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    Help critique my system

    It sounds very good. I was the other one was asked for a critique and your setup is eerily similiar to mine. Same size tank, same lights, about the same amount of fish and mix of coral. The only difference is you use a sump and carbon. I have had real good success, so I figure you are good to...
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    Melting Mushrooms

    I had a disease like that once from my first attempt at fragging. I tried to frag a colt coral, and some of the small frags didn't make it. I think I left them in my tank too long as I wasn't sure how long it should take them to recover. I should have realized sooner that they were dead...
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    blasto’s look

    I have never kept blasto's personally, but these look as good as the ones I see for sale or pictures of on the internet. I would guess they are healthy. Bump for someone who has a little more usefull info than myself.
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    I need MH advice!!!!

    I run 2x250 MH 14K + actinic flouro on my 75 gal and like the results. However for mostly softies the MH isn't nessecary. In fact with a lot of MH you will have to be careful not to overlight pieces near the top. I have "melted" a few mushrooms and zoo's before I realized too much light could...
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    Happy Day!!!!

    I make it down that way once or twice a year. Usually May and Sept. I am usually by turkey run, but Terre Haute is only about another 45 min(30 the way I drive) I hear there is 1 really good LFS in town, can't remember the name.
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    Happy Day!!!!

    Congrats!! Those are very nice pieces. I am planning on getting some of those myself as soon as I make some room. Where in Indiana are you. I am going to NW Indiana sunday to set up a tank.
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    Euphyllia glabrescens question

    My Gold stripe Maroon lived in my frogspawn and Hammer. First he live in the frogspawn. It was HUGE, over 30 heads. It was globe shaped he would actually hide inside, rather than in the polyps, but he would aggrevate the polyps as he swam out to attack passersbys and then swim back in. Over...
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    Cup Coral Issues

    Thank you for the quick reply steve. I will keep this in mind in reformulating my tank. I am going to take the cabbage leather, and half of the mushrooms out and replace them with some LPS. If I can get a good trade I will jettison the spaghetti leather as well. Many mushrooms are on gravel...
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    Bubble Coral Question

    Well I don't know anything about bubble coral except what it looks like. I can tell you that 5% water change every 2 weeks isn't even close to enough. I was changing 35% a month vs your 10% and most were telling me that I wasn't changing enough water. Anyways this will bump you back to the...
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    Cup Coral Issues

    Steve- I am trying to use my new knowledge from this site to help weed out the worst elements of my coral garden. I have no GSP or nepthea. I am working on getting rid of my cabbage leather, but it grows as fast as I can get rid of it. I may have to bite the bullet and take what the LFS will...
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    Cup Coral Issues

    Any problems mixing LPS/SPS/softies together? I do the same and haven't had any problems. In fact I have been very busy lately getting rid of excess growth. Anthony is the expert and he is of the opinion that tank specializtion would lead to happy corals and more growth. My "coral garden"...
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    trachphyllia

    I'm assuming they are going to be 40W bulbs?? If that is the case then you are looking at 160W total on a 55 gal tank or 3W per gal. This should be enought to keep them alive if you put them in the higher portions of you tank depending on height. (How tall is the tank) This honestly might not...
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    queation

    Some fish infections are partially treated by no light. At least in freshwater fish that is the case. Maybe he has an eye infection are is just ill?? Are his eyes puffy or milky at all?
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    queation

    I've never owned a Lion, but the ones I have observed have killed with stunning precision and accuracy. Unless for some reason he is toying with it?? I think something is fishy. No pun intended.
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    orange linka star fish

    I've had mine quite a while, 8 months maybe, and after joining this site now i am worried. I seems maybe sponges are part of their diet?? If so I have a large population of green ball sponges. This might be helping my cause. I have about 110-125lbs of LR in a 75 gal. Either way mine has...
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    Anemone fought the PH and lost :-(

    Whenever I meet someone who is getting into reefs/thinking about getting into reefs the first thing I ask is "so I bet you want to get an anenome?" The inevitable response being "Yeah I was thinking about..." At this point I do my best to talk them out of it ideally or explain to them how the...
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    Fumes from boiling rock

    I boiled live rock indoors once as I often don't consider the consequences of my actions before embarking on them. I had gotten some rock from a tank that was being taken down that was pretty nasty and wasn't sure what type of bad stuff was in/on it so I wanted to be careful not to introduce...
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    Whats wrong with my leather cabbage coral??

    Yes that is not uncommon. I would not worry. My does that in in response to being out of the water or more commonly from being agravated by a fish. It will run its course. As my colony has becomse huge a hangs far off the rock it gets run into more often by the fish and will look like that...
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    Sun coral growth

    I am very excited to say the least. I fragged a small piece of cabbage leather off a large colony. I also fragged a very large puple lobo brain into 4 pieces a week ago and all fragmenst are doing great. So overall it has been a banner week for my tank. Now I just need to sell some of these...
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    Trouble in paradise

    My maroon clown is aggresive as well. Same situation he became nippy after getting an anenome. They are most aggresive towards other clowns but are very territorial in general. I am taking mine out of my tank soon to give to my father for a fish only tank with larger more agressive fish...
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