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    Aptasia X

    I personally have not had any issues with peppermint shrimp eating or damaging any of my coral. As for price I am from Canada and here they cost about 10 to 15 dollars.
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    Aptasia X

    I too have tried apstasia x with no success. I bought 2 peppermint shrimp it took them about a week and the eradicated my apstasia problem in just a few days.
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    Monti eating nubibranches!

    I also agree with natural predation as I have a Hoeven's wrasse an it constantly hunts my live rock. As for my neighbour he has a six line wrasse that has been making meals out of these nubibranches but he says the majority of them come out at night
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    Monti eating nubibranches!

    @4age. In Canada the only pesticides that we can get are organic. I live across a river from Detroit Michigan USA so we can cross the border and buy the Bayer Complete Insect Killer but if I got pulled in for inspection at customs they would confiscate it. And yes it is great for sps but I have...
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    Monti eating nubibranches!

    Neighbour had bought a montipora digitata from a lfs. For some reason he doesn't dip his coral before putting them in his display tank. Here where I am from is a border city with the United States of America and I have access to Bayer Complete Insect Killer which has been proven as a safe and...
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    what tpe of valve

    Are you talking about your returns going deep into your display tank? If so you can drill siphon break holes. Drill these holes just below the surface of your water line. I will post a picture of what I mean. The holes I drilled where 3/16" and I drilled right through so that if a snail or...
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    DerekL 90 gallon(340L) canadian 100% Led mixed reef!

    @RynoParsons the JNS C01 cone s skimmer has been awesome performance wise. I like to skim on the dryer side and every 3 days I have about 3/4 of my collection cup full of thick black skimmate. I previously ran an ASM G1X and a vertex in180 and the JNS C01 I feel does a better job. Now I have...
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    DerekL 90 gallon(340L) canadian 100% Led mixed reef!

    My Picasso clown and my misbarred tank raised percula clown loving my tangerine bubble tip anemone.
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    Red/Brown Algae

    @HoboHoppy. 10 hours with your lights is good. I just asked cause I have had people complain that they can't keep coral alive yaddy yaddy ya come to find they are running Marineland Reef LEDs which should not even have reef incorporated into there name. ATI awesome bulbs and fixtures.
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    Kingii in holland

    What an amazing fish.
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    Red/Brown Algae

    What kind of lighting are you running. Please give info example T5 4x54 watts will help. Also what kind of coral do you have? All of this information will greatly help us answer these questions
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    Any1 used marine glue to stick corals to LR

    Sorry may of jumped the gun upon reading this again over here in North America there is a company who markets crazy glue as marine glue and that what I thought of right away. Then upon googling marine glue there are a ton of hits so unless it is cyanoacrylate then please post a link.
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    Any1 used marine glue to stick corals to LR

    Seriously don't waste your money on crazy glue that is labelled coral glue. Cyanoacrylate glue is the same stuff except they place a label on it and call it coral glue. I have been using the thick gel cyanoacrylate glue for years with no side effects. Google this and you will see that they are...
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    Red/Brown Algae

    PM me and I will gladly help that's what we are all here for right?
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    Test kits

    Snoek I wasn't doubting you one bit. And if googled Hanna photometer that test does come up. I was just trying pass useful information forward. And if you feel .04 ppm is insignificant then if you had been getting a po4 reading of .04ppm and lab tested you water to find it was .08ppm that is...
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    Red/Brown Algae

    The online store that I order from here in North America sell a dual media reactor with a cobalt mj1200 pump for $59.99 that would be 629 rand when I run through a currency converter I think it is against rules for me to name as there are sponsors here plus I don't know if they ship world wide...
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    Wrong advise from dealers to sqeeze sales out of newbies

    I have a purple reef lobster that on e lived in my tank and I watched him grab at night a healthy purple fire fish. So yes they are opportunistic feeders eating anything they can get there claws on. Previously to removing him any fish that swam behind the pile of live rock it lived under I would...
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    Please ID this coral

    Looks to me like a black sun coral. Care Level: Moderate Temperament: Peaceful Lighting: Low Waterflow: Medium Placement: All Water Conditions: 72-78° F, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4, sg 1.023-1.025 Color Form: Black Supplements: Calcium, Strontium, Trace Elements Compatibility: View Chart...
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    Removing glass stains

    Do you have access to a power washer? When I bought my tank it too had white staining in my case old dead coralline algae. I even tried goo gone. Then I thought hey what about my power washer. So outside again with my tank and well it took a lot of time but it did the trick. Just make sure you...
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    moving a tank

    I have moved several of my reef tanks. I found success doing so by putting all my live rock in to barrels place coral in bags unless sps that I put into plastic containers then I bag fish. Patience and taking your time like everyone has mentioned. I personally take this time to replace my...
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