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hot883
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very nice set up. Coming along great. You will need alot more live rock soon for the tang and the LMB. Some will flame you about the tang. Just be sure to remove him when he starts to looked stressed. Increase the algea sheets for them and add a few drops of garlic extreme to the food or the algea sheets to keep the immune system up.
nu2salt
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Originally Posted by hot883
very nice set up. Coming along great. You will need alot more live rock soon for the tang and the LMB. Some will flame you about the tang. Just be sure to remove him when he starts to looked stressed. Increase the algea sheets for them and add a few drops of garlic extreme to the food or the algea sheets to keep the immune system up.
hey hot, is swf a good place to get the lr i'm looking at getting at least another 50 lbs. none of the lfs's have any good looking lr went to 5 different stores to get what i have now. if you take time gas and price for it it would been cheaper to order it
very nice set up. Coming along great. You will need alot more live rock soon for the tang and the LMB. Some will flame you about the tang. Just be sure to remove him when he starts to looked stressed. Increase the algea sheets for them and add a few drops of garlic extreme to the food or the algea sheets to keep the immune system up.
hey hot, is swf a good place to get the lr i'm looking at getting at least another 50 lbs. none of the lfs's have any good looking lr went to 5 different stores to get what i have now. if you take time gas and price for it it would been cheaper to order it
hot883
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Originally Posted by nu2salt
hey hot, is swf a good place to get the lr i'm looking at getting at least another 50 lbs. none of the lfs's have any good looking lr went to 5 different stores to get what i have now. if you take time gas and price for it it would been cheaper to order it
Yes, great place to get lr. It will need to be re-cured since it will get shipped. The sizes, shapes and colors are great too.
hey hot, is swf a good place to get the lr i'm looking at getting at least another 50 lbs. none of the lfs's have any good looking lr went to 5 different stores to get what i have now. if you take time gas and price for it it would been cheaper to order it
Yes, great place to get lr. It will need to be re-cured since it will get shipped. The sizes, shapes and colors are great too.
nu2salt
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Originally Posted by hot883
Yes, great place to get lr. It will need to be re-cured since it will get shipped. The sizes, shapes and colors are great too.
do u think another 50 lbs will work or do u think i need morewant to go full reff looking to get t5 lights or metal halid if i can find a good price what do u suggest the wattage should be its 55 48x13x20
Yes, great place to get lr. It will need to be re-cured since it will get shipped. The sizes, shapes and colors are great too.
do u think another 50 lbs will work or do u think i need morewant to go full reff looking to get t5 lights or metal halid if i can find a good price what do u suggest the wattage should be its 55 48x13x20
hot883
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Originally Posted by nu2salt
do u think another 50 lbs will work or do u think i need morewant to go full reff looking to get t5 lights or metal halid if i can find a good price what do u suggest the wattage should be its 55 48x13x20
My 55 had 175 lbs. of lr in it. I also ran 260w of PC's, but kept softies. Wattage is not the issue it is PAR's. Complicated to explain as I am not a lighting expert. There are a ton of threads on here for that.
I moved everything over to my 125 gallon, added another 125 lbs. of lr and added another 260w of PC's.
do u think another 50 lbs will work or do u think i need morewant to go full reff looking to get t5 lights or metal halid if i can find a good price what do u suggest the wattage should be its 55 48x13x20
My 55 had 175 lbs. of lr in it. I also ran 260w of PC's, but kept softies. Wattage is not the issue it is PAR's. Complicated to explain as I am not a lighting expert. There are a ton of threads on here for that.
nu2salt
Member
Originally Posted by hot883
It really depends on what you want to keep. Soft corals ie. mushrooms etc. or SPS, clams etc.
want to keep softies but everybody has different names for what they call soft coral so i need to find a list with some pics of soft corals i love sun coral(yellow) what r par's
It really depends on what you want to keep. Soft corals ie. mushrooms etc. or SPS, clams etc.
want to keep softies but everybody has different names for what they call soft coral so i need to find a list with some pics of soft corals i love sun coral(yellow) what r par's
hot883
Active Member
Originally Posted by nu2salt
want to keep softies but everybody has different names for what they call soft coral so i need to find a list with some pics of soft corals i love sun coral(yellow) what r par's
Softies are:
mushrooms
ricordeas
xenia
gorgonians
featherdusters
green star polyps
kenya tree
button polyps
zoanthids
Some of these are not softies, but fit the same care level lighting wise as the others.
want to keep softies but everybody has different names for what they call soft coral so i need to find a list with some pics of soft corals i love sun coral(yellow) what r par's
Softies are:
mushrooms
ricordeas
xenia
gorgonians
featherdusters
green star polyps
kenya tree
button polyps
zoanthids
Some of these are not softies, but fit the same care level lighting wise as the others.
conch
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Try and get you LFS to order you some base rock, or try and find some base rock online(base Rock is dry rock composed of Coral fossils ) MUUCCH cheaper, and it will become live rock in a few weeks in your tank ( i pay $1.50 for my rock and go from there) Better for environment as well. All you need is a smalll amount of live rock to seed your tank. about 3/4 of my tank is Dry base rock that I put in the tank (I use to live in the keys and could get great rock from constuction sites where they were digging holes 
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Just a thought I think more places should be selling this rock, to ease the pressure on Reefs in the South Pacific. The main disadvantage is that the rock is a lot more dense, but is also becomes a great source of calcium for the tank as well. Anyone else go this route?
.Just a thought I think more places should be selling this rock, to ease the pressure on Reefs in the South Pacific. The main disadvantage is that the rock is a lot more dense, but is also becomes a great source of calcium for the tank as well. Anyone else go this route?
conch
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Notice the Green rock just the left of center on the bottom of the tank?? that rock is about 1.5 months old and is starting to get the purple Coraline, as is the white rock just to the right ofhe Conch shell in the center. The Rock will go green for awhile it's fine, then the purple will start to grow over it. Some of this rock is even made by me GARF style.
