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    wanting to add phosban reactor

    Ok another? What about running carbon and phosban in it at the same time? I was reading somewhere and im pretty sure he said he runs both at same time
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    wanting to add phosban reactor

    well two little fishies has a 150 and a 550 the smaller is rated up to 150 gal and the 550 is rated up to 600 gal. do u have the 550?
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    wanting to add phosban reactor

    I was looking up phosphate reactors, and I found that there are some pretty expensive ones out there that look just the same as the cheaper ones!! I was thinking about getting the 2 little fishies 550. it is $60 compared to almost $300 for an octopus that looks identical. can anyone here...
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    Who uses ROD'S FOODS?

    i feed rods food, and my fish and corals love it i have been using it for prob 3 years and that's all i feed besides occasional pelletys or flakes. oh and it comes in flat packs, u can get a reef blend ,herbivore blend, carnivore blend. i use herbivore blend because it has greens for my tang...
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    power outage

    power is out due to storm. I have been up all morning moving water in my tank with a cup for oxygen. My question does anyone know how long fish can go without some kind of water movement? Because i need to go to work
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    building a 400 gal acrylic tank

    what i actually did was get on an online acrylic thickness calculator, and it said 1/2'' but when i recieved the email back from builder they said 1'' or even better 1 1/4'' and im not sure if i want to spend that much stil thinking. but i might see about just goin 28'' tall and using 3/4''. and...
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    building a 400 gal acrylic tank

    i actually emailed a big tank building campany and they reccomended 1/2'' so thats def a lot better on my pocket!
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    building a 400 gal acrylic tank

    p.s the exact water volume is only 398 gal but the big 400# sounds a lot better
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    building a 400 gal acrylic tank

    i don't know if any one can answer this question on here, but i am wanting to build my own acrylic tank dimensions are going to be 96''x32''tall x30''wide. my question is what thickness glass should i use? i was thinking 1/2'' but wasn't sure if thats going to be good enough. i have been...
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    green hair algae prob

    and that made the ph drop? or the acids killed the fish?
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    green hair algae prob

    my buddy has a 180 gal tank that he slacked off on the maintenence. his tank is pretty much taken over by GHA. so i went over there and helped him for a couple hours. i put some filter pad in the sump so it could pick up all the stuff we stirred up. and we also put some phosban in the sump...
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    TOTM October Picture Submissions

    100 gal mix reef please click pic to zoom in
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    How to make corals grow?

    i would also like to add a few things about cyano. if you take a turkey baster and squirt the big stuff daily for a while and scoop it up with a net that will help. cyano can definately live in any kind of flow i have about 6000 gph in my 100 gal. i have an sps dominant tank and have as good of...
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    18 months pics

    it definately is there is a cave somehow formed in the middle of the purple cap Quote: Originally Posted by clown-keeper99 Is that a clown hosting in an SPS in the second pick wierd
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    18 months pics

    Quote: Originally Posted by travelerjp98 The tank looks wonderful. In the last picture, to the far right, what type of plate coral is that? I like it a lot there is a orange cap all the way to right about 10'' and just a lil bit to the left and up a lil more there is a green cap with purple rim...
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