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    BTA split twice in a month?

    155g 150w MH w/ 5xT5 actinic @ 10000K sg .025 amonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate unreadable calcium ~400ppm 9dkh ph 8 no other stressed corals tried giving them some squid today, 2 of them spit it out, the largest one ate it
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    BTA split twice in a month?

    My rose anemone split twice in a month, should I be concerned? Ive heard two sides to the story; that anemone's splitting is normal, but also that that their splitting is a sign of stress. Advice?
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    Looking for lighting advice

    I have a 155gal tank that previously had VHO lighting that recently ate it. It was enough for my softies, but I want to start adding sps soon. I'm looking at getting MH with T5 actinics, but I'm wondering if anyone had some suggestions. The tank is 24" deep, so I'm thinking 250W is what I'll...
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    Lighting opinion, new 155gal reef

    Hey all, I'm upgrading from my 75g reef to a 155g. It's all up and running and undergoing it's cycle right now. I should be ready to start moving some things over within a few weeks, but one thing is for sure; I need new lighting. The tank came with T12s that really just aren't going to cut it...
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    Bleached Montipora

    Feeding it what, just squirting phytoplankton right onto the plate?
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    Bleached Montipora

    My lights are a bit stronger than the store's, but when I was acclimating, i turned off my white lights (10,000K) for the first day and put them back on auto for the second day. Is that too quick? If it was light shock, is there any coming back from it? I don't think it's dead yet, polyps still...
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    Bleached Montipora

    Thanks. Sometimes I just need someone to tell me that my thought process is in the right place. I was thinking the same thing on the heat. Im just kind of skiddish right now with heaters. The last heater I got never turned off. I came home from work one night and the tank was sitting at 90deg D...
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    Bleached Montipora

    Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0 Calcium: 500 dKH: 8 Phosphates: 0 Salinity/SG: 1.025 Temp: 76.3F Lighting: T5 HO, Aquatic Life, 4 bulb (2x10,000K, 2x 7,000K, Lunar LEDs) I've had this Montipora Capricornis for about 6 weeks now. When I bought it, it was a tannish color but bleached within a...
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    My torch got BJD, is there anything else I should follow up on?

    1. Type & how long you have had it: 1 month 2. Current lighting & Bulb Age: 4x bulb T5HO (Aquatic Life) 3. Nitrate: 0 4. Calcium: haven't tested recently 5. Phosphate: 0 6. Alkalinity: haven't tested recently 7. pH: 8.2 8. Salinity: SG 1.025 9. Temperature: 75 10. Liquid or strip test kits...
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    are these mushrooms? and is this an abalone?

    i also noticed tonight while my lunar lights were on that the discs of the mushroom like things are glowing in the light or phosphorescent
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    are these mushrooms? and is this an abalone?

    Ive had this mushroom like things growing on my live rock since the day I bought it, but they've really started to bloom in the last few days. I was just wondering what they are. They look like mushrooms. They close up at night and bloom in the day and the disc to tendril proportion led me to...
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    Ever seen this

    They grow pretty quick. I started with 2 and ended up with about 10 in under a month. I bought two peppermint to eat them and at first, they wouldn't touch them, then all of a sudden over the course of 2, maybe 3 days, they were all gone. I hear butterfly fish will also eat them. Aiptasia X...
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    My fish are all hanging out in the corner of the tank all day

    75g and cycled. i saw the ammonia spike when i added the 2 fish and 4 corals on at the same time. It was gone by morning. Did a 20% pwc yesterday. But they were hiding before that even.
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    Is my new torch ok?

    may have been. seems to be doing a lot better now. i just seem to recall the tentacles being a lot longer. probably wrong about that. it is opening a lot more now. about 1/2-2/3 the size of the larger head now :)
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    My fish are all hanging out in the corner of the tank all day

    I have 2 clowns, a blue tang and a blenny. The clowns have been in the tank for a couple weeks, the tang and the blenny have been in for just over a week. I thought at first that they were just getting used to the tank, but they really do just hang out in the back corner of the tank all day...
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