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    Aerating

    Does anyone aerate their 12 g tanks. i was thinking about that last night and figured i should look into it. Ive got some calearpa in there which helps add oxygen to the water but would that be enough? The tanks has recovered quite well since my big crash and everything looks pretty good...
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    New addition

    Cool. Sorry , did you mention how long your tank has been running? Tony
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    New addition

    Are they difficult to take care of? What do you feed it? i have a 12 g and i was thinking of getting a 24g. But i heard bad things about them, like cracking an dsorts. Tony
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    New addition

    That looks really cool. :gcool im sure the colour is even brighter in person. How big is your tank? how big is the Leather? Tony
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    Calcium, Strontium, Ph Buffer, Phytoplankton and Iodine

    the drip method sounds like a better way to move the fish. but i do use the cup by cup method and i test the water for salt and sorts. i have to admit, it was this morning when i found my tang dead. very very upsetting. i thought i had finally gotten things under control. very upset...
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    Calcium, Strontium, Ph Buffer, Phytoplankton and Iodine

    What types of effets does high temp cause? would it cause fish to die? i have a Gobe who has been through pretty much anything that has gone on in the tank and then when ever i add someone else, they die. all the crabs and snails are ok. I got a yellow tang and had him for 2 days and then...
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    Calcium, Strontium, Ph Buffer, Phytoplankton and Iodine

    my temp today is at 83 degrees farenheit. about 26 celcius. the lowest it has been is at 23 celcius. day and night it is pretty steady unless i do a water change and or the power goes out like it did last week. T
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    Calcium, Strontium, Ph Buffer, Phytoplankton and Iodine

    Ok. that is really helpful. i use distilled water for the water changes. that should be the same as any other water in terms of nutrients or are there differences? i hope yo understand my confusion. i go to one place and then i go to another place and i hear different info. ive had alot of...
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    Calcium, Strontium, Ph Buffer, Phytoplankton and Iodine

    ive been adding these to bring things back to normal and give my corals and Polyps some help. Im not sure though how to know whne they have enough. it says to add according to tank size...ok....and then tank load. How do you know how much to add when every tank is different and corals are...
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    Toronto

    I went ove to North Amercan Fish Breeders and HOLY COW has he done alot in the store . lots of stuff. He has really good prices too. Im going back tomorrow to see the new stock. hes also booked till december for building tanks. Tony
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    Zoas and Polyps?

    the red algea is taking its time to come back. the hair form algae never went any where. it seems to be doing alittle better this week. The story started with my anemone dying and then i had to remove my damsel. He kept knocking everything over. i strongly reccomend a completely empty...
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    Zoas and Polyps?

    Are zoas and polyps the same thing? kind of confused there. also what do you feed them if at all? should they be close to the top of the tank or lower down. i have a 12 g nano and i have some yellow Polyps? zoas? and they seem to be dying off. Tank levels have recovered since the big crash...
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    Water change question

    i have found that small wter changes are quicker and dont cause a major temp change in the tank. although you have to more of them i prefer smaller water changes. Tony
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    Toronto

    Are you at all familiar with a group called MAST. apparantly they meet on the first wednesday of every month. i was looking to go but i have no info. somebody was saying that it was a really good place to get frags and fish and there are lots of people with info . theres a membership as...
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    How did you hear about this site?

    surfing and through google tony
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    Problems!

    did i mention the power went out yesterday for almost two hours. if you ever want to see your whole tank start moving....have a power outage. holy cow. lots and lots of bugs and worm s and other thing s i have yet to see. those guys seem to be doing ok. but im not so sure the power outtage...
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    Problems!

    the tank was up for almost two months. the original water and sand and live rock was already cycled and was doing well. everything was doing really well until the anamene starting getting beat u by the shrimp. :wlift then everything went to :moonin when the damsel came out. i could almost...
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    Problems!

    ps i did have a hell of a time getting the damsel out. proctically had to rip the tank apart. @#$%^@%# could that have thrown everything out of wack and stressed everything? was that a stupid question? tony
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    Problems!

    i think im running into my first serious round of problems. i had an issue with my Yellow tail damsel. he kept kicking th crap out of my corals. he also kept chasing my shrimp. hes gone. my anemone kept getting beat up by the cleaner shrimp and died. today my cleaner shrimp died. some...
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    Toronto

    Thanks for the locates. Ive been to North American Fish Breeders. hes alittle strange and doesnt like answering qs. but he builds tanks and has some interesting stuff. Im going to try the one at yonge and steeles. Thansk for the suggestions. Tony
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