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Well, if used copper with LR, you can say bye bye to these LR. Remark: Please dont sell these coppered LR to people. Throw away, please!

my advise: just kill them. They will grow fast again after you buy corals with LR. Killing them now will reduce their population now and save you from stresses for a few years.

you should quarantine all your fishes in another tank or bring out the LR/sands. Copper and other chemicals will be absorbed to LR/sand forever. Bad water conditions will not bring velvet/white spots to your fishes. They might got in through bad quarantine or no quarantine.

If your tank is 4ft and above and matured tank, a dead anemone will not kill your corals. It happened to me once when I ignored my anemone. It went to the corner where the pump is. Then one day I have finally noticed, it had dissappeared forever while all the other corals are still growing. A split anemone will not join back as this the way they grow too. It will find another location far from its current twin to dominate its own territory. Just sell it away if you worry. Else always pay attention to it and shift it as you please.

maybe your glue is not suitable. maybe the mushroom was injured badly from your cut. maybe your water parameters dont suit. maybe the lighting is not suitable.

I think your denitrator didnt work. Your NO3 lowered might be from your other means, example, Live Rocks. Your drip is too fast for the NO3 bacteria to survive/grow.

This bro is very right. Whoever can solve your problem at this once is really a god. You have ask the service guy or anyone to come to your place to check. Iwarna is not god and they too need to check. Furthermore Iwarna is not chillers technician but is a marine fish trading company. You have to explain what is your system setup,..... in order for us to advise.

If your LR is not not very stable yet, coraline algae will hard to grow as green algae will first grow and cover all the areas preventing coraline algae to grow. Best way, get matured LR or wait till your LR are very matured.

I have these in my 1.5 year old empty deserted 2ft tank which was for my seahorses. Its debris dirt created from hermit crab's dump, live rock debris, etc. You have to suck it out in order to clean up from your tank or else it will re-settle down again on the other LR. Then increase the flow to prevent debris sitting there. Slight algae will grow after cleaning. I dont really care on mine as not planned to have seahorse there yet. I just remain the tank is still cycling to prevent a dead tank.

Bro lemon, forgotten to mention: denitrator will lessen nitrate level only. The nightmare is, you have to adjust it very often to get the drip correct. The drip is so less, it will always choke up the valve throat. Then you have to release a bit for the vlave throat to release off the debris and then to close it back to the correct drip level. Many bros here had tried and gave up due to the frequent adjustment on the valve.

sometimes it is really hard to tell what happened from your little post. We need to know more about your measuring kits' age, brand, etc... It could be the flow of water. If the tank is too small, alot of things will swing high and low, eg: temperature,... BEST with pics of your tank. We need more info: tank age, water age,... It could be new tank syndrome too.

ah beng also have them in stock

Shipping rates always goes up according to oil prices increase. But last year, the oil prices shoot up so fast and every sector followed. The problem is when the oil prices dropped so much, all these other sector remain the same price, eg shipping rates. When oil prices goes up, they give the reason: oil is playing the main role. But when oil price down, they will give the reason: oil is not the only cost, other factors are more affecting. So when they have a chance to increase price, they will. But they will try hard not to decrease the price after the increase. All because of greadiness. I now ended up paying double shipping cost for my orders.

I have a friend who has a fish only tank with very less LR and small refugium. His nitrate level is a lot over than 120 ppm for many years. His fishes still live many years. So I dont think fishes really care on high level nitrate. But high nitrate level always made his tank fast grown algaes.

Both of these bros are correct in a way. Most of the corals in the world are green or brown. Even researches/scientists still unable to tell the exact answers. Some say may due to the light spectrum and temperature. Some say its the basic colour of corals. I personally noticed after brown corals acclimated to its environment, it will turn to green in a few months. Sometimes another few months some will change from green to other colours. Or some from other colours to green. Even my yellow ricordia changed to orange within 2 weeks. I had an anemone which turned from brown to green and lastly to striking yellow and green stripes with red spots. Had another anemone chenaged from brown to green and then to yellow with blue spots. All of these corals lives to few years in my tank so it means they are healthy. All these are not important. The important thing is your corals are healthy so should not be worry. Hope this will relieve you from stress. It is best not to simply play with improper lightings. This will directly/indirectly kill your corals. As long as your corals not changing to transparent bleaching colour, it is still OK.

I wouldnt purposely increase the posting counts. It wont help me to sustain my marine tank, LOL. I jus like to start my pets from babies. Thats why all my pets are started since babies to grown-ups. Even when I go LFS, I will choose those smallest babies.

Lemon, how are your babies now? start selling yet?

When its quiet for so long, I think mostly not. I too want to be the next president of USA for still not happening, LOL.

Just remember to buy more anthias, preferable above 6 because they are school fishes. Not they are school students but they always remain in groups in nature. If too less, they will feel insecure and stressed. Do not house them with aggressive fishes.

Was hyper busy with work. must earn more $$$ for keeping up my high cost in marine. My monthly bills are high and mostly to sustain my marine tank. Now work load is so hyper less, I login for some mopiko soothing, LOL. Feel relax with mopiko tradition. Its nice to still see you around here. If time permits, I will come back to seahorse real soon but before that, I must find a reliable source on live shrimp. My seahorses always have problems after I started to feed them live shrimps.

I will never stop so how to vote? There is no option for me to choose. Why there is option less than 5 times but no more than 5 times? LOL. Usually if my tank condition permits, I will not stop. Always ask yourself what when wrong and change the attitude, be more responsible. Plan before proceeding. That way I always succeeded.

I would suggest peaceful and hardy fish. Firefish will jump off your tank if harrassed. Some clowns are fierce. For me I prefer 2 chromis or false clowns. For starters, always will overfeed so this way the tank will mature just nice the way you need. You can slowly add-up 1-2 fishes every 1-2 months. Just follow the rule of maximum fish and minimum LR. That way you will not be stressed on corroded water.

it is going to hell, LOL

He had settled the problem in Nov 2007 after buying the sensor. A follow-up, he was happy that his problem is solved. This article blogger guy is a freshwater hobbyist. The sensor probe is made of metal and poor insulated. It will rust easily and damaged within few months. When it start to corrode in saltwater and all your fishes/corals will immigrate to heaven/hell, LOL. Freshwater fishes will withstand metals corrosion better but not marine fishes. By the way, please let this thread close as what it suppose to be.

First of all, are you overstock of fishes or less liverock, refugium? Secondly, reduce feeding to maximum once a day. I have fedup feeding so I only feed frozen mysis once in 3 days since 1.5 years ago. The fishes still remain healthy and never change water, even a bit since 4-5 years ago. Thirdly water turnover rate is too low to flow through everywhere. So lots of dead spots. Just add seio pump or whatever high flow pump. Fishes can tolerate high nitrate but not nitrite and ammonia. Corals can only tolerate nitrate up to certain level, depends on types of corals too.