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Not sure I want to see that weird naked body. Lol
It's hard to tell with that photo. Red bugs are more round. Do you see them crawling around and are they on other corals? Red bugs do cause color...
I use the ecobak plus and find them almost too effecient. I have too keep my recirc reactor dialed down to just barely a drip and I feed 2x per day....
Definitely get a recirculating reactor. .. or modify a normal reactor. You will have issues more than once where you will need to slow things down to...
Water seems pretty dirty here. I'm changing sediment Probably 2-3 months when visibly dirty. Resin I get the color changing type. The others I...
Lookin good!
Probably not much with the pods. I shut down my refugium, vacuum , have a green madarin and melanuras. Pods everywhere I see at night. (215 gallon)
Yeah vacuuming sand beds is a touchy subject. I keep a thin sand bed that I vacuum. Deeper sand beds may cause problems if disturbed. I have...
Are you doing any type of carbon dosing? What method of adding calcium , alk and mag? Got any photos? How long have you been running the scrubber?...
Do you have a fish store that will test it for you?
Great choice. One nice thing about the Vortech is even 5 years down the road you should be able to get 70% of your money back if you sold them. I've...
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Building a zoa garden. Hard to find good low flow spots but here' s pic .. one of my favorites in the Solar Chaos lower middle. Oompas top left....
Yeah, Give them a little more time.. .and if they don't look like they're opening up maybe try a different spot. I have same issues with new zoas. .....
How long have you had them? Mine are very sensitive to flow. They like lower flow. Looks like a bit of dinoflagellates on the right side of those...
Funny you mention this.. I have a green birdnest with bare spots like that and haven't been able to figure it out. Today in water change I saw an...
I have the reef octopus/jebao from 2013. So far has worked great for me. Looks like the waveline was the same pump as well. The new reef octopus DC...
Yeah, they're a mystery. Mine are still there a year later but they only show up in a very small patches and then they're gone again. I pretty much...
Don't wait too long these online sites go "out of stock" a lot during these big sales. I just ordered the 736. I have one of the old school 713 the...
I know right. If it was about any other in my tank I would barely care..lol
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