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    Need help with coralline algae !

    K maybe placin it in the last chamber ll reduce the force cos of all the baffling and not crush it. Will try it out and let you guys know. Thx for all the help and advice :)
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Wat is a fuge ? Sorry m a noob in this aspect of the hobby :( is it a kind of refugium ? Cccapt . . . Since you say you need water to flow thru the bag of gfo, i can always put it in my external canister filter . . . Wat say ? Im ashamed to say my tank has been thru quite a bit of neglect the...
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Nope i dont have a sump :( space constraints in my dormitory . . . Keepin the 30 gal itself has been a miracle without being thrown out . . . I think i ll go with the GFO mesh bag thingy. Can this be placed in the main tank if possible ? Thats how m running my carbon right now :D And is there...
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    Thinking about a Bamboo shark?

    Cc capt, the info you ve given on the different sharks is from wetwebmedia rite ? I remember reading the exact same thing on there
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Yup i had been thinkin of gettin some GFO . . . Getting some chaeto or gracillaria wont help as my tang ll make short wrk of it. Any advice on how much GFO to add and how often to change it ? As for the blenny eatin the coralline . . . The coralline spots wr growing along with some diatomaceous...
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    Cleaner Wrasse survivablity?

    Lucky ! If you think tats cold you oughtta come out here ! So ur in hawaii collectin fishes or somethin. I wud if i was :(
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Well my phosphates re round 0.5 . . . And yup hoping the 14k bulb will help me out. Have any of you guys heard of bicolor blennys eating coralline ? Cos i kinda saw mine at it ! It made short work outta the few spots i had on my glass in the shadows. And oh btw if its worth mentioning . . . The...
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Well thincat already did the brushing of the LR thing ! Did it with the skimmer and filter off bout a month back. Didnt help ! :( and yeah i know what a waste of money the purple up product is supposed to be. Kurt my calcium is in the 450 to 480 range. And alk is at 8 dkh . . . MH bulb is...
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    Cleaner Wrasse survivablity?

    Hi thincat, its too cold ! And oh yeah add heavy rain to that ! The weather change was so sudden and drastic that most of my fish and my frens' came down with crypt ! Where ru from ? And hows da weather der ?
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    Need help with coralline algae !

    Hi guys . . . My 30 gallon is almost five months old now. Has plenty of live rock with coralline on it in spots. I have a 150 wts metal halide. Had a few spots on the back of the tank but then my bicolor blenny chomped them off ! Will increasing the flow rate and magnesium levels help in more...
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    Cleaner Wrasse survivablity?

    Well m no expert but as long as you have a large tank with plenty of large bodied fish you should be fine. The blue streak cleaner wrasse or labroides dimidiatus is the better of the species. Can be weaned into taking standard aquarium fare. But its better left in the sea. Does not do well long...
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    Hi folks, from bangalore, India

    Well for an intro, i ve been into the fish keepin hobby since i was seven yrs old. Kept only freshwater species. About four months back set up my first reef, a 30 gallon long. Had been dreaming bout it for quite some time. Finally its in existence :) :) and about me . . . Well m a medical...
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