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  1. hart24601

    Cost of maintaining a 1000 gallon reef aquarium

    The foods can get expensive as well depending on how specific coral feeding you wish to do, so a lot depends on the system. FWIW my 120 (with my ex gf buying the custom miracles tank of 3,000) total added up to around $30,000 after a couple years. I just built a 60 cube and got the stand and...
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    When will Altum Angels show for sale at wholesalers?

    Wow! I can't imagine that many. I was thinking of getting 12 for my 120...
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    New Fahaka - the best Fahakaing puffer ever!

    Well Donald is still doing just fine. His eating and growth has dropped off a lot, I only feed him once a week or maybe twice when his belly goes down. I added white sand, I didn't have it before so could keep the system clean to maximize growth and not stunt him, but now his growth slowed down...
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    Plotting a Fahaka Tank

    I will show you how I came to my guess: Here I drew line from side to side in Power Point, that is 24" we know as the width of the tank. Took that same line and moved it to the angle of the fish, that line is 24" long to scale of the tank. I didn't change the length, just the angle. If I...
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    Plotting a Fahaka Tank

    Remembering I said the below... Just based on that pic 15" or so.
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    Plotting a Fahaka Tank

    I am quite curious about the average fahaka size. I know I have seen posts about it before and of course I am not doubting Achillies's monster, that is clearly huge, but I often wonder about real sizes. It has been my experience that most owners drastically overstate their livestock's size. I...
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    Plotting a Fahaka Tank

    I still have my fahaka in a 120, 4x2x2 as he hit 12" in under a year and has really not grown much since then (measured with ruler next to him in tank, not just estimating). I have no problem getting a larger tank, but I am now thinking it's not going to be needed for mine especially as he just...
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    Critter Keeper Isolation Tank

    I have known people to do something similar with tangs in a reef tank when introducing a new tang the previous one will attack it however after a few days they tend to calm down if it's not the same species of tang. I personally used a mirror so the existing tang would attack the mirror and...
  9. hart24601

    airstones a must have?

    You have a sump? From the initial question it sounds like you do and if the return gives surface movement then no you don't need a bubbler. I don't have one in any of my sumped tanks, but they do have dual returns and lockline fittings with the "fan" end pointed at the surface. I also have a...
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    Diagnose Help

    Just bet that gunk out, it's probably no biggie. I would add purigen and carbon and of course make ammonia is 0
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    Diagnose Help

    I agree especially if trying new or a lot of foods. The fuval clean? Purigen might also help capture those compounds.
  12. hart24601

    Fahaka Puffer Thread

    Sorry I missed the email notification. You have any more pics or status update?
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    Reverse drip system?... Dosing pump.

    I have 3 44g brute cans plumbed together that I remineralize with seachem equilibrium. I run ro/di because of the nitrates here, but I think some ray keepers run only straight RO but I have plants and snails and the ph gets too low. For the brutes I use avast marine barrel tender to prolong the...
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    Reverse drip system?... Dosing pump.

    Many ways to do it. I use RO/DI water (because Iowa was is nasty) in brute cans. I have a pump that send the re mineralized water to the tank and then have a simple bulkhead out the sump to the floor drain. I have an apex with a float switch inside the sump that will shut the pump off if the...
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    Discusguy

    Just FYI for any curious, those fish above even though both tanks are BB with sump and auto changes the fish until 4" were grown in a 40b with only a heater and sponge filter with 95% daily, sometimes 2x 75% daily water changes via semi automated system. At 4" the amount of food they ate and...
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    Discusguy

    Here is a previous 120 bb tank. The discus here were still smaller growing out.
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    Discusguy

    Since you asked to see pics of BB tanks: Here is a fast pic of my BB starboard discus tank. Custom 180 with external overflow - 18 tony tan discus (well 2 Stendker). All under a year old and when taken out of the tank and measured are 5.5" total length already. Automatic waterchanges with RO/DI...
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    Mbu or fahaka

    Good call on holding off if you don't want a fahaka only and not getting a mbu in that size tank!
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    Mangroves in Aquariums

    Most people have issues with them eventually in saltwater as they are a bit tricker than many suspect. They need to be misted with RO water frequently as they expel salt - it's how they live in saltwater. They also need very strong lighting that is really dedicated just to them, not to the tank...
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    Drip system filter

    Bulk reef supply is where I get all my filter cartridges and other ro/di items.
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