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Today, 12:58 AM
What type of plants did you try ?
What type of lighting do you have ?
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Today, 12:57 AM
The problem is that even when you do all the right things to make sure the fish you buy are healthy, somtimes they can still be infected with...
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Yesterday, 10:51 PM
Have you tried feeding him veggies ?
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Yesterday, 09:36 PM
What are current ammonia, nitrtie and and nitrate levels ?
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Yesterday, 09:32 PM
It's really up to you and what you like, but I would not go much longer than 8 hours. That has always worked very good for me
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Yesterday, 05:41 PM
Welcome to the forum from Saskatoon
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Yesterday, 05:37 PM
That's not to bad. I usally float the bag and then keep adding tank water to it, a few onces every 5 minutes or so. After about a hour and a half I...
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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
Could have been the stress of the move. I have seen that below
Did you slowly acclimate him to your tank water ?
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Yesterday, 01:59 PM
If it was dinos and your crab ate some, that would explain this death
As far as the water parameters go, do you know the exact numbers ? That...
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Yesterday, 01:30 PM
WOW, I would love a 350(ish) gallon tank like that
Maybe a large school (12+) of congo tetras ?
If you want a planted tank, maybe a mixture of...
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Yesterday, 01:17 PM
LOL Steeler
Looks like Boston and Pittsburgh will be playing for a Stanley Cup spot in the final. I am looking forward to watching that series...
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Yesterday, 12:21 PM
Is the crab a newr addition to the tank ? How did you acclimate him to your set-up ? I don't think the palys would have done him in as he was...
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Yesterday, 11:59 AM
Welcome to the forum
The below links to our SW blog here might help
http://www.reefaquarium.com/2013/10-most-common-beginner-mistakes/
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Yesterday, 02:18 AM
Your likely not going to get much of a up-date. This thread is over 5 year old and the OP has not been here in about 5 years as well
You might...
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Yesterday, 12:22 AM
You'll do just fine. Remember to dry fit everything together and mark all the fittings so can put everything back together correctly when you are...
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Yesterday, 12:08 AM
Welcome to the forum
That driftwood looks really nice
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05-24-2013, 11:06 PM
The problem/challenge with marine ick is that sometimes the virus will only attack the gills in the early stages, so you won’t see white spots on the...
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05-24-2013, 10:23 PM
I had a little bit of set-back today. I had some fish in my QT tank for the past 4 or 5 weeks now that I wanted to add to my 180. I noticed they...
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05-24-2013, 08:43 PM
Sorry, I just noticed you had posted your nitrate level was at 20ppm. I just missed that until now. Keeping your nitrates from getting higher than...
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05-24-2013, 08:23 PM
I would think it very well could be which is why I had asked about your nitrate levels
Algae is always caused by an imballance in nutrients and...
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05-24-2013, 03:51 PM
Right.... Minor update time.
All the fish went back in and using the Dr Tim's one and only seems to be keeping the ammo at a minimum.
With...
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05-24-2013, 02:56 PM
Cats really hate moth balls. I used to put moth balls in our flower beds to keep the cat next door from coming our to our place to "fertilize" the...
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05-24-2013, 03:08 AM
For the May comps we have Scottishfish in first place and:
In Second place we have Cliff (aka.. me)
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05-24-2013, 03:05 AM
For the month of may we have: In First place there is Scottishfish
In Second place we have Cliff (aka.. me)
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05-24-2013, 03:02 AM
In May we had in first place: Scottishfish
In second place we have Hardy85
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05-24-2013, 02:42 AM
In first place we have talldutchie
In second place we have Trillianne
Great pics guys
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05-24-2013, 02:41 AM
In First place we have Scottishfish
In Second place we have Cliff (aka.. me)
Great pic and fish Scottishfish, congrats
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05-24-2013, 02:39 AM
In first place we have Scottishfish
In second place we have Hardy85
Great tanks guys
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05-24-2013, 02:37 AM
Let me be the first to congratulate our MOTM for May 2013:
Steeler1
Way to go Steeler
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Music:
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Finding Nemo (yea so what I'm an adult that movie RULES) Stealth, Iron Man 1&2, Pirates of the Carib
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Aquarium 1:
55 gal reef tank coming up on 1 yr old
Aquarium 2:
20 gal FW (given to little brother)
typeof:
Saltwater
How I got started with aquariums.:
Won a gold fish at a fair and then thought it was cool and got a couple more and then moved to tropical fish
Favorite fish:
Clownfish
Fish I have bred:
FW snails... go me hahaha
Why I like fish::
Colorful and relaxing to watch... also it's nice to see the reward of a planted tank when you put some work into it when the plants grow in and the fish have some colors that pop
Best advice:
Start small and if you're gonna do it, might as well do it right
Other pets:
Dog
55g Long --> After 18mo of doing well the tank crashed during moving. Most likely cause: Flatworm Die-off... won't start another until after moving... Likely not until late 2013
Check out the journal to follow my 55g SW tank
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Gifts
Clown fish do better in mated pairs
Your fox face needs a friend
Let me help you stock the new tank
Thanks for such a great compliment
For still having the potentiates to still answer the silly questions
Merry Christmas hockeyhead
A few clown for the fellow SW clowns. :D
Aw shucks.... I'm flattered
From another goof - so you don't have to wait as long
Thanks for the supportive post - for your SW tank
Just a little somthing to get your gift section started :)