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Ok so I have been battling GHA for a while. I blame it on not cooking my dry rock before setting up. Tank is 5 months old and 3 months post cycle. I scrubbed the rocks free of severe GHA with a toothbrush and added a large amount of fresh GFO to my reactor. Then...the water went very cloudy...

hi guys, I've recently bought a hammer coral. The first week it was fine, in his little pico reef, but then i left on a skiing trip for 3 days and two corals were dead in the pico. i knew i needed to save every thing so i quickly grabbed all my coral and placed them in my 30 gallon cube. having...

so i recently had a bacterial bloom and my lfs recommended this sea chem clarity and it cleared everything like a miracle. but then a week l8er i had a mini cycle and my water turned cloudy just like a bac. bloom. but there was no cyano. i did a water change and used the clarity but it stayed...

I recently discovered i have a bacterial bloom. when will it go away

I'm cooking my live rock before adding it to my new 34g. I have a few question since this is the first time I have cooked LR. How close to tank temp must the LR be kept at while cooking? I have a Mag 12 in the tub right now and the temp is a bit on the high side. What can I expect once I...

My water is very cloudy even when I'm have carbon in my sump, but couple days back I had Phos-zorb in there and my water was very clear no cloudiness at all , so my questions is ? should I start to run Phosban reactor ? or try to run carbon reactor ? ..... or ... anyone know what maybe happening...

A short introduction of myself; my name is Chad Vossen; I’m 20 years old and live in MN. I have successfully raised 3 peppermint shrimp, with more to settle soon. I could have had more success, but I had two massive die offs that were human error. My larval shrimp tank is very basic; it’s a...

How do I lower PH.. my PH is going from 8.3(during night) to 8.5/6 (during day) ... is this normal or how can I lower it down.... Note: I have light ON at my refugium during night only and it goes off when my aquarium light comes on.

just put 3 mexican turbos in my 100 gallon tank and two days later the water is cloudy i did notice these snails were staying close to each other and even on top of one another is it what i think ???...water checks out fine....all my critters are accounted for.....any ideas ?? thanks

after all the $$ i spent on high priced equipment, 6 months of labor, constant water testing, problems after problems, a near crash over no magnesium of KENT salt...no great growth to calculate as a entire reef, im at my end with this *** tank....i wake up this evening to find that my 30G hard...

My tank is all cloudy I can't see anything and my 6 line wrasse is dead help me! What can I do!

Okay this is driving us crazy. Our sand bed is only about 1-2 inches deep in the front of the tank with the area behind the rocks barely covered. I do a 4 gallon water change in our 28 which is a little more than 10% of the total volume but probably 15-20% of the water volume due to the...

I have this red hairy stuff that is slowly growing from my rocks to my sand bed? Is there something that can get rid of this?

Was talking to a fellow reefer who has been dosing vodka in his tank he thought i should give it a try to help with nitrates and algae issues. anyone else doing/have done this? he puts 4 drops into about 150g system

After a good scolding for killing my clownfish due to a LACK of patience:rolleyes: I thought maybe you could send me some patience Karma:blob: I am sitting cross legged right here for 24 hours....so discuss:p

Well after taking down my 75 gallon and 29 gallon biocube in Chicago, and trying to deal with my severe grief and loss issues, I decided to do what any reefer would do and set up a 12 gallon aquapod!!!