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    Stony Coral Eating Crab???

    Hmmm, I found this <blank> <blank> of a <blanking> crab in our tank that I think is eating some of our corals. I'm more frustrated than anything and wanted to vent! But I am curious is anyone is aware of any specific crab(s) that eat at corals that I can research. Every morning I find this...
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    Calcium Reactor Setup Questions

    Ha ha, I am a paronoid guy and have a regular testing schedule and document everything I dose and my test results...I actually feel it makes managing the tanks parameters easier. I can't imagine I would stop testing after I get the reactor dialed in. :) Today, I am using the Seachem products...
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    Calcium Reactor Setup Questions

    Sherman, thanks...your post was very informative and gave me the "ah-ha" moment I was looking for. It makes sense now how to "control the effluent" or better yet the relationship between the bubble rate and the drip rate and the target parameter to watch. So here is how I am looking at it, as I...
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    Calcium Reactor Setup Questions

    We have a 180G tank with with something like a 75G sump. The system is an SPS system with most of the corals purchased as frags...all have started to grow/encrust which is increasing needs...and we have strong coraline algae growth (and we don't using anything like Purple Up - we use Seachem...
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    Calcium Reactor Setup Questions

    I recently bought a calcium reactor (used from these forums) and want to get it set up and running...I am dosing Ca and Alk buffers daily now and as the tank continues to mature the requirements to maintain Ca and Alk are increasing, albeit slowly right now. I have does some research and have a...
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    Easy Blades/New Clam Book In Stock

    Are the blades acrylic safe or galss only?
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    How to get random flow

    I've heard of some pretty crazy new idea regarding flow...basically putting two high-flow pumps on one end of the tank (like a pair of Seio/Tunze pumps) and creating a clockwise flow...there was not much in the way of detail but the concept was to create more flow by unifying the pumps. As it...
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    Calcium too high ?

    So if one were to stop all additives and simply rely on water changes what does one do when the amount of Ca used by the tank (well established) becomes too much to handle in water changes alone, or requires too frequent water changes. Personally (and I know Boomer is going to kill me for this...
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    amino acids

    I wanted to re-hash this as I have been using the Seachem Reef Plus Amino Acids, just finished my first bottle, and wanted to get more information...if there is more available. Talking to someone today (he has a PhD in maraine biology, who am I to question that?) it was noted that Amino Acids...
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    Storewide sale ...wwoouu

    Actually it sounds like a great idea because everyone would be a winner in this scenario...it would really benefit the local club(s)/community, be great advertising for Elos and some lucky person would have a nice system to take home at the end of the day.
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    Storewide sale ...wwoouu

    If it was a donated item I would not have a problem buying a ticket if I knew the proceeds were going to some worthwhile cause. If it was something out of the stores pocket, NP either (as long as you can sell 150 tickets). Just let people know this information up front.
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    Raising Salinity

    Ah yes, very cool & seems pretty straight forward. Next time I suppose I could start with the SEARCH function, too.
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    Raising Salinity

    Just a quick question about raising salinity...can I over-saturate my new water for water changes a little extra (say to 1.030) or should I make the new water match what I want to take my salinity to and just keep that up until I reach the salinity I am aiming for? In this case say my salinity...
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    Finding Missing Corals

    We lost an orange digitata once and found it months later...it still had polyps so we just did pretty much as danno14 described - slowly acclimated it back to the tank light and now, maybe 2 months later, it has most of its color back and is starting to grow again...I should note we started with...
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    Coral of the Week ~ Stylophora ~

    Regarding feeding, I once received advice from you (Anthony) that said: feeding must be heavy for most corals... it is uncommon that a coral gets 90% of its needs from light (acros do for example... but little else). You should presume to feed several tiny feedings daily. A mix of phyto and zoo...
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    Trying To Get Started

    My only advice is don't spend your money on something to fix today's problem(s), or a quick fix...think about where you want your tank to be in a year to a few years and buy items that will last you into those years. This stuff can and will get expensive fast and if you don't have a money tree...
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    softies and sps

    As we moved to an SPS tank I had to remove some softies from the tank...I use needle nose pliers to pull of stuffs that have grown onto rock...the hardest part of this process is really the pang I get in my stomach when doing this...I really always try to remove in such a way that I can save the...
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    BRA fragger glue (Honey)

    I bought their glue that comes in the plain white tube...ultimately it worked out for me just fine...good enough to get me to buy another tube next time I am at BRA. As far as technique...my rock is not easily removed as well so I just dab some glue onto the bottom of the frag after removing it...
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    Timing on Ca vs Alk supplementation

    Personally I have noticed doing Alk and Ca (using Seachem products Reef Adv. Ca for Calcium and Reef Builder for Alk) in the same day causes some strange results in Ca and Alk (using Salifert test kits) and seems to take a day or two to level out. I once tried to "save time" and mixed the Alk...
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    Q about MH lights

    Reeflux 12K's have an amazing blue color (we're running 2x12K on the ends and 2x10K in the middle)...here is a rather lengthy and complicate review of the Reeflux 12K's: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/3/review. For more info on Sanjay's research Google him or look around the Advanced...
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