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    Starting over...what suggestions do you have?

    Loving that wall to wall tank room!!!!It's been awhile since I've been on this forum. What is DT? I am assuming the mixing tank would be for the new salt water going in, right? Do they make a reliable battery operated backup power supply for outages? My old house had an invisible fence with...
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    Drying out Live rock to use later

    Lost my 125 gallon tank to a recent power outage from ice storm. Going to move when house sells. Would like to save rock. 1. How can I dry out the rock in the winter without smell in house (house on market) 2. Will storage in basement or garage produce a smell or unsafe gasses. Once dry...I...
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    Help me plan my new tank!

    Our house is up for sale and we are thinking about building. Any suggestion for fish tank installs? I currently have a 125g beginning reef and an empty 55 I want to fill. I am open to all suggestions including changing tank sizes. Would love to see pictures or references to posts on this...
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    am i normal?

    BEFORE: My husband used to ask me what was wrong all the time because I was sitting in my living room starring at my tank. I would answer...just looking at my tank. He was always in the family room watching the new LCD tv mounted above the fireplace. He always joked with me about getting a...
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    My clam has a hole

    I didn't see this at all when I first bought it. I was eager and bought it right after getting my new MH lights. Then came the huge bloom of diatoms and/or algae. Pretty much hard to see anything in detail after that. Took me awhile to get things back to normal and that is when I noticed it.
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    My clam has a hole

    Any of this cause for alarm
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    My clam has a hole

    what do you think?
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    My clam has a hole

    Here is the best pic I could get.
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    My clam has a hole

    Can't post a pic until my MH lights come on. They are on a timer.
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    My clam has a hole

    There are two places. One looks like a tube like mouth. The other looks like a rip in the corner, inside part when wide open. When it closed up some when my MH went out and my T5s came on, I couldn't see the hole anymore. Is this bad. It is definately new!
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    My clam has a hole

    My clam looks like it has a seam in the middle that is coming unstitched making a hole. I am new to clams so I really don't know how to describe it. But when it is open under the MH lights and totally opened, I noticed a spot on the end that looks like a hole and edge of the hole has strings...
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    Go Figure!

    I have had the lights almost 3 weeks. I didn't have a problem until the anemone died and that was about 4 days ago. I looked everywhere for it but couldn't find it. I didn't do a light acclamation but probably should have. I cleaned out everything including filter and did about a 25g water...
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    Go Figure!

    My tank looks awesome 99.9% of the time and now that we having a real estate showing on our house, I get diatoms/brown algae from upgrading my tank lights from florescent strip lights to Metal halides. I also lost an amenone at about the same time and couldn't find it so I am sure that just fed...
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    tank is a little foggy

    sounds like a bloom of some kind to me. I'd be testing your ammonia and nitrites pretty closely. You might be spiking.
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