[CaseyH]

Well, I found a fresh/saltwater Calcium test kit (Hagen/Nutrafin $8 online @ Dr FosterSmith) and will order it and test my fresh source water. Living in the desert (SoCal) I bet the clacium is high. The good news is my LFS sells ocean water collected by a boating company miles off shore from Catalina Island... nothing better than Mother Nature's own mix (I just wish I could just pipe it in from Hawaii)! It is pretty inexpensive as well.

Bad news is I was told my delicate corals, clams and anemones may have been destroyed by Bristleworms! :eek: I bought a trap and may add a Six Line Wrasse to take care of the problem. NO MERCY! We will see what happens when I check the trap in the morning. I did a water change tonight and removed the skeleton of my last Fungia coral and found a sand worm tube attached to the center of the bottom.

Come to think of it, just about every coral that has not made it has had a similar tube attached to its base, directly in the center of the coral on the bottom. Do Bristleworms make sand tubes, like other Annelids???? I heard they like to live in live rock instead. To think I have been thinking it was a high calcium/SG problem (which is an issue) but it was down to 550ppm tonight with my recent efforts to gradually reduce the SG from 32 to 30.

We shall see what happens...