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I bought some green zoas with yellow centers that I haven't seen before some months ago and they have mixed with some watermelons. I have fragged out the one polyp hoping it will multiply. The center is teal/blue, with yellow, orange, red, green and light/dark blue is the best description I can give. The picture is only cropped and not altered in color in any way. Has anyone seen a morph like this one?

Hey Lamont, call me dude, I'm interested in numbers 7, 16, 24

Here you go Tim, mostly Acropora but I have a mix of everything. I use tap water and my tank seems fine. I do at prime declor to get rid of the chloramines though.

pm on the aussie blue and the plum crazy

It will be OK to use non protective UV lamps on your tank. When you go to work everyday, do you use sunblock?

Looking closer at the City of Austin water report ( http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/whatsinthewater.htm ) and looking up "Saltwater" on Wikipedia a several contaminants listed are found in saltwater naturally. It may be stuff we don't want to consume but corals are exposed to it all the time. The simple solution for copper and lead is to run your tap a short period before using it. The report left out phosphate and iron which is what I would think people would find issue with. Since iron is so important for chlorophill it doesn't bother me especially after seeing how much is in the mud products for refugiums. Like I said in an earlier post in this thread phosphate levels are much better now than they used to be. To give an idea of how much phosphate is added in tap water and in food I did a small experiment. I took two 1 gal containers and filled each one with 1 gal tap water. In one container I put .5 g pellet food (about 1/8 teaspoon) in the 2nd container I put .5 g frozen krill (slightly less than 2 individual krill) I let both containers set for about 20 hrs. The results were:

Tap Water .08 P / .25 PO4 mg/l

Pellets .75 mg/l PO4 (.25 from tap, .5 from pellets)

Krill 1 mg/l PO4 (.25 from tap, .75 from krill)

My Elos test kit only went to .48 PO4 so I used Mercks to test the higher levels in the pellet and krill samples.

An interesting follow up to this would be to determine the total amount of phosphate added to a tank during a water change and the total amount of phosphate added for the time period between water changes.

As I see it many of the contaminants in tap are things that are bad or distasteful to us not necessarily corals and clearly reef systems can be maintained for years with tap water with little remediation.

(and thanks Bay [ Doma ] for almost getting my thread locked )

Tim, you know giving you a hard time is one of the perks of being your friend. By the way, you probably need to get better test kits. I did those tests 10 years ago with food and phosphates and things havnen't changed much from your current results. That's why I'm using Tap water with Chaeto to export excess nutrients.

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I've used tap water for years also. This thread is useless without pics as most people clicking this link will be looking for tanks that actually use tap water. BTW, regarding things in faucet water, what do you use when you brush your teeth? RO water?

This thread is NOT useless, as you don't want to give someone the wrong impression that their tap water is ok to use, and then their tanks ending up crashing due to the tap water. As stated before, it depends on the quality of your tap water whether you are able to get by with tap water only.

"what do you use when you brush your teeth? RO water?" We put many things in our body that we would never allow our tank to have in them. Why don''t you try pouring a bottle of scope in your tank, if you want to take that analogy.

Yes, this thread is useless because there is no proof why RO is better then Tap. Animals still survive in the water and corals grow fine. Useless useless useless thread.....

I've used tap water for years also. This thread is useless without pics as most people clicking this link will be looking for tanks that actually use tap water. BTW, regarding things in faucet water, what do you use when you brush your teeth? RO water?

selenoid isn't working but gauge was replaced two months ago.

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These have been in captivity for years and split very often. The first one is before I started selling them off, second one is for sale.

$25

Thanks

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Crab is gone.

I'll take him! BTW, your PM box is full.

call me, number above. tks.

I found a small crab in one of my acros. I don't know if he's beneficial but he's in a cup if anyone wants him. 512-897-7259. If he is the bad kind then I will be feeding him to my wrasses.

Dosage = .5ml of Bayer Advanced Complete Insect Killer for every 2 cups of tank water.

Product:

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Model # 700270

Store SKU # 722056

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Looks great. Do you have any fish in there?

Yep, I have about 40 fish in there. Mostly wrasses and Tangs

What's the name of that song Lamont? Don't let me crash? Looks like you're gettng a great start with those acros

Stylaster didn't last, it lived for a few weeks and then became live rock. Here's a more recent pic

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I bought the mimic and the powder blue, these are super healthy fish and the poweder blue ate within 20 min of being in my tank. Just can't beat fish that are used to being in an aquarium. Luckily there has been very little aggression between my fish and the new guys. I'm reallly happy to have found a healthy powder blue, been looking for a while.

Achilles tang is perfect, the dark black and red are so vibrant it looks fake..

Thanks Robert

Hydro, you should have bought that Achiles Tang, I bet it would look amazing in your 440.00.

sure, noone has picked any up at all so all is still here.

45.00

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SOLD

Sure, call me first, Melissa wanted a few so I'll just set some for her aside.

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i'm at 620 and parmer