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  1. pallan

    75 gallon reef on the path to recovery from a crash last year

    Originally Posted by scottallert how long did it take for your mushrooms to do that? if your asking about the orange ricodea its been about 1 and half years in tank started with 2-3 and grew from there ive given a couple away and they grew better before the tank crash but seem to be doing fine now
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    75 gallon reef on the path to recovery from a crash last year

    thanks... its doing ok.. the survinving corals seem stunted some color up nice and look good but wont grow. ive switched from a mixed high sps reef to mostly softies and few sps... I lost all my SPS in the crash. heres what it looked like right before the crash
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    eliminating aiptasia

    pepermint shrimp have always worked for me. bought 5 from SWF.com and i was rather dissapointed in the tiny little things i recieved but put them in the tank expecting them to just be food and they went to work and slowly i started seeing less and less aipstasia. now i dont see any. i hunted...
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    Sump Setup

    I would put the fuge first so your not skimming out all the stuff you want the fuge to get. and if possible from my experience stay away from the catalina pump had one and it always froze up or failed to restart after power down. ive got mag pumps that have been in costant use for over 2 years...
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    In sump skimmer selection - 60 gallon fish/reef

    hey let me know how you turn out i just ordered a Blem from their site today and just kinda freaked out hoping i made the right call :)
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    Spankey's 75g Reef Tank.....

    Originally Posted by Kevin34 WOW... Ditto. Very nice indeeed
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    please help - big nitrate problem

    WEll Carbon is a debate. some use it all the time. (Me) some use it sparling (not a bad idea) and some never use it at all (also probabaly not a bad idea its just i like it to help polish water and get any chemical warfare between corals out of tank). Bioballs no need to have them once you...
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    Show off your Clowns!

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    Got Eggs :)

    well i added an anenome a few weeks ago and clowns took right to it. formally they had hosted in my frogspawn but that slowley died after I nuked my tank with kalkwasser last year so added this new home for them.
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    scratched glass

    OMG your are my savior so simple its brilliant i had tried to use a plastic scraper and no effect never thought about a razor blade but it was exactly like you had said just plastic residue. I would never have thought...... I was just about ready to trash the tank and start over Thanks so much
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    scratched glass

    heres the pic it is glass scratches are like a pendulum swing as the clip swang back and forth all night in the current
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    scratched glass

    my feeder clip is on a piece of fishing line and it came loose from the suction cup last night and rubbed against the glass allnight. now my tank has some horrendous scratches on it any way to drain to that level and fix or is there something can be done underwater what products do you guys...
  13. pallan

    Too much flow, Can it be??

    ditto i have 2 seio 1100's and my mag 9.5 on retunr running thru two penductors and my flow is good play with the aim on them some. maybe try one low pointing up and one high angled down on oppisite sides of the tank mine meeta in the middle and occasionally can cause a bubble to get drug down...
  14. pallan

    nuked my tank :(

    well over a week now since the accident got some pics, sorry was to busy during the accident to get pics but here is one of the tank during cleaning. see all the white gun on the tank and here is the sump with all the white kalk settled to the bottom it coated everything like that corals, rock...
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    nuked my tank :(

    Well it is not as bad as i had anticipated. Dont get me wrong its the most horrendous thing with the tank ive been thru but so far the 100 percent waterchange and cleaning appear to have done wonders. I have not lost any more fish then had died the first night, and only 2 coral frags have died...
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    nuked my tank :(

    Originally Posted by ameno sorry to hear about your tank, I'm getting ready to set up a kalk stirrer and ATO, Is there anything I should be on the watch for to keep something like this from happening? The pump will only top-off around 3 gal per hour and a PH controler will switch to a fresh...
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    nuked my tank :(

    Well i made the ultimate mistake and am now paying the price. Long story short due to some problems with ATO and kalk stirrer none by there making just my inability to solve them. My tank got a huge dose of Kalk water and im not talking just the clear concentrated water im talking the actual...
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