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  1. Help a marine biology teacher win a trip to MACNA 2011

    Do you know a deserving Marine Biology (or related) High School Teacher or College Instructor? We would like to hear from you. The Marine Aquarium Society of North America (MASNA) (http://www.masna.org) is giving away a Full Admission Ticket (including banquet, talks and trade show) to MACNA 2011 (www.macna2011.com) to one deserving Teacher or College Instructor along with 2 of his/her students.

    MACNA XXIII (http://www.macna2011.com), Sept. 9-11, 2011 in Des Moines, Iowa is ...
  2. The Refugium

    Whats the overall consensus on cleaning the walls of a refugium??? While my tank is a little over 3 months old, I have some alga growing on the walls and over the divider into the center return section. I saw pix of Marc's refugium per the review of the Refugium LED Lighting system and it's crystal clear.

    on mine, I've noticed that in amoungst the algae thats growing on the sides, are pods and little creatures. Am I inviting trouble in scraping the sides down and clearing out the ...
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  3. 130 gal. DAS build

    Its going to be slow. I am in and out of travel to Israel, but I am trying to move through this as fast as possible.

    The tank before I started on the rock background and after I had been tinkering with it a little.


    The sand I will be using, all 160lbs of it. I think this will be nice and not fly all over the place like the sugar grain stuff I currently have in my 75. ...
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    Tank Entry , ‎ DIY projects
  4. DIY LED fixture of fun (SOL rip off) part2

    LINK TO PART 1 (INTRO) -> http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...n-(SOL-rip-off)
    Everything arrived today!!!!!!!!

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    My initial thought so far:
    1) These LEDs are REALLY small I expected them to be much larger, same with the drivers an optics
    2) Rapid led gave me adhesive rather than
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    Electrical , ‎ Lighting , ‎ DIY projects
  5. New to Saltwater Reading/Articles

    This was a post I put together for my local fish club. Thought it was worth a blog post. If you guys know of a few more articles that should be mentioned, post them in the comments below!

    Hey guys,

    I wanted to put together this "New to Saltwater" topic so that we could link people interested in starting a tank to this single topic with tons of information. I'm going to start it off with several statements and articles.

    The best place to begin is ...
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