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    anti foaming

    Thanks for your reply. However, anything floating on top (including foam) reduces the light penetration necessary for growing/maintaining the green water necessary for the brine shrimp food supply. With the right density of green water to start with, and with sufficient lighting over the...
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    growing brine shrimp...

    Spirulina is algae, with excellent nutrient and probiotic qualities, and we normally see it in flake form either as a part of a flake mix or sold as spirulina with other content as well. However, pure, (or in actual figures, near pure) spirulina is just that,spirulina with no other fill product...
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    anti foaming

    I have about 225g of culture water raising brine shrimp and many gallons of green water culturing to use for food. I'm interested in finding an economical way to prevent the foaming in each container the appears from aerating the containers. Is there a safe chemical suitable at low cost?
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    growing brine shrimp...

    I'm a little late getting on the boards lately so this is not too timely a response. However, I have been raising brine shrimp to adult for many years and presently have approx. 225 gallons culturing brine shrimp, and a lot of gallons of green water culturing to feed them with. Green water (like...
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    Too much calcium?

    One should never add anything without checking to see if it is needed. From what was written I believe you had done so and want to bring the levels to a level you prefer. As important as testing though, IMO, is that you don't add something without understanding what changes you are making in the...
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    Neutralize erythromycin for disposal

    I'm sorry, but I do worry about it. There are enough news stories on the topic of problematic antibiotic resistant strains being developed. Waste treatment plants don't neutralize antibiotics as far as I've been led to believe. IMO, if dosed properly, in a closed system (tank) then the bacteria...
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    Neutralize erythromycin for disposal

    Thanks for the reply. However, I just don't want to add to the problems that are already causing resistant strains of bacteria.
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    Neutralize erythromycin for disposal

    I have pails of water stored from treating a fish in a Q tank. I used Maracyn erythromycin and don't want to dump it without treating to neutralize the antibacteria. Can I use bleach to do this? If not, what can I do with it? I don't want to be helping bacteria mutate to be resistant to...
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    Hatching Brine Shrimp

    Brine shrimp nauplii are great in marine lipids as long as you use them immediately after hatching. Reason being, the egg sack starts being consumed as soon as they hatch out. Non hatching decapped cysts will retain their lipid content until eaten or until they decompose if not eaten. If you...
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    Can you help my gaping Crocea? Picture

    I have been keeping croceas and a squamosa for many years with eight 40W NO's over the tanks with no problems other than the gold fleck in one crocea dissappeared. I have now moved a crocea and the squamosa to a tank with T5HO with SLR's and two 40W NO's. Hopefully I'll find out someday that the...
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    I need to trim my xenia

    You can cut a piece off, or cut the whole thing off, whatever suits you most. However, I NEVER cut my xenia. I keep rock rubble around so that as the xenia grows, I place the xenia up against the pieces I want to remove and they will climb up onto the rubble. Then it's merely a case of removing...
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    I need to trim my xenia

    Sorry, had to edit.
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    Brine Shrimp Hatchery Question

    Raising temperature can be as simple as having a light bulb close enough to the hatcher to keep the temp at around 80F. Personally I don't see any problem with the lower temps as the cysts hatch out over a period of time, not all at once, so I can remove some in several to many separate stages...
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    Another Clam Separation Problem

    Thanks again!
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    Another Clam Separation Problem

    An update now on my progress. I noticed this morning that when the clam expelled it's waste, that one side of the clam moved and the other side didn't. Don't know why I never saw that before, but anyway, I looked for a reason and found an area about 1" long where I'm assuming calcium build up...
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    Host anemone under PC lighting

    For 13 1/2 yrs now, I've used nothing but NO lighting on all of my tanks. Mind you, that's "wall to wall" lamps in the hood. (i.e. 8 fourty watt NO's over my 90's, 75's and 65 are no problem to fit in, with 6 over my 55. I can, but don't have at the moment, fit 6 20w NO's in my hood for my 20g...
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    is it really broken for good?

    I do a complete dismanteling of the whole impellar assembly before soaking overnight in white vinegar (no dilution), or in hydrochloric acid diluted. In my case, I find the only problem other than the impellar magnet breaking, is as already mentioned, the calcium build up on the shaft and in the...
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    Another Clam Separation Problem

    The clam cannot be tipped sideways as it is fastened like it has been fused to the rock. I have not been able to get a knife under the clam more than about 1/2 inch in most places and about 3/4 inch at best. I am afraid of severe chiseling in the tank but why would you be concerned about...
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    Another Clam Separation Problem

    Unfortunately, the rock is too large and too solid to chisel it apart. Also, I was afraid of fracturing the rock in the wrong way so that the foot would tear. It's not like its a smaller clam like my crocea and on a smaller rock. I scored the rock about 1/3" deep with a die grinder and cutting...
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    Another Clam Separation Problem

    I have a squamosa clam that I've had for a lot of years that has grown from 3" to it's present 12" in length, and almost as high. Unfortunately due to health reasons, I am not able to look after all the tanks I have so I am shutting down four of them, selling off most livestock but moving some...
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