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    ahhh brown stuff on sand and tips of hair algae! go away!

    trish my friend i solved the problem with less hours of light and it slowly goes away my blue legged hermits also played a role but the light is wat mostly killed it i have some on the glass but nothing a scrubber cant handle haha
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    Newbie equipment setup question

    wow i buy mine for 5$ every 5 gallons i find it less of a hasle and easier 10 gallons should last u a good while eventually ill learn to mix it myself. Tim wouldnt a bucket of filtered water and a few drops of cycle do the trick? im not caught up yet with the nano lingo
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    I have a 10 gallon story to tell

    sparky....dont forget to add PAAATIEEENCCCCEEE!! to your vocabulary when you start. most importantly plan and read before you build anything. hopefully in the beggining you wont lose any fish but in a way its good to expect it so when it happens you wont be discouraged. the smaller the fish is...
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    I have a 10 gallon story to tell

    sparky i recently started a 12g so far nothing bad has happend except that my cardinal fish died like two days later...i figured it was cuz he was not eating since he arrived at the fishstore and i just happend to get the lucky one the day before he died he ate a couple brine shrimp. i tested...
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    wat eats green hair algea?

    wuz up yall in my 12 gallon jbj i have a clown, a gramma, and a skunk shrimp,and two small blue legged hermits. what can i add to get rid of some of that stuff? i also had some brown algea on the sand but it appears to be diminishing little by little. the tank has been running with fish for...
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    no more fish...incase i get bored ill donate them and get dwarf angels and maybe a mandarin but i think they would grow too big...and for sure some type of reef safe wrasse they are very colorful ....tommorow ill take some piks and post it ill send ya a pm or something knowing me ...when i get...
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    thanx tim...i recently purchased my fish....i got a cardinal...royal gramma...n nemo....a pair of small blue shell crabs and a skunk shrimp wat do u think so far?
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    damn i must say im dissapointed but i like some of the choices. iv never heard of th purple firefish but ill look it up and the coco worms neither. i like the choices especially the green clown goby maybe ill add those i think those three will do fine in the tank together... same thing wit the...
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    ahhh brown stuff on sand and tips of hair algae! go away!

    awesome thanks to both of yall for replying ill keep an eye on it and wait it out the tank is already starting to lose its strange rocky smell in the water
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    ahhh brown stuff on sand and tips of hair algae! go away!

    apparaently iv only been cycling and already things seems to be going bad what is all this brown coloring the sand is getting? and how can i get rid of it?
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    blue green anything bright would be fine i liked a wrasse i think it was that was green n had a bunch of redlines looked pretty nice on the pik
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    my best bet then would be to just return the skimmer cuz it doesnt fit anyways and get the test kit. and come up with a list of verts n fish i want or (can have) due to my lack of space. any suggestions?
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    Well i have a small 6 gallon tank with 3 african cichlids every lfs iv been to are surprised at how i have them in that small tank...i figure im doing a good job on those but thats all the experience i have aside from reading often and trying to learn from peoples questions on these forums. iv...
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    starter fish wat to add besides damsels?

    by the way thanks a lot to both of you for your replys i appreciate it. i like doing things the right way so i dont run into complications later on or atleast complications not as bad as if i were to take shortcuts
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    starter fish wat to add besides damsels?

    well im not sure really if they are compatible i just read slightly on them and i was looking at the skunk shrimp and the one that wiggles is it the sexy shrimp? yea i think thats it... urchins i liked also and wanted one... maybe a slug or two and something that will stir up the sand a lil bit...
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    starter fish wat to add besides damsels?

    Hello, everyone suggests i start off with damsels...but from everything i have read people say they are very territorial and would be very difficult to add any another fish after them due to territorial issues. what would be another good fish to add after iv cycled the tank with live rock? and...
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    A little advice would be appreciated thanks

    wuz up i am new to this salt water /nano hobby . unfortunatly i havent been able to get a bigger tank so im starting off with a 12g jbj nano cube...i plan on adding coral soon and a couple colorful fish. so far my tank has been running for almost a week with approx 10 pounds of live rock. it has...
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