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Old 06-05-2013, 04:43 PM
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Had a major clam spawn in my main system a while back that wreaked havoc on the reef. Ended up doing 100g water changes for several days (about 300g total for a 165g). What made things worse is that the clam spawn polluted waters caused a big toadstool to droop over and fall into my HK Mag8 powerhead. Sticky, nasty stuff to wake up to, that's for sure. Good luck with the water changes and hope you figure out exactly what happened.

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Old 06-05-2013, 05:19 PM
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Good Luck Brad! I hope everything works out.
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Old 06-05-2013, 05:24 PM
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Hope everything goes well...

Hopefully you didn't bring home rich's bad luck home with you.
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Ultimately it's just a bunch of coral, so no point stressing about it. It will be good when I get home, or it won't.

Might make a difference on whether I'm having beef or fish for dinner tho
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Haha...for someone who could be stressed, you have an amazingly healthy attitude towards it. Hope you're having beef for dinner though. Makes me re-think items in my reef that can spawn though.
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Haha...for someone who could be stressed, you have an amazingly healthy attitude towards it.
Well, some things you have control over, some, not so much. I did what I can do with what I had, and now I wait and see. The tank is healthy, the fish are in good shape, and everything looked good when I left at 7. Not that I could see much, but all corals had tissue and fish were just hanging out as usual.

In the end, it's just a hobby, and there are too many more important things to worry about than an aquarium.
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Ultimately it's just a bunch of coral, so no point stressing about it. It will be good when I get home, or it won't.

Might make a difference on whether I'm having beef or fish for dinner tho
I should think you'd need to supplement your fish dinner with the beef anyways

Speaking as someone who needs some frags from said tank (just kidding...sorta), I hope all is well when you get home.
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I should think you'd need to supplement your fish dinner with the beef anyways
I usually do Don't worry, I'm sure there will be frags for you. You might need to come get them tonight, but there will be frags -lol
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