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  1. The Crazzy Cube

    The Crazzy Cube

    400 gal tank
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    The building of the beast.

    Matt, Hi, been along time, This is Nicholas, the one you donated your skimmer stones to. I am truly sorry to here about your build, Mine did the same thing, just we were no at home. Lucky my wife is more into the hobby, and now we have a larger tank, and a larger skimmer, We have had it also up...
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    Is 1000 watts of light for 100 gallon too much?

    I ran (3) 20k 1000w on a large tank, the 20k bulbs were more like 14k visually, Now 1000w is too much, believe me I tried them on other tanks, in fact algae wouldn't grow and just was bleached out, I used them to bleach out corals to hand color them.. Now I had the bulbs only inches from the...
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    Polyp Extension = Happy Corals?

    I can agree with that... but how about color... does the amount of food...and chemicals increase or decrease the amount of color... we all know light has the most impact, but what about the other varibles?
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    Carrot in my sump

    so your foot fungus gave you an outbreak of diatoms...
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    Mandarin larvae

    thank you jeff... I have a vary healthy male... so off to the LFS to find a female, should it be the same size, larger...smaller? does it matter?
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    Mandarin larvae

    as far a pod population.. my polulation is one of the largest, I find no harm in having astrias, and cirths having any inpact, nor pepermint shrimp, with about 50 of them in the tank, the pod population is extreamly high. I have heard there is a coralation between ceopods and myssis, but it...
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    Mandarin larvae

    this my mandarin, can anyone sex this one?
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    Mandarin larvae

    so how do you tell the differences between male and female? I would like to pair mine up. so I would firs have to figure out if mine is a male or female and then recognize the mate in a LFS.
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    ZEO Question

    well actually the bio load is quite heavy, there is about 150 astrias, 300 nassius, 250 ceriths, 200 medium blue leg, 60 scarlets, 8 flame scallops, 6 mussels, 1 clam, 1 mandarin, pair of gold bars, 1 large yellow tang, 1 midas blenny, 1 kohole, 1 green clown goby, 4 sexy shrimp, 50 peppermint...
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    ZEO Question

    Im not the best picture taker...
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    ZEO Question

    ill post pics, im not aginst skimmers, just in this tank, infact I build/design equipment, but as much as I ageree that this isnt a compleate circle, the fish/corals are doing great, I have individual pic, but ill take some tank shots tomarrow. I usally have a vary high bio load due to the fact...
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    ZEO Question

    thanks scott, this thread isnt the place to make a stand to defend zeo or to attack the system either, just information on other people positive or negative acclamations to non zeo tanks. the dealer didnt kill his corals from using zeo, just they reacted negativly buy suddenly stoped using the...
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    ZEO Question

    I dont run a skimmer because this tank is filtered only with sponges, and the colors are great, and it takes vary little maintenance, its stable, and hasn't crashed in the 5-6 years its been running, its also BB.. so go figure... now I dont recommend this system to anyone... so dont take this...
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    ZEO Question

    I run a SPS ....unfiltered... UnSkimmed system for one of my tanks, is it ok to buy corals from a person that is using a zeo sytem for this tank, I have conficting info on RC and really would like to know.
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    BTA lighting requirements

    actually there is two types out there right now, the ones that get large are form the old strain, that dont split that often but get huge, the newer ones collected out of china multiply like crazy...
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    BTA lighting requirements

    I have had them under pc lights ...alot of pc lights....and t5 lighting... did better...but I added 500w to the 300w of t5 bulbs and they do not like that much light, all of them hide in the rocks... so while they love light, they dont like that much,,,
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    Doing The Right Thing?

    advanced is about pushing the envelope.. and asking or demanding the reasoning and questions, but it should be done with tact and respect... not dogmatic questioning.. but for all parties to see the flaws in the system proposed... I didn't enter into the discussion because I believe I would have...
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    Skimmer Calculator

    you want the bubbles to rise without turbulence, although I dont agree with all his rules, but this one is proven,,,others of his rules are absent of merit, and its sad to say a published work is so flawed, but I still have books that have SS framed tanks....and his work isn't out dated, just...
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    Skimmer Calculator

    yes but did it work prior to recirulating the flow?
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