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    Goby question (new tank)

    Ok well my water parameters are perfect lol I just didn't know what parameter meant. I test my tanks levels on a daily basis and the tank has been up for 6-7 weeks.. Sand bed is about 4-5" deep.. I do have a protein skimmer..
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    Goby question (new tank)

    I have two questions for you... What's a substrate and what is a water parameter? Lol The goby with the orange dots looks like the attachment on here and the other one looks like the yellow head I attached also... The yellow one is not much of a nuisance to my tank at all. Actually pretty...
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    Goby question (new tank)

    I went to the fish store the other day and told them I have a problem with my tank.. My live rock is covered with green hair algae and the whole top layer of my sand was covered with brownish redish algae.. So the owner suggested I get a clean up crew He said get some snails He said since you...
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    Cleaning liverock help!!!

    I bought the "freshwater" rock from a saltwater fish store lol it came with live rock growth already on it so your wrong about that, but I already discovered the reason why I'm getting hair algae is because the light was being left on to long. We didn't get a timer yet so we were leaving it on...
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    Cleaning liverock help!!!

    So what does all of those letters mean lol
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    Cleaning liverock help!!!

    The type of algae I have is that grassy type.. It grew on my Alabama river rock mostly.. It also grew on the rock in my tank that wasn't live rock but just regular white.. And also it's growing on the glass..( I keep scrubbing it off the front glass and both side glasses but the man at the fish...
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    Cleaning live rock help!!!

    Sooo your saying the algae that is on my rocks now will go away? It's not gonna stay there and slowly get bigger? And when you have debris on the rock do you shake it in the tank or in a bucket? And how do you get all the debris out of the tank? I feel like the filter isn't enough to keep the...
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    Cleaning liverock help!!!

    I'm new to this. Though I have years of experience with fish working in pet stores etc. this is personally my first time working on a reef tank. A few questions for you about live rock etc..... 1.) how do you clean the algae off of live rock? 2.) what do you advise cleaning a live rock with...
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    Cleaning live rock help!!!

    How's everyone doing? I'm new to this. Though I have years of experience with fish working in pet stores etc. this is personally my first time working on a reef tank. A few questions for you about live rock etc..... 1.) how do you clean the algae off of live rock? 2.) what do you advise...
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    Do all corals & anemones hurt to touch?

    What types of corals hurt? What types of anemones hurt? Do they all hurt or are there some that you can touch? The ones that do hurt, is it minor pain so that you can still touch them anyway if you want to? Or is it a great deal of pain? Can any corals or anemones kill you? What's the...
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    Is this normal??? My water is evaporating so quickly.

    My 55 gallon saltwater aquarium is about a month And a half new and we just got a new light fixture for it last week. The water is evaporating so quickly that I basically have to put about a half a gallon in it a day. Is this normal? Is it because of the light? Ways to fix this? Advice? Help!
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    Just added live rock to new setup (i have a few questions for the experts out there)

    Thank you ricksreef.. After some research I finally found out that they are in fact feather dusters... If you could give me the following answers to these questions that would be helpful too. 1.) will these feather dusters die if there is light on them? 2.) I like the fact that you can see...
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