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    looking to buy 180 w/stand

    I currently have a 150 gal. center brace broke. I know I could some how install a new brace I'm exploring my options. Always wished I had bought the 180 instead. and with switching out my sump soon it's now or never. I could always build a stand if someone just has a tank.please no scratches at...
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    looking for suggestion and advice to buy a skimmer

    ok the reef octopus xp 2000 looks very impressive with a low profile. looking at this for a 150. should work on a 180 google it and look at the video. sweet
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    Refugiums do they NEED Chaeto? Need Honest Opinions

    starting to hear possitive things about cryptic sumps. sponges/paddles ect. dont know much about them but they seem to be having a slow comeback. I am changing my sump soon and already have a fuge installed above D.T. so I'm thinking cryptic fuge. It's harder to get critters that live in the...
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    looking for suggestion and advice to buy a skimmer

    no offense taken. I've seen them running side by side.
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    cyano in the sump - refugium

    To me this is one of the benifits of having a fuge. leave it alone and like Phil said better in there than display. Thats where algae grows. Hey if you want another tank do another display.
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    My Vodka Dosing Experiences

    Nitrates at 50? isnt that very high?
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    making saltwater

    Matt dont most RO units employ a carbon insert? mine does.
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    looking for suggestion and advice to buy a skimmer

    I think the ASM g series is a great skimmer and price. also recirculating G3 or 4 would work on a 180.
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    Natural Sea Water?

    last year I tested some right off allenhurst jetty. All parms were dead on including nitrates. never use it and if I were to use it I'd check each time before I scooped it up. In the middle of summer its different than other seasons due to heat.IE algae blooms fertilizer run offs etc. winter...
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    calcium reactor mrc 1 with gages

    let me know if the sale falls thru.
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    Inexpensive Phosphate Photometer

    I have their tds meter that works very well. seems like a good co. does anyone have one?
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    Cyano

    I know I have a pretty crapy skimmer. How about you Taz. By the way since dosing speacial blend I have no signs of cyno at all.took about 2 weeks
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    Calcium Reactor

    Ive been running a kalk reactor since the group buy 2 yrs ago? anyway to stabilize even more I'm now looking to buy Calc. reactor. I don't have co2, regulator. tank.pH prob. nothing. so a package deal would be great but I'll take it what ever someone has as long as its in good working order and...
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    Why are my nitrates high - suddenly ??

    I'm starting to think I might remove my sand also madman. only thing is I'd have to take the rockwork out too to remove eggcrate thats under the sand. then mabe cut pieces of it to place under the rocks only
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    OOPS, Forgot the liverock

    when they first harvest live rock there is a TON of life in it. our rock after shipping several times and all that die off then it finally makes it to our tank and dies off some more is less likely to produce as bad a cycle in that amount of time. you should be ok. kind of sad that we cant get...
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    toadstool query

    mine do that from time to time. they wax over like matt said. advanced reefkeeping?
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    acrylic tank to build or buy Ocean twp. monmouth county

    I know I could build one but does anyone who has done it more than once want to do it for me? I mean for $ of course within reason with my help.or without. Or does anyone want to sell one they are not using? cant be more than 15" wide around45-47"long 19-20" high. to be used as sump so scraches...
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    asm G3 Ocean twp monmouth county

    looking for used g3 in good shape. anyone?
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    red algae

    it's been 1 week and I do notice a reduction of cyno. after one dosage. I am adding 2nd dosage today.
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    red algae

    Thanks Taz that was helpful. also RC thread was helpful. bought a bottle of microbe-lift speacial blend and am dosing the maintainence dosage. P.U.
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