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    Losing faith in Salifert.

    I have a Salifert test kit that is now giving me very different readings every couple of minutes on the same source. After the finding the powder used in this kit to look a little different then the powder in my MG kit I wondered if it had absorbed a little bit a moister and was curious if the...
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    Drilling a 10 gallon

    Easy to drill a hole in it, but if you want a perfect hole that lasts, IE the tank doesn't crack or shatter after connecting piping to the bulk head, I would say it's extremely difficult. I've broken about six 10g tanks. Can be fun to throw them in a dumpster afterwards, but it's a little...
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    Please help. Sea Star with big hole in the center. Picture?!?!?

    "I really wish they would not sell animals if they know they will not live. " Sadist part is you read this same thing over and over again in thousands of threads. Hopefully in all of those threads a couple of people learned there lessons and stop impulse buying. Many LFS have books on there...
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    Pulsing Xenia

    "I was thinking of actually gluing a frag to my back glass to see if it could take over the back glass. " Bad idea, large colonies like that will crash 99% of the time. returnofsid, any photos? Sure it was xenia and not brarium(sp?)? g0rFz, it is a lot more likely that you're colony died...
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    Growth records

    I wish Calfo would have included some growth times in his book.
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    Growth records

    Charlie do you have some images you could share with dates? A leather at a certain size and then the same thing 5 months later a lot bigger?
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    Growth records

    I take weekly pictures or more of full tank as well as each coral, but like I said my conditions are so far off optimum there would be little point in going back and figuring out how many new polyps, branches, or how many inches of growth. As far as "practical or necessary", I would say it...
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    Growth records

    Calfo pushes the importance of careful records in a dedicated chapter in his most recent book and urges people to shave them... Did no one get that far in the book? I haven't been able to find any online from hobbyist or people in the industry. I know there are some documents out there for...
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    SPS and leathers, 2 tanks, 1 sump?

    Probably would be best in two tanks with separate sumps, but it is possible. Lots of carbon would be the most important thing you would want to use to remove toxicity I believe. I've kept many leathers in with a yellow monti cap and it has lived, but they haven't been in together that long...
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    Best way to Frag Duncan

    Treehuger, exactly what bit did you use and where did you get it?
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    Foxface with fin.... thing

    http://gordonious.com/Foxface.html Fish is about 4-5" long. Had fish for about 3 weeks. Fish behaives and feeds normally. Nitrates were a tiny bit high in the system before, but should be good now. Tiny bit of diatom growth in the system, nothing else negative.
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    Foxface with fin.... thing

    This foxface for some reason has something going on with his bottom fin. We haven't been sure if it was a fungus or a parasite or what. I tried a fresh water dip with out sucsess and set it in a hosptial tank, but I am not sure where to go from here. Images of the fish...
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    ID please

    I'm going to guess some sort of macro algae, but very hard to tell.
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    Black egg crate / lighting diffuser

    Thanks tike. Second page didn't have black. :-( Thanks Brian.
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    Black egg crate / lighting diffuser

    I'm trying to find sources for some black egg crate / lighting diffuser. Anyone seen any available local or online? I found one website selling it, but would like to compare prices.
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    Budget Aquaculture

    Aragonitic sand may be expensive(especially if you buy it from a name brand in the hobby), but what about silica sand? To some people this may be a bad word, but I think more and more people are starting to use other sands because of the cost of aragonite. As you read in Calfo's book(I...
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    Budget Aquaculture

    I realized something wrong with what you said earlier, "it would only be lacking in calcium and alk" If this system is to produce corals for sale or trade and not as display it should never be lacking in either. Yes the presence of SPS will effect these two water parameters, but if your only...
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    Budget Aquaculture

    I'm doing things very small scale at this point, but I recycle water a good bit. Especially from my established tanks into my qt or hospital tanks. Going from the SPS system to the softy system would probably work well. Jon
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    Marine Ich - Myths and Facts

    Hey Lee it's me again. Please don't take my questions as just me challenging your word to be annoying. I'm just trying to fully understand the topic. I've also been a science major for a good time and we are taught to question everything. In number 10 above under treatments you say "10...
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    Question about distilled water

    DAMN IT! Figures soon as I say this something goes wrong with my RO and now I'm back to distilled water.
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