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  1. Qckslvr

    Seachem Ammonia Alert

    as of right now 10% changes every Saturday morning. Saturday morning at 8 am, I grab my 20 gallon grey brute, throw in my pump and heater and roughly 4 pounds of Red Sea Coral Max salt. Usually by 9:30 it is ready to go. And by 10:30 both tanks have had their glass cleaned inside and out...
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    Seachem Ammonia Alert

    More or less it would be to give my wife daily peace of mind in the main tank.
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    Seachem Ammonia Alert

    worth it? does it actually work? We test our tank twice a week ever since incident with the rowaphos. And my wife is just hyper paranoid of Ammonia in the tank. The first time we saw the Hanna tester give us a reading of .1 for Ammonia we almost had a heart attack. Since then we have learned...
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    How much to feed fish? Do we tend to overfeed our pets? Easy to feed a lot, difficult to feed the right amount

    I can honestly say that we overfeed our reef tank, and possibly under feed our fresh water tanks. The glow fish tank, male beta fish, and female harem tank each get fed once a day. And these guys are all very healthy looking Our 30 and 90 get fed almost 5 times a day... The 30 has an auto...
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    Livermore Reefer

    Welcome!
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    Qckslvr and Mrs 90 gallon Oceanic tank build

    TANK updated. As mentioned in another thread we got a new to us Hanna Master tester. I still need to get a fresh bottle of Alkalinity reagent (eyeing Neptune's bare shelf). I hate to say the higher gas prices are going to limit our LFS adventuring. But tank parameters seem to be normal to...
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    L/F leads on a possible frag swap location?

    Not sure if this is in budget, but DeAnza also rents their facilities https://www.deanza.edu/facilities/facilityrentalfees.html My co-worker's wife is high up with McEnery Convention center. I asked him if there are any special deals that she could get us.
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    Alkalinity on 3 different mediums..... and none match

    I am sure this is beat to death... But yeah Last night I scored a great deal on a Hanna Master test kit. I was pretty excited, and have had some shocks... First was Ammonia, it freaked me the eff out when it came up at .1 for both of my tanks. But some research, and some math I learned that my...
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    Qckslvr and Mrs 90 gallon Oceanic tank build

    I believe our loss is due to lack of proper prep. this is an in sump reactor, not external. I assembled the reactor and placed 250 ml,of rowaphos directly into the first chamber. No bag, as it was not mentioned in our search on the internet. I did run about…. 2 gallons of RODI through the cup...
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    Qckslvr and Mrs 90 gallon Oceanic tank build

    my wife loves the flame hawkfish as well, lots of personality. And we feed the tank 5 times a day, they are happy fish. But the wife and I hit a bit of a horror, and a hard learning lesson. On the 7th when doing the weekend testing we noticed something. The Nitrates were in 20s (not to...
  11. Qckslvr

    I found four Aiptasia in my 90 :(

    I have to agree that I think it possibly came from my chaeto as well. The downside is my wife and I were very cautions and bought our chaeto from a LFS close to my work to try and avoid this issue. Again quite bummed. A couple small aptasia have popped up, and I quickly hit them with F-Aptasia...
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    I found four Aiptasia in my 90 :(

    I have updated my tank journal with a list of fish that are currently in the tank. seeing as my tank is literally 45 days old.... I would need to wait for a CBB? and would it work with my current inhabitants. Or would a Filefish be best. and I my wife just texted me that another has been spotted.
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    Qckslvr and Mrs 90 gallon Oceanic tank build

    It's been a minute on my tank journal, as it has been running for just over 30 days. But I figure I should list my inhabitants! The fish that are swimming about happily. The fish! Splendid Pintail Fairy Wrasse Pink Streaked Wrasse Yellow Watchmen Goby x2 Tiger Pistol Shrimp Midas Blenny Nearly...
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    I found four Aiptasia in my 90 :(

    So last night I scanned my tank for a hour.... Making sure the one baby aptasia I saw was the only one at the moment. It was about the size of an eraser at best. I covered it with F-Aptasia, and let it be. I actually covered a patch of the rock just to be sure. I showed my wife the File Fish...
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    I found four Aiptasia in my 90 :(

    do you have corals in your tank? A file fish would be kind of nice to have in the tank, but the wife wants corals. Hammers, torches, duncan, etc.
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    I found four Aiptasia in my 90 :(

    2 in my chaeto, 1 on the glass in the refugium, and one on a small rock in the display tank. The two in the chaeto were easy... I gently removed the chaeto from the the sump, and carefully removed a clump that it was attached too. The one on the glass I syphoned out with a hose and razor. The...
  17. Qckslvr

    Pitho Crabs

    correct, one watchman goby survivor was removed... and we are not sure if the other is crab food, or just hiding.
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    Happy Wife

    We were going to check out Exotic Aquarium, but scared off by some of the reviews of them selling sick fish. Thanks for the list! We shall check them all! LOL
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    Pitho Crabs

    are they really peaceful? My wife picked up a pair of watchmen gobbies yesterday for our 30 gallon. She loves watching the tanks and will watch them for hours. She acclimated the gobies, and put them in the 30. Do note the stock of our 30 has changed, two clowns, one 6 line wrasse, one long...
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    Happy Wife

    the store front is a little bigger than Neptune. They are more fish and reptile than coral. Not a huge coral selection like Neptune, AC, or VA on corals. Half the store is reptile, and half aquatic. Their equipment selection is on par with AC and Neptune, They do have have a really large stock...
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