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    wtf is up with my yellow tang

    no he has the white stripe down his side like all tangs. He viciously attacks the food when I put it in. (algae sheets)
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    wtf is up with my yellow tang

    I came home from school today to find my tang swimming as normal. Ten minutes later he is like paralized almost. He is upside down, breathing rapidly. I was like great. my fav. fish dead. so I test all the water stuff. zero amonia. ph=8.2, temp 77.5 salt 1.024. perfect. I come back he is...
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    I am addicted to partial water changes

    I first had the coral beuty, then it was between the blue naso tang and the flame angel. I read that the blue tang is susseptible to to disease so I went with the flame, I was worried about fighting but the store owner said it would be ok. I guess I was lucky
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    Fish additions..

    I would go with the yellow tang, a lot of people have them but they are beutiful fish especially when they extend their fins all of the way. you might consider a flame angel or coral beuty, both very colorful
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    I am addicted to partial water changes

    I did my first water change a little over a week ago and already there is increased coraline growth and my leather coral and moon coral are opening up more. One more thing, is it normal for a flame angel and coral beauty to play together. At first the coral picked on the flame but now they swim...
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    coraline algae

    I used bionic, my tank has been up and running for roughly 4.5 months. hob overflow is completly covered glass is starting to get covered and rock is pretty much covered, my ca level is 275 and my dkh is 12, embarrased to say i don't do water chages either, I am going to start I just mixed up...
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    What types of coral can i have, and can i get a annenome?

    anenomes are hard to deal with, I got my first one and it wouldn't stay put, the current was picking it up, then it got sucked to a powerhead. So I turned off teh power head peeled it off and kina pinned it down on a small rock, it attached and it is in power. i can move it around because of the...
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    calcium related to magnesium

    ca is 275 I dont know what the mag is, don't have a test kit, I use salifert I try to dose every day but I somethimes miss a day or two
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    calcium related to magnesium

    I have been adding bionic and cal won't go up what could be the problem.
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    kalk and auto top off

    that is the problem I don't have time I want to have hard corals but somethimes I am not at my house for 2 or 3 days. I need a automated way of topping of water and adding calcium w/o spending 500+ on co2 reactor
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    kalk and auto top off

    I have a qestion about the kalk reactor. I have a auto topoff that is made by spectra pure. a solenoid shutts off water supply from my ro unit. Could I attach the kalk reactor to the output (pure) water line just befor it goes into the tank. tia
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    calcium

    I have been adding bionic for a couple of months now. I do forget every couple of days, but the level will not exceed 270. I have not been able to do water changes in the past couple of month. Is there a possibility that these two are related. any info is appreciated.
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    my anenome hosted

    I have had a rose tipped anenome for about two months. I bought a percula clown saturday, then sunday night it started to lay in it and swim through it's tenticles. Is there anything special I should be concerned about now.tia
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    how are my levels

    my temp varies from 78-80 degrees salinity stays at constant 1.025 PO4 is 0 ppm Nitrate is 0 ppm Calcium is 275 ppm Alk is 12 pH is 8.2 how are they I know the calcium is low, I have trouble dosing bionic every day so I plan on shortly dosing kalkwasser everyday through my auto top-off so it...
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    auto temp control

    I am doing the same thing right now, but I would like to have the fans on only when I need to, plus I have had trouble with the temp control of the heaters, they are inacurate. I was wundering if there was a device that controlled this stuff.
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    auto temp control

    I am looking for a device that will turn my fans on when the temp gets so high and will turn my heaters on when them gets to low. I have seen one but it was 200 dollars. I have just solved my auto top off dilema, now I am looking for a solution to this problem.
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    A sad day

    The bills have finnally caught up to me and I can't afford to continue my tank. I was wundering what I could get for it, and if any of you would be interested. It is a 75 gallon with a 30 gallon sump. I have a CPR HOB overflow, Mag 18 return pump, an asm g3 skimmer, 2 Tronic heaters, 4 maxijet...
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    couple questions

    what is the max flucuation of the temperature. mine goes from 78.5F-81.0F. Same for the SG what is the acceptable range. Also I have question about ph. How do I regulate and keep it from flucuating.
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    Basic Lighting Questions

    I would get the vho. they are the most favored. Plus they pump out more lght.
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    curing live rock

    I am setting up a tank and I want to save money buy buying uncured liverock. Wouldn't curing the rock in the tank be the same as cycling a tank. after it is done I can add fish. thanks
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    Garlic- how much, how often, and how

    what does garlic do
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    Is this a decent skimmer?

    get a asm g1x great skimmer
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    dead tree

    I have this thing in my tank that looks like a dead tree. it is somewhat seethrough with a brown color. it branches out and, it isn't stiff it waives in the water, and when my hand gets close to it is retreats, or shrinks itself, it gets shorter
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    bugs in tank

    last night I was sitting infront of my tank and i noticed these little bug like creatures hopping around like birds. they were almost he same shape as birds, but they were very small. any idea,
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    Noisey overflow...

    yes stick about 6" of hose in the actual pipe, then the air will have a clear whole and will not be affected by the air, it comes standard on the cpr overflows
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