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    anyone else bring their dog to work

    just wondering if anyone else brings their dogs to work, my superintendent and I (his assistant superintendent )bring our Golden's to work a few times a week, they have a great time having free run of the 145 acres of golf coarse. this was a spring picture we had taken next to our 15th green...
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    geothermal chiller

    I was sitting on the sofa watching my tank and was brain storming a way to chill the water without the need of a chiller.... then it came to me, geothermal closed loop. so my plan is to borrow a friends mini excavator, dig a 60" deep hole by 10' long and lay 150 feet of 1/2inch pex. water tubing...
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    share your prize fish

    12 inches long with 1.5 inch streamers total 13.5 inches. Vlamingi tang
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    Tropills 180 long

    here's a few shots with my new camera, Polaroid i835 , 8 foot 180 gallon, aprox. 800 pounds figi, tonga live rock, 300 pounds olitic sand, 80 gallon diy sump/fuge w/ cheato, 40 pounds rubble rock,
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    need return pump size

    hey all, I need to know what return pump size I need for a dual megaflow AGA tank, 125 gallon, I'm thinking a mag 12 ??? it will only be returning from under the tank (in stand) thru the returns in the tank 3/4". what do any of you use ? kinda need to know soon so I can get a pump ordered up...
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    toadstool trouble

    I have a 3 year old toadstool that has been great till about 2 and a half weeks ago. it kinda started a week and a half after I installed new 10k halides, its been under 14k's for 3 years but I wanted a color change in the tank and to increase growth, it seems to have 4 holes in the cap about...
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    what K bulb has the best par

    I'm almost to the life span of my mogul base halides, I'm running 175 and 400 watt XM bulbs now and they are all 20k, I like the tint of them but have noticed a rather significant growth reduction with the higher K bulbs, will dropping to a 10 or 14 K increase growth of my corals (mostly soft )...
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    can you have to much liverock ????

    I really don't think in my opinion that you can really over do it. I have approx 500 pounds in my new 180 and it looks no where near full of rock, this is also the only means of filtration that I have along with my skimmer, I'm going to put another 80 pounds in this weekend then I should be...
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    clean-up crew

    I really need a detris clean up crew... have a TON of flow but no cleaners for my sand, now here's the catch, I have a almost 10 inch porcupine puffer that will eat snails and some hermits.. so I guess the question is will 6 sand cucumbers and 3 sand stars clean-up almost 250lbs of sand ??? what...
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    my new 180 long build

    well here she is, the big 8 footer... dual corner overflows, and REALLY heavy, this will be a nice build for me, I just can't stop, I LOVE this hobbie. Greg
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    just a few tonight pic's

    just a few pic's,, comment please. Greg
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    light my 360gallon hex

    how am I going to light this ??? tank is 40inches tall and has a rim brace around the top , with a center overflow, the tank is also acrylic. Thanks.. If you look at the first pic. you can see the brace on the top.
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    seeking interest in my 125

    I am looking into a 360gallon hex, and will need to sell my perfecto made 125 the tank as some scratches, is not drilled , it is a 6' long tank with matching stand, custom canopy, I will be removeing all lighting to use on the new tank,so none will be include, unless you would like the stock 36"...
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    tosdstool fragging ???

    just wondering if I can frag a smaller very healthy stool by cutting it in half from the top to the bottom. will this work or kill it ???? Thanks Greg
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    fuzzy frogspawn ID ????

    Hi All, need ID on this coral.... I was told it was a fuzzy frogspawn ?? I had 2 large heads but now they have both split like a schroom would now I have 4 of them, I don't know what it is now!!! mushroom or frogspawn ???? Thanks for the help here's a cool pic of my carpet and leather and a...
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    butterfly dead

    hello all, My heniochus was impailed (sp) by my long spine urchin ,what a long slow death he suffered,, nothing to do but watch and hope it was'nt to bad but he's gone to fish heaven, man this really bites, only had him for 2 months and he gets impailed . so I'm done with the fish buying...
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    had to show this pic

    This is not mine but I just had to post this guys tank this toadstool is HUGE....
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    Hair Algae

    Hi All, my question is I screwed up aprox 2 months ago when changing filters on my ro/di unit. I never took it off bypass and ended up using straight well water for my top offs for aprox 2 weeks till I checked my ro system and noticed it now I have a severe hair algae outbreak due to...
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    probley a stupid question

    OK here's the thing I changed over from the dreaded CC in my 125, 1.5 months ago, and have done a few water changes seince then but I have not stirred the sand up ,, Is this nessecary??? don't have any nassirie snails or any sand stirrers for that mater except for a real lazy gobie that waits...
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    WTB tank at least 265 gal.

    looking for a 265 or larger tank 96" long. Really need a larger tank. will pick up within reasonable distance aprox. new york or penn. at most. thanks Greg I'm located in Clyde NY aprox 5 hours from blackwood PA.
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