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Well some of you might have read my prior post for help with QT. I decided to do a 100% WC to see if that would help. As I was transferring the fish over to a bucket I examined each one, well wouldn't ya know it several of them had spots (I assume are ich), my PBT was covered. The salinity has...

Well it has been a month and everything was going smoothly until the last couple days. Yesterday I lost a Lubbocks wrasse and today an lyretail anthias. They both look like their fins had disintegrated over night. Today I noticed a few other fish with their scales not looking the greatest. Any...

Someone was asking whether to invest in a wave maker for his new setup and I thought that would be a good topic for discussion. I personally don't have a wave maker and use Hydor Mags running all the time on my tank. They are angled so that they mix currents to cause more random flow and it...

Well I just noticed that my skunk cleaner shrimp is holding hundreds of eggs on the bottom of her "tail". I doubt they are fertilized as the only other cleaner shrimp is 10 feet of pvc pipe away, but who knows. Something new everyday in the reef.

Is the chat not working atm? Also I noticed I no longer see whether someone is part of the CR Team or CR Member under their name, is this something on my end or has something changed? Thanks.

Which do you use the "What's New?" tab or the "Forum" tab the most? The reason I thought of this was some people bump their FS threads when it is still on the first page under Marketplace, but has long since been off the first page under "What's New?". I myself use "What's New" 95% of the time...

I have a torch coral that needs to be fragged, but I am not quite sure how to go about it. My main concern is that the branches I want to cut still have flesh on them and from what I read you are supposed to cut where there is no flesh. Any suggestions on how to go about it? Thanks.

I had a delivery scheduled for this morning by 10:30 am from Hawaii with some nice Z and P's. Well I finally called FedEx and they said that they didn't know where the package was, but it had landed in Chicago last night. Now they are saying that there were weather delays with the flight even...

This thread comes from a thread Maidia posted on R2R while CR was down the other day. Mai brought up a good question about whether optics are really needed on an LED fixture and I wanted to post it here for those looking into buying an DIY LED fixture and were wondering about which optic or no...

I know many of you, like me, always want our tanks to have the ideal water conditions so our corals look great and grow quickly, but there is a lot of varying opinions on this subject. Well I put together a spreadsheet on over 100 TOTM tanks from 4 different forums (reefcentral, reef2reef...

Set your camera to take RAW photos. Download Lightroom (free 30 day trial to check it out). Under the white balance setting move the TEMP all the way to 50000, the TINT -50 to +50 range seems to give the most accurate colors for me. I also tend to need to adjust the exposure as well. I tried...

Quick question, because google search comes up with all other answers besides what I am looking for. In the Brute trashcan I mix my saltwater in, there is a hard film on the sides and bottom. When I pour new water in to mix, pieces of this film flake off into the water. Is this just minerals or...

Because the wife doesn't notice them :laugh:

My flame fin tang has been getting aggressive towards my 2 diamond gobies. Well this morning one of them was dead and the other barely leaves it den area. It will dart in its den as soon as it sees the flame fin, but not any of the other fish. Any suggestions to keep my last one alive? The tang...

Can these two species coexist? My plate keeps getting buried. Any suggestions?

I noticed a white coloration on the chin on my male clownfish a week or two ago. It has been eating well, no problems breathing, acting normally, so I thought it just might be injuries sustained from his abusive wife. Tonight however under royal blues only I noticed that the female half also has...

Well Ironically, as I was looking up things to buy to survive a potential power outage this coming winter my lights flickered and the power went out. I thought, no big deal it will probably come back on shortly, but I was wrong. It took 11 hrs for them to restore the power. I learned that my...

Thanks Mark. I hope you keep the $10 frag rack for the future.

I bought 5 green chromis yesterday and have them in QT. I noticed that the green chromis seem to be breathing fairly heavy compared to other fish I have. Is this normal for them or something I should be concerned about. One of them died during the night, but I had concerns about him last night...

I wanted to clean up my build thread a little and the only way to do that is start a new thread (Here is the old thread). So, I will start at the beginning and then give an update on where it is at now. Thanks for following. 07/16/12: Well I brought home my first tank today. A used, but in...