Search results

I would recommend painting it with marine paint when done if possible, it's really nice to have that extra bit of protection should it get wet. The stand I got with my tank was built by the pervious owner and it's something I would do again should I ever have to make my own.

I have little knowledge but @Hamada really saved me when he came down and saw my tank. I had metal band holding a hose to one of my pumps for my UV. He showed me small signs of rust on the screws and we immediately took it out, definitely something I would have never accounted for!

I hear if you qt snails at 375 degrees it kills all parasites and you can also have escargot :p

Sorry to hear that hopefully the ICP tests can shed some light before any more die off

And yes I definitely need to check my calcium again, what's weird is last time I checked it, it was really good I can't imagine it would drop so quick especially because I don't have wall to wall SPS or really any

My Magnesium I think was pretty good. I will have to see if I am checking right but it took the whole syringe before it really turned blue (which I think indicates it's high).

I don't know if this is the best (as far as safety) but I put all my big power blocks (idk what hey are called) in a marine box to help get them out of the way. I made sure to label all my cords which definitely helped! It also helped that I have a wooden base and was able to screw my power...

I went ahead and checked my parameters again this morning Phosphate - .38 ppm Nitrate - 13.8 ppm ALK - 9.06 dKH However when checked my Calcium it was super low, like maybe 80 ppm. I never dosed but when I checked last week it was solid around 455 ppm. I am really thinking I must have made...

Thanks thats what I kinda picked up, don't over react suddenly slowly change and see if it helped

Just wanted to do a little update forgot to do it earlier, big shout out and thank you to @Reefer Madness! He kindly was able to come down and took a peek, upon further inspection we figured out thankfully it was NOT Dino :) probably a type of hair algae. Will probably end up just taking out the...

to be honest it probably could be better, I have a scopes tang and just added a white tail bristle tooth! I thought these guys were supposed to be good at algae grazing, but regardless I should look into adding more CUC as @Hamada kindly mentioned when I met him! Where would you recommend I get...

I'm not sure how long @FreahSaltyGuy had the bird nest in the tank but I would venture to say it wasn't very recent, when I bought the tank I didn't see any signs of this on there, hopefully its something that doesn't spread all over my tank, I think when I get home for lunch I will go ahead and...

would you all recommend just take it out of the tank? Or is it okay to leave for the night?

You guys are all awesome, I didn't expect this much input this late at night on a weekday :) really happy to be apart of this wonderful community!

I can just pull it off it's not glued in thankfully! when I see it in person it does have "air bubbles" at the tips of the algae, from what I remember (a long time ago) Dinos tended to do that

Yeah read up on that, just irritates them but they can pop back up!

That would be great thank you so much!

Here's hopefully a little better picture of how it looks

I think you're right @Alexander1312, I really meant Dinos they have bubbles in them. I use a commercial grade RODI water system that last time I checked had 0 TDS reading. I will test my nitrates and phosphates right now and see where they are

I did read you never want your nitrates and phosphates to be completely zero as it can lead to killing your corals