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Posted: February 12 2013 at 11:04am |
I think everyone has a problem with some form of coral of fish that no matter what you do they just Do Not survive.(or maybe its just me). Mine is Xenia and Blonde Naso Tangs no matter what i do or dose or don't dose i cannot keep either one alive. Neeldless to say i have given up trying to keep either. Anyone else have similiar problems with a certain fish or coral, or am i just a poor Reefer? Guess there is always Barber College. 
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 11:06am |
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Can't keep green star polyps in my 150g...oh shucks! Hehe. Acroporas...Montiporas...you name it...are all great. Not the GSP. :)
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 11:27am |
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Mermaids they always escape!
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 3:55pm |
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Lol. For a long time I couldn't keep zoas in the show tank, even though I had buckets of sps. I think it had more to do with the rapid change in ALK, before the dosing pumps. This and the fact that I was only putting in the really highend, hard to keep ones.
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 5:46pm |
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Yeah I still feel like zoanthids and palys hate my tank sometimes...
I'm about ready to set up a little nano just for zoanthids... same deal on acans
could be that the waters too clean... too much flow... who knows but they always seem to do great in whatever nano I have set up
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 8:51pm |
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cool fish! They've always died... But now im trying a... Different... Method.. Lol seems to be working so far. Im up to 4 again lol
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 11:30pm |
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I can't keep shrimp. Seems like I have always had a wrasse in every set up that loved the free meal.
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Posted: February 12 2013 at 11:53pm |
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Paul, maybe just bad luck, you're one of the best reefers I know
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 12:04am |
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Goby. They always turn into carpet jerky, even with egg crate on top of the tank.
And eels, at least not since I heard about them getting out of the tank and crawling across the floor. Yuck!
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 8:51am |
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More fish :)
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 8:57am |
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Acans. My tank hates acans. Not sure if it's the lighting, the water quality, or the other corals in the tank.
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 10:05am |
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Leds hate everything
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 10:38am |
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so far i havent had a problem with anything.. so far....... no jynx
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:06am |
 justundrake wrote:
Leds hate everything |
Really? I've ran LED's since I set my tank up and that's not my experience at all. I've never seen such great coral growth on my tank.
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:15am |
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I have just seen alot of messed up tanks lol. I love my teklight t5. To each his own lol
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:20am |
justundrake wrote:
I have just seen alot of messed up tanks lol. I love my teklight t5. To each his own lol |
Well yeah. If you don't understand that LEDS put out a significant amount of PAR then you're going to have a bad time. FYI it's the same with that TEK fixture you have. If you don't light acclimate your corals when you put in new bulbs again, you're going to have a bad time. Sadly too many people in the hobby rush into things without proper research. LEDS arrived years ago and have been used in successful tanks for years now. In fact only one or two LFS in the entire state don't use LEDS. All the rest switched. Now that said I too have seen a lot of messed up tanks because they didn't light acclimate their corals!
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:26am |
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I didn't mean tip affend. I just feel that there not proven in my eyes. Lol i would like to play with ome on my new frag tang. Maybe radions
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:28am |
justundrake wrote:
I didn't mean tip affend. I just feel that there not proven in my eyes. Lol i would like to play with ome on my new frag tang. Maybe radions |
HAHA no I'm not offended at all. Trust me I've been in this hobby long enough to be wary of EVERYTHING. I'd never have put LEDS on my tank if it weren't for the literally hundreds of successful long term tanks that have them and the people I talked to and LEDS I researched. IMO they have been more then proven at this point. FYI I run the AI Vega. Love the lights. Will never go back to anything else.
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 11:49am |
Your welcome to come see my led lit tank for proof! I was the same way until I made the switch. It was well said above with knowledge about LEDs and their par. Never would go back I has mh t5 before.
justundrake wrote:
I didn't mean tip affend. I just feel that there not proven in my eyes. Lol i would like to play with ome on my new frag tang. Maybe radions |
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Posted: February 13 2013 at 12:55pm |
Allen has one of the best tanks I've seen (I haven't seen a lot of tanks but his is gorgeous!). I'd say his LEDs are doing his corals a lot of good.
Anyways, for some reason duncans hate my tank unless they're in almost full shade.
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