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04-25-2004, 09:06 PM
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Hello!
Hi, stumbled across this forum recently, pretty glad to see some experienced folks online in my area.
Bit o' background: about 2 yrs in saltwater; 55gal FOWLR is slowly becoming a reef without me trying; plan to encourage this when I move and set up a large fish-only tank; will be building stand, sump, refuge and possibly tank in new house; going to Hawaii to snorkel with the fishes in June Look forward to becoming part of the community (my girlfriend calls us fishgeeks!) Cpt 
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04-25-2004, 09:15 PM
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Re: Hello!
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Bob ----------------------------------------------------- To be loved you have to be nice to people every day - To be hated you don't have to do squat. ---------Homer Simpson--------
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04-25-2004, 09:30 PM
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04-27-2004, 06:01 AM
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Welcome!
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-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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04-27-2004, 07:31 PM
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Tell your girlfriend that "reefgeek" roles off the tonge more easily!
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THE BARQUARIUM: 55 gallon cube - 50 lbs LR - ASM G3 skimmer - 30 Gallon sump - 22 Gallon refugium / frag tank - 4x 24 watt HO T5's - Mag 9.5 return - Pin Point PH monitor - 400 watt XM 20K MH in Lumenarc reflector - Dual stage GFO/NO3 media reactor - 6 stage RODI auto top up -Wavemaster Pro running 3 Koralia 2's. Fully stocked with fish, corals and usually some fine scotch http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=55041
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04-27-2004, 08:11 PM
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04-27-2004, 09:53 PM
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You're right, reefgeek does sound better. I'm not quite there yet, but at least it gives me something to look forward to.
Speaking of reef stuff, I have a bunch of polyps that have slowly lost their colour, all the irridescence is gone. It looks like the colony is growing though. What can I do to make them look healthy again? Cpt
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04-27-2004, 10:09 PM
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Lighting and supliments will be the problem 99% of the time. With polips though its probly supplimentation, do you add trace elements, Ca+ etc?
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THE BARQUARIUM: 55 gallon cube - 50 lbs LR - ASM G3 skimmer - 30 Gallon sump - 22 Gallon refugium / frag tank - 4x 24 watt HO T5's - Mag 9.5 return - Pin Point PH monitor - 400 watt XM 20K MH in Lumenarc reflector - Dual stage GFO/NO3 media reactor - 6 stage RODI auto top up -Wavemaster Pro running 3 Koralia 2's. Fully stocked with fish, corals and usually some fine scotch http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=55041
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04-27-2004, 11:22 PM
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I add Coralife, magnesium, calcium and phytoplankton on a regular basis. There were 2 polyps (purple with green centres) that hung on to their colour long after the others had faded but in the past few months they have gone as well. They still open and close with the lights and I swear there are more there than when I got them over a year ago, just without colour, greyish purple. I have very basic lighting, but enough for my mushrooms to be thriving and growing quickly.
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