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ALMON is a great fish raiser I got a pair of black and whites today... one is misbared and the other is simply perfect... slightly orange as they take a little while to color but I'm positive these are going to go fast and for 50$ a pair you won't be sorry... they are swimming around like crazy... very healthy fish and he has alot of them... anyway he let me take pictures too:)

I'm in the club too my parents decided to not turn on the air and just open windows and use fans... unforntalty noone opened the widows in my room additionally my father who watchs my tank got the salinity down to 1.01 I'm raising it slowly... I lost a brain and a few snails... luckly the skimmer never shut off it was full.... anyway I hope the air goes on soon!

wow did you get any live rock recenlty

HI I use leds too the problem I've been having is when I put wild stuff in my tank like a head of frogspawn it didn't react well...I keep rics and shrooms easly...but they shrunk a bit during acculmtion to the leds now they are coming back....anyway love the tank!

Sending you a pm about coming to visit your son and you are always welcome and I work nights next week which should be better for you! Anyway best wishes Troy

My good friend forest THATS terrible news! I'm so sorry and I feel for you.... before you invest in a chiller try and reduce lighting/add a fan.... or do what I did and go LED my tank is soo cold I was thinking about a heater... my mom doesn't turn on the ac very often so reducing the light heat was my only option.... anyway I to tried the mini fridge idea... bought the fridge and did some logical reading.... the fridge is designed in a way that its compressor kicks on to chill and then it insulates as soon as you drill it you loose insulation the compressor won't be able to keep up with the load... my advice leds/chiller is the way you need to go ...but if its not in the budget try adding a fan and minimizing your light time... additionally something that kicks off your lighting if the tank over heat is a good safty feature... as always I would buy used unless your buying a chiller! CHILLERS can burn out... make sure its rated for your tank before you buy... a cheap 50 gallon chilller will be over loaded... as for engry consumtptoin my old tank was a energy sink.... 350 watts and a chiller made the electric bill sore if you want to come check out the power of the new leds give me a pm and you and your son are welcome to visit!

also be aware of the heat factor... I metaled some zoos in my old tank.

I want to be include on the tank tours but my rooms a mess and I only cn show to a few people at a time if anyones intrestested in coming to see leds I have the same ones as zygote.... only I have 4 instead of 3.... anyway no sump either I have a hang on the back systemm.... anyway I would also like to see some tanks.... if your in the springfield area and I have a break IN my schedual your welcome to stop by I'm very busy with work!

Thats a bummer!

How big is your tank?

You may want to watch the green stuff in the lower right hand corner it looks leefy and I had caulerpa destory my nano in a few months. Best wishes Troy

Its either a good problem or a bad if your water is too clean it won't do well HOWEVER its more likly something is wrong they need good lighting to pulse faster they need good flow anyway the star polps sometimes take a little while to come out...

Just be glad you didn't get hurt.... how does your live stock look? I would also run carbon....anyway this happens every few months... my advice is invest in a higher quaity heater!

Leds rock, first figure out a budget and then look at the dedicated tank forum and see whats out there...

wow how is the rest of the tank doing?

Don't be hating on the 46:) and welcome to the club jk jk.... have a great time here and remeber to check out the for sale section!

2nd one is my favorite!

My advice is to join wamas (a member on the for sale forum has baby clarkiis for sale.... you could sell your clarki to someone looking to get a baby one as a female or trade it... ppl will take the bigger clarkii for a littler one and it would be a good way to get gentic diveristy!

I want two pairs of blacks! Will pay on the 7th!

The only down side for using clams for water clarity is they take alot of calcuim anyway hope you can get your bubble algee to go away!

It looks like chewing gum very cool!

I got a cool lobo a sun coral and a head of frogspawn for like 75 it was a good store!

wow thats soo wierd it must be eating something viroiusly I had a nano and with a nano korlina I cleaned it up fast as fast can be!

More water changes and get a korlina to blow it around it won't settle in high flow areas!

BOB IS IT WORKS take pictures those brown paly's were nasty!