What's a good spectrum bulb to use for growing cheato. Right now I have a 13watt cfl at 2700k.

I use a 6500k bulb

What wattage?

I think it's equivalent to a 100w. I got it at Walmart.

Here is a full tank shot, sorry for the blueness.

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a.../photo1-25.jpg

I think it's looking much cleaner so far.

A pic of some brown clove polyps, a couple of leathers, my maxi min, duncans starting to open up and a fox coral.

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a.../photo3-17.jpg

This is an acan I've had for awhile that's taken quite a beating and is now on the road to recovery.

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a.../photo2-24.jpg

I'll post some more later, gotta go shopping.

Here's a pic of the sump, the skimmer is starting to produce skimate again.

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My yellow tang looking a little skinny. Need to work on fattening him up. I feed emerald entree and Pacifica plankton usually every two days. And maybe once a week I rip off some nori that he eats. What else can I feed or should I be doing?

http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/a.../photo3-16.jpg

I also keep moving the fox coral around, it's hard to find a low flow spot in my tank.

I really liked the new era grazing pucks. All my fish would eat it

Is that all you feed the tang, every 2 days? no wonder it's a little bit thin. Tang is a grazing machine in the wild and it is constantly searching for food. You should feed it every day and have some kind of algae sheet (nori) or algae block in the tank most of the day for it to graze. I know this will produce a lot of waste but that's a price you pay for keeping tangs. Increase your nutrient exports.

I just watched a video on those, they are really cool, I'm going to look at getting some. Thanks for the suggestion.

I will definitely up the feeding.

I just got the marine grazing pucks from wais. So far the only one interested in it is the cleaner shrimp, but the tang is getting closer.

For the first time in a while my tank is pleasant to look at.

Thank you so much to everyone for all of your help and advice. Hopefully the brown snotty crap doesn't reappear.

glad to help man , its nothing worse tha seeing your tank look like that especially when you do alot with it. im glad its worked so far for you.

ok so to help keep it away : new carbon,new gfo and low photoperiod for a bit.

as the tank gets stable again youll be able to go back to your normal routine:)

cheers and awesome job bud:)

Hey goose.

Give it a day or so with the pucks. When I used them all my wrasses would devour them. It might help if you put your nose in the container and take a big sniff. Lol. Gross

Ha that's funny, as soon as I opened the container I took a big whiff, omg powerful stuff lol.
The tang was nipping at it a bit before lights out, the coral beauty liked it too.
Also do you take the pucks out at night? Do you store them in salt water if you do?
My light cycle is set to 8 hours right now, how long should it be?

You could take them out if not eaten but then I'd toss it as its breaking down