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    lowering sea swirl

    I am trying to put a eductor on my sea swirl but the sea swirl sits to far out of the water that the eductor sucks air. Looking for any suggestions. Thanks, Chris
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    looking for filter suggestions

    I am just up in mukilteo. If you don't mind I can come grab some. Thanks for the offer. Chris
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    Is this the biggest emerald crab ever?

    Unfortunately that is not an emerald green crab, but rather a rock crab of some sort. I have had them before and they have nipped at some of the corals I had. I would say put him in a sump so where out of the way. Chris
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    looking for filter suggestions

    I forgot to put that I have a pump that pushes 1400 gph as a return and a ampmaster 3000 on a closed loop. Lighting is 2 250 mh on a pfo hqi ballast with 14k hamiltons and 4 24" actinic vho's. Koralin Ca reacto with a DIY reef 2nd chamber. The sump is my custom design with a 12" section for...
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    looking for filter suggestions

    My tank is a 150 pent with 200lbs of live rock and only a little bit of sand in the fron two inches of the tank. My sump is a 6-8" deep sand bed with a nauttilus skimmer. It use to be a refugium until my macro died and now its hard to find anyone local that has any. I think the nitrates are...
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    Filer questions

    Thanks for the responses, Clayton: I have only 6 small fish in a 150 gal, I have and ampmaster 3000 for a closed loop and an submersible pump the runs about 1450 gph as my main return. There is about 200 lbs of live rock. The only place there is any detritus is in the sump/refugium. I almost...
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    looking for filter suggestions

    I was hoping people had some pictures of there sumps for their sps systems. I have been running a sump with 6-8" of sand for about 5 years now and have never been able to get my nitrates below 40 ppm. I was hoping people could help give me some pictures for suggestions on filtration. Thanks...
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    Filer questions

    Filter questions I have been running a remote deep sand bed/refugium for years now in my sps system and I have noticed that no matter what I do my nitrates never drop below 20-40 ppm. I decided i was going to siphon the top layer of sand in the refugium and it was filthy. I am now thinking...
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    weight of tank/floor damage

    Kate, I talked to a guy about a year ago and he told me that house built before the early 1960's there was a chance that the tanks could cause a problem, but in this area after that time period codes brought up the standards so that tanks upto about 180 gal were usually fine. But my thought...
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    Copperbanded butterfly and sps?

    Thanks for all the follow ups. I got one last night and it started eating the feather dusters as soon as I put it in. We will see what he does after a while. Thanks again chris
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    U-district fish store

    I agree with everything that has been said about the fish store, I have had some really bad experience with them in the way past.
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    tank to withstand quake

    Patrick, I have heard of people using the tie down straps for water heaters attached to their stand and canopy and then screwed into the studs of the wall. Hopefully the stand and canopy have lips to hold the tank on a little and the wieght usually holds it in place a little bit. Nothing is...
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    Copperbanded butterfly and sps?

    I have an sps only tank and I am having trouble with aptasia. I have already tried 20 peppermint shrimp and joes juice. I was going to try an austrailian copperbanded butterfly, but was reading on one site that sps are there main diet in the wild. This is totally different from what I had...
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    m. orientalis and m. monasteriata arrive!

    Krux, Where do you have your monasteriata placed in your tank(ie., level, lighting wise and current wise)? Chris
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    m. orientalis and m. monasteriata arrive!

    Krux, I had that danae and it looked just like your picture, but after about a week it bleached out on me. It is still alive with polyp extension, but no color. Thanks for the info I will check out tyree's site. Thanks, Chris
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    m. orientalis and m. monasteriata arrive!

    Those look great. are they similar to the M. danae? I am getting a chunk of the same coloration of the M. danae on friday. Can't wait to get it into the tank. Where are you placing yours? Chris
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    Recent Tank Shots (2-21-05)

    Tank looks good chuck. Thanks for the suggesion of the 14K Hami's. I got them last week and they look good, but still hard to get use to the difference of the radiums. Chris
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    Time for new bulbs

    Thanks for the advice guys I ordered the 14K Hamiltons. It will be interesting to see the difference between them and me being use to the Radiums. Thanks again, Chris
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