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    Huge problem! acrylic tank seem seperating....

    well...ive allready heard lots of stories about this guy after the fact...im going to try to call and talk with him but its almost a garanteed thing that hes not going to do anything about it...we will see but my main thing is atleast trying to fix it i dont care if its not the best bet yes the...
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    Huge problem! acrylic tank seem seperating....

    much better shot...had to figure out how to use my g/f camera lol confusing...
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    Huge problem! acrylic tank seem seperating....

    hard to tell but i tried to highlight the area....
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    Huge problem! acrylic tank seem seperating....

    well it was made by a guy up in belevue before i found out about BR and CFI....so there really is no warranty...so idd really like to just try to repair it atleast so it wont keep breaking the seem...it really isnt horible like water pouring out of it but its bad enough to get salt kreep and its...
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    Huge problem! acrylic tank seem seperating....

    well tank is only 6 months old....and obviously the guy that did it didnt know what the hell he was doing...the seem on the upper left hand corner is coming apart slowly...its a rimless so is it possible to drain it down about an inch or two and repair this before it gets way worse?
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    low Mag how to raise alot....

    LOL get this i allready saw that stuff its called "Beta water" for like a 12oz bottle its 4.99 i think i saw it at petco
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    low Mag how to raise alot....

    yeah i have a 32 gal. with 20gal sump so total volume is right around 50 probably less with rock and sand and equipment....but i do a 5-10gal water change every friday...i missed last friday but going to do a 10 gal change with IO salt tomorrow afternoon should i just add mag. buffer along with...
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    low Mag how to raise alot....

    yeah nitrates are still a bit high they have consistently been slowly going down before it was 20 so im happy with 10 lol
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    low Mag how to raise alot....

    i recently started dosing kalk and everything seemed to love it for the first month or so and just about a week ago everything started looking not so great...so i just tested and didnt realize that kalk depleted your mag as much as it does...so my mag is way low....what effect does this have on...
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    clown dead....possible poisoning?

    both of the fish had been in the tank for atleast 6 months prior to death....i know that the clarkii before was a clients of BRA and had been in there tank for along time also not sure on length of time in others tank though....
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    clown dead....possible poisoning?

    today i noticed when i came home that my clarki clown was sitting close to the bottom of the tank upside down, he was still breathing and fighting but couldnt swim eventually he died...my question is ive had mysterious deaths in this tank over and over again...within a matter of an hour or so...
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    more lighting for sps....

    yeah i decided to buy the 20k helios expensive bulb but i like the color :D
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    more lighting for sps....

    i can already tell a big difference in coloration on most of my corals :D starting to get much darker and more vibrant with only 4 hours of halides and only after a week so i cant wait to see what they will look like in a month :shock:
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    more lighting for sps....

    i reduced it down to 4 hours a day for the last 3 days since tue. should i slowly go from 4-8 hours....over a week or so?
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    New to Dosing Kalkwasser

    yeah thats same pump i am using...very very slow lol allright yeah i just remixed one so after this one ill dump and mix.
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    New to Dosing Kalkwasser

    i am also just starting using kalk to maintain my alk/calc. ive been just filling up my 5 gal jug with RODI water and mixing in 5 tsp of kalkwasser letting it settle for a few hours and then letting my JBJ ATO do the rest...i have it set up so it sucks from the middle but my only question is the...
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    effects of PH swings on corals/fish...

    i add kalk to my ATO.....and i think i found out why it was good after the lights shut off and it was so low this morning my ATO pump decided to stop working sometime last night....so it wasnt adding kalk you guys know of any type of pump that works better then what im using...i use the JBJ ATO...
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    effects of PH swings on corals/fish...

    with my new tank ive never really tested much for PH and i recently started to add kalk so ive been testing PH a bit more now...i tested it last night right after the lights went out and it was inbetween 8.3 and 8.4 and tested it again this morning and it was between 7.8 and 8.0 so im wondering...
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    more lighting for sps....

    ok thanks alot for the help :D hope this will help a bit...so should i still have the t5s on the same amount of time but just reduce halides down to 4 hrs? also what coloration of bulb should i get ive heard that the 14k pheonix 250w is alot more blue that the 150...cause i was going to go with...
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    more lighting for sps....

    just ordered the 250w version :D hope it will help out....
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