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    Need help sorting out the aftermath of this crash!?

    The cyano was all over. Bottom, on the rocks, on the corals, on the side of tank, filters, etc... My lighting is 10k PC and are 6 months old. I'm seriously considering removing the sandbed. What sort of decorative layer did you put on, if any? thanks, Justin
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    Need help sorting out the aftermath of this crash!?

    Exactly, I don't want to restock till I've reasoned out as many of my old problems as possible. I had 7 fish which I fed every other day with brine or other packaged frozen food. Emerald Entree and such. I am running CoralLife PC lighting for about 10 hours a day. I top off with Ro/DI water...
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    Need help sorting out the aftermath of this crash!?

    Hey all, Well I posted yesterday early about my tank having crashed overnight. As of this morning the last of the fish have died :( My polyps are all opening like normal and the hermits and snails seem fine. Other corals I cannot tell yet. Anyways, I'm still unsure what happened. I had...
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    HELP!! Reef Crashed!!

    It's a 75g tank with a 20g sump/refugium. I'm certainly not definite it was the sandbed. Just hoping to narrow it down to a few possibilities I could research. If you have any other thoughts I'd love to hear them. I also need to determine if I need to restart the whole tank. The fish are...
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    HELP!! Reef Crashed!!

    Thanks for the further responses. I didn't see any instructions about using a polyfilter. Could you explain this in a bit more detail. I obviously want to learn from mistakes like this. From my understanding of this sort of reaction, I'd say the explanations above about higher levels of...
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    HELP!! Reef Crashed!!

    more info Hey, thanks for the replies so far. Sadly three of my seven fish have died in the past 30 min. Another two are unnacounted for. One jawfish and a banded goby seem to be fighting. Inverts seem unaffected as of now. I am mixing salt and I'll do a 25% water change this afternoon...
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    HELP!! Reef Crashed!!

    I gt back from rowing this morning and noticed my goby looking odd. After closer examiniation I saw that all ym fish were on their sides on the bottom gasping, seemingly gasping for air. I assume my dissolved oygen levels have fallen off somehow. Last night I topped off with RO/DI like normal...
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    storing ro/di

    Hey all, Well, I've gone ahead and purchased a Typhoon III ro/di filter from Air, Water, Ice...Seemed like a good unit and had tons of good reviewers. Should be in at the end of the week and I'm trying to plan ahead so I can start creating some water this weekend. Just curious what everyone...
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    Metallic Green Mushrooms not looking great...

    Alright...I'll move those guys. Thanks for the help!!
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    Metallic Green Mushrooms not looking great...

    Yeah...there is definetly a decent amount of flow where they are....Would the sand bed with a rock blocking flow be a better spot?
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    Metallic Green Mushrooms not looking great...

    Hey all, I've been watching my metallic green mushrooms the last few days and they don't appaer happy and healthy to me. Not an expert at all, so fgiured I'd ask some opinions. The mushrooms stay fairly small, sometimes almost closed most of the day. Occasionally I'll see a few opened up...
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    ro/di filters

    Hey everyone, Well, it's getting hot here in Virginia and I can't afford to keep running window AC 24/7, so I'm using fans and such more now. Of course no I'm evaportating more water and going back and forth to buy RO/DI water is getting annoying, so I'm lookin online at undersink filters. Just...
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    high salinity...coral sick

    Hey all, Well the coral seems fine this morning, thoguh my anemone and ricordia are acting odd, as they always seem to do in the morning. Will post about that shortly. As for the SG, it was back down to 1.024 this morning. I never added any RO last night, or tap water. I suppose I may have...
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    high salinity...coral sick

    Hey all, I came home tonight to find my toadstool leather completely closed/recesed. The temnperate had risen a bit since the ac had been turned off. It was up to about 83. Generally stays around 80-82. I checked my other parameters and everything seemed normal, until I checked the...
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    coral problems

    Hey all, I purached a new Toadstool Leather Coral today. I put it in the tank about halfway up in decent water movement....A few minutes later I noticed my spotted mushroom and one of my metallic greens closing and looking like they were going to spit their guts. The only other coral in there...
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    Black Powder by Marc Weiss??

    Hey all, Just wondering if anyone had a used a product by Marc Weiss called Black Powder. Had noticed it at a few LFS and finally asked about it. From the explanation I got it seems to replace everything you might need to dose into the water eecept a buffer. Just curious if it is any good...
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    Help planning what to stock tank with??

    Hello, Well people keep on asking me what all I'm going to put in my big tank with rocks and sand, and being relatively new to this part of the aquarium hobby, I'm beginning to wonder that myself. My big tank really isn't that big compared to some of yours, only 75 gallons, but big to a...
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    questions about T5 lights and refugium lighting

    Hey all, Went out last night and bought the clip on housing and looked for that builb, but I could find it in my area. I bought a Sylvania brand 75 watt halogen par38 for indoor/outdoor use. All the specs seem the same, but of course no color/temp on box. Assuming this comes out to be 5100k...
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    questions about T5 lights and refugium lighting

    Yeah, I have 2x 10k and 2x Actinic PC on there now. It looks fine as far as I'm concerned, for the time being anyways ;) Was more concerned about whether the anemone and any begiiner corals I put in would need the extra light just yet. Thanks again for all the help!!
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    questions about T5 lights and refugium lighting

    Thanks for the response everyone! I'm going to go check for that bulb for the refugium tonight! As for the display tank lighting, will it be worthwhile to go ahead and add some T5 to the 260 watts of PC I currently have, or just let it be for now? Anything but clams and SPs really will do...
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