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    Coming right along.........

    Advice for DIY guys and gals. Make it a winter project. My house has been a construction zone and my yard work is suffering as well as my fishing. Okay, here's what I'm doing. I recently moved and there was this ugly built in entertainment center in the living room of my new house. White painted...
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    Phosban Reactor Question

    Any cheap pump will work. You need a low flow ~80 gph.
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    Anyone want to help me?

    The guy's from South Africa. I'm not up on the live rock collecting laws there.
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    On a Very Strict Budget

    Like my Daddy told me, we'r not rich enough to buy low quality. Sounds like your situation. If you really have the bug and have to have a SW fish tank, you can start with a canister filter, sand and some salt water and your practically set. You can get by without all the fancy equipment by more...
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    To cycl or not to cylce a Q-tank

    Alot of times a quarantine tank is not a permenant situation. Many people run a small sponge filter in their sumps. When the quarantine tank is necessary you can pull it out of your closet, fill it with tank water, (good opportunity for main tank water change), and put in the sponge filter and...
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    Help with My first sps tank plans

    Ditto, for a 20 gallon I would ditch the sand. LR and a good skimmer is all the filtration needed, ditch the Penguin. High lights, high flow and low nutrients are not going to sit well with your softies. Ric's and Zoo's like the light but not the flow.
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    How many fish?

    Krish, the rule is silly because it doesn't really apply, but for salt water its 1 inch per 4 gallons.
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    Live sand as a substrate?

    The best thing about live sand is that you get to tell all your friends how much you spent on dirt. Regular argonite will become live soon enough. The advantages of live sand are not worth the cost.
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    Equipment question for new 55 gal reef system

    IM humble O, 55's make poor reefs. Mainly because of the live rock and the limited space available width wise. If you have room (and its only an extra 6 inch width) I would go with a 75, 80, or 90 gallon. It will still use the recommended equipment, you'll have a little more water volume which...
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    New Coral Food - WOW

    I have no problem with you shouting the benefits of your product from the rooftops. I respect and expect that. It is great that you responded to inquiries. I have seen Mucho's TOTM. But his post sounded like an advertisement. As a well respected zoo expert I would encourage him to be a...
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    New Coral Food - WOW

    Not to be too paranoid here, but the first post and the wording of it, which buy the way was almost word for word from a post on www.brandx reef site sounds alot like an advertisement from a shill. In computer terms, spammer. The fact that Coral Frenzy responded makes me think it even more...
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    New born brine shrimp

    Baby brine can be kept alive and nutritious for a few days by putting them in the refrigerator.
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    Hole Drills

    Those won't do you much good. You need a 1 3/4" hole for a 1 inch bulkhead, 2 3/8"(60 mm) for a 1 1/2" and a 2 5/8" for a 1 1/2" HD.
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    Hole Drills

    Just have to argue with one thing physics said....and I've drilled lots of holes. Low speed, not high speed. You are grinding not drilling. You want the bit to just go fast enough so you can feel that bite. The easiest way to crack the glass is with heat, high speed adds excess heat and does...
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    Not happy with my rock, aquascaping pictures?

    If you plan to make this a reef tank you should design your rocks for placement of corals. In the picture you have bascially built a rock wall. For placing corals you need to tier the setup. Make shelves etc. Then as you place corals the corals become the aquascaping and the rocks are mostly...
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    Nitrate and Phosphate Question

    What you are experiancing is the difficulty in running a nano tank. Everything said about the nitrate earlier is true. I would just add that your never going to get rid of it. You don't have any nitrate reducing system. No DSB, not enough live rock, the only hope is that your cheato is...
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    Enough Flow

    Cause I like to hear myself talk... A closed loop takes water from below the water line and delivers it likewise, hence the term closed. If the water goes into a vessell such as a sump then it is an open loop. The difference is that water entering a sump must be pushed by pressure back up to...
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    hypothetical calcium reactor

    You could use vinegar too, the only problem I can see is raising it before it hits your tank. With CO2 you can blow it off.
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    Nitrate help

    I don't see where you have anything in your tank to remove your nitrates other than a little liverock. Nitrate can't be filtered out and although a little escapes into the atmosphere as nitrogen gas you would need to do something more proactive to get rid of it. LR and skimming helps but to get...
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