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    Acropora humilis

    Acropora tortuosa Hi all, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of a frag I picked up about 8 months ago from Southern California's Scott Berman. This started out as a brown stick and over the last 3 months has really started to come around. Please forgive my crappy camera. Santa didn't...
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    Low dKH

    Mike, I'm going to use IO salts for the next batch. I'll let you know how it goes. Ted
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    Low dKH

    Recently, the alkalinity in my system dropped to below 8. I got curious and did something I had never done. I measured the dKH. This water was made from the last of a bucket of IO salt and I had to supplement with CoralLife salt to make the 25 gallons I keep ready. The water has been sitting for...
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    o2manyfish - Skimmer Comparison

    Pictures from 12/26 Grotech Skimmer ETSS Skimmer MRC Skimmer Ted
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    Pipefish Video

    All, Warning: This video file is big (6mb) and low quality! At o2manyfish's Kids Free Frag event on 12/18, I took some video of some of the pipefish in his 360 gallon system. Dave has had some pipefish in his sytem months and others weeks. Everyone I've seen was active and looked healthy...
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    o2manyfish - Skimmer Comparison

    Status I looked at the skimmers yesterday. I have some pics I will try to post later. The GroTech and the ETSS appeared to be dialed in nicely. Dave was still working on the MRC. Ted
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    Lighting upgrade

    Cesar, I'll give it a try. It can't hurt. I've talked to the vendor and asked me to try burning the bulb before returning it. Ted
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    Lighting upgrade

    No worries See this article.
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    Lighting upgrade

    What do mean by nipple? SE bulbs don't have nipplies in my experience. I understand that DE bulbs have nipples. My experience is only with mogul socket (specifically, only 10k Ushio) bulbs. There is no orientation indicator of any kind on the bulb. You thread into your mogul socket as you would...
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    Lighting upgrade

    There is no orientation on a 10K Ushio Mogul bulb. It takes about 100 hours to burn in a bulb. I'm hoping the yellow goes away by the end of next week. We'll see....
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    If you had it all to do over again.....

    coolcol, going slow is wise. Good luck with the tank.
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    Lighting upgrade

    Bulb issues Pics of bulbs Yellow 10K Ushio White 10K Ushio Bulbs have been powered about 18 hours.
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    Lighting upgrade

    This morning I swapped the bulbs before they turned on. Good news I guess....the problem is the bulb. That's better than a problem with an Ice Cap ballast.....
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    Lighting upgrade

    Chuck, Thanks. Yes. ROIIs. If I move the ROII's I could actually fit one more in the canopy. I may do that. I'm going to try this for a while. My biggest concern right now is the color of the two bulbs. The left is yellow compared to the right. I'm hoping it's just the bulbs "breaking in". Ted
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    Lighting upgrade

    Upgraded my lighting in my 90g system. System with old canopy and 2x175w MH 10k Ushio and 2x65w PC actinics New canopy with lights mounted System with new SoCal Creations canopy and 2x250w MH 10k Ushio and 2x65w PC actinics Merry xmas. Ted
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    If you had it all to do over again.....

    what is the one thing you would do differently. An answer like "start with a bigger tank" is actually more than one thing because you would likely change some equipment to use with the bigger tank. I'll start.....I would have bought a euro style tank. I didn't know better and let my LFS order...
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    o2manyfish - Skimmer Comparison

    Reminder to everyone. Dave is running the skimmer cam on his website. http://www.o2manyfish.com/webcam.htm Ted
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    o2manyfish - Skimmer Comparison

    Look at the 1st picture in this thread and then google Toto and plumbing.
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    Aiptasia or feather duster

    I was hoping for dusters..... Thanks for the replies everybody. It's aiptasia. I accidentally killed my peppermint shrimp last month. I will probably inject saturated kalkwasser on these two but I think I better go to the LFS. I need something for the barbie...er to eat aiptasia.
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    Aiptasia or feather duster

    All, I have what I think is aiptasia growing on a rock. Until recently, I had a peppermint shrimp roaming the tank (he/she has passed on) and now I find these guys. My camera sucks so I don't have any pictures (worth uploading) but these things remind of featherdusters in that they quickly...
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