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    floor support

    if your house is 90 yrs old you should be fine i am a residential contractor. hoiuses that old were usally build with hardwoods not pines like today pine wood did not take off untill the housing boom after wwii you should be fine. plus flooring was usally done with lath like your walls would be...
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    lighting q?

    acropora ,not real? sure but yes my lights come on at same time
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    lighting q?

    yes mine has two bulbs of each but only one switch for the whole thing
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    lighting q?

    more info my light has two blue light and two white its a 36" fixture
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    lighting q?

    i was wondering how good a light i have i have a coral life light it has a 96 watt 50/50 bulb in it my corals have been doing great but was wondering if the light is good enough for most corals i have a 45 gallon tank.
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    Mandarin Idea

    i dont see what it would hurt its pretty much the same tank.
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    peppermint shrimp always dieing

    yes i meant 1.025 and its wierd why all my other inverts r fine including my pistol shrimp
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    peppermint shrimp always dieing

    i have had my tank set up for 6 months now have an apptasia problem every now and then ieverytime i buy a peppermint shrimp it dies after about 2 weeks all of my other inverts are fine i even have a pistol shrimp for 3 months now emerald crab and ten hermits none have ever died i add iodine 1...
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    water questions

    thank you everyone
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    water questions

    i have had my tank up and running since i test my water every 2 weeks do water changes every 3-4 weeks about 1o% my numbers are ph 8.2 kh 7.9 nitrate 20 nitrite 0 amm 0 ca 500 mg 1320 salinty 1.025 temp 77.5 i use red sea coral pro salt and ro water. question does everything sound good and do i...
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    Indoor safe generator?

    im a liecensed electrian the best thing you could do is to just get a regular generator with a 220volt plug and then back feed it into your house a 5500 watt will run the average 1200 sq foot house. depending on how many other things you have running in your house but i run 2 tvs a microwave 2...
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    55 Gal (1 year old) advice

    i have a tiger pistol shrimp and black ray goby they are both constantly moving and aranging the sand they are great to watch and see each day where they r and what they did
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    crap..I lost a 50 dollar bill in my tank..

    no worries i have the exact same two you have. the day i brought them home they were put in the tank together and the goby swam off from the shrimp. but two days later there were back together. the shrimp sometimes digs different burrows and the goby is at the otherf end of the tank. but they...
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