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    duct tape toxic?

    I was making up some ro water yesterday and when I got home a small piece of duct tape that was on my heater cord had slipped undewater. Do you think the water is ok, or should I dump it? I hate to dump 30 gallons. The water is for a water change on my 125.
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    tank cooling.

    Would it be ok to run a small vacume size hose from my nearby window air conditioner vent to the back of my light hood to help keep my tank cool on the hot days?
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    Purigen, carbon & softys.

    Ok this didn't get any response on the other site. Knew I should have tryed here. Anyways, does purigen remove toxins released by soft corals or should I also run carbon?
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    ro question.

    I have the 50 gpd unit ro w/di and I need to replace my pre filter, carbon and di. Ro membrane is ok for now but will need changed out later.
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    ro question.

    Can you use spectapure filters in a coralife ro unit? Will I need to modify or are they all intercangeable?
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    deltec mce600 users.

    I'm trying to jusify buying one of these for my 125 softy reef. I have had an ongoing battle with hair algae that is 85% gone but kinda at stalemate. Hoping this will help get rid of whats left. Anyone buy one of these for the same reason, and did it help? Believe me I have tryed everything else...
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    Reusing Kent powerphos?

    A couple months ago I Put some Kent power phos in my cannister filter for a couple weeks to help with a hair algae problem, but pulled it after a couple weeks. I am happy to say that the algae problem is 80% gone and was thinking about reusing the power phos that has been sitting in the original...
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    Lighting issue, need help.

    Thanks everyone for the info and suggestions. Laked I see you live in the town I was born in. Love that town tho I havent been back in years. I will check my nitrates this weekend and decide what Im going to do about more flow. I have been kinda looking at the wave2k. I thought about the seios...
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    Lighting issue, need help.

    Wow Ive never had so much response to a post before. Ill try and make this short. Yes the new lights have been running for 7 mos. now. Unfortunatley this is a sumpless setup with Big rena canister filter with filter floss and purigen in it cleaned weekly, and a Remora pro with a mag 3 and...
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    Lighting issue, need help.

    This might get long but bear with me. About 9 mos. ago I upgraded my 55 gal to a 125. All the corals in the 55 were put in the 125. The corals consisted of a large toadstool, a couple finger leathers, frogspawn, closed brain, shrooms, and zoos. after a couple months I also upgaded the lighting...
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    too much light?

    Ok since it seems I have too much light, would it be ok to lower it some? If so what would you suggest. THe current lighting is 4 160 watt vhos 2 uri actinics, 1 uri actinc white, (12,000k) and 1 uri sun @ 10,000k.
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    too much light?

    About 8 mos. ago I upgraded from a 3 yr. old 55 to a 125 gal. tank. The lighting also was upgraded from 200 watts of pcs to 640 watts of vhos. Some of my corals like the brighter light better,( toadstools and finger leathers ) but most of my other corals still wont open fully, zoos, frogspawn...
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    Does anyone ever shut off their skimmer during the week for a period of time?

    I do have a cpr hob refugium with chaeto so I do have some form of nutrient export when the skimmer is off. I have been experimenting with this on my 55 sometimes leaving it off for a couple days. I am trying to get the courage up to go for a week. I have definatly noticed the corals responding...
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    Does anyone ever shut off their skimmer during the week for a period of time?

    I have a 55 gallon softie tank that was going through some problems with some of the corals not opening up for a while. I tryed and tested for everything and one night I turned my skimmer off for feeding and forgot to turn it back on. The next day my corals were fully opened. I now turn it off...
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    old school tank set ups

    I am planning a new tank soon and would like to see and hear about tanks that are run anti high tech the old school way. Sumpless, canister filters, ugf, vhos etc. Pics and specs would be great.. Thanks
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    new tank idea, and ?s

    I will be upgrading from a 55 gal to a 125 here in the next couple months and have some questions. First, the tank is not rr so I will be using a aqua c pro hob skimmer and also a above tank 20 gal refugium. With this set up will I need a sump for anything? If so what? I will be using pre...
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