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  1. Week 7 of my new to me tank

    Well as only a six week veteran of a marine reef I stand humble and much wiser than even one week ago. Battling with nitrates and learning the value of dozing many different things I now have a few happy things in my tank. I will post my adventures for the real seasoned folks to laugh about as time goes on.

    My question for today is can there be too much light on a reef aquarium, I only have a few things now, mushrooms, long tentacle anemone, favia coral, group of sun polyps and two ...

    Updated 11-02-2010 at 01:34 PM by melev

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    Tank Entry
  2. Marine Biologist Bill Warner sets land speed record

    Saw this on another board and thought it was interesting that he is a marine biologist and fish breeder

    http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/...?article=42488


    Just wanted to share

    Updated 11-01-2010 at 09:30 PM by melev

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    News - local, national, & world
  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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    Tank Entry
  4. Put avatars and profile pics up people!!

    Do you guys enjoy looking at bubble algae and aiptasia in your tanks? NO?! Well I don't enjoy seeing it on my website either LOL!!! Be creative and upload an avatar AND a profile pic! KTHXBAI

    You can do this by clicking "Messages" at the top and go down on the left-hand sidebar to "edit avatar" and "edit profile picture" and tada! No more bubble algae
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    NEED HELP STAT! , ‎ Humour
  5. Ozone?

    Is anyone here using an Ozone generator with their Skimmer? I read a couple interesting articles on wetwebmedia and wanted to hear more from people actually using this technology.

    Thanks,

    Charles

    Updated 10-31-2010 at 11:38 PM by melev

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    Questions - Need some input