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  1. fixitdude2001

    Stupid question/maybe

    Ok all, as blueberry posted, we are turning our 200 into our reef, and the 72 into our aggresive. As you know we had a heat problem and added chillers to the systems, and they work great. But do to the heat in the 200 we grew excessive hair algea. We don't want this in the new reef, so we worked...
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    anyone useing a chiller...?

    Ok everyone we are looking into a chiller for our reef, now that the weather is getting warmer and, the new vho's are makeing the water temp higher than the pc's did last summer we are looking into a chiller. The question is this, do you prefer the probe type or the inline models. Just would...
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    anyone useing a chiller...?

    Ok everyone we are looking into a chiller for our reef, now that the weather is getting warmer and, the new vho's are makeing the water temp higher than the pc's did last summer we are looking into a chiller. The question is this, do you prefer the probe type or the inline models. Just would...
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    Brine shrimp setup

    Hi all,Ordered some brine shrimp eggs and set up my little Hatchery. Ok its been two days and they have hatched, very very small. Question is how many of ya"s do this and if so how long do they take to get big enough to use as food and,While they are growing what do you feed them, I assume they...
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    What could it be

    Ok, tried takeing many pics but wont show up. So I will describe it. It is growing out of a purchased mushroom rock that was some sort of coral at one time. many large holes in the rock for things to grow in. I think it is some kind of feather duster worm,goes in and out of hole from either...
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    awsume find

    Well all looking at the reef and found a whole patch {the size of a quarter} of yellow pollups growing on my live rock. What real amazing is about 6 monthes ago we had purchased a colony off line and it wasnt in the tank one night and a damn bummble bee snail ate the hole thing. I am really...
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    MYSIS shrimp

    OK everyone ??? I know that fresh water fish have no nutritional value for our fish.. OK I have heard about everyone feeding mysis shrimp and I have never used this before. Whent to the doctors today in detroit and have to stop at our fav coral store and seen they have them for sale, ok I...
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    Family room starting to STINK

    Ok all, We are cycling our 200 gallon with the raw shrimp. Question is tank has been set up since monday, saltwater tuesday, wendsday raw shrimp, 8 large ones. Ok now its almost a week now and ammonia has spiked high but nothing else no nitrites and no nitrates, shrimp look all hairy and are...
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    New tank What do ya think

    Hi all, as you know we have been waiting for our new 200 to come in. Called them friday to find out watszup, the guy tells me two monthes :mad: So I get all mad and he said how about a deal, I said ok what kind of deal, Now I am asking all of you what do you think, this is his deal- 1 200...
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    Nickname for clarkie

    Well hi all, havent been on much latly not feeling to good, But had to get on here and tell ya about our new name for our clarkie clown[ going to start calling him tyson]. He bite almost the hole tailfin, half of his side fin, and half of his topfin,on our porkfish. I dont know what happened...
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    Mad Trigger in reef??

    Hi all, Ok has anyone experienced this. We have a niger trigger about 5 inches long head to fin, When its feeding time, this only just started a short while ago, when we open the canopy then the glass tops on our bowfront our trigger comes up to the top for food ok normal, We add small amounts...
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    looked like popcorn

    Hi all, did the rinsing of coconut carbon in my 404 fluval today and noticed the water in the cannister looked funny, little water swirls all over so I put it back together and got my 303 that I have polyfiber init.Took out the three trays and the large sponge filters and looked in the water,all...
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    looks like the big weekend

    Ok I think this weekend we will be getting the 150 or bigger. Question, This will be a fish only with some LR and will probly go with a plenum and 3in of live sand, I know this will not be enough LR for the bio load, will I have to go with sump? I am kinda looking that way, so I can put skimmer...
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    Clear tubes on LR

    Ok everyone, I have these clear tubes growing on one of my pieces of rock, some of them are an inch long, more milky white in color, small tube the size around of pencil led, and some look like little trees all branching out, also on this rock there is two bubbles kinda black in color with hole...
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    OK what is it

    Hi all got some pics up and, having problem getting them to normal size, the question what is it is on the pic titaled{Emerald crab} the thing I think is an anenome is to the left of the crab ,any Ideas????It has doubled its size since I noticed it but, I cannot see a mouth like on an anenome...
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    Pictures of reef

    Hi All, finally got some pics of our reef. What do ya think? web page [ April 18, 2001: Message edited by: fixitdude2001 ]
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    Brittle stars the culprit???

    Hi all, looked over were my large brittle star lives{ a cave} on the backside of the tank and, there is numerous snail shells. Has anybody had them eat your snails? If they do I dont think they should be part of a cleanup crew ,I dont know who else could be eating them no one else can get back...
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