melev

For the past couple of months, my tank has really suffered from a bothersome cyano bloom and I've been trying to wait it out until it receeds, but not only has it stayed strong, I'm seeing some other issues in one of my colonies that concerns me. It is darn close to a dinoflagellate issue, with dead areas that have turned brown and nuisance algae has sprouted from it.

With nitrates low and phosphates low, it's hard to figure out the cause. I'm going to conjecture that this is CO2 ...

Time for the monthly image of my reef. I did some tests recently.

Salinity - 1.026
Nitrate - 3ppm
Phosphate - .5ppm (dosed Phosphate Control to bring it back down again)
Alkalinity - 10ppm
Temperature - 80.1F
pH - 8.33
ORP - 323



The skimmer really didn't seem to be packed with air bubbles, and the venturi tubes were obstructed in the pumps' inlets. I took off the ...

This is the female of my paired clownfish in the angled tank. They came from a Black Onyx Percula pair in Houston, but neither of mine have the familiar black markings unfortunately. She is about four years old now.

When I got the new IceCap LED moonlights, it took me a while to come up with a way to secure them. It's important to me that the bulbs are well-secured; lighting that dangles loosely isn't something I can live with. The canopy over the top of my tank is removable, and there's no woodwork in place to screw them to. Here's the little clip that IceCap includes with the bulb. With a few tools and some aluminum U-track, I came up with a working plan.

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Thank you for all that you do.