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    Weird attachments on Chaeto...help!

    I need some help...I purchased some Chaeto off ebay and noticed that there are these weird attachments like some sort of eggs on all the Chaeto...what are these and are they safe to throw in the refugium? don't want to introduce any diseases...also, should I rinse these chaeto before i dump it...
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    Wave maker w/ auto top off

    anyone has installed both wavemakers w/ auto top off system? I have JBJ auto topoff with floating valve and thinking about getting a wavemaker system, but if the water level is not stable, it would screw up the auto topoff system? anyone has any experience?
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    Weird purple film on Chaeto...help

    I tried to clean my refugium and only find that I think my chaeto is dying...or it's dead already...i don't know what kind of weird purple film is? a type of algae?? will anything eat that? my tank has been running for 13 months and I have daylight bulb shinning on top of the chaeto, still...
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    Cleaner shrimp molts

    I see that my cleaner molts like twice every month, should you clean up that molt or let it be in the tank?? I've left it there, so far nothing has happen...hopefully it's okay...
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    Brown hair algae...?

    My tank just recently started growing some brown colored hair algae...my parameter has been very good and using RO water...never did this happen before, also I noticed that the surface water is collecting bubbles that don't pop, looks kinda dirty on the surface...I have my skimmer on 24/7, 155...
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    Frogspawn retracted

    Hi, I had my frogspawn for a good two months already, but recently it's been retracting, I even moved to another higher location, it extended for a while, but has retracted again...I tested my water para and everything is in line, all other shrimp, snails, and clowns are in great shape...temp is...
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    ID please...

    I recently discovered something tiny moving across water columns, triangular shaped, w/ little feets/tenticles to form a round bottom...they moved like jelly fish with chunky movements...are these pods? I wouldn't think this is jelly fish...my clown tried to eat it but then spitted right...
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    Interesting article on clowns...

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411385,00.html
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    Frozen brine shrimps

    Is it okay to feed frozen brine everyday? I'm doing that now to my clown and the cleaner shrimp loved that too and would actually swim to the top of the water to grab the shrimp upside down!! Gotta love that...:bounce:, the other day I saw my cleaner shrimp fighting w/ my nassarius snail over...
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    Cleaner shrimp question

    So I'm planning on getting another shrimp, can I net these out to transferred them to my tank? or should I use my hand? can they be exposed to air or not preferred? I don't want to transfer the water from my LFS that it come with...
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    Clown that never sleeps?

    I noticed that my clown always swims, do they ever sleep? I'm up like 3 in the morning and he's still swimming, although in one spot at night...he doesn't hide in the rocks or anything, just swims next to my algae cleaner...weird...
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    Baby snails!!!

    I just found out all over the glass wall there are mini white particles that shapes like this... I have two turbo snails, and I see that on one of the turbo there are many little hair, it's white/clear and looks fuzzy, the other snail has these white things on it...are these what they look...
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    Help on my clown...

    Okay, this is really weird, all my water parameters are in good shape, No1, No2, No3 all reading at zero now after two months of hard works...temp is at 78, salt level at 1.023, all my snails and hermit crabs are thriving...but just recently I got another clown to test out the tank again, but...
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    Carbon question (searched w/ no luck...)

    so I just built a refugium/sump using aquarium silicone after waiting for like 2-3 days for it to cure, i started to fill in water, but noticed there's a small patch of pink colored silicone after I added some sand/live rock where I jointed the acrylics together...just to be safe, I wanted to...
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    RO water question

    so I've been using the Spectrapure RO 3 stage filtration system for like a month now...one of my source has PSI of 40, but contains so many rust sediments that freaked me out after just few uses, I can see the entire sediment filter turn brown from white...:shock: then I moved it to another...
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    ID please...

    Just recently I'm noticing there are a bunch of white little things moving all over the aquarium glass wall...they look like little ants and very tiny...what are those?? I can't even take a picture because it's so small...I hope it's okay...
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    This is sad...

    I hope we still have Nemos 5 years from now... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372242,00.html
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    What kind of hermit should I get?

    I'm thinking of getting a few hermit crabs...but there are so many different kinds, but I also have a few cerith and turbo snails already...what kind of hermit will work and not eat my snails?? I heard the blue hermits are notorious against snails...i just don't want to see needless deaths...
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    Chillers vs AC

    I'm thinking of investing in chillers, but I want to be cost effective in the long run...would it be cheaper to run an 10k btu AC to cool a room like 400 sq feet or cheaper to get a chiller to run that alone? Btw, it's a split AC unit, so a bit more efficient than the conventional AC...
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    Dirty white sand...

    I had my tank setup with some Fiji white sand for like 5 weeks now, and just recently the sand is develping some "dirts" on top of them...what are these and should I be concerned and clean them?
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