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  1. nickm748

    Help me pick out my lighting

    Ok I have narrowed it down to the Coralife 20'' with the optional moon light or the Orbit 20'' with built in moon light. But the orbit only has 80w as were the coralife has 96 Wich one should I get
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    Help me pick out my lighting

    Hey guys, I want some better lighting for my 10gal tank becuse I wanted to add coral. Any suggestions. I here halide is the best. I cant seem to find a place to buy lighting for a all glass 10gal. I have 12 pounds live rock, 2 clowns, 1 shrimp 4 crabs and 2 snails. Thanks guys
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    Clean up crew for 10gal.

    Hey guys im lookin to get a clean up crew for my 10gal. I have 2 clown fish, 12 pounds of live rock, and TONS of brown algea. What would you guys reccomend I get. Also what would be another fish I could add that would get along with the clowns that are hardy and peacefull. Thanks
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    is my live rock dead! please help!

    OK, I will try to bring the fish back to the LFS i got them from unitil my tank is established. But is their any thing wrong with my live rock or should I just let that be? Thanks a lot for the input, Im also considering upgrading to a 30gal fish tank.
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    is my live rock dead! please help!

    Thanks for the input guys. I might upgrade to a 20-30 gal tank but I dont have any money left at the moment. Well see I dont know if this counts as a cycle, but it was my uncles tank for like 6 months before me(freshwater). Then I added the water, four days later I picked up my live rock and...
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    is my live rock dead! please help!

    Ok, as you guys may know im having some trouble trying to set up my first marine aquarium. My clowns are doing better, but they just got ich, so they are being treated for that right now. I noticed a lot of white film on my live rock so I took a peice out and it smelled really bad. After doing...
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    is this normal fish behavior?

    Ok the ammonia carb seems like a good temp solution but I cant really leave my house right now becuse there is 15+ inches of snow outside. How long will my clowns be able to live for with a high ammonia level. Also one weird thing, My test kit says the ammonia is very high, but my ammonia alert...
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    is this normal fish behavior?

    what can I do to lower it?
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    is this normal fish behavior?

    I just got 2 clown fish and wed. its now sat night and they dont seem to be eating any of the shrimp I give them. They like go to eat it then spit it back out. They are not swimming around or anything and they are just staying on the right side of the tank near the heater. Ammonia is a little...
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    HELP! fish sick?

    I just changed the water, the problem was that I was over feeding them. Every thing seems to be ok now.
  11. nickm748

    HELP! fish sick?

    Hey guys, Iv had my fish for 1 day so far, both do not seem to be moving very much or eating any of the shrimp. The smaller clown fish is in the water either verticle or kinda sideways. Both of the clown fish are on the right side of the tank staying near the heater and neither of them have gone...
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    Just an intro

    Originally posted by bigarn Do you have cured or uncured LR? Did you add anything to the tank to make it cycle? .......... Flake food or frozen cocktail shrimp? Did you test for ammonia and nitrites to see if the tank truely did cycle? The more info you give us, the easier it is for us to...
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    Just an intro

    thanks guys, sorry im a noob at this, but by cycle do you mean let the tank run before putting fish in to grow bateria? If so yes
  14. nickm748

    Just an intro

    Hey guys, Im new here and I just set up my marine aquarium today. I have a 10 gallon with 6 pounds of live rock. To start off I got 2 clown fish, but im looking to get some more in the future and possible and enemani(sp). Any way, Im thinking of getting a protien skimmer also, but im not sure...
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