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  1. Why do skinny fish die?

    OK I have a theory and only a theory. As long as I have been keeping fish I am drawn to odd shaped fish like copperbands and long nose butterflies but I could never keep them as long as most other fish and looking back there were two causes for their deaths. One was jumping out. For some reason those types of fish like to jump. I lost about half of them from that. The rest of them died from something else. Last year I lost a copperband that got a bump and then a sore on it's side just before dying. ...
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  2. My biggest mistake so far....

    Hey guys can't help but the write real quick and ask what is everyone biggest mistake so far in this hobby? at this point as I watch yet another blue clove polyp spawning I wish I had never put that coral in my tank, they are worse than xenia once they start spawning and there are so many of them I think they are the reason I am having issues growing sps....
    Tags: coral, hobby, mistake
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  3. 150 Reef Re-build Project - The Teardown

    I have a 150 Gallon Reef tank with what I think is old tank syndrome. This tank has been up and running for 10 years with the same sand bed with a plenum. Now I learned at MACNA that there is no such thing as old tank syndrome but instead it is old lazy aquarist syndrome. (according to Joe Yaiullo) Either way I had to do something and a tear-down was what I decided.I was curious to find out what things looked like under the plenum.

    So I took a few days of work so that I could get ...
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  4. Hopefully now we can get back to reef addicts and blog!

    Between Marc and I, I think we have the spammers under control so let's get on with the blogging!!!!!
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  5. Best MACNA booth

    Well besides reef addicts and melev's reef booth!
    PICK have to agree with Marc the best looking booth would be the Neptune Systems booth as the displays where very clean and nicely put together and very well presented. My second booth I would think would be the ORA booth with clean tanks and nice coral and fish displays! Let me know what u think?
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