Forum: General Discussion
03-18-2014, 01:14 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
09-04-2013, 10:17 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Generator is a nice luxury and tough to figure out how to run out of an apartment given fumes it exudes.
There are other ways to skin a cat.
Main thing that crashes your tank when no power is lack...
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Forum: General Discussion
09-03-2013, 03:52 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
My son and his wife at a recent marine show.
His website, still work in progress.
Www.cncaquariums.com
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s167/cmach_photo/null_zpsabf3ba1e.jpg
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Forum: General Discussion
09-03-2013, 03:49 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Just my two cents, but to answer many of your questions in the last paragraph, yes.
In South Florida as in my case, crashes can happen with power failures. That is why I had a dedicated generator...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-01-2013, 11:13 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Once you lose the love, time to get out.
I could not take mine anymore with my bad back and all.
Lucky that I was able to sell it for a good amount and sell the fish separately for near retail.
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Forum: General Discussion
08-01-2013, 10:09 AM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-01-2013, 05:32 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Hopefully obvious by my prior post but thought I would add that 99% of fish are not killed by the hobbyist, they are killed by parasites and the bacterial infections they cause in a confined...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-01-2013, 05:06 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Scott,
After many years in the hobby and as a business, there a few simple secrets to not killing fish and having them live as long as 15 years, as my Emperor Angel.
1 - before buying expensive...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-31-2013, 05:39 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
I actually owned a $5,000 fish at one time.
Cost me $1,000 wholesale due to my connections and enjoyed for many years.
Business write off.
It was a Clarion Angel.
This guy.
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Forum: General Discussion
01-11-2013, 02:00 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Amazing, nearly a year now that I sold my tank.
Kind of miss it but after so many years, the break of the noise from chiller, lights, maintenance has been nice.
Turns out I am saving about $120 on...
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Forum: General Discussion
01-28-2012, 07:56 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
While some of you know my tank is not a reef given my fish choice, since photos are on here, thought this would be the place to update.
After 15 years in the hobby and half of that in the business...
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Forum: General Discussion
05-05-2011, 12:23 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
05-05-2011, 09:48 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Also, what always goes a long way is to also shuffle some rocks around if possible.
Difficult to do with well established reefs but if possible, what it does is confuse the current inhabitants and...
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Forum: General Discussion
05-04-2011, 07:44 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
I may have had to perhaps once. Don't recall. Certainly not more than that. Then agsin, he was much smaller the last time I added any fish, which is years now.
He is actually one of the most...
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Forum: General Discussion
05-04-2011, 06:45 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Believe it or not, black are more docile. Mine is a nice guy.
Purple is the worst.
For acclamation, what I always did for customers and myself is use a large enough plastic container, with holes...
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04-08-2011, 06:13 AM
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Forum: General Discussion
12-07-2010, 09:27 AM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Although delicate to keep, longnose butterfly will do a good job on aptasia.
Get a needle and shoot them with a dosage of calcium, directly into them. That wipes them out the quickest.
On a...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 07:04 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
No doubt.
I noted he had no corals in that picture and threw that idea out as such.
With corals, ich is a whole new world.
I frankly am not too fond of taking a reef with nice corals down too low...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 06:03 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
.025 is too high for what you have.
Fear not about slow transition. I have taken them down in one water change. Does not hurt them. In fact, I have often times taken a fish out of one...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 05:49 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Then based on this, go ahead and just crank up your temperature. That stuff will soon cycle out of there.
Trick is to make sure you keep the temperature high for weeks post when you see the last...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 05:42 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
BTW,
Some fish can fight it well and in time, it all goes away.
Some fish need lots of manual help.
When you see the cysts on them, that is because their tolerance to fight is down or gone. ...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 05:31 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Wow!
That is a record for a Rock Beauty.
They are very finicky sponge eaters that just gradually starve in captivity as they never really take to the foods we give them.
Scott, diseases and...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 04:50 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
03-10-2010, 03:57 PM
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Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread
Sweet!
That is nice Scott.
Good luck with that Rock Beauty.
I call them "dispose-a-fish".:r
The are so, so tough to have them adapt to captivity.
I see them all the time in the wild when I...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-04-2009, 03:01 PM
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