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    Clouded Eyes

    Ok I have been having a problem and can't figure out what is wrong nor can my LFS. About a month and a half ago my flame angle started to have a cloudy eye, few days later both of them turned cloudy then 3-4 days later he died. 4 days after he died my keyhole started to get cloudy eyes and...
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    Anemonie stinging Toad Stool?

    cut it? how would i go about doing that...........
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    Anemonie stinging Toad Stool?

    I have a large leather toad stool that is very close to my sabea anemonie. Every so often when my anemonie is fully extended it touches my toad stool. Now there is a spot on my toad stool that doesn't come out. Is my anemonie stinging my toad stool? I would like to move my toad stool but its...
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    anenome pics.

    here is a picture of my sabea
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    Anyone up for some PORN!

    lol, that reminds me when i put in my emerald crabs. I had one in orginally, add 2 more one day. 20 seconds after i put them in, the one that i had in originally came all the way from the other side of my tank and started doing the dirty with one of the new ones. 20 seconds later they seperated
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    2 tangs in a 75 reef?

    I have had a yellow tang and a blue regal tang in my 75 for a year now and they are doing great. My yellow tang hasn't grown any since i got him though, but he is pretty large in the first place. I got my blue regal tang as a baby and he is just now starting to show some growth (LFS told me...
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    lol, funny you say that fishtanknewbi, i did buy 12lbs of live rock while i was at the LFS
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    Went to the LFS and had them test my water and this is what they came up with KH - 10 average PH - 8.0 little low Nitrate < 12.5 good Calcium - 600+ too high Phosphate - 0 they told me to do a 5 gallon water change to get it lower
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    Need advice on feeding large sebae anemone "my clowns are pigs and stealing food"

    I do use DTs about every three days too. Havn't heard that it help an anemone but I have used it since day one. When i first got my anemone it constantly moved around in a circle on the left side of my tank. One day I moved it over to the other side of my tank where in a piece of live rock...
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    Need advice on feeding large sebae anemone "my clowns are pigs and stealing food"

    Ive got a 8" diameter sebae anemone with a sebae clownfish that is a pig too. I went 8 months without even worring about feeding my anemone and had 440w VHO and he grew about 3" in diameter. About three months my LFS told me to feed it Krill. My clownfish eats everything i throw in there. To...
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    nitrate and nitrite are 0. I don't know what phosphate is though
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    Also, does it matter if i use my saltwater PH test kit on my RO/DI water or will it give me the wrong reading. If it is giving me the right reading my ro/di water comes out at 7.4. I just took a reading of my ro/di water with buffer and the PH is off the chart above 8.8 (color was purple). I...
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    thanks for all the info NM reef. It was probably my test kit that was off. This morning my water looks clearer than ever. Couple of things that ive noticed though is the my squamosa clam has been almost closed up for the past couple of weeks. Also my finger leather hasn't expanded all the...
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    Ive also have had a problem keeping my PH up the past week, its been as low as 7.8. I have been adding 3 tsp of buffer a day for 4 days and i finally have it to 8.2.
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    I used SeaTest Calcium . PH is 8.2 and temp is 78F. I don't have an alkalinity test kit :(. I added 2 tsp of Seachem Reef Advantage Calcium twice a week. 1 tsp of Reef Builder (Alkalinity) twice a week. Also add one tsp of Kent TechI once a week.
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    Calcium at 500+!!!!

    I just took a calcium test and it come back as about 675 but the test kit says it only covers 0-500. What should I do?
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    Lighting Question

    should i get two or three 50/50 (actinic white) bulbs, i have hard and soft corals in my tank
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    Lighting Question

    75 gallon. Configuration from front to back is daylight, actinic, daylight, actinic. I have a maxima, squamosa, and derasa clam which all have thrived under this configeration too.
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    Lighting Question

    Hello everyone. Ive got a 4 48" URI VHO light bulbs. Two of them are 10000K daylight and the other two are super actinic. It has been about a year since running and I am thinking about buying new. I really dislike how my tank look real pinkish. Anyone have any recommendations on what kind...
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    how to catch 4 stripe damsel

    i just used a bag that my fish come in, put a little bit of food at the very end and used a pice of rock to hold it open, my yellow tailed damsel finally went in after looking at it for 30 min. just keept my hand near and when he went in he went ALL the way in and scooped him up :)
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