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  1. Online fish/coral suppliers

    Just trying to get some feedback on various companies you guys have dealt with in your adventures with building your tanks, mainly livestock suppliers. I'm very fortunate to be about an hour and a half from Dr. Mac and that is most likely who I'm going to, but I just want to know who else is good out there to not be afraid of dealing with. I've also been looking at liveaquaria alot too since they have some nice cleanup crew packages that I can specify what I want, and not just getting whatever they ...
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  2. Algae!

    Can anyone tell me what kind of algae this is and how to get rid of it. Melev, is this the kind of algae you are fighting with?

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    Thanks in advance,

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  3. Your Opinions on Beautiful places to live

    Since Ive been in houston, i realized that south carolina isnt my speed really. but i know i also dont want to stay in Houston. Me and my girl were talking and these are the things that we know we want.

    1) It has to have four seasons
    2) we love big trees
    3) beautiful surroundings
    4) we are more suburbian people
    5) all places are an option, but the east coast is a plus

    so to all the travelers out there, what are some of your suggestions
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  4. Trying to fix an algae problem

    In one of my favorite corals, in the past month a real problem arose. The SPS coral growing on the overflow directly above the Toadstool Leather, a number of brown patches appeared within the branches which soon followed with algae growth. Ugh!!

    Here's the coral back in December.



    I tried scraping away the bad spots, and have been picking away the algae with forceps. It wasn't very ...
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  5. Lighting for Green BTA

    How many hours does a BTA need with 250 halides? Also, I have seen conflicting info on feeding. should they get large meaty foods or is a squirt of smaller foods good?
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