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    Red Shrooms for trade

    I got some red mushrooms for trade. Im from San Francisco. If anyone has anything for trade, we can work something out with shipping etc. These shrooms are aquacultured over a period of 4 years or so. I started out with about 5 and somehow they just kept spreading. I didnt frag any of them, but...
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    ID me pleeze

    Hi aquarium pros, any help identifying these weird things and mentioning whether they are detrimental to my reef would be of great help to me and possibly to the other folks on this forum. much to you. This is the first specimen. It appears to be a fuzzy ball. It only seems to grow on the...
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    Corals expelling bubbles due to lighting?

    Hello fellow reefers. I just changed my halide bulb from a 175w 10k venture to a 20k Coralife. I noticed my hammer and shrooms started expelling tiny bubbles in a string. I guess some sort of mucus is holding the bubbles together. Is this because my corals are disintegrating or just because they...
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    how should i get rid of this algae?

    To start i have a hair algae problem and ive been doing 5g water changes in my 40g tank every week all using RO water. Ive also bought a sea hare to eat it as well. Currently my tank has normal water parameters (probably because algae has been sucking up the nitrates), but this algae that kinda...
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    San Francisco Bay Area Traders?

    Anyone in the bay area trading?
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    Filter or no filter?

    Is a filter really necessary for salt water aquariums? My tank is now 1.5 years old, and i do 8% weekly water changes with ocean water. Im thinking about removing my fluval and just running power heads for flow. Is this a good idea?
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    Do you acclimate clams?

    So... Yeah.... do you acclimate clams? if so, how do you do it?
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    Why don't some zoo's seem to like my tank?

    Hi everyone. Ive heard that Zoanthids are strong corals, but only some of them live in my tank. The brown ones with pink centers or tan centers and long tentacle yellow ones seem to do well, but the really colorful (gold, bright pink, bright yellow) seem to slowly discintegrate. Can anyone give...
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    How high should i hang the MH fixture?

    Hi all, I recently got ahold of a 175w hamilton MH fixture. It has 1 175W 14000k bulb with 2 45watt VHOs. I have a 18" tall 60 gallon tank. How high should i hang the bulb above the water level and do you think i have enough lighting for clams? thanks lots :) -jeff
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    oops

    doh no trades allowed sorry.
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    Try this its fun!

    have u guys played this game before? http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?...=insaniquarium
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    alkalinity / dkh

    From what ive read calcium and alkalinity or dkh is very important to the growth of coralline algae. How is dkh tested? Can anyone recommend a good test kit for this, or can it be gotten by using the results of calcium tests? any input would be grat . thanks :)
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    greenex anyone used before?

    supposedly ok to put in tank to kill ich without harming inverts. I already put in first dose with no casualties from any of my inverts or fish, but a site that i checked out said it killed some stuff check it out: http://www.krob.com/aquarium/greenex.htm Can anyone give some feedback if...
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    whats in your fluval?

    Hey guys and gals , i was wondering if you use both the carbon bags and those donut shaped white things.
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    Id something in sandbed

    Sorry guys i have no pic for this :( . It has two feather looking things sticking out of the sand bed, when i come anywhere near the tank it swoops down as fast as lightning. the feathers point out of the sand about 1/2 - 3/4 of an inch in a V shape and move with the current i think. any input...
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    will anenome crab regenerate its arm?

    Hello, i am new to this forum, but I have been reading posts for a while and decided to register. Just recently discorvered that a large scarlet hermit has been attackin my anenome crab. He was ok earlier, but the hermit was in front of it. When I checked a few hours later , both the anenome...
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