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Algae is potentially caused by "redder" lights. What is your light solution. Also they need nutrients from food. Are you possibly overfeeding? If...
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Have you been feeding him a diet including garlic? It boosts the fish's immune system. Please post this in ASAP as this is a livestock-critical...
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400 gallons is big, and I'm betting there's 200" worth of fish in there. I'm assuming there's another 400 gallons or so we don't see.
might want to supplement it's food with garlic for a few days while the shock wears off. No sense in the fish getting sick if you can avoid it.
Hydroids aren't that bad unless you have a full-on infestation or susceptible corals. Pictures would have helped. Dunno that we could have saved...
There's a lot of people who use rubbermaid trashcans and bubblerocks for water storage. Add a heater and you can keep that at reef temp. Mix it up...
yikes, good luck
have you had any brown algae yet? (Diatoms?)
What's the flow rate through the accessory ports? I'd consider hooking up a fuge/pod farm there. Is the return line filtered? ( will pods that end...
Right behind The Reef. I kind of feel like some of their staff know what they're doing, and some don't. They set up some frag tanks and the...
wow your sarcasm detector must have been broken. My sarcasm is always served extra dry.
OOH, now I know what to put in my JHP's!
There's a pretty solid indicator above that he DID experience a cycle, in that he's now seeing diatoms. I wouldn't throw a fish in, but I do think...
Who ever said fish wanted to live in you? Someone should ask the fish first!
one sweet fish!
It was a valiant effort. Valiant, and flawed, deeply, deeply flawed.
You're pushing it with the 3 tangs for sure. You might consider tapping in a fuge with a deep sand base. and some live rock (and if you have...
Crushed lava rock often contains heavy metal, thats a definite no. Quickrete is ok, but you might want to mix it with calcium/argonite sand. After...
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