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  1. mytank

    Free Fish

    Does anyone either know or live in the McKinney TX area. My filter broke and I am umemployed and have no money for a new one or even extra money for the upkeep on the tank. So I would like to give the fish away to a good home if you would want to come and get them. I have 1 blue hippo, 1...
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    Koralia

    I have an 80 gallon tank, want to get into reef, currently fish only. Tank has been neglected for the past 2 years, yes just slap me but life got in the way as far as taking care of sick parent and the dying process. Anyway, my fish are suprisingly still kicking but I am in need of some new...
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    Water Temp

    What is the ideal water temp, I have mine at 72. In reading the forum I am freezing my fish.
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    Emerald Green crap

    I took a break, not by choice for the aquarium and thought the hubby was taking care of the tank and he was not. Now I am ACTIVELY cleaning it up and getting back on the water change schedules. I had to trash all but about 25 pounds of live rock away. So I have an 80 gallon tank with 25 lbs...
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    Perfect set up for 80gallon reef tank

    I have been in this hobby for the past 3 years and still learning by trial and error. Currently have an 80 gallon that is a TOTAL mess and just have on it the bare bones for equipment. Actually now some of the equipment is falling apart, it was so cheap and not worth it. If anyone would like...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    I look at the pictures of the tanks that have been up and running for 2 years on this website and they look great. Then I look at my tanks and just cry. I have an 75 gallon tanks and it looks CRAPPY. I am probably doing something terribly wrong, but what. I have read book after book and still...
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    Power wash live rock

    The alge in my tank is SO bad and I have tried EVERYTHING and it just keeps getting worse. I use RO/DI water and the phoshates are at zero and I am not able to figure out why or where the alge is coming from. I have in the past scrubbed the live rock and it took care of the problem for about 1...
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    What eats mossy alge???

    I took out all the live rock and spent a whole weekend scrubbing my live rock to get rid of a REALLY bad mossy green alge issue. Now the phosphates are zero and I noticed that the mossy green alge is returning slowly. Is there something that will eat this crap???? I have snails and they spend...
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    Attaching Mushrooms

    I recently received a mushroom that is a little over 1inch in diameter, and he will not attch to anything. How can I help him without hurting him????? I do have some extra egg crate, in the garage that I could maybe help him out with. Any ideas????????
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    Brown Hair alge and Phosphates

    is there an easy way to keep the phosphates under control? Currently switching to store bought distilled water and will do a water change this weekend with fish store water. Also, having a problem with brown hair alge that has carpeted everything. bought several snails and a lawnmower blenny...
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    Protien Skimmer & filter on 1 unit

    Does anyone know anything about a protien skimmer and filter that is all one unit? And if you know of it, how does it work??????? Any comments. Thanks in advance.
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    Feather Duster lost it's feathers

    My 2 feather duster's lost their feathers this past weekend. Any idea's why or if they will grow new feathers??????
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    Do I need a new filter system

    We have had our 80 gallon up for about 11months now. Up until the past 3 months the water has been crystal clear, 3 months ago is when we upgraded the lights and put in the 4 watts per gallon with halogen and floruscent bulbs. Not sure on the wattage per bulb, I think it 2 floruscent bulbs at...
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    will they kill each other

    would these fish get along in an 80 gallon reef tank blue hippo tang yellow tang kole tang coral beauty angel are they all compatable
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    UV Sterilizer

    Question: this past few months my tanks has sprouted algea growth, on the live rock & glass. I use distilled water the only thing that would cause this that I can think of is that I need to get my phosphates down and am doing the phosphate sponge everyday. My question is....... would a uv...
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    PhosBan Reactor

    Does anyone know anything about the Phosban reactor???? Does it hang on the back of the tank? Does it require extra plumbing? I am not able to bring my phosphates down to zero. And this is another alternative, but I an not sure how one would install the reactor. Any ideas Thanks in advance.
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    Missing fish

    In the past 2 weeks, I have had a 3 fish disappear........ they are 1 firefish 1 Purple Pseudochromis 1 long nose hawkfish I am thinking that the panther grouper had them for a midnight snack. Since they are all disappearing in the night. The tank has been set up for about 8 mos and I have...
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    SandSifting Starfish question

    Currently, we have an 80 gallon with a sandsifting starfish and a cc starfish. The tank is set up so that the sandsfifting starfish is not able to go behind the live rock, he only has access to the sand in the front of the tank. Once in a while the cc will come off the glass and go on the sand...
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    Would I need a Grounding Probe

    :help: Would I need a grounding probe, if I have all the equipment for the tank plugged into a grounded outlet??????
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    Just wondering

    I don't have them, but is a tank has Cirolanid Isopod in there. How do you get rid of them? Will a 6 line eat them?
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