Recent content by Phildirt

This, your good.

I've seen photos of your tank, how can you only spend 10 min looking at it.......:fun4:

Yikes!

I had a similar issue with bubble algae pushing out my zoas, like pushing them off the LR. It took a emerald crab and a revap of my sump light/main tank lights to stop this. The calpura I had in the past was easy to remove manually, just had to be careful if it grew under certain corals. Pulled...

Looks like grape calpura algae. Nutrient control and manual export.

You could try using 1 ml tank water and 1ml RO/DI water mixed together to test. Then multiply your results x2. See what your ball park level is from that.

I have to agree, it looks like you may have AEFW. Can you pull the frag to dip?

Did they call you a howlie too?

If you add more baking soda to the mixture and there is no reaction (no bubbling) then you have neutralized the acid.

I got some on Amazon.

Make sure you test first- always test what you dose. Plus, with weekly water changes there may not be a need to dose.

F&S sells it. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=12101 Looks like amoxicillin is cheaper. Ampicillin and amoxil are the same class, both are Aminopenicillins.

Agree. Nice insight into this problem.

Spray on oven cleaner may work, aka No fume easy off. It is safe for styrene plastic so it should work.

So you had 1 organism to absorb excess nutrients and then added a second to do the same. But are asking why one is declining... The answer seems obvious. Are the mangroves up stream or down stream of the chaeto? Plus chaeto has been known to decline after a peroid of time and can be finicky to...