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Would precip. Cause pale and poor polyp extension?
Calc: 500 Mag: 1540 Unfortunately, having done a 100% water change with reef crystal, there is no way of telling if those #s are typical or a result...
Calcium reactor
For two months I've been battling cloudy water. At the same time, my corals turned pale, some bleached, but retained polyps. Nothing has died, but...
I had enough. I drained my tank completely yesterday and replaced it with new water. There was something in the tank water; a pollutant. I didn't...
Mine died in the move and died when I moved the tank to another room.
Corals are still ticked off, but I think I am on the road to recovery. Temperature stabilized at 77 day and night thanks to a heater and fan...
No need to skim if you're cycling. Add an ammonia source and wait several weeks.
Lots of ppl out there trying to sell halide systems. Keep shopping for a good deal while considering and negotiating those. I've seen some on the...
Well, it depends. Some ppl can't or don't want to afford bulb replacements. Some need a chiller, another added expense. Some ppl can't deal with...
These were under my halide without any actinic lighting. Just stright 14k Halide bulbs.
The reason I ask is because the royal blue lighting from LEDs do a very good job of brining out the florecent pigments within coral, giving a false...
In terms of lighting? No, not even close. What you have now is superior if we're strictly talking lighting.
I'm curious, are your corals truely colorful or do they just floresce under blue lighting?
I had LEDs and added two T-5 bulbs to the unit and growth was good. However, I decided to go back to halide.
Alk at 3.0 is good. The skimmer on my 20+8 gallon sump barely pulls out anything. I keep power heads in my sump to keep stuff suspended and it...
It won't pull skimmate any faster (that's limited to your waste), it will just be less efficient.
I think there are dimmable ballasts for MH, but they don't function like an LED dimmer.
The amount of evaporation has tripled too. Good ole' evaporative cooling. Atlast my tank is sitting at 78 now instead of 84.
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