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  1. Completely Revised & Spineless



    My first year of reef keeping had its share lessons and mistakes. I had a detritus problem and the filtration was too inadequate to deal with it, so cleaning was a pain in the mass. I had problems dialing the lighting and flow just right, and as a result coral growth was inconsistent. This first year taught me what I really wanted (I think) out of the hobby, so I decided to start anew. I wanted a
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    Updated 03-19-2012 at 08:18 PM by gerbilbox

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  2. First Corals and Other Things

    I'm scaling up the cliff that I fell off of. Nothing unusual kept me away from Reef Addicts, but I just got lazy



    The biggest news is that I added my first two corals yesterday! The bad news is that they're acclimating to the light, so my lamp hasn't turned on yet; I'll post photos later. I have a small colony of zoanthids (Zoanthus, orange with green tentacles green) and single ...

    Updated 01-07-2011 at 02:08 AM by gerbilbox

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  3. The Tank Is In

    Hello everyone!

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    I got my first aquarium this weekend, a 10g with more equipment in the coming days. Yes, the turkey baster is bobbing in there, along with some tubing and a thermometer. I was performing some practice "wet runs" to figure out I would do water changes and other maintenance. I wanted to make my mistakes now with freshwater before making a mess with actual saltwater.

    My apartment is tiny, so there wasn't room ...
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