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  1. black cobra

    Let's make some Reef / Fish Food!!!!

    Welp I am in my 3rd week of cycling and eveything is coming along perfectly. I decided to hit up the seafood market today and make my own fresh batch of reef/fish food. Everything was prepared and washed in RO water and supplements added. So here we go.... Prep Station Dried Nori Fresh...
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    Can a Refugium cycle faster than your DT?

    You wouldn't think so because its all the same water, but maybe because a fuge is more smaller and "confined"?? I am almost 2 weeks into my cycle and my Refugium has diatoms all thru it.... Sand Bed, Rock, sides of the walls. My DT only has a few small spots on the glass. I run an opposite...
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    90G Reef & Oversized Stand Build

    I planned this out and designed everything 3 months prior to buying a single thing. My last tank (72G) failed. Main Reason.... I bought everything USED You take a big chance taking a complete strangers WORD on what he is selling you and I paid the price. Anyways I knew I was either buying...
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    My 90 Gallon Build

    Well I am getting ready to start my 90 Gallon build. I downloaded that Google Sketchup and have been doing some beginging designs. I will be building my own stand because I want something big and custom with secret compartments for my electronics and stuff, pluss one side will be eventually for...
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    1 year later I want to try again... What went wrong?

    A year ago I had a 75 Gallon Saltwater setup. I was trying to do a reef. Waited 5-6 weeks till all my perameters were perfect. Bought the best everything... Skimmer, MH/T5 Lights, Deltec Salt, etc.... Nothing no matter what it was survived.... Mushrooms, Frog Spawn, Brain. Within 3 days it...
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    Anyone use a rubbermaid for a sump?

    If you use a rubbermaid for a sump can you post pictures and give a brief description please?
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    So I switched my Lighting... Interesting

    Ok, so for the past 8 weeks I've been using the Sunpod 48" 2x150 Metal Halide Fixture. I bought a couple corals and none of them survived. I had recently bought one last coral (Green Zoas) and they never really looked good or opened up. So I decided to switch my lights based on reading and...
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    Need Help with Upgrading Reef Lighting

    Ok right now I am running the Current Sunpod 2x150 Watt MH 48" Fixture for my open top 72G. I am not getting the lighting requierments I thought I needed with this setup. Its good for what it is but not for what I need. I am looking to go to a 250 Watt HQI w/ the addition of some T5 Actinics...
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    Kole Tang

    Picked up a Kole Tang tonight from my LFS. Aclimated him for just over an hour and he is already picking the rocks and eating Thank god!! I was a bit of a skeptic getting a tang after doing so much reading about them but he is cool as hell and he seems to be doing just fine with the two clowns I...
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    Salifert Magnesium Test Help!!!

    Ok I have been having a problem with my Magnesium being low (660) and I have people telling me I am reading/doing the test wrong and there's no way it could be that low, etc..... so I am going to try and explain what it is I am doing and please tell me if this is correct...... please I start out...
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    Interesting what my Clowns do....

    Usually right before I feed them (late afternoon) I will sit down and watch them. Now I have two 3"+ Clowns in my 72G. I bought them together because I didnt want to seperate them because they got along. So while I am sitting there watching them watching me, they will go down to the bottom and...
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    Help me stock my 72G Reef

    Well I am in the depths of getting my water parameters perfect. Atleast as close as I can. In the meantime any of you who want to help me stock my tank I am all for it Right now I have: 2 False Clowns 2 Serpent Stars 15 Hermit Crabs 20 Snails I would like to add some nice colorful "REEF SAFE"...
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    Frustrated... Ugghhh.... Water Tests

    Bought some new test kits yesterday (Salifert) to see why my new corals weren't looking so hot.... Magnesium = 640 Phosphate = 1.0 Alk = 2.8 dKH Calcium = 340 ppm Nitrates = 50ppm Ammonia = 0 Nitrites = 0 PH = 8.2 SG = 1.025 Temp = 79 Do you ever just feel like your just flushing your money...
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    Does anyone have/used a Nitrate Reductor?

    Just curious if anyone has one or used one and does it actually work? Hell it would pay for itself with having to do way less water changes Seems like Nitrates is something we all battle ALOT, and we want the best for our Saltwater tanks. I have read alot about the Vodka/Sugar dosing and I just...
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    Are GSP's stubborn?

    I picked up some GSP's Friday night, and they still haven't opened up. The other corals I got were some Neon Green Shrooms and some Torch Coral and they are all doing great EXCEPT the GSP's Normal for them to be a little stubborn? All tests are good with the exception of my Trates being a little...
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    Normal??.... Trates went up

    So I have had my 75G for 5 weeks now. Went thru the cycle and last Friday (13th) I added 2 Clowns, Torch Coral, Neon Green Shrooms, and some green polyp coral. I have about 110lbs. of LR and about 80lbs. of LS. Also an Aqua C Remora Pro PS. My Wet/Dry consists of Bioballs, followed by some LR...
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    So I come home from my vacation....

    And just about all my snails died. However all my Hermit crabs lived Some of them have taken over the snail shells as well. I bought a CUC consisting of 3 Turbo Snails, and 20 Margarita Snails, and 20 Blue Leg Hermit Crabs the day before I left for my vacation to Mexico for a week. I figured it...
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    So I leave yesterday for work.....

    At around 6am. Look my tank over everything is golden. I get home from work and come in to look and all my live rock has something fuzzy brown everywhere It's not quite long or thick its just brown and fuzzy looking..... I am just about 4 weeks into my cycle now. I now have 0 Ammonia. 0...
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    Drilling a Glass Tank Tips

    So I just drilled my tank for the 1st time and it was a success. Here are some tips for anyone looking to drill there tank: Parts Needed: 1. A Glass Tank 2. Drill 3. Diamond Tipped Hole Saw 1-1/2" 4. Plumbers Putty 5. Duct Tape 6. Safety Goggles First find the area where you want to drill your...
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    Question about my cycle?

    I am just about 3 weeks in and I just checked my Nitrates and they have sky rocketed!! Does this mean I am just about at the end of my cycle? Do I need to wait for them to come back down some before I do my first water change?
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