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  1. quakstar

    New Montipora have some question

    Would you mind explaining how the phosban 150 reactor works and if it could be used as a hangon the sump and what exactly it does bc that seems to be a low cost investment that may help
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    New Montipora have some question

    one more question what is your setup running to keep the nitrates so low do you have a denitrator
  3. quakstar

    New Montipora have some question

    thank you so much and i just want to say i looked at some of your post of your aquarium and i think it is absolutely astounding... What do you think of comuteing to central north carolina to work on my aquarium daily :-D
  4. quakstar

    New Montipora have some question

    thank you so much for the advise... I am working on the nitrates what would you say is the ideal perfect level of nitrates my store told me to never get them to 0 but i have never really known i just know i have never seen mine get all the way to 0 or should you just aim for 12.5?
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    New Montipora have some question

    That is definitely the color of what it was and never had any sort of spores coming off of it. This is my first so i am still learning i did not have it in a good current so i put a new power head on it giving it a constant swirling current around it now maybe that will help but thanks for the...
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    New Montipora have some question

    but it is a consenses that the green growing at the bottom of my acropora is a bad thing?
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    New Montipora have some question

    If it is dying what should I do PS it is about 1/3 of the way up on the rock
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    New Montipora have some question

    oh shoot forgot the tank it is a 72 gallon bow front up and running 4 years now just have never done corals till lately with a 29 gallon refuge attached it also has a hamilton 2x250 metal halides and 2 20k vho water temp is a constant 82.0
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    New Montipora have some question

    Ok thanks for the advise I actually had the clown and citron Goby and my LFS said i needed the coral for them bc they would be stressed with out but i have tested my water salt 1.023 Nitrate 25 Nitrite <.3 PH 8.0 KH 16 drops 8 DH Amonia 0
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    New Montipora have some question

    bump
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    New Montipora have some question

    here are some pictures the base is the green part and yes the tips are some what white where growing
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    New Montipora have some question

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    New Montipora have some question

    When these begin to grow and do well in your tank will the new and growing part be green before it turns th e brown color bc if the green part means it is growing the heck yeah mine is doing great if not then :help:
  14. quakstar

    Pepermint Shrimp

    cool deal i just have 5 now and sometimes i go a little crazy when i like the way things interact. But right now i have about 140lbs of live rock 6 emerald crabs i bought and some little ones i don't know where they came from about a 100 or so hermits and 4 damsels, sailfin; arrowcrab...
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    Pepermint Shrimp

    bmp
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    Pepermint Shrimp

    How many is too many in a 72 gallon tank???
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    cb shrimp and trigger

    I bought a mated pair and this is my first time attempting this they are alone in my 29 gallon refuge. There is very little information about the topic so from what i have under stood they are bred very similarly to clownfish so i am using a rotifer culture to attempt to get them through larve...
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    cb shrimp and trigger

    ehh out of all the triggers i think the niger is his best chance with a CB My CB had a ton of babies last night
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    Bubble Coral

    thank you for the advise my lfs said that brine was what to give them plus that is what they had been direct feeding it in the store but yeah i will try the new food and the shaded spot but also this morning when i woke up and the lights were on he was the biggest he had been in days and looked...
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    Bubble Coral

    I had a nice size bubble coral that i had under some PC's for about 2 months and now i have gotten 250 watt metal halides on my tank they have been on for almost 2 weeks now does anyone have any suggestions on how get the coral to return the size it was before it spent the time under PC's I know...
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