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  1. jay_blu

    Ich

    if none of the other fish in the main tank dont get it than how long will it take for it to die? I will get a filter and do that thanks for the help. if i had a chep bio wheel and put it on a 10 gal would that be a good QT? Do you need to do water changes and what not on a QT I rarely buy...
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    Ich

    I have a puffer with ich he has had it for about a week. I have a separate fuge that he is in now. I don’t have any allege or any thing in the fuge just marine mud it cycles through my sump. I want to cut it off so I can do the hypo treatment. I have a 125 with 5 fish and a fuge 15 to 20...
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    Red algae problem in refugium

    I have used cheiclean and it worked for a while but for the 4 years I have head the tank I have the same crap.... I am convinced that it is my vho's getting off spectrum since i never change them. from my experiance you can use the chemical but it will come back with out getting to the root.
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    switching lights

    I am getting back to my tank after being gone for 6 month's on a deployment. I am sick an tired of "red slime" algae or "blue algae" or cyno bacteria what ever it is. so I am convinced it’s coming from my old ass VHO's, your supposed to replace them every 6 months right. yea I never do just...
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    Red Slime Problem

    i just finished the link to justin's post i am going with thw 5% a week and the adjusting my lights antics for 8H and Aqua suns for 6? I think That should do it. we will see. thanks alot guys
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    Red Slime Problem

    I have had min running at this place for almost a year and I have had it for 3 years I have always had this problem. I have a 700 gph rio in one end a 300 gph in the outher and a 175 in the middle and a 250 sorta in the middle. there on a wave maker two on at a time for an houre to 15 min...
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    Red Slime Problem

    I have had this problem lately... just on my sand and overflow im getting a brown flim. I have cut down on feeding and it is still there. I also use ro/di water. I know that a lot of heavy metels promote the growth of algy. I have used chemi-clean and it will get rid of it but it will come...
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    Feather dusters

    nothing is near it and i pulled it out pritty dead. I just would like to know what happened I still have one left and it is doing very well I just hope nothing hapens to it. yes i checked my water ph 8.3 alk norm nitrates 0 nitrites 0 amonia 0 calcuim 450ppm s/g 1.023 temp 79 deg all...
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    Feather dusters

    let me know if he die's mine crawled out and lived just laying on the sand be for a day or so. I thought if he want to do that maby that his thang...... but i decieded maby i would intervien and i put him back in his tube carefully and I think hes dead his tube apears to be swelling and not...
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    Mantis shrimp

    lexan is acrylic the strongest, almost bullet proof if im not mistaken. and 5/8" is extramly thick for just 15 gallons. ushally you would use just 3/16" thats what I built my fuge out of. and a 240 that im working on is out of 1/2" with a lexan bottom, its 8'x2'x2' finished dimenshions.
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    Feather dusters

    what dose IMO mean?
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    Feather dusters

    ricordia, acraporia, some zoozs, pink tip haitien, pulsating zeanas, rock anemone, cromis, yellow tail damses, klarki clowns, velvet damsels, SGT majors, scarlet hermets, blue leg hermets, saly light foot crabs, brittle star, blue linka star, sand sifting star fire goby, and a cleaner shrimp...
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    Mantis shrimp

    I am building a 15 gal 5/8" Lexan tank I really dont know if it will be able to brake it or not. there are two difrent types of mantis theres slashers and bashers. I dont really want a slasher cause they will cut your thumb I want a basher they do have the force equil to a .22 just as long as...
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    Mantis shrimp

    oh and a good trap thats easy to build its a watter bottle with the top cut off turned over and shoved back in the bottle!!!! put some krill or what ever in there and in a cupple of nights you should have him! good stuff let me know.
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    Mantis shrimp

    If you dont kill the littel guy I want him please! I would aperciate on I have been getting live rock and I cant seam to get lucky enuf to get one. let me know if you catch him alive and what not. I would really really like to have one. thanks
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    Feather dusters

    I bought some Featehr dusters 3 from SWF.com about two mouths ago the first week all tree diched there cones. at the end of last mounth on crawed out of his tube and died! now anouther one is craling out of his tube.....? the last two have grown back there crowns the only thing i can think of...
  17. jay_blu

    have you been injured by your livestock?

    Every time I put my arm in my tank my four yellow tail blue damsels constantly pick at my hair. I don’t think they really pull them out but it feels like they do. My wife really love watching them pick on me cause there so small and there not a bit scared.
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    Feather Duster - 2 Crowns?

    the ones i just bought from swf diched all there crowns and one crawled out of its tube.... they look crazy!
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    Mantis Shrimp

    I have heard of people keeping them with lionfish I thought that I would try it. There will be plenty of rock and a deep sand bead. they will have there own tank made out of lexan.
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    Mantis shrimp

    I want a mantis shrimp!
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