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  1. blkhawk10

    Polyp Extension

    I'am wondering why the polyps on my 2 monti's don't come out during the day, but they come out at night? I have a green birdsnest and the polyps are fully extended all the time.
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    How long

    I'm bumping up the time my metal halides are on from 7 to 9 or 10 hours a day. How often should I add time, I heard a half hour a week is this about right?
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    Water change for survival

    I found a couple of my acans skeletons showing the other day. I think I found the culprit, the scallop I have been wanting to get rid of for a while finally died. I did a nice sized water change yesterday, what I wanted to know was my usual day to do water changes is Monday. Should I still do...
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    More calcium = more coral growth

    I was wondering is this would be considered a true statement? My calcium right now is at 400, so I was going to raise it up and hope to see some more coral growth. Am I opening Pandora's box by doing this and adverse side effects?
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    Flickering bulb

    My 150 watt radium 20k hqi bulb that I got for christmas keeps flickering and going out. Can anyone tell me what the problem may be?
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    red hair algae

    My only question is how to get rid of it, I tried to scrape it off the rock with no success at all, its in there like roots of a tree.
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    Calcium vs. Kalkwasser

    I'm trying to grow some corraline algae in my tank and have been dosing calcium daily along with b-ionic 1&2 to keep the levels stable. What is the difference between using calcium compared to kalkwasser, and should I dose that instead?
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    Kill em all

    Is there anything that kills those worms that release the web? I came home today to find it all over everything in my tank.
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    Sand, mud or both?

    I'm starting up my refugium in a couple days and was wondering what to put in it. I was planning on just sand, but I heard the mud is good too. Anyone have an opion on this?
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    Fish going crazy

    I just looked at my tank and I see my sebae and goby going crazy eating something. I used to see this same thing when my shrimp had babies. The weird thing is I haven't had shrimp for about 3 months, I only have blue legs and a serpent star. I dose with oyster eggs and zooplankton every...
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    mixing salts

    I just bought some instant ocean salt, and I wanted to know if I could mix it in the same container as my red sea?
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    What are these?

    I found these on my duncan, they're not there all the time any idea what they are? the little green things.
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    Silly string

    My duncan has some neon green silly string looking stuff on the stalk. I was wondering if anyone knows what this is or had this happen to them before?
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    Refugium and DT pH

    Is it true that when I get my refugium started I want to the run the lights in the refugium at night so the pH levels remain the same in the DT?
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    Duncan Dieing

    for the past 2 days my duncans polyps havn't been extended during the day but come out at night. I noticed tissue recession and did a water change yesterday, and fed it. I got out all the problems that could have been messing with it. I'm wondering if I should did it in Iodine or just let the...
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    LPS vs. Leather

    I have a 29 gallon tank and have a 4 inch neon tree leather, and just purchased an acan, and a duncan. I had a duncan before that died out of nowhere and I'm thinking it was chemical warfare by the leather. I was wondering if I should get rid of the leather to ensure the life of my LPS corals?
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    New Corals

    Bleeding Heart Acan http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/a...Picture045.jpg Badunkadunk http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/a...Picture047.jpg What do you think?
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    bleeding heart acan

    I bought a beautiful frag of these from a friend yesterday for $20, it has 5 fully grown heads and 3 babies coming in. My question is was this fair price?
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    Feeding sun coral

    Ok, so I bought a sun coral last week without doing a lot of research on it like a douche. Since buying it and finding out I pretty much bought a dead sun coral I was angry with myself, not all was lost I have a descent size sun coral on the other side of the rock that I feed mysis, and I have...
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    RO/DI unit

    I was thinking about getting one when I get some money any opinions on what the best ones are? I was looking at some and they only said RO unit, does that mean I have to buy a DI unit also?
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