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    Faroe Whale Cull - Faroe Islands

    in General Discussion

    I am torn on this subject. On one hand I hate to see any animal hunted, especialy when it is a mammal. On the other hand, whale hunting has been part of a lot of cultures for hundreds of years and in some cases still heavely relied upon as a major food source.

     

    Whales have always been a passion of mine so it is difficult to stand on the side line and watch, but the situation you are refering to deals with a commuinity that all pull together for the hunt and all share in the spoils.

     

    I don't agree with large scale commercial hunting but don't feel as if I have the right to judge community's who are hunting for their own survival. Especially when I live in a country that not longer hunts it's food, but rather raises stock to be slaughtered by the thousands, usually while beign mistreated.

     

    Even after trying to reason it still stings me to see it happen, but it is a part of life.

     

     

    chris

    Red cyno

    in General Discussion

    I am with you forrest, I try not to add any chemicals if I don't have to.

     

    this is just driving me crazy. I would like to get deeper into coral husbandry

    but find it hard to get past sofites when I feel the tank is unstable. I would

    really like to get a few lps in there and mabey a few lps frags. Patience is key though.

    Red cyno

    in General Discussion

    i changed the sand bed when I got it. it is about 2 years old now.

     

    i have tried blasting the sand so hard that it blows all the sand off

    the front of the tank but it did not seem to make a difference.

     

     

    chris

    Red cyno

    in General Discussion

    I would like to find a way to solve this without chemicals.

     

    dav- I have done all the things you have listed and it just keeps comming back

     

    jon- i currently run a 6 bulb nova pro but running for 12 hours but it is new and up until

    this week only 2 bulbs were running for most of the time. the light i had been running

    was a 4 bulb nova. i had this issue even when i changed out the stock bulbs for ati bulbs.

    I have tried limiting the light but as i have heard and seen is cyno is not as light

    dependent like algae are. but I have tried days of lights out with little results.

     

     

    bkl- i have used red slime remover a few times when i first got the tank becaue

    it covered the whole tank when i got it from my friend. It still keeps comming

    back.

     

    diver- skimmer is good size for tank. tds is fine though there was no difference it

    it's out break with r/o or with tap, which i swithced to afeter no effect. though i have

    started using r/o again.

     

     

    chucelli- though i have not dosed vodka, i may give the bacteria a shot. is it

    easy to find?

     

     

    thanks for all the replies.

    chris

    Red cyno

    in General Discussion

    I could really need some help here. I have had my 75g w/55g sump up for about 2 years now and can't get rid of this cyno. I bought the tank from a friend who left the hobby because he could not get rid of it either.

     

    I have a light stock (2 occ. clowns, 1 ornate wrasse), I only feed every other day. I run an asm g3 and a phosban reactor. i have a k-4 and k-3 powerhead.I do weekly 5-7 gallon water changes with r/o water. My ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and phosphate are at 0.

     

    I have tried eveything I could think of but still can't knock off this cyno. I have never allowed it to take the whole tank over but every few days it all over the sand bed and starting to creep onto corals and rock.

     

    Is there something that I am missing, what elese can or should I do to stop this. I don't have any other real trouble with the tank at all except for some bubble algae wich is not really bad. what should I do.

     

     

    thanks,

    chris

    chris's 75 reef in progress

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by chris1017

    now all I need is a yellow tang, a royal gramma and mabey some blue green chromis and of course many coral additions. I will be doing sps on the left, lps or a bta on the right and softies on the bottom. Any donations are welcomed. :laugh:

     

    Thanks for taking a look, hopefully I will have some new pics to show off soon.

     

     

    chris

    chris's 75 reef in progress

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by chris1017

    Here is an updated tank shot and some of it's creatures. I just pulled everything out and re-worked the rocks a few days ago. I also upgraded to a Nova pro T-5.

     

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    ornate wrasse

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    clowns (who are not spawning but do share the same cave and spend most of their time together.

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    brittle star

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    chris's 75 reef in progress

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by chris1017

    I have worked on getting this tank tank together over the last two years but it has been a slow process. I was not ready for task with time or money, plus I wanted to learn as much as I could before I started adding things to the tank.

     

    My first goal was to try and bring some life back to the inverts that came with the tank. Of course some things were lost along the way. Some were from his doing and some were mine, but I think I am at a point where I am ready to move on with it.

     

     

    Here is a before and after of one of the corals I was able to save. If you can't tell it is a hammer and it took 6 months before it would extend it's polyps.

     

     

    BEFORE

     

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    AFTER

     

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    chris's 75 reef in progress

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    ]Hi, my name is chris and I love fish. Think I came to the right place? I am 27 and have been keeping fish and aquatic pets most of my life. I seriously got into the freshwater hobby about 7 years ago but just got into the reef wolrld about 2 years ago.

     

    I bought my first reef tank 2 years ago from a friend who lost intrest in his tank. I had very little understanking of salt water but did not want to see his tank decline any more than it had, so I bought, more like stole it from him. The tank was in bad shape when I got it and I had no clue what I was doing. So I started to read everything I could get my hands on.

     

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