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    need help ASAP identifying this worm

    Wasn't there a guy from Ohio that found a 7 foot one in his tank?
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    how lighting effects corals

    O.K. so if understanding this correctly. I for example have a Purple Digi and a Orange Digi then I want to look for a bulb with spikes in.... >Pocilloporin primarily absorbs green/yellow (550-600 nm) light along with some upper UV-A . it emits a orange/red >highly fluorescent pocilloporins...
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    Help with ID?

    Penapple sponge good filter feeder
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    Study links coral growth to sound

    I can tell you this our tanks are extremely noisey. No matter how far you put the equipt. The powerheads alone would be a deafing roar to us if we were in there not to mention reverb from the glass or acrylic.
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    rgfast 300 sps tank builb

    Bump, couple of nice builds!!
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    24hr 5.5 Gal Pico

    Wow, very impressive!! Hummm, there's a ten gal. tank just sitting in the garage.:p
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    Santa Barbara

    Srry wasn't sure were to post this so I went here. Anywho, heading to Santa Barbara, CA wondering if anyone knows of good reef stores in the area?
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    Photos of my 125 gallon reef - best 25 of over 200!!

    Wow, very nice pictures have you fraged anything in there? lol That thing is packed awesome looking!
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    Crab id plz

    Thank you all for your replies. Definently glad I got it out of the tank. As for putting it in the sump I know alot of people say that but if there's a predatory crab in there it's not much of a "refuge" then. As I'm not a big fan of just killing it out right it, a local club member has a cuttle...
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    Crab id plz

    Check this little dude out. I was checking out the night life in my tankand noticed this little bigger grazing towards the top. Apparently it saw me to and sought refuge in the upper most rock in my tank. So like a spider monkey i grabed up that rock quick as possiable and got it on the first...
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    Saving Energy

    look good from where I'm sitting!! been looking into these as well. However, my house faces west so my roof line wouldn't be good for them but my garage on the other hand has a big ol'roof face due south. These new windturbines are pretty interesting as well. Here in Illinois their putting up...
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    SPS just not sure what it is?

    Brought this from a local reefer and they wasn't sure what it was. Polyps are abit more brown then what's shown in the pic and the structure has neon green tint to it.
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    another Algea ID

    Found them!! ReefCleaners.org | Clean Up Crews and Macro Algae - Nuisance Algae ID Guide Description- Brown algae, has forked branches may have iridescent blue hue. Here is the thing with the dictyota sp. - there are tons and w/out a microscope the best you can get it down to is like a...
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    another Algea ID

    Been tooling around trying find this stuff thought I'd stop in ask you guys. The bottom 2 are Caulerpa pretty sure the top 2 are of the same type brown leafy pretty stiff so I'm thinking it's calcifing. (spl?)
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    hi

    Hello from the midwest. Welcome!!
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