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  1. Jim

    palytoxin in the news

    Man warns pet owners after fish tank releases 'second deadliest' poison, hospitalizes 10
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    External pump maintenance (?)

    I just swapped out my return pump with the backup because the apex was indicating that the power usage had faded out of its range and continued falling off gradually for over a day. The amps chart never budged and it was performing and sounding fine as far as I could tell. Now idk if the pump is...
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    why are my corals slowly withering away ?

    6mo old breeder tank with big sump and all the params in check. Think maybe its underfeeding or over filtering. I feed just frozen and stepped it up a lot recently but still no trace of NO3 PO4. Current setup drains straight into my skimmer outputs into a sock. Wonder if I should go without...
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    WTB par meter

    of any type
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    Neptune

    wow having such a miserable customer service experience with them on very first purchase (resolving defective merchandise). Spent so long to decide on them what a bummer. This just a one-off ?
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    Calcium mystery

    Im having a confusing battle with my parameters; so thought I would describe the situation and see if any thoughts on what is going on. I'll list the tank details at the bottom of the post. I returned from the TG holiday after being away 4 days and found that my Ca had suddenly dropped to about...
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    DTC Build - Jim

    Alas, the game is afoot. Bill of materials: re-purposed drinking water filter/dispenser Tunze waterproof full spectrum LED Fixture 8850 aPump Silent Air Pump Tetra 26447 Submersible Aquarium Heater Hawaiian Black Arag-Alive! Reef Sand (2) medium sized Reef rock 2.1 taken out of from sump of...
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    probably an easy one..whats this?

    the walls around the perimeter are hard as wood
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    Boxed Mangroves

    Started up this 40G Breeder in July and just ordered some mangroves. Tank has a single back center overflow box and since its a bean animal I needed to oversize it a bit to fit the 3 bulkheads. I thought that made for a good opportunity to establish 3 or 4 mangroves inside the box that could...
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    Iron

    Hi all, new to this place have enjoyed the threads so far. Question do you guys normally test/dose for Iron? In my prior tank I was using that Red Sea colors kit and found that it was at undetectable levels any 2 different test kits so was dosing pretty heavy according to that program...
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