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    Cycle question

    OK I have a double follow up question. 1) My LFS cures his rock for 3 months before putting it up for sale and I now live less than 5 minutes away. In my experience of adding this to my establshed tank I have seen little to no die off. Should I leave a few pieces out for a little bit to...
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    Cycle question

    I am thinking about setting up a 2nd tank. It would be fish only with LR. If I use some established LR will it cycle with LR only, or do I still need to add a damsel or 2? When setting up tanks for people in the past I have always added the damsles right away and they have all lived some I'm...
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    getting back into a reef, need some help

    Understood. I only mentioned it because in my area it doesn't cost much more to go bigger. For example a Seio 620 is like $60, but a 920 is $70 and 100 or 200W heater isn't much more than a 15 or 50W heater. The cost of stocking is a concern, but so is upgrading when you run out of room. If...
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    Getting rid of mushrooms

    Chisel them off your rock. It will look bad for a couple months, but the rock will "color up" again in about 3-4 months. You can then trade them in on some SPS.
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    getting back into a reef, need some help

    Why are you going small?? Not enough room?? All the accessories, filter, pumps, and lights and so on only cost a little more when you go bigger and tanks up to 55 are pretty cheap. Basically I'm saying you could probably do a 29 again for only about $100-$150 more than a 10 and have so many...
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    cleaner shrimp

    Agreed. Easy to keep, good eaters. Mine even actually "cleans" some of the fish like he is supposed to. He does dental work on my large goby about once a week. The only specific need is like any shrimp it needs good Iodine levels in order to molt.
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    Salt switching question

    I myself as well as virtually everyone I know around me in Chicago uses Oceanic. Almost all the "specialty" reef stores only carry that. I'd have to go to petco or petsmart to get IO and it would pain me to do so. Plus I've never had any problems with the oceanic and I don't "doctor" it at...
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    elegance (elegant) coral experience?

    When I wanted one my dealer told me the same thing about the shallow/deep water thing. He said 5 years ago they used to all come from shallow water and were very easy to keep. Now they all come from deep water. So they would therefore be used to low light, probably less flow. Maybe even the...
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    Reef Tour

    Awesome work!! Love how you have it zoned out and you have provided us with quite a bit of scientific data.
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    A sad day

    Truly tragic. It's not like you can run over to the LFS and pick up 200 large colonies of SPS even if you have the bankroll. I'm sad for him, so I can't imagine how he feels.
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    Moving

    Yeah I'll be sweet once I get moved. I'll even have room for more tanks. Yeah!! It funny how if it was freshwater it would be like a 2 hour move. But because it is a reef it will take hours. I am not going to aqua scape for that one week though so that will save time. Just going to throw...
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    Moving

    Well moving the tank is pretty much an all day project about 8-10 hours. I need to have that out of the way so that I can move everything else on Friday. I don't want the livestock sitting in the truck all day while we are at closing. I suppose I could do it that way, but I think I would be...
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    Moving

    I am buying a house and moving next Friday. So tommorrow I need to bust the tank down and move it to a friend's house. Then next Saturday I need to bust it down again and move it to my new house. This is going to suck. Just wanted to vent. Thank you.
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    omg soo messed up!!!!

    If you buy the appropriate sized heater even it it gets stuck on it shouldn't be able to raise your temp that much that quickly. I would also suggest getting a lower wattage heater.
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    Need a Home for a Perk!

    Yeah they are :p whores, they'll do it with anything.
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    Possible Emergency?

    Yes those are the perpetrators. I wasn't trying to say that they stung. I just thought it was interesting how it broke off in my finger and created a "blood cannon". Also I have very high blood pressure so that is part of the problem.
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    Possible Emergency?

    Wow this opened my eyes. I didn't realize there was so much risk. I once had my leg start shaking and my thumb go numb for about an hour from handling zoo's for too long. No I do whatever I need to with them quickly and have never had another problem. To discuss a slightly different injury...
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    Blue Damsels Fighting?

    I was going to mention the odd number thing as well. Someone told me that way back when and it worked pretty well for me. They for some reason seem to be less aggressive in odd numbers. Also clowns are in the same family and can be A-holes as well. The only reason they are popular IMO is...
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    Roaming or Rolling LTA

    You LFS gave you bad information. It is definiately not OK to stock a nano right away. It goes through the same cycles as any other tank and is not OK to stock up until 6-8 weeks. Not only that but there are pretty much no cubes on the market with good enough lights to support an anenome long...
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    Clean crew for reef tank 125

    Well I know most on here aren't big fans of crabs. I like to have a few, but rely mainly on snails. You could have a 100 little snails or like 2 or 3 dozen good sized turbos. I overstocked my tank at first when I had a lot of algae and when the algae cleared up the crew slowly died off until...
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