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  1. SarahSmile

    40 Gallon Live Rock, No Fish yet, any advice appreciated

    I think that's too many turbo snails. They won't have anything to eat. You want a variety of tiny ones eventually. Astera, (sp), cerith, nerite, etc. But 8 turbos is a whole heck of a lot of turbos.
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    Lighting!?

    Not junk. Sorry, no lights on yet but hopefully you can see my huge duncan on the right, zoas in the middle and gsp on the left. All were very small when I got them, all have done amazing under my marineland reef leds lights.
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    Lighting!?

    I am so tired of people bashing the Marineland reef capable led light. A few of us on here actually have experience with them and they are great. Please check out my build. Sarah's 60. I have had my Marineland reef capable led light on my 60 gallon for going on two years now. I have very happy...
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    Longnose butterflyfish and Cooperband

    How's he doing? I've always loved the butterflys. You have any pics?
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    Red Honey Damsel

    I'm always tempted by damsels too, they're cheap, colorful, yadda yadda. Everything I've heard and read, they become a-holes as they mature and as they establish territory. I don't know how long this takes, months? Also, I've heard it will be a problem if you try to add new fish now after him...
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    Name this coral

    You weren't suckered on the star polyps, some flames will eat corals, some will not. I've had a flame for, geez, a year? He's never touched any of my corals. And I have a huge star polyp colony. +1 Salt for brains, the anemone is an invert, liveaquaria.com gives a pretty accurate description...
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    Name this coral

    +1 Smitty. I'm still too scared to get an anemone. If they die they can compromise the health of your whole tank. Check out liveaquaria.com Gives great recommendations on what is easy and what is not easy to maintain in your tank.
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    Nitrates still up

    How long has the tank been set up? What do you have it stocked with? What test are you using? I have the liquid api kit and no matter what i've ever done i've never gotten a reading under 20-40 for nitrates. Some of us just accept this. To get the nitrate reading to drop you'd have to do a...
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    Octopus Startup Help

    Another forum?? Eee gads!
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    Eee gads, my skimmer is noisy

    AND now the whole darn thing quit working. Sigh. It's been on the fritz for a while. I'd come home and it'd be humming but not bubbling and I'd have to restart it. But now, nothing. The pump sounds like it's running but won't circulate. I Nancy Drewed the hell out of it too. Took it off, took it...
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    Teds 45 gallon mixed reef

    I use the JB waterweld putty to secure frags to rocks, works great and is so easy to use. Good luck with customer service, crossing my fingers for you.
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    So. which damsel is this?

    Lol ;)
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    Dwarf Angels and Coral

    Flame angels are the best! Everyone should have one, mine is worth every penny I paid for his overpriced behind. Josh, don't worry about the anemone, your tank won't be ready for it for at least another 9-12 months. They need perfect conditions, stability and maturity. The clown doesn't need it...
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    Suicidal Wrasse

    Oh chichi, I'm so sorry for your fishie. Hopefully he's just dazed and will be out and about again soon for you!
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    New (1 month) 10 Gallon Wall Mount

    The place where you purchased your tank was not correct. You cannot have 4 fish in your 10 gallon. And you should not have any damsels. Damsels are very mean, very territorial and would be absolute monsters in your tank. Check out the site I referenced above and look at nano fish. You can have...
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    New (1 month) 10 Gallon Wall Mount

    Hi Kellie! Fun Tank! Clowns are silly, that's for sure. They also aren't the most exciting swimmers. It's got nothing to do with your rockscaping.For a ten gallon I don't know if I'd add another clown, if you do make sure the new one is either much bigger or much smaller. Clowns can be...
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    These are green star polyps right?

    More info is needed: How long have they been retracting? You say you don't have a powerhead "at the moment?" How long have you not had any flow in the tank? What are your parameters and your stocking list? How often do you do water changes? Mine will get ticked after the cleaner shrimp is on...
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    Super excited!! :)

    Cleaner shrimp do not clean coral or rock. They eat food that falls and parasites off of fish. Well, some of them eat the parasites, some will ignore your fish.
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    acrylic or glass

    Glass! When you've got all kinds of algae growing on your walls you'll be glad you can clean, scratch and scrape to clean it off and not damage your tank
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