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  1. nsamouroux

    Green/Olive Moray Eel, FREE TO GOOD HOME

    That elegance coral in the main display would really clash with the olive color I think... That, and it would use all the SPS for toothpicks :lol:
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    Green/Olive Moray Eel, FREE TO GOOD HOME

    That would be fun to wake up to when it crawls out the top of a tank :D Helllllooooo! *CHOMP*
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    whats the best sump refugium contents??? chaeto???

    Caulerpa probably has a more beneficial effect on nutrient levels than chaeto, but you also have to put a lot more effort / maintenance into caulerpa or it will spawn and completely ruin your tank in short order. Chaetomorpha is only slightly less of a nutrient remover, and I've never heard of...
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    John Guest fittings in Seattle area

    Last I checked Home Depot carried a few different styles (threaded, valve, double-ended, etc) for 1/4". The two stores down here in Tacoma are always sold out, I was going to put a threaded fitting on top of the cap on one of my durso pipes for adjustment.
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    How to keep the water off of the floor?

    The sprinkler valve is a very creative idea (something I'd want to experiment with for some other DIY projects!) but in an application like this isn't it sort of a rube goldberg effect? Why rig up something that takes a constant power supply and depends on mechanical / electrical components when...
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    How to keep the water off of the floor?

    I drill small holes (1/16" or 3/16" depending on the size of the line) at or slightly below the water surface on each return line to prevent siphons when the return pump shuts off. If you put the holes on the back side of the fitting away from your lighting it will prevent algae buildup and it's...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    I had originally planned on doing a closed loop with bulkheads drilled into the bottom of the tank, but I didn't want the noise of a pump in the room (wanted to make the display totally silent). I'm going to experiment a bit more today with the powerheads (two at a time at first) once everything...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    Lesson learned: 50x turnover in a tank this size doesn't really work with a fine-grain sand bed :lol:. I just can't set up these Koralia Magnum 8 powerheads so that they aren't moving sand all over the place, and I think a sand bed with acrylic showing through the bottom looks goofy as hell. I...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    I was told by a number of people that the silt would not harm the fish, and they all look fine with no signs of stress. I'm sure the tangs at least would have stress spots showing if it was a problem, but they're all just as piggish as ever. I actually did rinse the sand before putting it in...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    Wow. Nothing quite like walking through the door and into the living room and being suddenly confronted by a tank this size that went from a cloudy mess to crystal clear while I was at work... All of my corals are already open and have polyps extended more than I've ever seen before in my...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    Saturday morning the tank was completely clear, I was pretty surprised! I had shut the pumps off overnight hoping for that result so that I could start stacking boulders ;) Of course I didn't think to take photos of the crystal clear tank... but it had a bunch of random rock piles sorted by size...
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    Ellylove's 46 Gallon Bow Front (VERY Pic Heavy!)

    A mandarin dragonet will certainly wipe out all of the copepods in that tank in fairly short order. They constantly browse the rockwork and are almost always feeding. I had one for two years that was extremely fat in my 100 gallon tank but he wiped out all of the copepods in that system within 2...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    I agree! I had planned on getting a 100 or another 150 gallon rubbermaid stock tank to use as a refugium, but I might just turn my old 100g acrylic tank into a refugium instead of buying a bunch more stuff. An acrylic tank is MUCH easier to put bulkheads into :lol:. Plus it would be nice to be...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    It was actually clear when I transferred all the rock and whatnot from my other tanks into it, but since I was putting fish and such into the tank I had to turn on the sump return which is why it hasn't settled back down yet. I can see about 1/2 way into the 3' depth of the tank so it's actually...
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    360 gallon logistical nightmare and no spare time!

    Just finished transferring everything over last night, and it's finally starting to clear up from when I disturbed the sand while adding rock. I haven't done any of the aquascaping yet, which will have to wait until the sand settles back down and I can see things again. The corals all have...
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    witch bulb 400 watt mh

    Sometimes the color / intensity are very similar as well however. My 250w Reeflux 20k bulbs are almost identical to the eye as the 400w Reeflux 20k bulbs sitting right next to them. I've got the 250w pair on Icecap ballasts on the outside of the 8' tank while the 400w pair is on a Hamilton...
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    The Great Pudget Sound Experiment!

    Personally I wouldn't risk wild-caught livestock in your main tank due to risk of disease / predation. If you were going to set up a seperate system or a coldwater tank however, we live in the perfect area for it :) When I had a pair of harlequin shrimp in their own 30 gallon tank I did consider...
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    witch bulb 400 watt mh

    I used nothing but XM20k for the last two years (400w SE variety) and liked them a lot. On my new system I decided to try the Reeflux 20k in the 400w and 250w flavor (SE bulbs, two of each over an 8' tank). The Reeflux bulbs have a much more noticeable actinic effect on my ballasts (250w Icecap...
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    how do i get rid of these crabs!!??

    A lot of crabs are more active nocturnally which is why I would leave the bottle in overnight. I am pretty sure there's a mantis shrimp SOMEWHERE in my tank that I have tried catching using the bottle trick, which is how I learned about the thing turning into an ammonia bomb. I didn't put any...
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    how do i get rid of these crabs!!??

    I've heard of using petroleum jelly in copious amounts for that type, and if that doesn't work there's always gasoline / matches or napalm :lol:
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