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Saltfishlover

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  1. So...i dont build for others, but i have done a few for myself.  If this is something you would like to take on as a DIY i could give some tips, maybe.  Its only as difficult as the type you want.  I did mine in a galss aquarium for the wife.  She picked the color and has two tanks going to one sump. 

     

    The two holes on back left are inlet pipes from each tank.   Goes up and over the clear baffel then into the filter cup hole. From there under another baffle to the ref/skimmer/uv/liverock chamber then a filter floss baffle and to return.  

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  2. I did put in carbon on the same day and even a uv sterilizer because i thought the same thing.  Im gauging the impact mostly by if clam releases from the rock so I can move forward and start over.  It sucks because of the coral that was lost has been doing good for years.  

  3. So looks like my tank crashed. I checked levels nitrate 2, phosphate. 04, alk 10.   I did brush alge off pallys and about 20 mins later everything closed up.  30 minutes later my clam began to retract and gape.   The next day a huge alge bloom started and most of my corals are dead or melting.  

    Question...3 days later (today) i was going to remove my clam, but he was still attached to a rock. Does this mean he is still alive?  

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  4. I have a purple tip hammer with 4 heads.  This grew from one head.  I have had it in the same place and under same light for a year.  Yesterday I notice two heads have bleached tentacles near the mouth.  I did water tests and

    phosphate is .04

    nitrate is 5

    Alk 8.5

    salinity is 35

    I really have not changed anything.  Anyone have this happen before?  

  5. I did this with some pallys and xenia.    I scraped them with a razor and removed while wearing gloves.  I added carbon and turned on my skimmer.   Then I used a pipette filled with lemon juice and very slowly injected whatever tissue remained.  They all melted away over a few days.  This was in a 20 gallon tank.  Some corals closed a bit for a short time, but everything eventually recovered.   Some pallys started growing back and just a scrape with razor a week later they were all gone.   Just for what it's worth 

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