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I have two Blues and one green in customers tanks, I maintain them and feed them a couple of krill twice a month and they are thriving. I have noticed in one tank that the anenome lost a bit of its blue and moved higher in the tank, i checked my records and we were due for bulb changes. Didnt you experience something like this Francis? Sean

if its local to the eggcrate then just remoce it...if it on the eggrate and coral, remove the eggrate, add a zebrosoma sp. tanh and sone mexican turbos. That should do the trick with out filter media or chemical. Tip: maintaing mag above 1350 and kH above 11 or 12 should reduce the levels. Higher flow will also stir up any detritus allowing your filter socks and protein skimmer to pull out the organic compound sbefore they feed the algae. Sean

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fwiw, i run a calcium reactor and kalk reactor everyday, all day in my sps system which is ~ 400 gallaons. I maintain huge growth rates and my calcium sits at 500 ppm + and dKH is between 14-16. I know thats high, trust me I know, I'm the one that cleans and replaces the impeller sets on every pump twice a month. BUt some thing to think about, even at maintaining levels that high my cost is very low, initial cost was low as well because I built the CA reactor from a prefab canister. So for the average hobbyist, who would maintain 400-450 ca and 9-12 dkh, the cost would be substantially lower than mine, which is already very low. I have a five gallon bucket of kalk from BRS that is still 9/10's full and ive refreshed two kalk reactors about six times each on this one bucket. for the calcium reactor i use a mix of Bwel's Neo Mag, Aqua medic's hydro carbonate, and carib sea coarse ARM. Ive tested potassium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, and alkalinity. Between the two systems, my average cost per two months ( i only added calcium reactor medium 6-7 times per year) is around 25-30 bucks. Now that's on a 400 gallon sytem packed with sps. If I take the systems off line i drop about 100-150 mg/l of calcium every 24-48 hours and my alk drops rapidly. I guess for me, if I could afford to dose B-ionic and not have to raise my prices I would because ive seen alot of before and after pics and it is a solid product. It grows softs as well because of the iodide in the formula. The mix of calcium reactor media that I use gives all of the major and some of the minor elements, i dose a supplement for all of the trace. Just thought id chime in Sean

if you go the two part method, and you want an alk boost but your ph is alreay high...you can mix 8 tsp bicarb to 1 ts carb and the carb should netralize much of the dissolved CO2---per the guys at BRS Sean

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also check KH as well as ammonia. I like keppeing the KH higher in a fish only tank, especially with high density, as to avoid a build up of carbonic acid that will lower your pH. Sean PS sorry to hear about the fish loss :-(

the clownfish are being QT'ed & treated here, and they are about 1" Also I thought that with barebottom she could feed more and siphon the solid waste out without having the Nitrates spike. Emily might be a newbie to the hobby, but she is a very bright girl and I don't think she'd have problems keeping an anenome alive, but the anenome probably wouldn't be added for some time from what I understand with her schedule of the experiment.

I recommended she put a clam in there like a week ago, and come back for some prodibio startup which a bacteria culture and ammonia blocker. The surface area in the aquaclear biomedia is plenty, plus she doubled up. Also I said BB would be better so that she could just siphon out any waste. Also irecommended going BB so that as part of the experiment she could introduce different stimuli that might incite possesive behavior( like a 1.5" PVC tee, and then maybe an Anenome) Sean

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Their 10k's are actually pretty bright and white. Crisp I'd say, not yellow or red like other 10k's....personally I prefer the 12k's though.

Ive used them and still do actually, I just prefer UV lighting or icecap for sure. The WP's give good color but doesn't really promote fast growth. Sean

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hey doug, if I cant carry that tank by myself into the classroom, then I will donate a $50 gift cert to wamas for the school. deal?

Doug, don't you know of a donating sponsor thats close and always willing to help? call me or pm me and i'll be there. Sean

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The treatment depends on the disease. I.E. Youd use hypo to treat what looks like Ich, but what if its velvet(which happens to flourish in hypo)? then you'd need copper. We use copper sulfate chelate and 3x2day prazi treatments simultaneously, and then observe for another 2-3 days. when we acclimate them we dip them in malachite green and formalin specifically to knock off uronema and fish lice. It works for us. In between shipments, we sterilize each system with a heavy dose off potassium permanganate. like I said, we get positive feedback on our fish and Ive only had 2 outbreaks in 6 years of business. Sean

AF-S Micro NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED Thats what I'm buying for my D40. It runs about 5 benjamins though. Sean

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any tank manufacturer , through a retailer, can get a prefabbed tank drilled to spec for close loops etc,. the distributors get charged more so the retailer generally charges more. so you can get semi custom from any LFS. certain stores deal with AGE if you want totally custom. Sean

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darn fine pom pom, what with the egg pouch and all....Where 'd you get that again?