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    A ~19,000 Gallon Fish Tank

    i love the dimensions of this thing... if it was 8 feet tall it would be the size of my apartment...
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    New Lights. You like?

    this is the light i use... i really like it... idk much about acclimating to lights but what i have read says to use layers of screen between the light and water... and remove one layer at a time every so often...
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    Building An Acrylic Tank From Scratch

    i built my tank and sump with acrylic... i had mine cut at a shop so straight edges weren't an issue... right now i am having trouble with the sump bowing so i would make sure to use something to support the top of the tank... my tank is fine because i gave it a top but i didnt on the sump which...
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    Wrong place to take a break

    Originally Posted by Eric B 125 i saw a video a while ago of a mantis vs octopus. it was unreal. mantis ftw i looked this up on youtube and found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ7njTvDw0o this is terrible... such a little guy and small tank... no way it could have survived...
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    Wrong place to take a break

    thats funny.... i like mantis shrimp
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    Full Tank Shot from today :)

    very nice... i have a 4' and it looked a lot longer than that to me to...
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    My 1st post, let me know what ya think :)

    wow... i tried a 20 and it didnt work... small sytems always amaze me... this one is amazing...
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    my new purchase

    thats awesome... something like that here would cost me an arm and a leg...
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    Ok its a freshwater tank, but I wanna share.

    i had the pooffy plant that you have in the pics in my 55g fw before i set up the salt and i have to take out about a grocery bags worth every month... it was the only plant i could get to grow and i couldnt get it to stay in the gravel so it just floated around and grew so thick the bottom...
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    New to this- Brownish algae

    sorry read things again and see that you added damsels to start the cycle... please take them out this is torture... use raw shrimp or some fish food... just not the damsels...
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    New to this- Brownish algae

    Originally Posted by SocalNano24 For now there's no need for your main lights to be on for more than 8 hours. Some don't run lights at all during a cycle i ran mine during the cycle and ended up with a HUGE hair algae problem... so much so that you couldn't see the rock... so i left the lights...
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    I got it!!!!!

    i had at least 7 mantis shrimp hitchhike in on my lr... i found 5 of them in the box that my rock was shipped in... 2 made it into the tank about 8 months ago... i got one out within the first few weeks... i just got the last one a few mins ago... he has been digging under one of my rocks on...
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    Protein Skimmer

    dont get a coralife... i hate mine...
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    Quick ro di question.

    Originally Posted by mie Thread officialy hijacked! Not to sure But my waste is easily double than my output. I am not to sure what would happen if I removed it. I am going to order a two stage di system frome these guyz online. Its like 80 bucks shipped. lol... sorry... i haven't heard of the...
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    what type of crab is this

    thanks... how big will it get??? i like watching it but i like my fish better so if i see it actually nip a fish he will live in my sump... i thought it looked like an emerald but have never seen a red one...
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    Quick ro di question.

    hey i got this picture from the attached thread and i seen this flow restrictor thing in the drawing and wondered what that would do... would this force the unit to be more productive and waste less water??? right now i live in an apartment that pays for the water so i dont care that the...
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    what type of crab is this

    here r some other pics i took after taking pics of the crab...
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    what type of crab is this

    this crab came a a hitchhiker with my rock and made it through the cycle... i like it and it doesnt seem to bother the corals... i have seen it pick at some shrooms once and my brown star polyps but i think it was grabbing something out of them because they didnt look harmed... it does, however...
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    new LR with corals need ID

    looks like unopened gsp. try pointing a ph at it
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    Corals Dying? HELP!!

    Originally Posted by Flower IMO SG should be around 1.026...1.033 is to high. Tank is too cold...78 at least...80s even better. +1
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