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  1. velbar

    Copepods vs Brine Shrimp vs Tisbepods??

    So, the tank has been doing ok. I have lost a few of the coral but I think it was because I hadn't placed them in the right light and flow levels, I am not good at identifying whats what when I get a random assortment but I have had good luck with the orange coral I got as well as the Star...
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    So which bulbs should I use?

    So my replacement Halide bulb came in today, another casualty from the great tank crash and attempted recovery that failed those years ago. I now have both halide slots full and there are 2 standard 48" inch florescent slots as well, one on each side of the halides. I have collected several...
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    Returning to a Reef tank after 2 years of nothing...

    so after a catastrophic loss of an entire 150 gal tank a few years back I am finally returning to building the tank back uo. I cleaned everything out, cured the rock and sand and let it all sit dormant and dry for a veyr very long time. I got the urge finally to start rebuilding it and decided...
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    A cheap easy method of cleaning all the calcification and build up on My tank?

    So I am back finally after close to 4 years after having the massive tank crash that killed everything in My reef tank. So even though I bleach cleaned the tank years ago amd everything else has had those 4 years to dry up and blow away in the Arizona high desert heat and winds... There is...
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    Mass disaster!!!

    So I have had My tank up and going in its latest configuration for a year maybe 2. I came into a little money where I could add to the tank again and made a decent order, reef package with jades, mated pair of sea horses,a pair of rock anemones, candy coral, and purple nana coral. I acclimated...
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    Considering a DIY lighting hood for My 150. but no real clue...

    So I am doing a lot of things DIY, making my own rock, working on trying coral frags of My own.... in the midst of keeping things going, piece by piece adding of this and that or making My own, one of My bulbs is going out, its not the balast, (changed to another working bulb and it works fine)...
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    Dead cleaner shrimp!?!?!?! :(

    yesterday I found one of My two newest cleaner shrimp (I had barely had it 2 weeks or so) down in a corner of My tank and live rock, dead. The other one I got at the same time and the one I have had for months and months are doing great, increasing in size and shedding, all the good stuff, but...
  8. velbar

    150 g Reef build, slow and steady on an even slower budget

    Hey all, I have a 150 g tank that I am working on slowly building into a Reef tank. I have about 40 lbs of live rock that has moved with Me a few times and may or may not really be live anymore. I built a cave out of what rock I have for the time being so there is an inner and outter realm for...
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