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  1. ricordea florida questions

    once a week i feed my fish some raw shrimp from the supermarket, because they seem to like it and it gives some variation in diet. Today, however, my ricordea florida caught a large piece in its disc and pushed towards its mouth and is consuming it. My questions are 1) is this a bad thing and should i try and avoid this because I have read that they only eat very small plankton and 2) is this a good thing and should i now target feed this shrimp to my ricordea once in a while. I have many ricordea ...

    Updated 05-02-2010 at 09:59 PM by melev

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  2. OneReef's new 150g upgrade

    After letting my 75g grow for almost a couple of years, I was getting bored with it and decided to move up for more coral to grow out and to add more and larger fish.
    Hence, the decision to move up to a 150g. I would have liked to go bigger, but it was going upstairs and I didn't want to stress the floor more than necessary. After speaking to the homebuilder, he felt confident that the floor could support the weight. So I moved forward. I got Richard to custom order me a 150g with one ...

    Updated 05-02-2010 at 04:44 PM by OneReef

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  3. Getting ready for my big upgrade!

    I picked up my new tank today, an Oceanic 58g (36x18x21). It will sit on a freshly built stand. I will be transferring all of the equipment from my current tank and will be picking up a few goodies this week. I am waiting for the pin-wheel on my Euro-reef RS-80 to come back from Reef Dynamics on warranty.

    I made the mistake of starting my first tank with crushed coral. I will be using 40 lbs. of Seaflor special grade sand for the new tank. The 40 breeder I have set up now is using ...

    Updated 05-01-2010 at 11:21 PM by melev

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  4. New Additions!

    Went to the LFS today to get my new bulb. While I was busy with the owner my wife started looking at the fish. She picked out some beauties.


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    Powder Blue Tang

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    A Scopas Tang


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    Updated 05-01-2010 at 11:20 PM by melev

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  5. New 54 corner up and running but....

    Hey guys, Its my 2nd blog ever in my life... and my introduction to Reef Addicts was my first. Still trying to figure out how to fix my pics on the album section. It says, something about too big of a file, but I cant figure out how to fix it, I have no pics loaded on it. Anyway on to my story... er... Blog.

    So here go's...My house has a little nitch where a 54 corner round tank would fit perfectly, but having limited carpentry skills, and not a huge budget, I decided to give it a ...

    Updated 05-01-2010 at 11:21 PM by melev

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