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  1. reefer44

    mh user's

    well with 6500k you will get the best growth..for 10k you will get good growth and ok color...20k you will get ok growth but really good color......I suggest 250w instead of 400w (double ended HQI) or the double ended 400w (not sure if they make this though)...............the best is 10k XM's...
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    My day just keeps getting better...........red bugs SOB

    that really sucks...i had like 2 bugs on my tort when i got it..but i jsut squashed them lol...and i have seen any more lol....i still might treat my tank though once i get all my corals in
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    cleaner shrimp babies

    yea i thought it would be just unfertilized...but they do have that green color..................can the pepperment get it pregnant????????? also it seems that if they are not fertalized she wouldn't be caring for them...(she rubs them or something) Brad
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    cleaner shrimp babies

    just checked some pics of a pregnant one and it looks like mine..so it is having babies for sure......that means even more food for the fish!! lol
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    cleaner shrimp babies

    well i have had this cleaner for about 2 months and now it is pregnant i think..........................but it wasn't before....... i have 3 pepperment and one cleaner shrimp how could it of gotten pregnant?
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    220w enough?

    what type of clam do you know? a spagmosa (sp.) will be fine...but your pushing it with a maxima or crocea
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    Do metal halides=grow lights??

    its not the light fixture itself that emits the wave lengths it is the bulb as zanemosely said....if you can use aquarium bulbs in the grow lights then i guess it should be fine....
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    Do clams loose color?

    sounds like the clam is on the way to perfect recovery...glad to hear your tank is doing good
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    what would i need to get metal halide lighting started?

    cause the dif. in price is so little...go with 250w but you can do acro's with 175w on a 18" tank and get great color....
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    New T. gigas and teardrop maxima clams...

    hey nice pics....they look a lot better in person though :D just wanted to know how the acro that was stning is doing....unfortunely it did the same in my tank....but the tort and the other frags doing great..full polyp extension..and the tort is coloring up even more under my 175w compared to...
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    Eye it Buy it, LOBO

    lps...and it seems to be a lobed brain
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    No more controversy, skimmers rock !

    yea i don't water change but i skim like made...just 5ml of a few trace elements every 2 weeks and it works great
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    Plant Fertilizer in the reef tank

    that would trigger a huge algae bloom....and fertilizer is one of the things killing natural reefs...so i would say it isn't safe
  14. reefer44

    46 bowfront reef.

    great evolution...and good picture sequencing Brad
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    46 bowfront reef.

    lookin' good
  16. reefer44

    Chandler's Tank: Before and After

    looks alot better.....but i would get rid of the dead corals
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    To much flow?

    no wavemaker...they are on timers...and they aren't time to great..sometimes big flow and sometimes litlle....(there is a bigger flow during the day and slower at night) and it is a little jerky but the best i could do for my price
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    To much flow?

    I have 3 maxi jets that are 295gph....they are on timers and are very random in flowing and have the cut off end modification... 295gph protien skimmer and about 150 gph from main tank to fuge and back up I am building a huge custom skimmer that is going to be around 756 gph......i am going to...
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    Suggestions for an easy colorful coral?

    be careful what pics you copy...i believe that pic is under copy right (i know the sight that it was optained from)
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    check this out if you run MJ powerheads on a wave maker

    hey i just tried that with those glassin plug in timers and maxijets 1200 on my 55g....I have one power head on one timer...the other two on the other........I have it so the two powerheads are always one during the day while the other one switches flow every 15 minutes.......at night i have it...
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