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    Coral ID please

    One is round in nature with a concave underside. It is green. At first I thought it was a plate coral, but I thought they had flat bottoms, at least the ones I have do. The second is a pink base with green centers. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. I placed the large one on the tank bottom...
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    Lights Out!!! How long can you go without light?

    I need to send my lighting system for repair. The only back up light I have is a coralife 130 watt 50/50 light that is below my tank in the sump. I would move that light to the top with fresh bulbs, but will all the corals make it with just that and natural light? Anyone in the baltimore area...
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    Electric Solenoids / Ball Valves

    Anyone ever use large electric solenoids? I have ordered three 1" electric ball valves...mighty expensive at 250 each. I am trying to automate more of my system. I have newly plumbed my tank drain and tank fill into one line. The line leaves the CL system down into the crawlspace where it Ts...
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    Blue Hippo Tang Sucked Against Intake Strainer

    My blue hippo tang was stuck against my intake strainer which is a 2" inlet to a reeflo pump. Now I know he is a strong swimmer, so I almost think he was just "hanging" out there. I have had him in this tank for 5 years and I can only imagine it has done this many times before, but I was...
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    Fuge - Deep Sand Bed, Live Rock, both or neither

    I have always had a DSB and live rock in my fuge. Recently I thought I would add a more natural effect of either mangroves or chaeto and I want to give them room to grow and tumble. Should I remove the LR? Should I remove the DSB? Should I keep one or the other or both? I have a 180 gallon...
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    Unlevel Tank

    Well after the move, it has become clear that the new house is not as level as the old house... In fact from front left corner to back right corner there is a height difference of about 1". Now I have read plenty of posts on here about unlevel tanks and how everyone says this creates a ton of...
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    Finished moving tank between houses...when can I start putting livestock back?

    I moved my tank between two houses. I first moved all the rock, live stock and most of the water. Then about 6 of us moved the tank itself. We actually left the sandbed so it was never disturbed. Of course that probably added an additional 200 lbs. We weighed the tank at one point on a big...
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    best pump for sump/fuge return?

    I have been testing pumps for danner. The last and longest lasting one was the hybrid hy-drive, but that too has failed. So I need a reliable quiet powerful pump to. Pump up about 6 feet. any suggestions on the best submersible pump that will hold up to saltwater? The rotor in the danner...
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    Coraline Algae on Glass

    Just curious, I have now had an established tank for nearly 4 years and while coraline algae growth is noticeable on most LR there is NONE, ok maybe 3 quarter size patches on the back wall of a 125 gallon tank. Why?
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    RO / DI Tubing

    I am just curious, what type of tubing people use? I purchased a RO DI filter and it originally came with blue tubing, I have adjusted the flow a lot and since then I have used the 1/4" OD tubing that you buy at the big box stores and three times now it has bursted and I come home to water...
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    Updated Reef Pictures

    Here are just some pictures and a movie of my tank....even though PFO lighting was horrible to me and went out of business, their light is still doing a good job now that I have new power supplies from another reefer who made them. Anyhow: http://picasaweb.google.com/philipde...mD77L9ip6z0QE#
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    New Green Toadstool & Chili Coral

    Just a few pics of two new corals I put in my tank from this site. The toadstool is out in the open and seems to have opened up pretty well, only a couple polyps sticking out though. I put the chili coral in a dark area nearly in the path of a return, but no polyps have opened yet. They have...
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    Electric Shorts

    So I think I am shorting out my equipment with high humidity. There are drops of water all over my equipment under my tank. This has never happened before, but neither has my AC going dead. So can I assume that the shorts are all being caused now by the increased humidity? I have started a...
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    selling stuff

    I am confused, a while back there were forums to sell and buy equipment and live corals...what happened? There is nothing on the worthless auction site...what is going on? Is it somewhere else?
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    Pulsating Xenia Nightmare

    Now both of these incidents are my fault, but it amazes me how such a stupid simple coral can be so delicate... 1. Lights were left off aquarium for about 10 days. Everything survived except xenia, which melted away. 2. Heater unplugged for something and forgot to plug it back in, caught the...
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    How long without lights? Will they survive?

    So I need to send my solaris light back for a board upgrade. Amazingly enough they admit their old boards had problems, but they don't bother telling any of the customers until the boards die and cause problems. So not only have I had a not working light, but now I have to pay for shipping to...
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    Baby Bengai Cardinal

    I woke up this morning and at first glance I thought it was a copepod, but then I looked closer and damn if it weren't a miny bengai! I had bought two bengai a while back. I am the kind of reefer who is all about nature doing its own thing, do I never care if they are mates, or if different...
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    No Emails From SWF Board

    I don't receive instant notifications or any notifications anymore from the board such as when someone responds to a thread i start or am subscribed. Anyone else have this issue? Its been going on for quite some time.
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    New Hy Drive Pumps from Danner Mfg, pondmaster, mag drive people

    So I have been beta testing a new pump for danner for the last year. Finally they settled and created packaging for their new line of aquarium pump called hy drive. The end result is a very QUIET pump, but the final production pump which I just received was a bit different than the prototype...
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    Does this orange monti cap look good?

    Check these photos out and let me know what you think. There is some brown black section on the side closest to the camera. let me know: http://picasaweb.google.com/philipdepalo/OrangeMonticap
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