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    valentini fins, help!

    my valentini puffer has little white or light colored spots on his fins(all of them except the tail) I gave him a fresh water dip, but the fins still look the same. The spots are too small for my camera to pick up. The spots are a little bigger than a period. thanks!
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    valentini ???

    do valentini puffers only eat shrimp and not corals? will it mess with a coral banded shrimp? I have mushrooms, ricordea, kenya tree, toadstool leather, and star polyps. clown, foxface, six line wrasse, flame angel, pygmy angel in a 75 gallon tank with a 10 gallon refugium and 5 gal sump.
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    Fish picks

    Ive got a 75 gal. reef with 75lbs of LR. Foxface, LMB, Flame, Pygmy angel. how much more fish can I put in? Ive got a number of easy corals(leathers, shrooms, buttons, star polyps any suggestions?
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    moving rock???

    thanks guys, will scrub...will move!
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    Butterflyfish

    yeah, it does...did you finish fifth grade?
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    moving rock???

    I am getting rid of one of my 75 gal. tanks(for now) and want to move the live rock from it,to my other 75 reef. All the fish in the tank that I am getting rid of seemed very healthy, except for tiny,tiny black dots on a powder brown that never spread to other fish in the tank, or bothered him...
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    reading results

    thanks for the help guys
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    reading results

    I usually do water changes on my reef every 2-3 weeks. But i have been real busy and its been almost 5 weeks! all of my readings are perfect though. any comments on why everything reads perfect? nitrates are even <5 I have mostly easy corals(mush/leathers/xenia/hair polyps) 75 gallon, 10 gal...
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    Nitrates on the brain.

    I have a 75 gallon with 40 lbs of live rock. I dont have a protein skimmer on it, but I plan to when I get some extra cash. The tanks about 5 months old and I have been having a problem with nitrates! I did a 35 percent water change today and it only brought them down to around 25. I think...
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    fish/ich update

    yeah...remember, my camera sucks but I will post one asap
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    Ricordia

    so cut it right through the mouth and leave half the mouth on each side?
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    fish/ich update

    just wanted to let you guys know that after over a month, my fish are doing great and have no signs of ich or anything else(only the powder brown has little black specs on him that never went away after the formalin baths)! also, my foxface that got attacked by my clowns is slowly growing his...
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    Ricordia

    Ive got florida ricordia. will it live/propigate by cutting a piece off of one and putting it on a piece of live rock?
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    Refugium algae???

    yeah, I have a sand bed...I will try some of those other critters, thanks! I was actually wondering about the glass algae, because I thought maybe it was good to leave it on(kind of along the lines of wanting macro algae), as it might help use up nitrates or nutrients or something? It sounds...
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    Refugium algae???

    I started my fuge a couple of weeks ago and it now has greenish brown algae on the glass. should i clean that off or let it grow wild? also...I have chaeto, a couple small pieces of lr, and a couple blue legs hermits...any other suggestions?
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