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  1. General Reef Discussion
    hello, i guess i could say i am a newbie, but i think i know just enough to keep me in trouble :D here are my testing results can you all tell me if they seem okay and if any of them i really dont need to test somethings. thanx in advance :D SG - 1.024 Ph - 8.4 Iodide - 0.04 / 0.05 ppm Iodate...
  2. General Reef Discussion
    G'day there, as I have previosly posted I am in the planning of a 10 footer, 10 x 2.5 or 3 x 2.5. AquaC EV-2000 Spray Injection Protein Skimmer 5 10k 250w or 400w undecided on this its based on the coral needs. plus the moontracker system 10 lights http://www.thelebos.com/ have not started...
  3. LPS Coral Forum
    Here is a thread that we have decided to set up to help ID some of the More popular LPS coral. Please include the names of the corals as you post them. Closed Brain (Maze Brain/Favites) White Bubble Coral Elegance Coral (purple tip) Open Brain Coral (Wellsophyllia) Long Tentacle Plate...
  4. General Reef Discussion
    Hi Everyone!! So it appears again I've been snatched up by a really great guy (apparently breaking hearts because I'm off the market again Sorry guys. ) We've been dating for well over a year now and have moved in together. It's likely going to end up in a permanent situation if you know what...
  5. General Reef Discussion
    My goby is all concave and thin. My tank is 2 months old, but the rock and water came from an established tank. Is there anything that I can add to the feeding regiment which consists of brine and seaweed. Also a random question. I found a little baby bird while injecting my lawn. I had to pick...
  6. General Reef Discussion
    Hello everybody, Well . . . I've been struggling with a bubble coral (plerogyra sinuosa) ever since I bought it about 4 months ago. It was a pretty large one with two distinct heads sprouting out of the same trunk. I have got a Aqua Dose giving contiunous Kalk drips, Alkalinity is a little...
  7. General Reef Discussion
    Anybody out there? I recently had the good fortune of being given a reef tank by a friend who was moving to New York . . . apparently he did not think that the reef could make the trip . . . so he offered it to me. I have always admired his tank so I gladly accepted. It's not a huge setup . ...
  8. Advanced Archive
    I was thinking this might be a good topic. Is competition, speaking primarily about corals, good or bad? In our economics we generally believe that competition strengthens the individual businesses. Without driving businesses out of business, it usually stengtens everything, right? I was just...
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  10. General Reef Discussion
    HI Guys!!, On Saturday I added a small green bubble tip (about 3.5" in diameter) anenome to my tank, its gorgeous, I set it on the sand and, as I thought it moved to my rock formation and attached itself. Tonight I freaked out when I went to check it and I could not find it, finally I got a...
  11. Advanced Archive
    Maybe you guys need to stop thinking of corals as animals, and start thinking of them more like plants. Example, ever grow a plant? If you listen to the fertilizer salesman, you'd think it won't grow without adding X amount of dollars of his brand of fertilizer. But yet, experience will tell...
  12. General Reef Discussion
    hi there! i've had a flower anenome for a while, it eats a chunk of scallop about once, sometimes 2 times a week. i recently bought a condalyctus (sorry i prolly spelled it wrong) and it's not really eating...it grabs the food and pulls it to the mouth/belly..whatever it is, the center, but it...
  13. General Reef Discussion
    Hello everyone, Does anyone have and information on how bubble coral colonizes or if is colonates anyway does it have to be physically touching my live rock, right now it is on a trunk, like the bottom of a tree attached to a piece of live rock. How long does it take to start the process of...
  14. Tank Specs
    Reef was started in 1993. Equipment: 55g tank w/ 15g sump Rio 1700 return pump 200 watt Visitherm heater Ultralife venturi skimmer powered by Mag 7 pump Oceanmotion wavemaker w/ 4 Hagen 301 P.H. 4 VHO with Icecap 660 and Solar 500 timer Corallife salt / Salifert test kits Kent Bare Bones R.O...
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