Did your refractometer accicently get bumped? Maybe recalibrate? Just a thought.

The display is fine, its the make-up water that has the problem. Calibration shows the refractometer is fine. We're just chalking it up to a one-off experience. We just ended up cutting in RO/DI to bring the salinity down.

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New bulbs arrived yesterday, and wow what an improvement! Next up will be new T5s.
September 9th, before the new MH bulbs
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Today, September 11th, with the new MH bulbs
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I had the city in this morning to move our water meter, so that is one more thing I can knock off my to-do list for the basement. We're still waiting on moving the electrical panel, but its slowly coming along.

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September 24th, 2009
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Damage by possibly the Urchin?
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Top down
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Straight on shot of the birdsnest
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Another top down.
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Nice!
Catherine, what is the name of those anenomes in the eighth pic down, beneath the orange cap? I think I have some of those as well.
Thanks

Them's majano's. Lovely aint they? They're worse IMO then aiptasia.

I tried a raccoon butterfly against them and he did a bang up job removing the ones he could get at. Unfortunately he also went after a brain coral and I lost 4 clams under mysterious circumstances during his tenure (but to be fair, I'm not 100% convinced he was responsible, he might not have been).

So anyhow though, if your clam load is minimal and you don't have LPS, you could try one of them..

Majanos!!
Darn... I guess I have a had an inkling that is what I had. They sure look the same.
My biggest one is roughly 2 inches with the tentecles spread. They have split twice, so I have 4 now. Thats in 2 and a half years.
Mine don't spread very quick, so still controllable.
Sorry Catherine for hyjacking, your corals are awesome. Someday I will have some tool.

I have a less polite name for them....

I have tried injecting them with lemon juice, air, and kalk paste with no luck. My next step is going to be covering them over either with epoxy or with super glue. They are a HUGE pain and they spread quickly and easily.

I want a raccoon butter fly, or two!

Well, mine look just like that, but do not spread. Hopefully, then, mine are not majanos.

You should give Taylored Aquatics Aiptasia Detroyer a try.. I had a couple Mojanos in my old 20G nano, and it nuked them instantly. :)