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Just a thought.... How often do you do water changes and do you supplement with any trace elements or other types of chemicals how has your skimmer been doing?

i use a test kit what i am going to do is re test later today then tomorrow will take water up to another fish store and see what he gets

thanks

Hi Mike, and happy new year. I had to edit your post because it was making my eyes bleed. hehe I made your images "large" and placed them between text that was formatted double spaced (or like paragraphing). Also, since you were talking about parameters, I assigned this entry to the "Water Chemistry" category.

I noticed you've got a Flame Angel in there. It could be nipping at your Green Star Polyps. It is a pretty hardy coral and if your water results are good, it should be fine. Your pH was a big on the high end, but that isn't the number you'll get 24 hours a day. Was that the peak of the lighting period? Was it after you just dosed more alkalinity (as in 2-part dosing)? How do you test pH specifically? A test kit, or a pH meter?

2.4 meq/l Alkalinity is a bit low. The lowest we want is 2.86 meq/l or 8 dKH. Some other Alkalinity kits I use are Salifert, Elos, and Tropic Marin.

Amphipod possibly?

It appear to be a sore. That fish tends to sleep in a hole in the rocks, and it is possible something tried to snack on it while it was sleeping. It may heal up on its own.

I force evaporation for cooling. My 75G display, 90 G total system loses right about 3 1/2 gallons per day. That gives nearly 34,000 BTU of cooling. With my RO/DI tank on the back porch and my ATO it's really no problem.

I lose a couple gallons per day as well on my 125. They shouldn't sell reef tanks without an ATO.

My house is dry and I have to add a couple gallons per day too. Nothing to worry about.

sounds normal to me, i use gallon a day on 135 setup

depending on time of year and how much the cooling fan is running, I use anywhere from 1/2gal to 2 gals a day on my 40breeder. I use a bucket and float valve for auto top off...

tank is 65 gal sump is 20 long

I'm in the 3 gallon a day range as well.

Time to get an auto top-off!

what size tank and sump? My ATO adds about a gallon every other day to my 80 cube.

I loose close to 3 gallons a day due to evaparation.

You have a very nice looking tank Mike! I thought that was a snowflake eel too, heh. ;-)

oh wow, ok. Ima dumbass. Well never mind then. the tank does look nice

he is a enginer goby, my grandson picked him out. most of the time i feed pellets.

Originally Posted by Midnight

cool pics, what do you feed your eel?

I think that is an engineer goby.

very cool.