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More Time Lapse Corals Eating Live Brine Shrimp Tubeastrea (Sun Coral) - notice how effective and sticky the nematocysts are in catching brine Tubeastrea Eating Adult Brine Shrimp MVI5943 - YouTube Tubeastrea (Black Sun Coral) - there is one brine which is fighting for its life trying to...

mars = api I would recommend getting a ph probe or meter. I find the ph test kits to lack the precision required for a reef tank.

:D "look just like dicks" - that's a bad thing???:D

as long as you don't have 400W mh or crazy intense LED/T5's you can put the frags in the lower portions of your tank w/o really adjusting your lighting schedule. move them up slowly after a week or so. The zoa - as long as its not in intense light - you can put those where you want.

That's a very small frag of goniopora - I've only seen them in colonies. Its an great coloration fairly uncommon. They are fairly light adaptable (as long as its not really strong). You do have to feed it planktonic foods to sustain it even though they are photosynthetic. The pocillopora is...

great stuff steph and barch! love the people eaters!!! keep them coming!

I would still give a bit of down time (8 hours) - most plants actually grow better when there is down time. I think 24 hours actually slows their growth. I have macroalgae in the refugium so I run it at night for 16 hours

I am determined to have montiporas encrust my whole tank! Superman Montipora IMG_5937 Pink Montipora (looks almost like a undata color morph) - not the best specimen but the best of the lot - fresh from the frag saw - will see if this heals IMG_5932 Tyree Seasons Greetings (still...

nice stuff - love the peach coloured ones!

the roots have to be underwater and the leaves have to be above water. don't trim them you need them to get big before they really make any impact on nitrate export. if they get too tall - just push them down a bit on the foam. eventually you'll have to set up a refugium for mangroves when...

Full polyp extension and single polyp shots IMG_5914 IMG_5918 IMG_5915 IMG_5922

My setup (for pods) IMG_4111 1) get a piece of Styrofoam cut to about the size of edge of your refugium - punch holes in them so that the pods will fit. 2) put the pods into the foam - the foam will float and make sure the tops of the mangroves stay above water and the roots will remain...

Brand new acquisitions - add a little color variety to my current collection IMG_5912 IMG_5907 if anyone knows the names - chime in!

First shot is above water 2 - looking up - the hydor deflector is the thing on the left - it rotates and sprays water in circular flow pattern 3 - showing the water flow - creates bit of wave on surface of water

Do your calculations with a 3/4" pipe size. I wouldn't worry too much about loss from your loc line configs. One return with loc line fittings is a good idea. You can get loc-line fittings that will spilt the flow. I have a "Y" split and use a hydor flo deflector (it rotates) on one and...

you can use this as an approx. head loss calculator http://www.reefcentral.com/calc/hlc2.php you may want to think just 1 return for the 90 and using another pump for the frag tank. Frag tanks are fairly simple setups often with a bottom drilled pipe with no overflow for a return and a...