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    Fish magazines

    Whaddya get? Whaddya like? Who do u order it through? How much? I wanna start a subscription but I'm not sure what magazine I should get.
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    Found this guy on the glass this afternoon....

    i think i've heard of these before, but i cant remember what thier called to look them up... i think i know its a pest, but its the first one i've seen... so it must be a new arrival in the new xenia rock i got...
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    worm ID please

    So just after the lights came on this morning, i happen to be looking at my xenias, and on the rock back behind them i saw this worm sticking out.. just kinda rolling round, allways attached to one spot on the rock, but like he is feeling around to try and find a better hole to go into...
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    looking for lense recomendation

    So i've got a digital rebel xt, and i'd really like to be able to take thoes super awesome macro shots i'm allways seeing posted online... thing is, i dont have a macro lense, or even know what i should be looking for in one... i could really use some plain english assistance in figuring out...
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    Thinking about buying on ebay:

    So i'm thinking about buying some crabs online, cause i got such an awesome deal from this guy last time when i got my snails... just wanted some input on these crabs, and if they are cool for my tank with the zoas and shrooms and other planned corals... The seller is telling me that the name...
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    RO filter output TDS increasing

    so i've been measuring the tds of my ro water the last few days, and i'm concerned... yesterday i was getting 15, and today i'm getting 34. now over night i did turn off the supply to the filter, cause of some other plumbing issues... so i'm hoping that the water that was inside the filter...
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    snowflake eel habbits have changed and not eating...

    so since i've moved everyone from my 75 to my 210, my snowflake has been very active... well, thing is that he took a heck of a beating in the move... i tried to scoop him up into a gallon jug, that way he was in water all the time, and that seems to make moving the other fish easier, so i tried...
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    Which positions in the light fixture should come on together?

    So, i've built a new light fixture... It holds 16 - 54 watt 48 inch t5 bulbs. they are arranged in 2 colums, 8 rows. the 2 colums slightly overlap in the middle. which bulb positions should come on together? The limitations are: I have 3 ballasts that can fire 4 bulbs, so there must be 3...
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    75G Curve corner tank w/ custom stand and sump

    This is my 75 gallon curved corner tank. It comes with the tank, overflow, drain plumbing from the overflow to the sump, includes a 30 gallon custom DIY sump. The drain plumbing also includes a water change port, where you can pull some water from the active flow(this is where the flex hose is...
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    is it a bristle worm, or a fire worm, or what?

    found this guy in the bottom of one of my buckets this afternoon while i was working on finishing tearing down my old 75... didnt know exactly what it was, and thought i'd ask... about an inch long... its a good vibrant red with a dark brown or black section that i'm guessing is its guts or...
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    this isnt aipstasia is it?

    so i was looking in through the back of the tank a little while ago at my little zoa rock, just to see how they are doing under the different lighting... and i spotted these 2 new things... i've been looking at this rock for months now... and i never saw these things... they have little colord...
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    how long do you quarentine your new fish?

    I'm getting close to the 1 week mark on my most recent purchase of fish, and so far, they are active, and eating in the tank, and i dont see anything on them.. one does seem more shy and less active than the others... oh, they're just 4 little damsels, but i dont wanna be dumping ich or...
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    UPS's, battery backups and the like....

    so, on my old 75 i had a basic UPS system, it was just really a little computer one that you coulda got at any walmart or whatever a few years back... well, it wasnt really designed to carry the load of my return pump. It really wanted more of a resistive load, than an inductive one like...
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    t5's, t8's or t12's

    So, i have this new 210, and ihave my old 75's canopy, now i can strip out the 48 inch t5's and ballasts, and try and use them over my 72" 210, or i can sell the canopy, and use that money towards something new... well, t12's are easy to handle, and very familiar, but they put out the most...
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    what do you do with your "used" water?

    so, i've been thinking, i'm not doing a very smart thing, i'm dumping my used salt water in a particular part of the yard, and ofcourse theres nothing growing there now after a year of that, and now that i have moved up to a larger tank, i expect i'll be producing more waste water... i'm on a...
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    pink earthworm lookn thing

    so i was lookn round in the 75 tonight, with a flashlight, and i spotted this pink earthwork lookn thing stickn out of the LR, it was about 4 inches and then when the light hit it it shrank down to about an inch... about an eighth of an inch in diameter id guess...
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    Lil green blobs in a new, not yet cycled tank

    Just wondering if anyone had ever seen anything like this, its these little green blobs of goo lookn stuff, hadnt noticed them till just a few min ago... they're a bright green, and are smaller than a dime, but bigger than a pencil eraser... they are all over the sand bed, spread out pretty...
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    what the heck? it looks like a snail with no shell

    what is this, its looks kinda like a snail with no shell... and its in my tank... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkKmTtDWPs
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    the 210 gallon in wall project

    so the wife and i have been strongly discussing some options for doing some remodeling in the house while i have all this time off.. hehehe, anyway, and one of the things that we have been discussing is a better place for the fish tanks.. so, what we have decided, is that we will cut through a...
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    I made the leap, and i think i mighta screwed myself

    so i went to the lfs today to pick up a few things that i needed, and to see if my buddy Jason(owner) could help me calibrate my new electronic ph and tds meters... well while i was in the store, i happened to walk by the corals and this one cought my eye... 14.99 and green and blue zoas...
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