fridmani1

I received 4 testing kits from Aquarium Water Testing for my birthday. With the trouble I was having with Snails dying I was curious to see if these test showed anything. The results are in and most things look okay expect for few parameters Molybdenum and Stronium.

Has anyone heard of troubles with this value. See the note from AWT on the parmeter.

Also the Free calcium versus total - never heard of this before. I'll have to read more.

The good news is ...

I can't figure out how to post pictures in comments (always asks for URL) so I'm going to post here instead.

Here is the cooking vat:





The one thing that is doing great through this whole thing is the Rose BTA. It has grown 4 times it's size in the same time period.



Notice the hair algae on the rocks and the hammer coral wasting away. This picture is actually underwater ...

About 10 months ago my tank was doing great. I created a little gallery of the tank with Iphoto that is available here:

https://www.icloud.com/journal/#p=02....jb/index.json


Around Christmas this past year a rapid decline started. I started to lose some corals (mostly Montipora) but everything else looked fine. Shortly there after the hair algae ...

So I decided that I wanted to use a 1.5 schedule 80 bulkhead on my new sump. These bulkheads are available at Bulk Reef Supply. These bulkheads are very heavy duty and have a very large gasket.

Compare the schedule 80 to the ABS bulkhead on the right.




Now check out the difference in the gasket:



The bad news is that the schedule 80 bulkheads need a slightly bigger ...

One of my Chromis got pop-eye for no apparent reason. Only thing that has changed is recently is that I added a new pump - Reeflo Dart Hybrid. I have it valved back and the pump is sucking a lot of bubbles from the skimmer (until I get the new sump plumbed in).

Does anyone think that the pump can be the cause or does anyone have another idea. The rest of the tank is fine.