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    Algae ?

    I hope the provided picture is sufficient. Im curious if anyone is familiar with this algae, or knows what it is. It has been growing in the tank for a while, and if u cannot tell from the picture does not grow on the rock face, it spans a gap in the rock. It is very flat and seems to have...
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    new live rock gold mine (56K warning lots o pics)

    ok after i finish finding the rest of the aptasia and getting with the amazing joes juice 8) , how should i go about feeding them so they reproduce, they are a colony polyp right?
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    new live rock gold mine (56K warning lots o pics)

    i found a lot of things i dont know what they are. i know the first 2 are corals i just dont know what kind, are they doing ok in my minimal lighting they seem to be, they sure opened up. the 3rd is looks like some kind of shell, sorry its blurry, its quite hard and i think there is a second...
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    i want to build a sump/fuge

    if i do something like his, that doesnt act as a protien skimmer does it? or does it becuase of the microbubbles? also if i use my 10gal would that be good for my 55gal tank, i do still plan to keep my aqua clear filter on also.
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    i want to build a sump/fuge

    right now my filtration is 2 HOB filters, one whisper bio bag, the other is an aquaclear. i want some better filtration so i wanted to make a wet dry filter, with a fuge in it. just a small one, i have a spare ten gal tank and my main tank is 55gal. how should i go about doing this? i have...
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    ICH ICH ICH why wont it leave?

    yea... im gonna have to figure something out, the other 4 fish have been in that tank for probably 5 months, doing wonderful. the ich really started showing up when i changed diets..... i used to feed blood worms and sea weed for the tangs, but then i found this omnivore food with like algea and...
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    ICH ICH ICH why wont it leave?

    well if i did a qt in the ten i would only put the tang in right? the others have never once shown signs of ich. can i do the hypo on the main tank? cuase i have invertes. lots of blue leg crabs, a snail, emerald crab, condylactus anenome
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    ICH ICH ICH why wont it leave?

    I had ich in my tank a while back only my 2 tangs, a yellow and a hippo, got it. i put them in a qt with cupramine, and they were doing fine for about a week ( i was checking all the levels, coppper was consistant, and after about a week and a half they started showing signs of stress, the blue...
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    worm like thing

    yea i think its a bristle worm it looks alot like the first pic on this page http://www.chesapeakebay.net/polychaete.htm
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    worm like thing

    well, not exactly feather i dont know how to explain them great, but u know a deacorator crab, the things it uses to stick substrate to itself? it resembled that
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    worm like thing

    i was re-doing aquascape, and from under a rock drops this bright pink/red thing, looked like a curled up shrimp, so i go to poke it and it spazes, it was like some kind of worm with like, i can only describe them as feathers coming out of it, like the things sticking out of a decorator crap i...
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    UGH ich ich ich

    ok so im ready to get a qt tank tomorrow, i was gonna get a ten gal, with some cupramine to treat my ich. my baby blue tang, and yellow tang (which has white AND black ich). i am also gonna add some cleaner shrimp to my main tank to eat some of the parasites. i have a 55gal FOWLR its been set up...
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    anenomes and lights

    ok i went to alot of LFS around my areas questioning about an anenome for my tank, they all said i needed more lighting than what i have (2 50/50 30wats) except for one lady who had the largest selection of anenomes i have seen, she INSISTED my lights were decent and could house anenomes, just...
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    YT dieng i think

    well fist off the tang is dead he got stuck to the filter when i was out at the store. 2ndly that stumach thing is really bad for the fish, i had a foxface with the englarde stumach and when i tried it he died within hours, and i barley put any pressure at all. there are delacte organs in his...
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    YT dieng i think

    for the past couple days i have been noticing my yellow tangs stomach slowy get bigger, now its at least twice its normal size. this afternoon i saw a red liesion or spot on his skin. he hides under rocks most of the time, when he comes out he cannot swim he does almost summer salts and cant...
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    check this picture out

    yea , it wasnt the best advice, im sure it would have worked on a more stable fish, but that foxface was sensitve, the poop started to come out ( i tried pusing it out as a last measure, he was just sitting on the bottom) i barley got it out and then he changed color, tried to sting me so i let...
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    ick problem....

    well i tried dipping the tang in a bath of FORMALIN3 for about 45 minutes and the ick over his eye is 90% fallen off and if hanging on by a thread. and some of the other like dusted parts are starting to fall off. im adding melafix, and using garlic to soak my food in becuase i hear it helps...
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    check this picture out

    well, fist off, yes pic was big, time was of the essence, i happen to be a photo editor so... yea :wink: umm i feed them this omnivore frozen food which contains some algae stuff and brine shrimp, for the tangs and the foxface i also put in some sea veggies green sea weed every other day. i...
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    check this picture out

    this is my foxface rabbit fish, in this pic, i havent fed them in about 18 hours or so, and i dont know of anything in the aquarium he could have eaten, yet his stumach gets bigger by the hour...... what is this?
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    ick problem....

    ok, i noticed this yesterday also but didnt mention it becuase i had just fed the fish......my foxface, its stumach is HUGE, it looks like it ate WAY to much but i havent fed them in about 18 hours now, its almost as if its pregnant.....lol.... any clues?
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    ick problem....

    just found this stuff called RID-ick, anyone ever use it sucessfully?
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    ick problem....

    Sorry to be repetitive if i am being so..... but my gf got a baby blue tang for my tank and she LOVES the thing, i think he is starting to get ick i notice all the signs like scratching agiast things and white spots. now when i used to have freshwater i used this stuff called ickgaurd to get rid...
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    anenome question

    oh ok thanks alot, ill take these lights back since it seems to be a waste of 22$ a peice.... so i take it to be able to get better lights i need a new hood?
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    anenome question

    ok so how do i go about calculation my wpg? i have the 2 lights which are 18'' at 15w each. i dont think that comes to 3wpg, idk if i am doing the math right?
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    anenome question

    So when u say the 3 watts per gallon is met does that mean ill be alright? a power compact would be nice, my birthday is on its way.... ;) but while reading online the anenomes i would want say that they only need "moderate" light, as long as it will host my clown fish.... lol
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