you are ready to sell one of your clones.

Maybe you could just chew the gum for about an hour. By then all the flavor would be out of it. Wash it off good to get all the saliva off. lol

I like the rock work. Great light. What bulbs are you running?

Looks good. What pumps did you get.