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    Cooking with Sugar

    Thanks, I knew this ratio had a name, but forgot it. I didn't know the carbon in carbonate / carbon dioxide was available to bacteria as a carbon source - i.e. I can breath all the nitrogen I want but unless I eat some, I will starve.
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    Cooking with Sugar

    BTW - for this volume of water, I won't bother with a skimmer. 100% weekly water changes will remove all bacteria and nutrients in the water (but not the rock) easier.
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    Cooking with Sugar

    What no one mentioned is the phosphate/nitrate/carbon ratio. If my rock is very high in phosphate and nitrate but has no carbon, no bateria will grow or consume anything. I would eventually remove phosphorus and nitrate by water changes in the cooking process. I am not sure if bacteria in...
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    Cooking with Sugar

    I am cooking my live rock, I have had my tank for 7 years, and lately have neglected it in favor of finishing my Master's degree. I want to lower nutrients, and suspect the live rock is full of stuff I don't want in my tank. What do you think of adding sugar (or vodka) to the rock? This would...
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    Bright lights for 1 hour

    Not sure about bulb placement, just getting some ideas together right now. I always have moved my lighting across the tank from east to west, so I probably will continue doing that.
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    Bright lights for 1 hour

    I am in the process of upgrading my tank (probably buying a 270, have a 120 right now), and am likely to have a lot of extra lights, and equipment left over to sell. The current owner of the tank I am thinking of buying is running 2 400 watt halides. I am tempted to keep 4x400 watt halides...
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    SPS and leathers, 2 tanks, 1 sump?

    Is there any way to measure this toxicity?
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    SPS and leathers, 2 tanks, 1 sump?

    I know you are a big fan of not mixing SPS and leathers in the same tank. I am tempted to run 2 tanks, 1 for SPS, and 1 for leathers. I can save 1/2 my budget and 1/2 the maintenance by combining this to a common sump (1 skimmer, 1 pH meter, 1 place to replace water, etc). But do I lose the...
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    Mixing corals

    I will 2nd Anthony (I posted before I saw his) that I am not aware of anyone running this kind of mix successfully for 3+ years. But this could be just my limited experience - not many people do this, and not many people run systems for 3+ years without changing what they keep.
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    Mixing corals

    I have heard about this a lot, but seen a lot of successful tanks that mix softies and SPS and LPS. I have never heard first hand of anyone with a nice tank adding a "different" coral and having trouble, or removing their leathers and suddenly the SPS do better. The bottom line is there is a...
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    Majano anenome and kalk treatment

    You have a small volume of water, so I would be careful or do a water change after you are done if you don't have a pH meter, but normally pH is not something to worry about doing this. Mine sometimes rises from 8.1 to 8.2, but never more (I have a 120) The common procedure is to fill a...
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    Reef Lighting

    I have halides now, and have never had as much success with SPS as when I had a 4x96 power compact over the tank. My tank is a 120 gallon. 4x96 over a 75 is a lot of light, you should be able to keep just about anything. I would not consider 2 X 175w + 2 x 96w much of an upgrade. One of the...
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    Free speech

    I hope this isn't considered "harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically, degrading, sexual or otherwise objectionable material" but if I am going to get banned from this forum, I'd rather do it before investing 7 years helping...
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