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    Hi .My Name is Jen .

    Hello Jen, and welcome to the obsession. I'm VERY glad to see you wanting to research before buying seahorses, as most seahorses die because people buy before finding out the needs that will provide the BEST chance of success in seahorse keeping. Some basics are: Minimum 29/30g for one pair of...
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    salifert calcium test

    Just squeeze out two drops and then hold the bottle upright to get air again, and repeat until you have eight drops.
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    de-humidifer recommendations

    It is most likely though to cause another problem. Without proper air exchange at the surface of the water, with a good supply of non CO2 laden air, the pH is liable to slowly degrade until it is too low.
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    de-humidifer recommendations

    Checkout HRV's if your new home doesn't already have one installed.
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    Emergency sick Seahorse

    Well, unless the OP is going to respond with more detail, neither of us will be able to help much. I love H. comes tigertails, but we can't get them here any more. Just like the angustus and barbs I had many years ago, we can no longer get because Dr Mic Payne packed in his breeding facility in...
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    Emergency sick Seahorse

    You may indeed have solutions, and if so, you should be posting them here in the thread for the OP to take advantage of. He still has the original four remaining, and it's about making sure of their survival, not getting new ones to add to at this time. You should NEVER add seahorses to a tank...
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    Emergency sick Seahorse

    This thread is a request for help for a problem a seahorse keeper has. IT SHOULD NOT BE A THREAD FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE A SPONSOR!!!!
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    Emergency sick Seahorse

    Well, I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with seahorse keeping as I personally find it to be a great joy in my life for the past ten years now, but I've had many of my own trials and tribulations. It sounds like you had four seahorses before you ordered these new ones. Were the last ones...
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    INTRUSION?

    Looks like it's all good to go now!!!
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    INTRUSION?

    I'm wondering why every time I go to RF, Norton pops up saying it has blocked an "intrusion". Category: Intrusion Prevention Date & Time,Risk,Activity,Status,Recommended Action,IPS Alert Name,Default Action,Action Taken,Attacking Computer,Attacker URL,Destination Address,Source Address,Traffic...
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    Water changes for water chemistry

    It doesn't need to be a visible part of your tank if you don't want it.
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    Water changes for water chemistry

    ????? And don't you think that is my "tell"? To me, the algae patch would indicate I need to do something. Usually before that though, the corals or fish behaviour often indicate something isn't right. As for my seahorse tanks, there is no waiting for a "tell" because it's a given that the...
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    Water changes for water chemistry

    FWIW, I stopped "monitoring" for the most part, after a few years into my now 20 yrs of reefing. A few years back I bought calcium alk and magnesium test kits just out of curiosity, when I.O. was reported to have upped the calcium in it's formula, and found indeed, I could stop adding the...
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    Water changes for water chemistry

    I'm curious as to how you discovered phosphate leaching from the rocks if you haven't isolated the rock in new water and then found phosphates later. You most certainly are getting more phosphates from the food you add than what leaches from the rock, unless your rock came previously from a...
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    Auto feed live food

    IMO, the biggest problem with auto feeding live food is that you need to keep the enrichment value up. To do so means having the enrichment in with the live food until the live food goes to the tank. Unfortunately, the enrichment then goes to the tank as well. Now if someone comes up with a...
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    Calibrating Refractormeter?

    If it is a salt water refractometer, and you are calibrating with water at 0, why bother? Your reading will be incorrect at reefing salinity. If you were wanting to check for hyposalinity levels below 1.010 then water would give you a closer reading that calibrating with fluid at 1.026.
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    Calibrating Refractormeter?

    Unless you have a "seawater" refractometer, calibrating using water be it distilled or RO or RO/DI, will give you errant reading at normal salt water levels of 1.026. Almost all refractometers sold to the hobby are NaCl salt water refractometers. As our salt water is a mixture of many salts, the...
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    Potassium Chloride, Pottasium Sulphate and Strontium chloride

    I've never added anything like that in my 19 yrs of reefing.
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    Stop the madness!!

    I used a syringe with hydrochloric acid in it. I only did about 5 or 6 shrooms at a time, and you have to protect anything directly above the injection site but it makes quick work of them when zapped that way. I used a piece of acrylic to deflect any "upstream" acid from getting to the corals...
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    Iodine dosing

    I haven't use it in my 19 yrs of reefing and I believe Randy Holmes-Farley no longer does either.
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