J & Jr

I have at least five pieces of xenia ranging from 3" open to about 8" open all attached to small 2" to softball sized pieces of live rock. am willing to trade for softies zoa's or anything intresting looking to a five year old. I also have some purple mushrooms and a 2head and 3head piece of what I was told was a candycane light flouresant green, and some very green GST. Will try to post pic's tomarrow if anyone is interested thanks for looking.

Michael that was a great idea I did a small WC tonight with the water I had on hand, and mixed up some new thinking to do another soon. will test and supplement as needed before adding to the tank wait a day then checkand see where I'm at. thanks everyone

Thanks holly that was a good read and I am going to try tis out.

my water has always tested fine,the other day I got a Mag. test kit because I have never tested for that. tested the tank and it was a little low around 1080ppm so I got some Teck-M from kent dosed the tank and now my Cal seems to have dropped to around 280 And my dKH to around 8.0 they used to run about 400 and 9.3. I have been dosing kent cal., kent tech-M and reef builder for the last 4 days and the next day everything is back down. any clue whats wrong? how do I get things back to normal? All other tests seem fine, PH 8.0, Phos. 0.1, Ammonia-NO2-NO3 at 0.0, thanks for any suggestions

I would just ask in classifieds someone will most likely give you some I fact I will give you some if you want the only problem is it’s here in Clackamas right off 205 just let me know.

Thanks for showing us different ways and some ingenuous solutions for some of the puzzles in our hobby. Your tank looks great and it was fun meeting people so close to home. I wish I could have stayed longer.

My tank has been getting up to 81.5 and I started to freeze bottles just in case and then had a thought wy not just freeze DI water to put in the tank? it cools the tank and adds topoff water at the same time:) it's been working great so far.

Myself and possibly wife and son

Just wanted to say thanks once again for the frag's and I owe you a big one for the serpent star my son loves that critter his favorite fish in the tank and I probibly never would have thought to buy one.(clap)

Thanks Impur and Nyles, I hope feeding him everyday is not harmful because my son heads straight for the tank every day to play with and feed his new best friend. he is totaly captivated and says that this is the only fish in the tank that Knows him:)

A couple weeks ago I got a serpent star from another member which my son fell in love with. He loves to watch him come out to feed. And has started to hand feed him wiggling a chunk of shrimp till he all but crawls into his hand to eat. Now to my question we ran out of shrimp this weekend but have plenty of frozen trout in the freezer is there any reason this would be harmful to any of the tanks inhabitants? I have heard it said feeding goldfish is not good for saltwater fish. Is this true? Would trout be the same? thanks for your help

Your tanks coming along great hope to see it soon. You Have a PM

I use filter socks on both returns and have noticed a much clearer tank, also helps control microbubbles in sump also quieted splashes and gurgles comming from sump. I wash once a week and have noticed no increase in nitrates so far.I realy like socks just my 2 cents.

Austin you’ve seen my thread on my 75gal. Joel talked me into the snapper for my CL one intake 2” and four returns 1” with lockline I loved how they moved the water around until I put all my live rock in since then because of the currents I have truble keeping the sand in place without cutting it back some. I’m hoping that when I add the OM fourway with the streams alternating I will be able to open it back up. I love how quiet the snapper is. Good luck with your tank can’t wait to see it. By the way the clam I got yesterday seems to love the new tank and is already firmly attached to the rock although not exactly where I would have wanted(laugh)

I wish I could have but the camera was at home and I didn't feel like I could wait I was afraid things were starting to go down hill fast.will have the camera tomorrow and will take pic's if things have not improved by then. keeping my fingers crossed.

after cleaning the filters all afternoon and noticeing a smell that seemed off in the sump I turned off all the pumps, skimmer and CL and completely empted the sump. Stripped it down washed it out rinsed off all the live rock and cheto striped and cleaned the skimmer and then filled it with fresh salt water basically a 35gal waterchange. We will see what its like in the morning

No I haven't added anything new other than a goby about 2weeks ago. so far all the corals look fine other than having streamers of snot Hanging off of them. My poor urchin looks like a gooey ball with streamers. a turkey baster doesn’t really clean things off it just knocks loose the streamers which then hang up somewhere else. Trying to gather the loose stuff with a fish net is only partially successful. I shut down the sump and cleaned everything last night which meant a 20 gal water change when I checked this morning it was a mess again but the main tank only has half what it had last night. Thanks for the thoughts and I will run charcoal as soon as I can put a filter sock back on the overflow down tube with out it clogging in half an hour. I’ve been so happy with how clean my tank has been so far that this is frustrating. Will any of this dissolve, will hermits clean it up? Or do you have to clean everything in the tank one piece at a time? What fun that would be. thanks for the advise

:eek: I checked my tank this morning to say hi and stare while drinking my morning coffee and the tank was a mess. All the filter socks were overflowing the skimmer was going nuts the fuge/sump had great globs of clearish scum and the display had streamers of the same every ware. I have no idea where all this came from none of my corals seem large enough to produce the quantities that are in the tank and sump. Other than a small BTA and large xenia all I have are small frags and only 7 or 8 of them. Any way how do you deal with this? I am in the process of draining the sump fuge and skimmer and replacing with new water and am trying to skim some out of the display tank with a net, But what do you do with all that is in the live rock and hung up in all the frags? Will it dissolve or go away or do I have to take everything out and rinse with salt water? Please tell me this wont cause my tank to crash and that it is just a nuisance. (scary)

sorry about your tank, I'v only drilled one tank( 5 holes) it was a new 75gal from waves it was nerve wracking to start but the dimond holesaw went through like butter. IMO glass is the best

just puttering around the tank today and I found my first squiggly line of eggs on the glass. I went to get the camera and by the time I got back the damsel had found them also and about half were gone. I put a piece of rock to cover the rest just to see if any will hatch. Anyone tried to hatch them before? I just get a kick watching my son get excited when things have babys:D

I just like that its not another reality,CSI, law & order clone

thanks for the encouragement and nice words.

If you need help with the wiring just PM me I have lots of odds & ends left from previous projects.

I am borrowing my wifes Nikon D80 with a 28-80 mm nikor lense

I haven't quite figured out how to get clear closeups yet but here goes Afull stomach(laugh) And some new additions thanks to fanaseas