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Yes I'm still battling algae in many forms..... had a nitrate spike.... well it went form 0 to around 10 and my phosphates went up too... its time to replace the media in my phose reactor and I...

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I Paid $60 at the lfs. there high but the only one around for 70 miles.....I have since stopped shopping with them do to seeing some mistreatment of there animals. They have 5 large Pacue in a 100gal...

I make my own food but there are some frozen food in it. I rinse the fresh ingredients but didn't rinse the frozen stuff..
im not seeing as much growth in the HA now its still there in places but...

opps that was supposed to say nitrates at 0.5

well it looks like the algae is not coming back as strong, having said that it might come back really strong now... I went away for 3 days leaving my wife to watch the tank, but when I got home she...

what about 2 part? I just ordered in a bunch of it form Bulk Reef Supply....thought about doing Kalk but I seem to evaporate about 2-3 gal a day, and thought it might increase my pH too much if I...

thanks..... its nice to think that after a little over a year of starting in this hobby things are finally starting to come together and I can enjoy something other than a tank full of rocks.....

I am running Phosguard by Seachem in a reactor.. and carbon as well..

So Ive been eyeing this rock with a few mushrooms for two weeks now and decided to go for it...
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got it...

still fighting the algae... I am scrubbing the glass every other day still and scrubbing what I can off the rocks. seems to have slowed but its still growing... nitrates are at 0 phosphates 0.05 not...

Ok well they are stupid, but I guess really I only have my self to blame....so a few weeks ago I went to get a few snails and hermits for my 55 gal. they didn't have any turbo snails but the lady...

the 4 pin plug is not for your ac power. in the bundle of cable you have in the pic with the 16 pin connector you should have a black green and white wire. you can connect a plug to this or connect...

I have reset my light timer so it will turn on at 10 am and off at 6..was 9 to 7.. so we will see what happens.. thanks Rayme07

I have just put in some Cheto about 3 days ago its around a softball size in my refugium. I only use RO/DI water in my tank and am changing out 5 gal water every week. I have about 70 gal total in...

Is this Green Hair Algae?
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Well Its only been around 8 months and I finely am getting back to my tank.... The new house needed so much work we were living with my parents for 4 months just to get the house to a point to move...