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  1. chris&barb

    clams not looking good.

    The only two fish i see that could be a problem are the rabbit and blennie. Not saying that are but that they could be. I would first try to cover the clam and rule out a fish nipper. Cut the top off a 2l clear soda bottle and drill a bunch of small holes in it so water can flow but fish cant...
  2. chris&barb

    clams not looking good.

    Can you please verify that the .35 sg you list is a typo. sg should be at or around 1.025 Can you please list all fish you have in this tank
  3. chris&barb

    Faded patches on clam

    Its the natural color pattern of the clam. Nothing to worry about
  4. chris&barb

    clams not looking good.

    can you list all of your fish?
  5. chris&barb

    Nudibranch???

    If your talking about the white thing in the center i would guess stomatella snail but its relly hard to tell from the photo
  6. chris&barb

    strange clam growth

    Travis, If you are talking about the off white growth just under the mantle of the squamosa in the center of the photo then its called a scute. Totally normal
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    New babies

    Trido, dont get me wrong they are both nice clams but the hybrid thing is a marketing ploy. The second clam being sold as a hybrid is a cultured crocea. In the US we rarely see cultured croceas, only wild collected croceas. Wild collected dont have scutes because they are embedded in the reef...
  8. chris&barb

    Re-curing live rock

    Nice attitude:rolleyes: I can never understand why people need to act this way. Im simply pointing out that what you are describing is curing rock not cooking rock. Get over it. The quote i posted is one written by the first people to use and popularize this rock purging method call "cooking...
  9. chris&barb

    Re-curing live rock

    Then you are not discribing "cooking rock". your discribing re-curing the rock, not the same thing. This is cooking rock
  10. chris&barb

    Quarantine and Hospital Tanks

    We need to make a distinction between the terms. A hospital tank is where you actually do some type of treatment to what ever you have. A QT tank is where you hold something and observe it to make sure it is not infected with something. If you are wanting to set up a tank for new animals...
  11. chris&barb

    Refugium/Sump Questions

    The flow through a sump should be just over what go's through the skimmer IMO. In theory this will have almost all water going into the sump pass through the skimmer. The speed of the water through the fuge depends on what the fuge is intended for. If the fuge is for algae, some like fast and...
  12. chris&barb

    Storage of controller probes

    I dont know about the ORP but the PH should be stored in potassium chloride
  13. chris&barb

    Quarantine and Hospital Tanks

    Hospital tank and QT tank are two different things. A hospital tank is a place you put something that needs treatment, a QT tank is a place you should put every new purchases you get before you add it to your display. They are both every easy to set up but what you can do with them after you...
  14. chris&barb

    Re-curing live rock

    Not exactly. Cooking rock is when you place the rock in fresh clean saltwater in the dark and allow the bacteria to eat any nutrient in/on the rock. You dont need a skimmer or heater (within reason) but what you do need to do is a 100% water change every week and blow all the rocks off before...
  15. chris&barb

    Re-curing live rock

    If you dont want to kill the rock and have a few months time do the cooking method. Muriatic acid will clean the rock but it will kill everything.
  16. chris&barb

    Salsakings new 700 gallon jaccuzi! lol 700 Gallon Reef system

    Very nice setup, looks great!
  17. chris&barb

    Activated accident

    It wont hurt anything
  18. chris&barb

    Does anyone know what this is????

    It looks like a type of Foraminiferan. They are harmless
  19. chris&barb

    Need help with christmas trees`

    The coral that the spirobranchus live in is a very high light coral so i wouldn't move them to the shade. I may have overlooked it but i dont think i saw where you said anything about feeding them. They are filter feeders only and need to be almost constantly feed. This person has had success...
  20. chris&barb

    How difficult is it to breed clams?

    That article is a short, simplified hobbyist based article that leaves out a lot of details. There is a whole lot more to it then they lead you to believe. In the Clam Research Library there are 5 or 10 papers on breeding clams
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