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  1. squidd

    Northern Wisconsin... Puffer, rock, tank in that order..

    Sold my big FOWLR tank, most of the equipment and most all the fish...(Keeping the Reef)...Anyway... Have a 7"-8" Healthy Happy Pork Puffer, temporarily set up in a 6' 125 gallon tank with about 40-50 lbs of live rock. Puffer Dude is free to a good home ..if you pick up..I can get him out and...
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    RIP..My Lionfish Died...

    Dang... After all these years as my "Showcase" Fish...My Lion bit the big one...literally... A 15" fish...(OK "official" post mortum measurement... nose to tail 14 1/4") He had what I thought to be adaquate room in my 210 FOWLR Aggressive.. But a shrimp sliding down the tank wall proved too...
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    Az No3

    Absolute Zero...??? 5th generation... Anybody try this product....?? Results good, bad, horror story...Hoax...? Been seeing it talked about in a couple places, a "search" here shows posts as far back as 2001...:thinking: I don't need the stuff/haven't used it, but it caught my eye and am...
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    Been Fighting with My Camera...

    Getting closer to what I want, but still not the clarity...
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    Photo question ???

    What am I doing wrong here...? Can't seem to get the "blue" out... Same tank, same lighting...Tried with actinics on, actinics off... I just forgot what my settings were when I took the well lit one.. Been playing with, exposure, white balance, flash just turns everything green...??? What am I...
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    Who is this Guy...??

    Black body, Black Hairy legs, and what seem to be rather "blunt" claws... Came in as a hitchhiker several months ago (size of a dime) but keeps getting bigger... Now the size of a good pocket Watch with probably a 4" reach... Spends most of his "visable" time innocently picking on the rocks, but...
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    Who Sneezed in my Fuge...??

    First a little back ground.... Basement S/F has been up and running about 2 years now... 1/2" sand bed (transfered from other fuge, probably 4 years total) and Caulurpa, small amount of "Pod Pile" rock rubble in corner, fed directly from MT... Flow has been slow (perhaps too slow) been 3x to 7 X...
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    Flatworm Exit Doseing..

    Dang bugs are back, I've been adding a few things to my reef, and just the other day I noticed the beginnings of a flat worm infestation... Any hoo, I've used Salifert FW Exit before and had great success ridding the tank of worms and no dieoff of inhabitants, so I plan on doing it again.. Thing...
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    Big fat Tang...

    A Fat Tang is a Happy Tang... ***)
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    Bananarama

    OK now NO Laughing.... Now a lot of you know I like to keep my Aggressive/Predatory tank stocked with fish with "Cool" sounding names... Like Lion or Panther or Crocodile, or Trigger or Tusk....(try to stay away from the Angels, Fairies, and Butterflys)... Except for my "Clown" but he's...
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    Hey I'm Back...What a Trip

    Back on-line that is... Been having a little "computer" issues..A couple (6-8 ) weeks ago I had lightning strike a tree outside my house...(computer is on a "surge protector, but the phone line was not) so the modem blew, but the machine seemed to be OK... So I take it to the local comp shop...
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    So, I went to the Dentist...

    ...and as I enter the office I notice on the sign that his name is "Jon Pederson" >not his real name< ... And I think to myself..."Self" ...I think..."You used to go to school with a Jon Pederson"..."I wonder...??" So I get in to the chair, and await his entrance...and in walks this "old guy"...
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    Some of the Boys...

    The "Boys" are getting bigger.. :yes: 13" PV Lion and 12" Panther That's 1/2" glass on tank for comparison...
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    Lunch is Served...

    Average meal (twice a week) for a PV Lion, Panther Grouper, Humu Humu Trigger, Porc Puffer, Two Tangs and a Maroon Clown... Rotational menu includes Fish, (cod, Talatia, or haddock), Scallops, Whole Cockel in the shell, Krill, and a varity of Vegi flakes for the Tangs... Seasoned lightly with...
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    So, I got this Mantis Shrimp and...

    Actually a "free" gift from the LFS, a hitchhiker on one of their orders, they "saved" him for me knowing I'm into the Odd and Strange....(OK get your mind out of the gutter and try to keep this "reef" related... ) He's a bright green color and about an inch or so long... (No, I didn't take a...
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    Squidd out of Town this Weekend

    Not ignoring anybody, just out of town...
  17. squidd

    DIY MH for Less Than a Buck a Watt...Part 2

    Did this thread a month or so ago, then lost the pics in the "up-grade"... Kinda looses the effectiveness with out the pics... :yes: ************************************************************************* Well I went and did it...Set up a Frag tank down near the fuge and needed some lighting...
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    Time check...

    Checking "current" time...
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    DIY MH for Less Than a Buck a Watt...

    Well I went and did it...Set up a Frag tank down near the fuge and needed some lighting to kick things off... Sure I could have gone out and bought a fixture, but where's the challange in that...?? I had a 10K 150 watt DE IceCap bulb I bought almost two years ago...(can you say...
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    Your thoughts on these bulbs...Par and visual color

    XDE 10K DE... Phoenix Hexarc 14k DE... Ushio 10K DE... All (any) to be run on PFO Magnetic 250 HQI ballast...
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