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  1. JRocha

    custom 90 gallon

    So after taking a few years off because of moving and buying a house I am finally going to use my custom 90 gallon (3ft long, 2 ft deep, 2ft tall). Using my ATI LED power module for lighting (4x39 watt T5 and 2x75 watt LED pucks). Ehiem pumps for returns to my ADA Lily pipes (I was using the 90...
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    fish ID

    So I picked up a new dart fish from a LFS and it was labeled only as a dart fish. I will take pics of it tomorrow. So it looks like a Ptereleotris gram mica / Lined dart grammica but instead of the yellow horizontal lines it has yellow bars with a blue eye and some horizontal blue lines on the...
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    walking dendros

    So my wife and I have had this walking dendro for over 4 years now. We bought it from Ocean treasures back in the day from derek. Anybody else have any luck with this cool coral? Ours is a bright green color and wasn't moving for over a month, but today it was on the other side of our 29 gallon...
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    taking in the rest of my sps

    so Jim had taking the big sps from me and I am now bringing in the rest of the sps which is smaller in size. I am very particular with the coral that I buy and most of it is specialty corals(if you are into that). I will be bringing in a 4 to 5 inch sunset monti, which is my favorite and some...
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    On vacation in nicaragua

    I was born in Leon Nicaragua in 1981 and left to the US in 1983. I have visited once before about 15 years ago and decided to come back. The country is gorgeous and there is a lot to see. My favorite place so far is a city called Granada which is oldest colonial city in the Americas(colonized in...
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    changing directions in my tank, going all LPS again

    so the title says it all. I am going to get rid of my SPS corals and going LPS all the way. I am gonna sell off my pieces for reasonable prices. I have a big colony of ORA red planet and green slimer which are attached to a big flat rock. not planning on breaking rock. I have a huge blue and...
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    check out my new Rhizo coral.

    just picked it up from aquatic collections in hayward. this thing is huge and eating well. it remains open like this day and night in our tank. Thanks again Joe and Karson. this thing is sweet with its candy cane stripes on its base.
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    my 240 gallon downsizing to my new 90 gallon

    So I finally got all my equipment for the downsizing. The new tank is a 90 gallon truvu tank. I am using 5 reefbrite xho fixtures over the tank and a xho over my sump. The return pump is coming off of my 240 which is a coralife pump. Got a reef dynamic skimmer and using a filter sock as well...
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    how to clean old dry rock

    i have a large amount of dry rock and its dirty as hell. I wanna know if anybody has a good way to clean it with little effort as I work a lot and can't scrub it. I need as I am downsizing my 240 gallon for a 90 gallon :( any suggestions are welcomed.
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    question about LEDs for my new 90 gallon.

    So I am getting a new 90 gallon cause I am down sizing from a 240. So what I want to know is how many more reef brite xho fixtures I may need for a sps tank. I have 2 x 48" all blue xhos. So the tank is 48 x 18w x 24h. So since I have 2 all blues how many and what colors should I get so the sps...
  11. JRocha

    Richmond wrasse

    So I was pleasently surprised one day this week when I came home and found my richmond wrasse that I added to my tank 2 weeks ago and disappeared, just up and start cruising the tank. It is now eating and acting like nothing ever happened. check it out. Also in the third pic you can see my...
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    LED question

    So right now I have 2 36" ATI power modules that are 8 x 39 watt T5s. So with that said I was thinking about getting 3 kessil A150W LED pendants to create the shimmer effect. My question to whom ever may know is if this will be enough LED lighting to create the shimmer effect with so much T5...
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    question about oyster feast

    I bought some oyster feast the other day and I checked the date and it says that its good till august 2011. I shook it like I always do and I tried to open it and it started overflowing like a if you shook up a soda can. I am only asking this cause I have used oyster feast for over a year and...
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    question about oyster feast

    I bought some oyster feast the other day and I checked the date and it says that its good till august 2011. I shook it like I always do and I tried to open it and it started overflowing like a if you shook up a soda can. I am only asking this cause I have used oyster feast for over a year and...
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    pictures of corals past

    we were looking through some old pics and found a bunch of pictures of coral that have moved on to the blue ocean in the sky. these are a few. they will be missed.
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    show us your walking dendros

    this is my girl's walking dendo in her 29 gallon. its been around for 2 years now.
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    underwater transparent spiders all over dead sps. WTF is it

    I was removing all the dead snails and dead frags and when I pulled out a dead sps frag plug there was over 10 tiny transparent spiders all over it. they are about the size of a small pinhead. are they bad? I have never seen anything like it. they have 8 legs and walk like a spider. I have no...
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    clam murders my christmas wrasse

    I was looking into my tank for a few minutes and noticed my christmas wrasse spitting water at my clams and I guess he got too close and this is what happened........
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    any experiences with eco aqualizers?

    I know someone who started using the product about a month ago and I was wondering if anybody has tried it themselves and what were the results? here is the website. http://www.ecoaqualizer.com/aquarium_filter/products.php
  20. JRocha

    I need a ReefresH20 biomedia block

    I have had a nitrate problem for several years now and I have tried just about everything. I've tried vodka dosing, purigen, wet skimming, huge water changes, and the only thing that worked really well was a ReefresH20 block. it dropped my nitrates to zero quick, but marine depot stopped selling...
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