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    lighting change

    with this dinoflagettes storm in my tank which i think is from having to switch lighting not that i wanted to but i had to, going from 14000k to 10000k 250 watt mh hqi ,now i have replacement 14000k how should i go about switching back to the 14000 ? i dont want a repeat of this dino crap again
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    dinoflagettes

    ph is 8.2 8.3 i have 1 tunze,2250gph, 1 seio 1100 gph in tank,rio1700 hyper flow for return,can this stuff stress out corals and clams? it seems to like my clams alot i am constantly turkey baster blasting it off them , jagwire what is chateo?thanks for everyones input ,this bites my tank was...
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    dinoflagettes

    iam being overtaken by dinoflagettes, been doing reg water changes i have RO water, have been running phos remover,siphioning like crazy just replaced bulbs had to go from 250 14000k to 250 10000k seems that that was the around the time it arrived its pretty bad, all over stringy bubble laiden...
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    Diatoms are good?

    i recently through no choice of my own had to replace my lights on my tank in doing so i found 1 of my bulbs were cracked so i went with what came with the fixture i had 250 14000k hqi and new ones were 250 10000k after a couple of days my tank started to get covered in what i think is diatoms...
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    lighting change

    kevin what i meant was there is large amounts of brownish stringy stuff with bubbles in it all over since i replaced the light fixture the tank was without light for one day and when i put the new fixture on and had to use the 10000k bulbs it seems that was when this stuff appeared i was just...
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    lighting change

    one of my lighting systems just recently went down and coralife was nice enough to replace it eith a new system in the old lite i ran 250 watt 14000k lites when i took out the lamps i found one was cracked completley around the end so i had to go with the 10000k that the fixture came with till...
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    mixing salt

    i just switched to trop marin pro reef salt on the directions it says that as soon as the salt is mixed and dissolved you can add it to the tank i have always aerated fresh salt mix for a while what do you guys do?
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    vacum substrate

    does anyone vacum the substrate? the reason i ask is my tank has been running for about 5 years and there are some dead spots under the rock where i can see grey matter build up its not really accessible to get at ,wondering if this could have some bearing on the recent apperance of some cyano...
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    switching salt

    is it a bad idea to switch salt one type to another went from coralife to trop marin pro reef after i did it i read its not a good idea any ideas on this?
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    clownfish death

    ive had a pair of maroon&gold clownfish for years i had to break down the tank to remove a bully chromis and somehow during this a strainer/cover on a powerhead came off and he got sucked in and died . my question do i get another and will the female accept it?
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    changing substrate

    what i have is like tiny gravel not fine as sand i think my problem is the lack of room my tank is crowded and i probably could not get livestock out due to rock which i think would make a huge mess since its been in place for about 4 years i wonder could you replace only a top layer and replace...
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    changing substrate

    i agree i also would like to have sand but is it feasible to switch without side effects?
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    changing substrate

    i was thinking about changing the substrate in my tank i read somewhere its a good idea every few years, now i have araganite? very small type of stone but not as nice looking as sand any suggestions or am i crazy to even think about it? tank is a 75 gal AG with about 100-150 lbs live...
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    coco worm smoking?

    nope, my luck only one i kinda thought that was sperm but wasnt sure wonder if there were two would reproduction happen in a reef tank?
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    coco worm smoking?

    looking at my tank this morning i noticed what looked like smoke ,for lack of a better discription.coming out of my coco worm it was coming out between the 2 crowns(heads) and quite a bit in a steady stream, anyone ever seen this happen?
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    weird montis

    if its a kenya iwill try to move it but its attached to the base of the monti the things you say might be snails ,ive never seen anything come out of them,i just did a joes juice in the tank the aiptasias in the pic got by for now
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    weird montis

    anyone have any ideas whats growing out of my montis one i think is a softi the other is unknown it s on both sides looks like small branchs,on the one with the softi? how would i go about removing it or leave it alone i dont know about a softi so close but its been there for awhile,any thoughts?
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    softies and sps

    Kevin when you say use tweezers to remove the mushrooms do you mean to pull them off the rock from the base or something else? do they have some type of toxin that i should be concerned about when trying to remove them?
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    softies and sps

    while doing a little housework in my tank i discovered some hairy mushrooms and an assortment of polyps(zoos)? growing quite well behind rocks ect,should i try to remove these or leave them alone ,if better to remove how would i remove the mushrooms from the rock they are on and the same for the...
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    wet dry filter

    on my one tank i have a wet dry aquaclear filter my question is can you take out the sponge between the main part where the bio balls were and the return side i already took out the bio balls a long time ago.
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