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    Tunze stream vs. wavebox

    http://www.sewatec.de Hi Guys not sure if this is any help but I got my Tunze streams mail order to China from this German reef site - They ship world wide and delivery was 5 weeks only so I assume they carry stock Goods arrived in great condition I ordered the Tunze streams an IKS PH tester...
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    Live rock

    Hi guys - New to this site but have accumulated 7 years reef keeping experience on 2 different continents - Europe UK and Asia -China where I currently live and work I have read a number of threads on this site over last week or so and have found an interesting point of difference with regard...
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    Brown Stuff

    Sounds familiar - diatoms a powdery brown algae that cover the rocks and require daily use of the magnetic scraper on the front of the tank As stated above this is a common occurance with newly set up tanks and silicate is utilised by this species to construct its skeleton The bloom will...
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    cyano

    Hi Sryder i take it that as your filters and lights are 3 months old - your tank is of similar age? if so Cyno is a very common occurance and as you state requires nutrients in the form of phospate, nitrate, nitrogen It does well in areas of very low water movement I have expereinced it in...
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    algae growth quickly happening for some reason?

    PS - Sorry about the awful spelling - no spell checker, no use, thats me with computers that is Steve
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    algae growth quickly happening for some reason?

    hi supamarine your welcome I did search of your previous posts and find you have tank 4ft which is 3 months old but firts 2 months you had no light on it and during that stage you had Nitrate level of 40ppm? This is reason why cyno has waited until now to appear - it needs both lighht and...
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    algae growth quickly happening for some reason?

    hi Supermarine - the good news is your a long way from being on your own with this problem almost all reef tanks in Uk and the ones i have set up in China do go through this early Cyno bacteria bloom - The reasons as Nikki stated are high nutrients and lack of adequate water circulation - it...
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    mistake you dont want to admit

    Mines a pales in comparison to last one but it invloves getting 3 simple steps in the wrong order Step 1 - Extrenal filter - remove plug or switch of power step 2 - shut off taps step 3 - remove motor unit to clean the filter medium I went from step 1 to step 3 - Looked for someone to blame -...
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    How bad are Bio Balls?

    Hi Guys - having just recently switched over to the principle of biological filtration being achived using good live rock and good water circulation I can offer the following experience I was using an external with sintered glass and plastic balls - my nitrates were always around 25ppm whilst...
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    What can hold its own with a damsel?

    My experience has been with yellow tailed blues that they are usually OK with anything that was in the tank previous to their introduction but tend to be very territorial towards new arrivals irrespective of size May be good idea to remove damsel until flame settles and then re introduce I...
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