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Yes I was the throttle man on that for several yrs , Until I got hurt in a auto accident if you ever came to any offshore runs in Fl we where all...
I would never run a skimmer is a refugium or supply a refugium with skimmed or filtered water .. I started to read about people doing this 5 or 6 yrs...
Rushing a marine system always ends in frustrations and lost money.. I cycle all my tanks over the last 45 yrs for 3 months with a single yellow tail...
Just before lights go out the Ph will be at its highest point and just before lights come on in the morn the Ph will be at its lowest point what is...
You are disturbing the surface tension of the water everytime you touch anything from feeding to playing with the sock I'd throw that in the trash,...
I was working in a large factory many yrs ago had a few large pumps we where installing and servicing some older ones and they ran from 100 to 175 HP...
Looks very pale and could be a Caulastrea furcata aka Candycane there are several different looking corals in this family and all look a little...
LEDS would be my choice for this small of a tank I lite out 12JBL with them worked great .Ballast /transformer blew after 5 yr in a salt covering and...
Look up Cavitation and shutting down the water outlet on any pump especially a cheap aquarium model is not good for them I would put a low water...
LOL I have fish as old as you (: and until my son screwed up my tank in Va I had several SPS colonies that old also .
R/O and deionization polymers have been used and have been around since the 50's when I was a kid The military used them back then to use on ships at...
If you want to run a sps mainly tank then you have to get a Ca reactor set up bottom line . Unless you want to micro manage it daily ? I have seen it...
How is it plumbed up and what type amd size pipe did you use and could it be the sump you are hering all the splashing from ? Also how much water are...
Jumped out maybe ? I have lost a few flame angles to jump out over the yr its not uncommon
He may never acclimate to life in the old aquarium a certain percentage never do.. May try enticing him with some live food or chopped up clam or...
What type did you use ?
Your fish are Hyper or hipper ? If you meant Hyper as in darting about and just going crazy swimming all around all of a sudden like startled or...
LOL noting to worry about I have spilled more coke beer and coffee into aquariums over the yr then I care to recount my Grandson poured a cup of...
A cup of sand from an established healthy aquarium that you trust or a simple and only one yellow tailed damsel in there he will seed it .
Well the first problem I see with out getting into deep with detail and theory is at 5 months a tank is in no way ready to keep many if any corals...
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