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  1. shades251

    Coming back from the dead

    After nearly 4 years I am getting ready to set up another tank. Once upon a time I had a 90 gal fish only tank, 125 gal LPS SPS reef, And a 24 gallon nano reef. Well the company I worked for closed and I got behind on bills and had to shut all my tanks down and sell everything. Long story...
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    i saved him now he wont eat

    So I stopped in the lfs a few days ago and they had a Spinny box puffed ( my wife loves them) well she just had to have him. Long story short he is in my 90 now. Well the next morning he had broke out in ich, my cleaner warres went to work, I added kick-ich ( great stuff BTW ). The ich has...
  3. shades251

    125 build my first big tank

    Ok guy I found another one of my famous deal 125 comes with stand, pluming, pumps, light, skimmer, sump, 95% of everything i need going to pick it up Saturday. The bad part is I wont be building or posting my build till I move into my new house so no huge build pics for a few weeks.
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    help with frag tank

    i am going to set up a frag tank but need some info. plan is 10 gal tank no fish what-so-ever how much LR with i need? with no fish just LR LS RO and coral how often will i neeed to do water changes? as for lights, as long as i have watts per gallon does it have to be MH to grow SPS...
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    Help with eel

    i have been feeding my eel silversides and thats it he eats like crazy i know i should switch his food up so he doesnt get bored but a friend of mine feeds his only silversides as well and has been for the last 2 years.. so my question is do they get all the nutrients they need from silversides?
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    i need advice

    my MH will be here tmrw for my nano reef. right now i have xenia, red shrooms, acans, and some green zoas. i want brightly colored stuff that isnt super expensive, every thing i have seen oline or in my LFS i like is really high. anyone have any cheap corolful frags they want rid of, or some...
  7. shades251

    O no!!!!!!

    my new lion ate my firefish the night he went in the tank ( one week ago) i have tried to feed him every other day since then and he will not eat at all well this morning i got smart and dropped in a peppermint shrimp soon as it hit the water my lion came from his little hiding cave all the way...
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    i need help TONIGHT

    i am moving my tank from one room to another while it is torn down i want to set my rock up and somehow glue it in place because i just got an eel and dont want my rock falling over so what can i do??????
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    the NEWBIE is gonna frag

    you guys have give me the know how and the balls (thanks D2mini) to start trying to frag so today im going to buy some super glue gel and some frag tiles and im cutting my xenia and kenya tree downill put up pics of how it goes
  10. shades251

    need this explianed to my none reef smart girl friend

    i am trying to tell her about lighting i am about to order a 150 watt MH/2x14 watt atanic t5 and she wants to know in more detail then i can give why the blue does and what MH do and how coral respond to them please help it is a matter of getting my light and not
  11. shades251

    i want them what are they

    i seen these in another tank i want them dont know what they are to look for them can any one help????
  12. shades251

    new lights for nano cube

    questions about lighting is there such thing as to much light what is a good rule for wattage for lights just need some real general rules for lights
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    my attempt at building a sump

    i am about to start my sump build. i bought my tank yesterday the chick i got it from told me it was 30 gallon for 20 buck...need i stress she had no clue what she was talking about, so i ended up with a 50 gallon sump tank for my 55 gallon tank for 20 bucks:bounce::bounce:.:bounce: now starts...
  14. shades251

    need advice about ro systems

    i am thinking really really hard about getting an ro but i dont know anything about them at all :frustrat: can you guys please about them, what they really do, how they work, what it takes to make them work....all that kind of fun stuff.....help me please.....
  15. shades251

    i finally found out how to kill aiptasia

    easy and supe cheap. lemon juice cheap easy and safe. just get a medicine drop for kids and shoot it at them, only use a seringe or two a day so it doesnt cause ph spike. i had prolly 40 of them all over my 55 used lemon juice twice now ( today and yesterday) and i have maybe 5 left that i just...
  16. shades251

    24g biocube rebuild

    ok i am going to pick up my ny bio cube towards the end of the week maybe begining of next week depending on work, then will start the build. i have heard the filters on them suck, so i was thinking of taking it all apart and doing some filter mods if they really need to be done. does anyone...
  17. shades251

    i sound dumb but i really dont see how this works

    i am still very new to all of this and i am trying to learn all i can. ok i am running a fluval filter on my tank, but all i see you guys talk about are sumps, which i thought were filters so i have been looking into it how they are made, and your pics and if they are filters i just dont see how...
  18. shades251

    55g my first tank ever

    here are my first few pics of my new tank. i dont have much yet but im working on it
  19. shades251

    hey guys

    Hi guys names chase, i just started my first tank, so i am very new to this, but so say the experts at the pet stores i seem to be doing ok. I have a 55 gal set up about 60 pounds sand 40 of which are live, and about 20 pounds live rock ( plan to get more soon. I have a firefish as a starter...
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