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    nitrates caused by digging?

    How much live rock do you have? Do you have any other biological filters besides live rock? Are you running carbon? I would think the digging goby would be a good thing, stirring up the sand bed would suspend the detris do be removed by filtration.
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    Best Salt Mix for Mixed Reef?

    I've used Coralife in the past but, my Ca and pH were always out of wack. I've started using SeaChem Reef Salt and my Ca and pH have seemed to stablize.
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    odyssea lights?

    A capacitor inside the ballast box was the culprit. 10,000k will give you better coral growth. 20,000k will give, IMO, better colors. I usually try to go somewhere in-between 10000k and 15000k
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    Just what are "red shrimp" from Hawaii??

    Halocaridina rubra?
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    odyssea lights?

    Also, their MH bulbs are junk. They fixture I had came with two 175w 15,000k DE bulbs. The bulbs looked like one was a 6,700k bulb and the other looked like a 20,000k bulb. So one side of my tank was way too white and the other side is way too blue. I ended up buying 4 bulb before I got two that...
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    odyssea lights?

    I would stay away form Odyssea lights like that plague. I read all the horror stories on other reef forums and yet I still bought two for my tanks 6 months back. Two weeks ago I woke up one morning and one of the ballast had caught fire luckily I was able to pull the plug and extinguish the fire...
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