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    Frozen food that doesn't need to be rinsed?

    I've been feeding marine cuisine cubes alternated with Hikari mysis and brine cubes, but I'm about out. Looking for something I can buy locally that does not need to be thawed out in a shrimp net before feeding. Anybody have some suggestions about where to get some frozen food that does not...
  2. J

    The ever popular What is That?

    Anybody recognize this guy? He's just over one inch and is very light averse. This is the first time I've seen him out in enough light for a pic. I suspect that as my tank cleans up and the green algae dwindles away, my crew is getting a little hungry, so I'm seeing more grazing in the light...
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    Hello, Baby!

    I've been wondering if one of these little guys would show up. He's about a half inch long at the moment. I dug a little deeper online and ran across a fairly obscure page with a ton of posts on them from a decade ago, mostly of the "WTF is this" variety, but some interesting data scattered...
  4. J

    "Shocking" coral recovery!

    Had an interesting accident with the tank a few weeks ago, and thought I might get around to sharing. I had taken the hood off to do some cleaning, and when I put it back on I didn't notice that a secondary switch from the light fixture had pulled loose, and was dangling from it's wire enough...
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    Upgrading t5's on my 55, recomendations?

    Ok, I think it's about time I look into adding some more lights to my canopy, and I'm looking for recommendations and sources for some 48" 54w bulbs and (maybe) reflectors. Cost is a factor, and i'm not looking to support sps. I originally repeated to myself over and over "this is a fowlr...
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    Denitrater, Coil, sulphur or other variations. Anybody use one?

    Been looking into various options for reducing nitrates beyond the sump full of macroalge I already have. Don't really like the idea of dosing the whole tank, but a contained external denitrifier might be a workable solution. Anybody have any direct experience with the variations they can...
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    Crown Conch instead of Fl. Fighting Conch :-(

    Ok, I bought a small conch at petsmart a few months ago because I hadn't seen one anywhere else and wanted something to do some deep cleaning on the mixed media in the bottom of my tank. Pretty sure it was labeled as a fighting conch. Didn't know at the time to look for the stromboid notch :-(...
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    GBTA not doing well?

    I'm not sure if there is a problem with these or if something relatively benign is happening, or what. First off the tank has been set up for well over a year, and i've had it here here since last October, and stable for a couple of months at least. Ammonia and nitrites near zero, nitrates...
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    Will a sudden drop in salinity kill 'pods?

    So. Been busy last couple of days and let the return section of the sump evaporate almost down to the pump intake before topping it off (I know, Bad Engineer, no coffee for you tomorrow). Anyway, so I finally snap to this sad state of affairs, and proceed to dump about a gallon, but less than...
  10. J

    Homemade filter sock and holder?

    Been needing to find some way to clean up the particulates that were staying in my water column. I'm not sure if it is there because I've got one overflow feeding into the skimmer bucket, then into the sump and the other going straight into the sump or what, but I needed to find some way to...
  11. J

    Time for some more fish food. Suggestions?

    Here's the setup. 55g Fowlr, current population 5 fish (2 clowns, 1 angel, one fairy wrasse and firefish), 2 gbta's, and assorted CUC (including one crown conch, 1 serpentine star, about a dozen or so assorted small crabs and about that many various snails) plus a fair size patch of xenia that...
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    24x24x12 multi tank configuration?

    I'm thinking about getting some used tanks that are two feet square and one foot tall, and putting together some combination of 2 or 3 or maybe 4 of them together to make a frag tank/aggressive critter holding cell. The tanks are all drilled with one hole in the center of the bottom (not sure...
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    Whadheckizzat?

    New hitchhiker showed up in the tank recently, so I thought I'd find out if it's good, bad or indifferent. I'ts leaning out from the bottom side of a rock down in the pile, so it is obviously not highly light dependent, and it's now a little over 1cm in diameter on a stalk about 1.2cm long...
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    Converting a standard height to a shallow for frags?

    Anybody ever take a standard glass tank and disassemble it, shorten the sides and reassemble as a rimless frag tank? I'm just thinking out loud here, but it doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. If you didn't feel up to cutting the glass and polishing one long edge, I'm sure a glass place...
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    What are "acceptable" parameters for RODI water and the minimum hardware to get there

    What are "acceptable" parameters for RODI water and the minimum hardware to get there Ok, Everybody has their favorite system or supplier, but I'm just looking for the info needed to decide what to ask for when I get to that stage. I'm looking to produce top off water and occasionally enough...
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