Berger9953

sorry, posted b4 you edited. It sounds to me its just the measuring of the intensity...

Wow, your a busy guy(or girl)...If I put them near the top, won't they reach the surface and not be totally submerged by water? ANd what about wc's? It'll be completely out of the water....It would stress it alot. And what's PAR?

Moderate at best-a little over 2 watts per gallon and the T5 does not penetrate deeply like a MH-perfect for softies and some LPS-MAYBE SPS-if it is 2-3 inches from the surface-IME

Plus the Actinic is not really a light for growth-someone please correct me if I am wrong

I have a standard 20 gallon roughly 24 wide 17 tall 12 deep-I have 4 24watt T5's 1-12K, 1-14K and 2 actinics , I consider mine to be low to moderate-I would not add a clam or any SPS unless I had it within 6 inches from the top.

 

Anybody have a PAR meter in your neck of the woods that you can see how strong the different levels are?

 

I think the club bought one for its members to borrow if you are a member. Look into it-if you want

Thanks for the feedback...What is PAR anyway?? I thought actinic was a growth bulb, beause the blue spectrum penetrates deeper than the white. I thought anyway....I'll try a common pink birdsnest and see how it goes right under the surface.

oh darnit, I wanted to keep sps, so probably birdsnest would be the only kind right? no monitpora and acropora right?

I always thought I had moderate lighting, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm able to keep and my limitations. On my 20g nano, I have a 24" 2x24watt t5ho one actinic and one 10k bulb with individual reflectors on both. Its a current usa model and only a 2-3 months old. Thanks!

Your totally right andy, I'm not going to give them anymore of my business for sure, they have terrible customer service, why would anyone treat their costumers like they did to me? I'm paying them for crying out loud!!

Happy Mothers day everyone, and thank you mothers for working so hard to raise your children! I owe it all to my mother!!

RO, and I don't have a tds meter. Maybe my lfs has one.....

Not trying to be rude, but Im really surprised they gave you shipping on the 2nd fish. Their returns & guarantee FAQs state they will credit the livestock but not the shipping. I'm not aware of any online company that refunds the shipping with DOA? Does LiveAquaria?

 

I have ordered from swf in the past and have had good luck. I have had two dead on arrival, but they were in orders of multiple fish and I got immediate refunds.

 

What kind of fish was it? Both of my DOAs were yellow watchman gobies.

 

I feel for you, it is really a bummer to get excited for the new arrival and then have it show up dead. I hope you can find a replacement.

I called liveaquaria and they said they would refund the shipping in most circumstances, so it must depend on the cost....

The calcium kit is an API kit. I'll take a water sample when I go in next weekend. I do have a ro unit if I didn't mention that b4, I think I did. BUt I've never tested my mag b4 either, I'll have him test that too. What is the ideal reading?

Ya, I've been working on the money back through our credit card. ANd I'm now doing shipments through my lfs. And yes, its Oasis in Redmond. It's a great store with fairly good stock. Definetly beats petco;)

Wow, I can't believe they treat their customers like this! I think I'll just stick to my lfs and liveaquaria.com. For your fish: Did you find that the water was very warm when you recieved the package? The heat pack that came in the box made the water in the high 80s to 90s! Has anyone else found this to be true?

Has anyone had any experience with this website? I bought a fish from them and it showed up dead upon arrival.(wife) I contacted them and told them and they were only going to refund me for the fish, not the shipping, and the shipping was twice the amount of the fish. So I called them up and gave them a nasty lecture and they were convinced to give me a full refund. SO they sent me a second fish and that one came dead too!!(threaten) So now they won't do anything about it and they won't even give me my money back. I don't recommend anyone buying from them!

Wow, I had no idea that the tap water would take that long to get all out. My pH has actually never been a problem only fluctuating from 8.0-8.3 in a day. oh, and I have no sump. And dsoz, thanks for the heads up, I'll get snails only. I guess all that I can do is wait, add the cuc and do wc's...right?

Thanks so much for the reply. Thanks for correcting me about my calcium "problem". But for the cuc, I think I do need more crabs(I have only 1 blue legged crab). My lights are fairly new. I have the oceanic biocube skimmer for my 20 gallon. I change the airstone every 3-4 weeks. My tap water is already great, but you'd think using RO would make it way better, it does but the results are not "way better"(I did see algae reduction but not all total). I have only 4 small bumblee snails, I'm going to my lfs today, so I'll pick up a better cuc. But I am hesitant because I don't want snails to get to big and knock over or disrupt corals. I'll definetly try to reduce the amount I'm feeding my fish. It may be too much. I'm using marine cuisine by the way. Thanks for the feedback

I have a two part question for yall.

1) I use red sea salt and I don't add any calcium supplements yet my calcium doesn't seem to want to go down.( I have LPS) I test for it every week and every week it is around 530ppm. Should I get some sps so the calcium is used up? Or is having more not a big deal?

2)I also have green blanket algae on my rocks(used to be red slime, now is a green version of the cyano) and brown algae on the sand. And a bit of hair algae on both. I have switched to RO water about a month or two ago and I have seen dramatic reduction of the nutrients an therefore romoving alot of the algae, but it's still not very clean. I have a little bit of coralline, but not enough. Is this just a normal stage for a 7+- tank? It will be a year in august. Can you all help me out? Thank you so much in advance everyone!!

What is really funny is how over the time the site is slowly moving back towards those rules you hated so much...

huh, what rules? I'm a tad confussed(scratch)

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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, I'm glad you're all cool at this site.

I now, but it seems extremely abandon, so I am trying to get it going again at TRT.

Hey, if any of you are a member at TRT, then you can join the PNWMAS club there. It has been up for a very long time but it now has logos and badges and is official! So please join to stay in touch with fellow reefers!

www.thereeftank.com

Yep, I'm definetly going to go with the torch, anemone's just sound too hard for a nano. I'll post pics once I get it.

It looks like it's splitting to me too, but often times anemone's look sick or become sick from it. Just think, you would too if you had to divide your brain and all of your organs in half.....wierd huh

Ya, sorry, there's just nothing I can give you guys besides a thanks:)

You should share a pic of them;)