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High Calcium will tend to drop Alkalinity unless there is sufficient Magnesium in the tank. It is also bad for SPS corals. Calcium is actually a...
Low Phosphates...good Low clay content....good Not overloaded with excess trace elements....good Too much Calcium and too much Magnesium and not...
Lookin' great!!!
Cool Beans!!!
My concern would be that you would rarley see your mantis...otherswise...no probs.
I would love for you to set up a nano but wanted to give you a heads-up on Peacocks. Peacocks ( Odontodactylus scyllarus) or O.s. for short are the...
LOL...funny thread and great pic. Looks like an awesome pet to me amcarrig. BTW...Would you mind flying to St. Louis and taking some good pics of...
Thanks. That's Cuddles. My first peacock got named Fluffy as a joke by some people on a different board and the silliness has continued. I...
Congrats....hopefully you get some babies which could be sold to the LFS.
The red light trick won't help you find the mantis. They have the best sight of any animal in the world and can see in infrared, ultraviolet, and...
Lazaroo, A lot of LPS corals like torches, frogspawn, bubbles, etc. like to be target fed meaty foods in addition to good lighting and good water...
I tend to agree with the Iron deficiency theory here. It sounds like there was plenty of food for the macroalgae so something was missing and Iron...
I don't brush mine. I bought a turkey baster at the grocery store and squirt the rock often....at least once per week. Periodically, I'll take a...
It could be temperature shock and/or salinity shock. However, I would suspect that within a day or two, your coral will be fine.
First off, WELCOME TO 3REEF!!! I would definately leave the sterilizer on. Sure it kills some of the good things but it also kills the bad things....
Most of the smell comes from algaes and sponges and other hitchhikers that are dieing off. If you don't detect a lot of odor, it is possible that...
I'm not trying to make mantis out to be angels. They are not and they deserve proper respect. However, they are also not Satan incarnate either....
Sorry Craig....I wasn't talking about you...just the internet boards in general. Even though I quoted you, I wasn't necessarily speaking of your...
I would seriously doubt it's a peacock (O.s.) as that is a VERY rare hitchhiker unfortunately for me...that's my favorite :( . There are many, many...
The description of the shell makes it sound like a member of the Stomatellid species. Possibly a Stomatella varia. PS....remember that in taxonomic...
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