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  1. bryce.martin23

    turning base rock white

    well after a very mis-fortunate event of coming home to see that my tank cracked and my livstock dead on the sand bed I have decided to get out of the hobby for a while to take breather so to speak. On a good side I have a very nice showpiece of some base rock that I just bought before the...
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    accent light with led

    got a 65 gal tank and trying to set up a lighting situation. I have a halide pendant hanging above the center and its not leaving much room for any t-5 or PC. I was wondering if i used the led strip lighting, would that be able to work for accent lighting like atinics or should i try to just...
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    LED information needed

    So I went to my LFS today and he showed me all the benifits of LED lighting and I think im sold on them except for the price. By the time I walked out of there the total was going to be near 1200. I have been trying to read up on this subject for a while now but it all seems sooooo foriegn to...
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    majestic angelfish

    just wondering if this majestic angel will pick on leather corals and carpet anemone
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    RO/DI problems

    Just saw that there was an equipment board here and posted in the wrong board, anyway, i just purchased a coralife pure flo II ro/di unit. I installed the unit and im producing a horrible ratio of good water to waste water. I disassembled the entire unit and put it all back together and still...
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    RBTA question

    just got a rbta, it looked good in the store so i took it home and started to acclimate it for about two/maybe three hours. When i was looking at it in the store it looked great, once i put it in my tank the mouth of it is literaly wide open and looks like it is tearing in half. Checked my...
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    RO/DI problems

    Just installed a brand new pure-flow II RO unit by coralife and having some serious lack of flow going through the unit. Tested the system and for every 8 cups of bad water, im producing 1 cup of clean water. Talked to a rep that works for the company and he told me that my pressure to my house...
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    RO/DI question

    just picked up a pure flowII by coralife, this is the 50 gal/day system. I tested the unit today and im getting 1 cup of RO water to every 8 cups of waste water. Is this typical for this brand or is somthing wrong with the unit. All the prefilters are brand new right out of the box. I understand...
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    calcium and alkalinity

    Tested calcium and alkalinity today, calcium reads 380 and alkalinity is at 4 im mixing up a batch of kalk as we speak, will this also raise the alk in the tank. pH is at 8.2
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    majestic angelfish

    so i was in sacramento last week and this aquarium store once again had a majestic angelfish that i just cant seem to keep my eyes off of. I keep reading that you either get lucky with these fish in a reef and they leave your sps alone or they mow them down like a kid in a candy store. My tank...
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    reef safe paint

    been reading post here for some time now and remembering reading about spray painting your pvc plumbing. If i recall correctly, krylon is the type of paint used that is reef safe? i just painted the background of my 210 a dark blue and my pvc is sticking out like a sore thumb. Anyway, if anyone...
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    blue hornets

    so i was searching craigslist and came across these blue hornets for sale, here is the pic the guy sent me, are they real and dont these bad boys range somwhere around 200 bucks a polyp (from what ive seen around latley). he is selling them for 25 bucks per 5 polyp frag, can this be true
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    tiny bubbles from return line

    i just set up my 210 gal tank the other week and i cant seem to clear up the return water, i keep getting these tiny little bubbles shooting out of the pvc. Any suggestions would be great, these bubbles are driving me nuts
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    majestic angelfish

    went to a LFS today and once again wanted this beauty in my reef tank, i know that they pick at soft corals but was wondering if anyone out there has one in there tank and if they pick all that much, i cant resist the magnificant colors of this fish. I have a ton of green star polyps, a maxima...
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    what color sand

    upgrading to a 210 next weekend and always had white sand, i have been thinking about doing a black sand bed or even grey, does anyone have any pic of black or grey to help me decide.
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    please, shed some light on a WAVEMAKER

    hello all, for the past three weeks i have seached and scoured for a good wavemaker, i finally have the money to purchase a wavemaker and its burning a hole in my pocket. I have contiplated three different brands, first one is the tunze wavebox 6212, seconed was the koralia system with 2-#3...
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    dolphin external pumps

    im trying to complete my 210 gal tank and the pump is next on the list, i went to my local fish store today and he has a dolphin 3200. its a used unit but has only been ran for a day or two. I have been reading up on them and i keep reading either you love them or hate them. I was wondering how...
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    ASM G4 skimmer

    just found a decent deal on a AMG G4 skimmer, im somwhat fresh fish to the skimming aspect. Ive had a no name brand skimmer on my 75 gal and always had problems with it. Is this G4 skimmer a good product, its going in my new 210 gal tank
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    where to drill holes

    im going to be drilling a 210 gal tank and was wondering where the best place for the holes should be. What i was planning on doing was to drill the tank at the bottom and run pvc piping up to about an inch or so from the top of the tank. I have done this before but i had trouble with the pipe...
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    drilling holes in bottom of tank

    just bought a 210 gal tank and i was wondering if these bottoms are tempered, right now there are about eight 1/2" holes in the bottom that have glass plates sealed over the top, what makes me wonder that the tank is not tempered is that the holes are not semetrical to each other. There are two...
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