So I just made the mistake of overdosing too much kalk slurry in one go and caused alk and [Ca] to drop a lot. Theres tonnes of other reefers who've posted about making the same mistake, and thanks to them and their advice I've been able to minimize the damage by dosing vinegar.
However, one...
In today's video we are going to kick off our "Reef or Fiction" series! In this video we are going to take a closer look at some of the potential ways you could break in your brand new skimmer faster. Do you know a way to break in a skimmer fast?
If you have more reef myths you want us to...
My husband has developed a theory on the impact of ambient room lighting on our corals and I would like to get yalls thoughts.
We've been resetting our main display tanks and recently set up a temporary holding tank in our bedroom for all the things I don't exactly have a home for yet and...
So what i have noticed whenever i place a small bag of activated carbon in my 100 gallon some zoas ( not all) and some other corals seem to close up a bit. The reason i place the carbon in the first place is to clear up the yellow pinkments in the water. I have read that activated carbon removes...
I've heard that some people go as far as to supplement iodine in their tanks to help their xenia flourish. I haven't been able to verify this theory (and believe me I've tried), but that seems to imply that xenia is a bio-accumulator of iodine.
And if thats true then...
Well, it probably...
I know the ich life cycle. I know what will kill it and what won’t. I know how to treat a tank that has ich in it. But I don’t treat the ich in my 30 gallon biocube.
I’ve seen ich at its worst. Infecting almost every fish and multiplying rapidly. But the ich in my tank has never been very...