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Old 03-22-2010, 09:41 PM
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Sexy tank!
that is a great description!............................. ......of the tank I mean
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Old 03-22-2010, 09:44 PM
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Oh Lance! You make me want to stop NOW! Freakin me out! I know that sps is abit of a gamble...I lost a bunch when I tried them in the 72G. Hence the reason I am not convinced I want to be a sps junkie! Perhaps a happy mixed reef would be ideal for me...if I can keep everything happy. That is probably a challenge in itself! Perhaps the reason this hobby is soooo addicting is the challenge! If it were "easy" we wouldn't be so inclined to keep throwing money into it and trying over and over...

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Old 03-23-2010, 12:57 AM
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Definitions of S.P.S:

1. (short ver.) - Short Polyp Stony

2. (long ver.) - Read below.

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Carmen, the tank looks great! But beware the power of the fuzzy sticks!

It starts the same way for everyone: buy a few frags and lose a couple but the others don't die: they grow! They grow so fast compared to LPS you start to believe. I can grow SPS! Then the little frags grow into small colonies and you begin to wonder why they are considered tough to keep. The small colonies grow into beautiful large colonies and you start to think you are the "WUNDERBAR OF SPS".
Then it happens: You wake up one morning and one or more of your beautiful big colonies is bleaching out. You don't know why! There is no apparent reason for it. Next thing you know they're dead and you're humbled. This scenario plays over and over and over again. But can you give them up? NO! The fuzzy sticks have a mystic power about them. You buy more to replace the ones you lost and so on.....and so on......and so on.....................

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Grrr......so I've been distracted from the tank these days. I just can't spend as much time as I would like on things. And this morning I came down to a cloudy tank..... new canary wrasse has been MIA and so I believe that may be contributing to my issues today. Skimmer was semi-full last night but I just didn't get to emptying it and it over-foamed all into the sump (touchy skimmer...I think I need to empty it more regularily...) Tank is super cloudy. Will try to do that but...once again...life just has things kinda tough these days to spend quality time on the tank maintenance...Just ripped out my skimmer (which is no easy task) and gave it a thorough cleaning incase that is contributing to the overfoaming issues) And now I have to find some time today to do a water change.
For now...I need to go get a prescription for a strep-throat that has been killing me for 9 DAYS! Stupid walk-in clinic JUST got around to calling me today!!!!! And ofcourse the Dr. wouldn't give it to me when I went in 4 days ago because it "may be just viral"!!! AHHHHHH.......my throat is killing me and I hate walk-in clinics! Sorry for the vent....!!!!!!!
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Old 03-24-2010, 07:47 PM
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Ahhh strep is nasty!! Hope you feel better soon! Sorry to hear of the walk-in clinic. I find they can be so hit and miss. Last time I had strep it was really just the wait that was the killer, but once I got in, the doctor (she had a wicked Scottish accent) was all "Och! Aye that be a wee spot'o grungy in therrrrrre" (I had the nastiest looking throat). Anyhow, good luck.

FWIW, my canary wrasse goes MIA very often. What happens though is that if startled, or sleeping, or even just needing a nap in the daytime, they'll swim right into the sandbed and bury themselves instantly. I've only once gotten to witness it happen, he literally just swam into the sand. There was a small "poof" of sand for about a second but once it cleared there was literally NO indication whatsoever that there was a wrasse hidden in the sand at that spot. There are many times I come down to feed the tank and he's gone to bed, he'll be the only one I can't spot, but then the next day he's out swimming again as if nothing abnormal ever happened.

So, ... hopefully this is the case here too.

They are potential jumpers though. I lost my first canary wrasse to jumping. I had an eggcrate cover for the tank but it apparently was no impediment to his trajectory.
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Sorry you're not feeling well step really sucks Hope your canary shows up.
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Ok lets see if I can get this straight.
1 the pellets take away PO4
2 take away nitrates
3 do they drop the ALk in the tank.
4 does this replace the phosban that I use.
5 do you have to soak over night to waterlog them.
6. is it cheaper to run the biopellets vs the Phosban since the phosban actually last about 5-6 days depending on how much po4 in your tank
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Yes
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No, but it's probably better to do so (I never bothered though)
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ok then I guess that im going to be buying some way to go TOny making me spend more money. YOU, Kevin,Carmen from RC hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm dodgy lol
how much are they for the big pack
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Ahhh strep is nasty!! Hope you feel better soon! Sorry to hear of the walk-in clinic. I find they can be so hit and miss. Last time I had strep it was really just the wait that was the killer, but once I got in, the doctor (she had a wicked Scottish accent) was all "Och! Aye that be a wee spot'o grungy in therrrrrre" (I had the nastiest looking throat). Anyhow, good luck.

FWIW, my canary wrasse goes MIA very often. What happens though is that if startled, or sleeping, or even just needing a nap in the daytime, they'll swim right into the sandbed and bury themselves instantly. I've only once gotten to witness it happen, he literally just swam into the sand. There was a small "poof" of sand for about a second but once it cleared there was literally NO indication whatsoever that there was a wrasse hidden in the sand at that spot. There are many times I come down to feed the tank and he's gone to bed, he'll be the only one I can't spot, but then the next day he's out swimming again as if nothing abnormal ever happened.

So, ... hopefully this is the case here too.

They are potential jumpers though. I lost my first canary wrasse to jumping. I had an eggcrate cover for the tank but it apparently was no impediment to his trajectory.

Ya Strep sucks!!! And after 9 days...it's a doozy!

Unfortunately I have gone through 3 canary wrasses now.... Always to jumping but this one is not on the floor...It did have a wound so perhaps it dug into the sand and never came out? Funnt mine have always jumped through the mesh too! I think they must jump STRAIGHT UP!!


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Sorry you're not feeling well step really sucks Hope your canary shows up.
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ok then I guess that im going to be buying some way to go TOny making me spend more money. YOU, Kevin,Carmen from RC hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm dodgy lol
how much are they for the big pack
I too succumbed to the pressure to jump on the bandwagon! You might as well Mike...everybody's doin it! I think they cost about $115 for the big bag. Or you can buy them in the kit with the reactor $230ish???not sure on that one though...
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