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Your water current is not sufficient...

One capful of iodine!? Iodine is toxic if overdosed!

Oh man....sounds traumatic..

PLEEAAAssseeeeeeeee....I'm eating now!

Not a single spot of hair algae, byropsis, valonia, diatoms, dinoflagellates or cyano!

Bubble corals will shrink when they are expelling waste. It's quite normal for them to do that.

Yes..your LPS will be stressed especially with such boisterous partners. Their delicate tissues can easily get torn while the clownfish 'snuggle' up to them as the tissue will be rubbed against their sharp calcium carbonate skeletons. Even if their tissues don't get damaged from time to time the constant disturbance of the clownfish will prevent your lps from extending its polyps properly.

http://www.geocities.com/bigreefproject/Durso.html

A month is not very long. If they survive more than a year then can be considered rather long. In the wild they live for decades..a few months is nothing to them.

Eh a shuran won a deltec?

Hmm..oic..I'm not familiar with the usage of ppm for kH. So far the test kits I have used only use the units milliequivalents per liter(mEq/l) or in dKH. Anyway...if you could ask someone with more reliable test kits (Salifert, mini labour, etc)to test the results of your test kit with theirs it would be best so that you can be sure you are getting the right readings.

Don't worry about diatoms. They're only unsightly but not directly harmful. They will die off once the silicates are consumed. However, silicates will be reintroduced once you top up water or change water with tapwater. An alternative would be to run rowaphos as it has been stated to remove silicates as well as phosphates.

The red thing is a sponge. Only 2 possibility what the white translucent tuffs are 1) Dead tissue 2) part of the siphon intake/outlet (you'll know which one if you off all water currents and observe how particulate matter move around the sponge) Sponges need alot of feeding with phytoplankton. I suggest either Supreme blend by Aquaz or bioplankton by liquidlife USA. Invert a container over the sponge everyday and squirt some plankton inside to feed it. This is to concentrate the plankton so that you won't have to add alot to your whole tank. The maiden's hair is actually turtle weed. I find these guys rather impossible to keep in the long run unless your tank is nutrient rich and you give them intense light. It is not harmful but herbivorous fish like tangs might eat it all up.

Since when was kH measured in ppm?

hmm..you tried before huh? I've got friends who tried before..

It's cruel.

Set up a separate tank. Introduce some liverock. Feed flake food and wait. Don't need any form of filtration.

Awesome!

Does'nt look like infection. Looks more like oedema caused by ion imbalance

Hmm the percula looks familiar...

Newly introduced clownfish esp percula clowns will have the tendency to hover around corners or swim around restlessly for 1-2 days before settling down and behaving normally. If they disappear during this time most likely the reason is due to crabs.

The only way to catch out a dottyback is to remove all the rocks.

Perculas do fine without hosts. Actually clownfish expend more energy if kept with an anemone. They'll have to keep coating themselves with the mucus from the anemone to prevent themselves from being stung. The anemone might actually be affected too as I've seen maroon & tomato clowns biting off and eating the tentacles of anemones. LPS will get stressed due to continuous rubbing by the clownfish. Such relationships are crucial in the wild due to predation..in this case the clownfish protects the anemone from predators like butterflyfish while the anemone protects the clownfish from predatory fish. However such a relationship is not needed in captivity due to the lack of predatory pressure. It's because clowns look happy & contented to us when they are in an anemone which causes us to think that they need hosts. It's just plain anthromorphism. Most clowns do fine without anemones/hosts. But more timid species like skunk clowns do better with a host.

http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9601 Not sure if it applies to marine aquariums..

Hmmm..awesome fish...do try to resize your pic before you attach it next time. Resize it using the stretch/skew option in ms paint.