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    How to properly set up a stock tank?

    Speaking of @Nature Dimensions :
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    Dealing with lyngbya

    This was the method: https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/dealing-with-lyngbya.39906/post-569895
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    Dealing with lyngbya

    So update: the peroxide only seemed to tick off my SPS so I stopped dosing. Adding the fuzzy chitons didn't work because my copperband still managed to eat them somehow. The money cowries originally aren't doing much for it either. However I started babysitting @Ayman 's purple urchin and it...
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    Maureen's Classroom DSA 105

    Looks like foramiferans (which is funny I never see these anymore). Maybe do one more soak in fresh then start them in water change water for another week. I know some people just toss outside rocks right in but you never know if they sprayed insecticides or anything outside.
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    Frags from the Swap Pix

    Got a CSB from @Rrchris123 , really amazing color compared to a typical rainbow:
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    Thomas' 29G TruVu

    @MolaMola @SanJoseReefer looks like it eats nori too:
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    DBTC: Seeded Polyp Lab Genesis Rock

    Missed this. So I've read online that anecdotally they provide lots of anaerobic space for bacteria to grow and do denitrification. My current tank with 4 blocks was running a deficit for months until I started ammonium dosing. Never had that happen before in any of my systems. It's either that...
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    How to properly set up a stock tank?

    I think that guy lives in Texas. Stolen valor lol
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    Tikis return to the hobby, 40B

    Definitely start them off with some nori. Mine have reached the nothing left to eat stage in my smaller tank and they can wipe out a quarter sheet in one evening now.
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    Ultra Coral Submissions for 4/26 Frag Swap

    Usually the average online price of the coral is one of the main indicators, or how common they are within the club. Feel free to include things that you know are higher $ amount or not commonly seen onto the sheet.
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    RSVP by 4/24 for the 4/26 SUNDAY frag swap in Newark

    Should see some nitrates no?
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    Need Styro Shipping Boxes?

    @Arvin R definitely does
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    Ultra Coral Submissions for 4/26 Frag Swap

    If they're cultivated animals then I don't have a problem with it. That goes in line with the club's ethos.
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    Ultra Coral Submissions for 4/26 Frag Swap

    Technically anemones and mushrooms aren't corals
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    Ultra Coral Submissions for 4/26 Frag Swap

    Honestly, I think they'd go ultra or bonus round.
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