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  1. Capncavey

    I have a slug

    Can anyone id this and or let me know if I need to get rid of it? I don't see it often and looks like a slug. If you look you can actually see antennas. Thanks in advance
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    What is black on my war coral

    What is this? Is it a new eye?
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    Spaghetti leather lost green color

    My leathers polyps are out during day and closes at night like a good coral but she use to have a nice green tint and now she is just whitish. Does she need more light? Last time I raised her in tank she wouldn't talk to me for 2 days...till I put her back where she was, then she opened wide.
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    Sponges

    Anyone have any advice on attaching vase sponge to LR? Definitely gives a different look to tank. Thanks
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    Instant Ocean Holdfast

    Does anyone know its strength? I want to attach a 4lb LR that is very top heavy and fan shaped and can't drill the other piece to use rods.
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    QT cycling with fish

    Set up my QT with floss from DT but got NO2 and fish won't eat. I am doing 20% PWC 2x a day. I don't have space to do larger changes should I be doing that 3x a day? I really don't want to kill my last fish. Btw brand new tank; ph 8.0, nh3nh4 0.5, NO2 0.5 temp 80 also sg 1.010 (hypo got ick)...
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    Ich treatment without QT

    My gramma has ich, keeps trying to scratch and what not. Can I use 3 gallon bucket with heater and water from tank? What more would be needed? Now if I dump a quart a day from quarantine bucket and replace from DT will that keep oxygen up? Please help I got blue spotted gobie that is healthy
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    What to do for plants

    I was thinking about planting a few plants in my DT and was wondering how people go about pruning in tank and not having it make a mess. Looking at red algea plant and mermaids hair. Thanks for any info
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    MP10 so you say you love it

    Let me ask you a question; you say you love your mp10, is that before or after it killed your jawfish? Answer the question... Now let's try this again, you say you love your mp10 now was that after it killed your frogspawn? I don't want to hear your bantering I am looking for an answer!! Yes...
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    How often feed filter feeders?

    Ok I have a coco worm and am looking at another fan worm in the future and was wondering how often I should feed phyto-feast and marine snow? Was feeding every other day
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    I think i popped my brain

    I may have made detrimental boo boo. My once pink and green brain is not puffy at all and appears to have her skeleton showing through. I am not sure if she was deflated when I put her in tank. She still fluorescences green but is not soft. Help me save "Abby Normal"
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    What to look for with new corals

    Well here it is I am moving along with corals and would love a list of things to look for light, water flow, food for each type of coral, lps, sps, mushrooms.... Ie. my mushrooms were getting all squishy looking so I moved them to less flow and now they are happy. Is there any type of set...
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    Help id which brain coral is this?

    I just got this at lfs and forgot to ask what type of brain coral this is. It is about an inch across. I have this in my nano and it's my first "Abby Normal"
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    Make your own fishfood

    Does anyone have any omnivore and carnivore recipes they could share please. I made a batch of 1part clams, 1 part calamari and 1/5 part oysters. The squid did not blend very well lol. Guess I need to run food processor a bit longer. I read about garlic and vitamins and green stuff(seaweed)...
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    Gramma hiding when pumps go

    Have 28g nanocube with 1 stock pump and MJ 1200 for sump and 1 koralia 425 running. The sumps are on wave 6 min intervals. I shut off pumps to feed today and gramma came out of cave for a bit but when I turned pumps back on he went back into hiding. Does he just not like that much flow or is...
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    Ecoxotix opinions par rarings

    Have been unable to find any info on par from the panoramas. I am considering 1 white and 1 actinic. I really want the sol but that is a little out of reach for a while. Was going to mount led in hood under plexiglas between current LEDs, blue in back white in middle. Please correct if I am...
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    Bubbles from pumps in nanocube

    I am having a bit of an issue with my pumps bubbling when they are both running. I have the MJ 1200 constant and the accela and hydro on wave. I can't tell exactly where bubbles are coming from but the intakes are a little blocked by wall to sump. Do I need to take the air line covers on pump...
  18. Capncavey

    Live Rock under substrate OK?

    So will LR still be beneficial if 1/2 of it is under substrate? I have deep sand bed and not a lot of space.
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    Here is my jump into reef JBJ nanocube 28 intermediate LED

    Well here goes my first tank and taking the big step. I got the intermediate, somewhat affordable, tank and will be doing a reef. I will be needing more LED's in time but let's get things started first. Items so far include refractometer, API liquid saltwater test kit, and hydor koralia nano...
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    First aquarium, saltwater nanocube LED intermediate

    Well here goes my first tank and taking the big step. I got the intermediate, somewhat affordable, tank and will be doing a reef. I will be needing more LED's in time but let's get things started first. Items so far include refractometer, API liquid saltwater test kit, and hydor koralia nano...
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    Starting first SW aquarium

    http://www.aquabuys.com/p/nano_cube_dx_12.htmlThis is the aquarium I am planning on getting and this is the kit http://www.aquabuys.com/p/nano_cube_reef_kit_oc.htmlI want to do corals and a fish or 2. Thinking 12 lbs live rock and some in filter. Not sure how to do it nor what size pieces...
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