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    thinking about giving a cold water a whirl

    Just like the post says I'm in the process of researching keeping cold water fish. Specifically, I'd like to keep deep water rock fish. Any reading anyone can send my way? Thinking a yelloweye pair. Pretty familiar with these and had a single specific question. How in the hell do I mimic the...
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    LFS with cured LR? LOL nope.

    find some for me please. seems the LR is almost completly neglected in 4 out of 4 LFS in my area. 3 of you guys get free lights, can use water from frag tanks to change LR tanks, can easily change the filter sock in the sump(dublin...been watching that for 4 months, since that LR came in, then...
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    testing of LFS RO water. check it out.

    Our replacement 4 stage gets here in a couple days. i ran out of top off and needed RO bad. between our 29 and 90, we lose a gallon a day to evap. I first went to All About Fish and bought 5 gallons. the water tested at 18ppm on my very reliable hanna combo (one of 2 i own). then the scary...
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    Ohai here is our first tank

    My name is Mike, the lady friend is Whitney. Here is our first tank. unfortunatly we both smoke cigs. fortunatly, we have a view of one of our tanks from the porch while we smoke. enjoy. i used flash to let u see that we are on a porch =).
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    RO questions

    We just replaced an RO system and have the skeleton of the old one sitting. The new one is a 4 Stage, sediment, carbon, membrane, DI. I would like to take the extra cans and run an extra sediment and an extra carbon. Will this reduce the pressure noticeably? would this be benificial?
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    DIY LED suggestions please

    Im fortunate to have a tech buddy that can build LED arrays, and I would like some suggestions for light combos and other materials I would need. The light will go on a 29gal. I dont plan on SPS but would like to keep nems in there. thanks for the input.
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    RBTA taking a snail ride.

    I was just looking to see if we had enough pics for a build thread (we dont) and found this awesome pic of our big rbta taking a snail ride. when we got the system the nem was tossed into a bucket with a big snail. the snail didnt seem to mind running him half way around the tank.
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    Small amount of rust into RO unit.

    A rusty nozzle went on the hose that I use for my RO system to wash a car. The rust bback flowed into the hose and I think some went into the system. Will it get filtered out? Should I worry about this? The system is outside and already had some sediment/brown algae on the pre-filter. I have...
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    RBTA max size in a tank?

    Our rose is huge. 15"X12 during the day. Its on a funky rock and takes a couple hours to open all the way up. How big can i expect it to get? Its in a 90.
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    to syphon or not.

    I want to get some opinions on whether I should continue to syphon my sand beds. 2 different tanks, both have 2-2 1/2" beds. One has a goby, both have nass snails. I haven't syphoned either tank in 2weeks.
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    new to the scene.

    Hello All, I got into saltwater tanks about 4 months ago. We started with a 25 tall, and didnt want to spend alot and still be able to keep a fowlr tank. We now have a 29 instead of the 25, and a 90 with a 30gal? sump. The 29 has a 50w heater, 30 lbs(2 1/2-3") live sand, 30 lbs of...
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