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  1. Illness in my tank!

    When to the fish store and purchased a brown tang..... I acclimated and it was swimming great for a three days I noticed discoloration and then started to see my other Tangshan getting the same discoloration... I tested water
    and all measurements were great... Then I came home the next day and all my Tangs were dead.... I figure it was the Tang I brought.... So I did some water changes and added a skimmer to remove all the decay.... I now have 5 fish in the tank and they look great.... What ...
  2. Avast Marine Works K1 "You Build" Kalkwasser Stirrer.

    I received my Avast Marine Works K1 "You Build" Kalkwasser Stirrer today and it definitely has more pieces than the Avast Marine Works MR5 "You Build" Media Reactor which meant more fun! It took me about 2 hours to put it together since there is more time required for the glue to dry accordingly (I also made a mistake of not aligning the Motor Chamber Wire director in front of the Probe Holder which made for an extremely snug fit for the exiting wires which I could correct because ...

    Updated 09-25-2011 at 10:08 AM by TH3C1SC0K1D

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  3. The newly improved editor

    You probably noticed when typing something new on RA, there's more features than ever. Here's a video provided by vBulletin showing some of the options.

  4. Arrival & Construction of my Avast Marine Works "You Build" MR5 Media Reactor.

    So I received my Avast Marine Works "You Build" MR5 Media Reactor. I am so impressed with the kit that I am going to buy about 3 more reactors and their Kalkwasser Stirrer! Construction was amazingly simple (the instructional video on the website was great). After about 15 minutes of construction the unit was completely assembled and is now sitting for the final curing stage. Ample tubing was included with the reactor as well as a valve for controlling the water flow. I honestly say ...
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  5. To catch you up on some newsy stuff while the site was down...

    Let me start off with a random happening first of all. When I was cleaning the filter socks a few weeks ago, I dumped the bleach-water solution out on the deck. Well, it appears that a squirrel was under the deck since his entire body is now white while his tail is bushy brown still. Crazy, but true.



    At MACNA, I got my very first plastic jug. All these years I've used the water cooler bottles, so this ...
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