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  1. Thread: what is this?

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    Re: what is this?

    Thanks

    I must have trawled through hundreds of images from the various suggestions I've had.

    After googling free living hard mushroom corals, I found tons of images where the centre part...
  2. Thread: what is this?

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    what is this?

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    I've had this thing in my tank for a few months and no one has been able to specifically identify it for me.

    Its grown a bit since I took this photo, about the size of a 50p, and the...
  3. Thread: The Koi Pool

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    Re: The Koi Pool

    Says marine are coming soon too! I think I know where this is, near the newish maidenhead aquatics on the way to blackpool (coming from preston).

    Am i right?
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    Re: TMC AquaRay Lighting don't work

    Yes I meant tubes. Simon's going to sort it on saturday when I'm at work, in the mean time they are in darkness.

    If there are 2 tubes with 2 starters seems even less likely that they have both...
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    Re: TMC AquaRay Lighting don't work

    MY lights seem to have gone on the goldfish tank now. Wonder what one single strip of these would look like in there. No way would I pay for a duo for the goldies though.

    Simon's going to see if...
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    Re: TMC AquaRay Lighting don't work

    I got one of the singles on Saturday. I only got a single strip as for now I just need something to boost the brightness of the tank. I Went for the one with 3 white and 2 blue LED.

    I only went...
  7. Thread: Anenome help

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    Anenome help

    Does anyone know of a good site that identifies common marine tank anenomes?

    I need one with photo's, names, including common names and basic feeding and behavior information.

    I thought I'd got...
  8. Thread: Dirty glass

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    The amonia is 0.3, don't know if you realised from my typing! Mind you I know it's meant to be zero, but the card does go up to 6.0, so didn't think it looked too bad.

    Going to have words with...
  9. Thread: Dirty glass

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    Re: Dirty glass

    thanks for the advice, though now I'm more confused than ever!

    The V2400 is meant to do upto 400 litre tanks and mine is only 220 litres.

    I have6 fish, 2 percula clowns, one coral beauty, 2...
  10. Thread: Dirty glass

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    I'm using a prizm already so I know its rubbish.

    I've got my test kit back now so I'm going to test the water in a bit. My coral beauty has a couple of marks on it's side tonight too, so...
  11. Thread: Dirty glass

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    Dirty glass

    How often do you all need to clean your glass?

    in the last few weeks I seem to need to do it every 2 or 3 days and in that time it is really covered in a brownish red algae.

    Its driving me mad...
  12. Thread: New Tank!!!!

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    I did buy another sixline about a month ago! Has that been eating them then?

    Thinking about it, I rarely saw them in my orca and we had a sixline then. It escaped and died when we first upgraded...
  13. Thread: New Tank!!!!

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    Re: New Tank!!!!

    I've bought a better camera over the weekend, which seems to show off the colours better.

    It's got a better zoom lens, so the fish don't notice I'm taking pictures any more, so they don't...
  14. Thread: New Tank!!!!

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    Re: New Tank!!!!

    http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/thestripeycat/ds_marinetank.jpg

    http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/thestripeycat/ds1_coral3.jpg
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    Re: WHite SPot found

    Okay will do that. There's still no sign of any problem, and I find it incredible that whitespot could come and go so quickly!

    My mushroom problem was odd too. A few shrank then died off over the...
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    Re: WHite SPot found

    Okay, there is still no further sign of any white spot. The fish now have not got a single spot on them., 2 days later. Yet I have done nothing to treat anything.

    So this got me thinking. Could...
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    Re: WHite SPot found

    Update.

    Earlier on this morning there was no longer any sign of the white spots on the coral beauty. The firefish was covered though.

    Just come back and had another look and there are now just...
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    WHite SPot found

    I know there's no one around at the moment, but I'm in and out all day tomorrow so I'll check back at some point.

    Okay, looks like I have my first marine disease.

    My coral beauty seems to have...
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    Re: banggai cardinalfish breading

    How lovely! How small is he? Is that the only one you've seen?
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    Thinking about it I haven't had a carbon filter in the last 2 times I've done a filter clean. I ran out and hadn't thought to get any more when I've been in fish shops. I'll get some at the weekend....
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    Thanks for all your advice. I added a dose of calcium/strontium/molybdenum/iodine supliment a few days ago, so hopefully that will help.
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    Hmmm, wonder if it's still in there then. I knew the fancy ones you can buy move, but the ones I have all came attached to the rock and have been stuck fast. This one I've had since about last april...
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    Thanks for that. I know the first green mushroom that went was blown off the rock from the new powerheads which is why I moved them to a spot with less flow..

    The brown ones though just look tiny....
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    salinity 1.022
    phosphate 1-2.5
    cacium 420
    PH 8.1
    Amonia 0
    Nitrite 0.1 (lowest reading on the chart, there isn't one for zero)
    Nitrates 10
    Temp looks to be 75/76 degrees (can hardly see the...
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    Re: Mushroom problem

    http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/thestripeycat/2.jpg

    This is the third one which is oblivious to what ever is affecting the other 2!
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