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    pistol shrimp w/shrimp goby

    im interested if you are willing to ship. i live in california bay area. also if you could post a pic that would help in my decision.
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    Purple Tang

    i have a pair of GSM clownfish and a purple tang in my tank and they are doing fine. the maroons have been in there for about a month and i just aded the tang and so far they seem to like eachother.
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    coral web?

    i have had a hammer coral for about a month and recently moved it from my 20 gallon nano to my 45 gallon with 175 watt halide. yesterday it had these spider web things comming off of it. i was just wondering if anyone knew what these webs are and if they are bad and how i can get rid of them...
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    maroon clown dusting

    my female maroon clown is doing this shaking thing on the bottom of the tank. i know it is normal for them to do this but was wondering if there was any way to stop them. my tank is always cloudy because just about every10-15 min she is kicking up all of this dust. does anyone else have this...
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    carpet anemone

    i just got a verry small blue carpet anemone from my LFS and brought him home. my pair of black false percs went to him immedately and have not left him since. all seemed fine till this morning he was on the sand bed off of the rock he was semi-attatched to. the clowns are still with him but his...
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    sand-sifting gobies bad???

    i'm no expert, but as far as i know they sift the sand looking for micro orginisms to eat. this will lower the ammount of critters you have in the sand bed, but not that much. many people have gobies as their sand sifters. another drawback to gobies is that they will creat mountians in your...
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    Purple tang

    that didnt hurt too bad. thanks for taking it easy on me. anyway i know that you have to be able to care for a fish before you get it i just wanted to know for sure what it ate casue i got some conflicting information about brine and seawead. the reason that i bought the pruple tang is becasue i...
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    Purple tang

    my tang is verry small right now barely over 1 inch. how long will it take for him to out grow my 45 gal? i am planning on getting a bigger tank but not for a while as my funds are running verry low. thanks for your info.
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    Adding sand does it cycle?

    i love when people ignore peoples questions with their own questions. anyway ishtar i think you will be fine. you can also buy a bad of regular arginite sand and the bacteria from your tank will seed it with the bacteria that the live sand in the bag comes with. this is cheeper and also assures...
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    Purple tang

    i just got a beautiful purple tang last night and had a few questions that the LFS couldnt answer but the price was so right i couldnt pass it up ($35)!!!!!!!!. anyway how big do they get and what exactily is there perfered food. i was told they eat brine but i dont really trust that. anyway...
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    powerheads???

    i'm friends with the owner of my lfs so i dont think he would give me bad info, plus the regulars there all use this same kind of powerhead. it seems to have a really low power flow, i dont know if that is good or bad. i have 2 powerheads so i thik i am set as of now. the cloudyness from my sand...
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    powerheads???

    i just got a SEIO superflow powerhead with 620 gallons per hour flow. this is what all the guys that hang at the LFS have and they love it. they all have very large tanks too. one has a sick 300 gallon with like 3 full grown tangs. anyway this one is soposted to be really good and it was...
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    sick maroon?

    the white stringy stuff is gone. i feed them this morning for a change, cause i usually feed at night, and i think she ate 2 pieces of brine!!!!!!! i hope she keeps it up.
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    Dwarf Lionfish

    how big do most dwarf lions get?
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    powerheads???

    thanks guys!!! is it better to have one really stong powerhead or 2 or three that add up to the current you want. also where would the best placement be. in my sisters tank she has them both in the back with one low and one high creating kinda a circular flow and also getting beghind her rocks...
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    clownfish help!!!!

    the white thing is gone now but she is still not eating. there was stome stringy stuff comming from her underside but i think it was just poo although it looked a little weird. :help: :help: beth maybe a little of your expertise would help here!!
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    sick maroon?

    ok guys little update. the white thing was gone the next day but mt clown is still not eating. last night i went out and bought some garlic to soak the brine in. she still did not eat. i dont know what to do. last night i also noticed a stringy thing that looked totally different from earlier...
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    powerheads???

    i am setting up a new 45 gallon tank that is going to have about 75 lbs of live rock and 60 lbs of sand. my question is powerheads. how mann and what type should i have. my LFS has rios. are they good? they also have a zoomed ocelating one. i know nothing about powerheads or flow. my tank is...
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    sick maroon?

    i dont know, ive never seen anything like it before. i looked at the dease and treatment thread and it dosent look like anything on there.
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    sick maroon?

    i have a large maroon clownfish that i got 2 weeks ago to pair up with a very small one. anyway the pairing went great and they have been happly living together for the duration. today when i fed my fish my large clown did not have the same reaction to the food as usual. in fact i am not sure...
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