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    your best disaster-stoppers

    Well I learned the hard way to put marine grade stainless steel hose clamps on any and all hose. Hose popped off and I drained my 125 almost completely including my 35 gallon sump. I'll never make that mistake again. CHris
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    VHO ballast keeps blowing fuses

    Hi Evereybody, I have a 7 or 8 year old Icecap 660 ballast that has worked fine. Well, I came home yesterday afternoon and my VHO's were off. I found that he fuse had blown. I went to home depot and got more and they all blow as soon as I plug in the balast. Any suggestions why this might be...
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    Seriatopora placement

    Thanks John. I hink I will move it up a bit tonight. Chris
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    Seriatopora placement

    Hey Kevin, Let me start of by saying thanks for the frags they are doing well. I was just curious where you had the birdsnest at in your tank. Mine Has changed its pink color. It is still pink just lighter, it already has new buds growing off of it. Thanks in advance. Chris
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    Pump heating up.

    Thanks for th equick replies. I have been running the pump for a month or two now and have jus noticed a rise in the tank temp in the last couple of weeks. I think I may add another intake for grins. Does anyone know where to get 1.5" bulkheads? Chris
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    Pump heating up.

    My closed loop pump(sequence hammerhead) is heating up and the only reason I can think why is possibly because I have it sucking from one 1 1/2 or 2" drain. Does any one agree with that and would it help to ad another drain? If I Y the 2 together does this help does this help relieve some of...
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    Amp Master Pump

    All of the ones that I have had came with a drain plug on the bottom in the middle. Chris
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    VHO ballast trouble

    If anyone can answer your question liveforphysics can he is incredible with that stuff.
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    Simplicity

    I was just doing my weekly maintenance and was thinking to my self that we often make reef keeping to difficult on oursleves. I know I don't talk for anyone other then myslef, but I feel like you always have to get that next big fancy piece of equipment to make your reef look and function...
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    Salifert Calcium Test Kit Bad?

    Josh I believe with salifer Ca Kits it means that your levels are above 500. Yeah I just double checked with my directions. If you use up the whole 1.0 ml your Ca levels are greater then 500. Chris
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    Best K-rating for macroalgae?

    Hey John, 4500 -6500 K are good for algae growth and are the common bulbs you will find at home depot. Chris
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    Debris build up in live rock

    Well, I have started to blow out my rocks every week now with a powerhead to help maintain a cleaner tank. I was amazed at how much stuff comes out every time. I know the brown dust is probably crud from the bacteria in the rocks, but I was curious what all the white chunks are. They look...
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    Drilling 75 for closed loop

    I haven't had much experience drilling glass tanks before, but if it was acrylic I would say go for it. Chris
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    Closed loop pump options

    Jason I had and ampmaster 3000 and replaced the seal twice and then they finally sent me a whole new front end after that leaked I switched over to a sequence. The sequence has a pretty good buzz, but doesn't add any heat to the tank. As long as the seals stay good on the ampmaster it is a...
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    To much light

    Thanks for all of the advice I am going to try a combination of moving the corals up slowly and having some screen over it. Thanks Chris
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    To much light

    My tank is a 125 gal pentagon, so the shape of a diamond, and I have 3-250 watt mh on pfo hqi ballast with 2 13k aqualines and 1 20k radium in the middle. I was wondering if this could be too much light for any new additions. If it is not too much light should I just start any new additions...
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    RTN and salinity

    Got a question for everyone, I am reintroducing some of my frags that I was saving over at a friends house after my tank drained and when I checked on them this morning they had RTNed over night. Could this be caused by high salinity? I checked all of my parameters and they were no3=0 no2=0...
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    Where to get SPS frags

    I was hoping people could tell me the best place to get sps frags, either on the internet or some where in washington close to the Seattle area. It is time to replinish my tank and I am thinking about doing only millioporas. Or some sort of similar setup. Thanks, Chris
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    Question about AB SE MH bulbs

    I was thinking about ordering the 10k Aqualine SE bulb and was curious if it was rated at the 13K the DE is? Thanks. Chris
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    Anyone use 20k Ushio's?

    Thanks for the info, I currently run 2 14K hami's, but since I am going back to one 20k I can't decide if I want to try ushio 10k's or sztay with the 14K's. I wonder if the blue of the ushios is as blue as the radiums. Chris
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