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    Small red spots with white

    Here's a pic of his belly Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    Small red spots with white

    It's fine sand Carib sea stuff if you zoom in on the middle of the pic you can't see the red spots Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    Small red spots with white

    My blue dot jawfish has been getting these tiny red spots and white behind them he also has a white spot on his belly close to a cm in diameter and it seems to be sticky like sand gets stuck to it. Could any one identify the disease Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    can anyone identify this starfish?

    Double star fish Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    Blenny identification

    Any one know the name of this one Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    Fish identification

    Does anyone know what this is and if it's reef safe Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    I'm not sure what caused it but ich and within two days everyone was gone. Nothing came back in the test, did water changes but i was getting this slimy film looking stuff everywhere. The film all went away a couple weeks after the fish. But I would like a couple hardy fish for movement in the...
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    Night time left to right Haven't been able to update this thing in a while so here's a update all the fish died two months ago haven't added any fish yet. Going to the keys this Wednesday though I live in Florida and am thinking of maybe catching a fish outside the protected sanctuary of...
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    I did I also added 40lbs of fresh live sand. I found the idea for washing the sand on a forum. I when I took everything out I left a few gallons of tank water in and mixed the sand up really good making the water black then piled the sand to one side and siphoned out the dirty water. Sent...
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    Protien skimmer micro bubbles in DT

    Anybody I am now on day two without running the skimmer ? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    Switching to LEDs

    That light looks a lot like my light which is a 32" unit over a 4'x2'x2'tank. My unit has a built in dimmable timer though it's a reefbreeders photon and it's got good coverage and power down the sand mounted where the bottom of the unit is around 11" off the water surface Sent from my iPhone...
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    Here is the 120 the corals are all over the sand bed and the LR isn't in its final positioning but it definitely feels more roomy and this is night time shot Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    So I packed the siphoned out the tank water into afew 30g bins and moved all the LR and fish over for holding. Then with some helped swapped out the 65 for the 120 and refilled it with the old tank water and 60g of new water so it's like I did a 50% water change on the new tank well that's what...
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    4" 120g reef first upgrade

    We started reefing a little over a year ago with our fist tank a 65g 36x18x24 and we were hooked the tank was awesome but we felt like we needed a but more room. Here is a pic of the old tank.. It just so happened I built the stand for a bigger tank. Plus our lighting & skimmer were the right...
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    Protien skimmer micro bubbles in DT

    Have tried hot r/o thru the air intake & cleaned the impeller as well Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice
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