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    Bad Coral Banded Shrimp... Help!

    I've had several CBS and I've seen them be aggresive, but have luckily not lost anything to them. (That I know of they may of killed a few crabs and snails here and there) I did see one pinch a clown's tail once and held on for like 2 laps around the tank it was funny as hell. I was fascinated...
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    My 29 gallon Oceanic BioCube

    It's always awesome when you find something alive that you thought for sure must have died.
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    Tank purchase

    I've mostly been off the board for some time as I've had no tank due to not enought time to mantain one. :cry: After looking on craigslist I've finally found a tank to buy. The seller only lives 10 blocks from me so moving everything without the rock and such degrading should be easy. This...
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    Best water if no RO

    Thanks for the replies everybody. I decided to wait until today so that I could get RO. My tank was very low, so I didn't want to wait, but I'll have this info for the future. I didn't know that most grocery stores carried RO. I've always bought it from the LFS which was closed yesterday...
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    Best water if no RO

    If you can't get RO water, whats the best to use in a pinch? Distilled? Thanks for your help.
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    Proper Powerhead sizing

    Since you guys were nice enough to give advice I wanted to follow up on my choice. Looked at, but didn't go with the Koralia's. Hear they are a great pump, but I hate the way they look. Ended up going with 2 Seio Prop pumps 1000GPH. This is the 1st time I've seen ones that weren't the M...
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    Proper Powerhead sizing

    I'll give those a look. Thanks.
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    Proper Powerhead sizing

    A few LPS, frogspawn/hammer, and maybe a few Acroporas. Probably 2 or 3 fish. Also I am fairly technically inept so I'm a little leary of modidfying anything. In like the sieos in my coral tanks due to the dispersed nature of the flow. Unless the mods accomplish that same effect on the...
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    Proper Powerhead sizing

    I have a 75 gal I am getting ready to set up. I am using a HOB skimmer, so I rely on powerheads for most of my flow. During the several years I had this set up before I was using 4 or 5 powerheads, but some were hand me downs so I am not sure how much total flow I had. I've bought a Seio 620...
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    HOB Skimmers

    I used the red sea prizm HOB for about 3 years on my 75 mixed reef/small fish tank. I had no problems with dozens of corals and several fish, but I did waterchanges once or twice a week. It is about $100 at Marine Depot. They also sell a add on now that lets you actually skim from the top...
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    inverts with porcupine puffer

    Thank you for the reply. I have added a few snails with him as well and so far so good. Mine is about 5" as well and I feed him twice a day, but a very small amount each time. I am going to start slowly introducing some corals in with him and see how that goes.
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    Sponge & Feather Duester Plaque

    What color are the feather dusters? I might be interested in some. Most angel fish live sponges. I used to have thousands of green ball sponges until I got a Koran angel. He ate all that were accessible in little to no time. If I rearranged any rocks he would immediately check them out and...
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    inverts with porcupine puffer

    Do they eat coral as well or just generally the clean up crew. I am figuring it is beneficial to feed them the snails and clams to keep their "beak" trimmed and to better mimick their natural diet?
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    inverts with porcupine puffer

    I recently bought a porcupine puffer to go in my FOWLR tank that I set up 2 months ago. Anyways I want to add a few snails/crabs to help keep the tank clean. I know the puffer will more than likely eventually eat them. I assume this will be good for the puffer by varying his diet a little? I...
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    new here

    Again Welcome!!
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    what dose your wife/hubby say about your hobby

    Yeah I often say $20, but 99% of the stuff at my LFS starts at $30+. Although since I spend so much he almost give it to me for less than it is marked. So the conversation goes "how much was that... Um $20.... but they don't sell anything for $20!?!.....yeah he gave me a deal!!!" If it's...
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    energy cost???

    I'll have to check to see what is cost per KWH here. From what I hear the midwest is higher than the rest of the nation. :(
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    energy cost???

    In my area 2x250 W MH ran about 10 hours a day cost about $30-$35 a month. Yes they are very expensive. The most common way cops catch marijuana growers is by investigating large power bills. They usually have a lot of MH and there power bills are way too high for an normal dwelling. So if...
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    what dose your wife/hubby say about your hobby

    Ahhh sneaking livestock into the house. I guess that about says it all right there. But at least that is easier in the new house. Before I had a long walk from the condo parking lot and up the stairs. Now I pull into the garage and the tank is in the downstairs near the garage. I have a few...
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    Tubastraea propagation

    Mine propagated via spores all over my tank. I had hundreds of them. On the power heads everywhere. I sold the mother colony as I was going broke feeding it. I was mainly feeding it cyclopeze. It costs me $12 a "stick" and I was going through a little more than a stick a month. So although...
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