Hi there thought i will upload some pics altough i am nightshift so will post more late

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excellent looking tank and sump ( pretty spectacular growth on everything ) what product are you feeding them ?.

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senile old git

Beautiful tank you have there! Loooooads of growth.

Is the first picture of a Derasa Clam?

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8' x 2' x 2' - Marine Reef.
6' x 2' x 18" - Wild Caught Zaire 'Moba' Frontosa
4' x 2' x 20" - Malawi
4' x 22" x 18" - Malawi + Victoria
4' x 18" x 18" - Breeding Cuban Cichlids.
Trigon 190 - Male Paratilapia Polleni
20" x 20" x 20" - Marine
30" x 1' x 1' - Hospital Tank
2' x 1' x 1' - Tropical

and

7x - 1' and 2' cichlid fry tanks

the one is a deresa clam and the other one is a maxima clam .I dont feed my tank i add calsuim.strrotinum,iodine and magnesium once a week but carry out a waterchange only about once every 8 weeks and the corals does not like it much.my ph run at 8.20 and goes up to 8.45 in late afternoon and my no3 is about .10 and alk is 11 with calsuim at 500 and my phosfate is at 05 so my hair algea is something off the past.once i had a slight outbreak and i dosed my tank for 3 days with vodka that got rid off the hair algea problem

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its a pleasure to see the only thing I have not added to mine is iodine

( and also vodka for the hair algae ) never heard of that one, but always willing top give it a try ,how much did you put in to bring it under control ?

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senile old git

iodine is essential to keep your xenia alive as long as you dont overdose.If you carry out a weekly waterchange then you will be ok for your elements but as i do it only over long intervals i have to feed the chemicals as i am changing from soft corals to hard corals and some sps ive ordered 2 150watt 6500k for my tank now so i can have more parr to encouge quiker growth for my hard corals.the colour might be more yellow but it is the closest to sunlight you will get

sorry forgot the vodka queston i got a halfjack of tesco vodka and i added 1/2 a ml for every 100 liter water for a week that rid my tank off the hairalgea wich was quite severe and after that i only dosed vodka when needed wich was only once but i do have a diy nitrate reactor wich i use.

Yeah we haven't really added Iodine much before either. Did once all our purple sponge started to deflate and waste away to virtually nothing but has since gone back to its rampant nature.

Did try vodka for a nitrate problem but it didnt really work but didn't know it sorted out hair algae too. Have got a homemade phosphate reactor so never really tested it.

Nice Sun Coral there. Thats reminds me, a few days ago a fellow reefer was giving away a sun coral as it wasnt doing to well in his tank. He is away a lot of the time so it wasnt getting fed as much as it needed. So we took it and are feeding it up. It has the most enormous polyps I have ever seen on a sun coral. Each head must be about over an inch across. He must of been feeding it steroids before hand! I will take pics when it opens up for a feed tonight.

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8' x 2' x 2' - Marine Reef.
6' x 2' x 18" - Wild Caught Zaire 'Moba' Frontosa
4' x 2' x 20" - Malawi
4' x 22" x 18" - Malawi + Victoria
4' x 18" x 18" - Breeding Cuban Cichlids.
Trigon 190 - Male Paratilapia Polleni
20" x 20" x 20" - Marine
30" x 1' x 1' - Hospital Tank
2' x 1' x 1' - Tropical

and

7x - 1' and 2' cichlid fry tanks

as I said ,always willing to try something new to me, so I have noted the dosage down for future reference if needed .thanks for the tip .

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senile old git

my suncoral was in my lfs for 2weeks as no one wanted to buy it my lfs gave it to me and it was on deaths door took me 2weeks off feeding it 3 times a day to recue it and i feed it twice a day now when i feed my fish with the result that in the morning and at night it is fully open for about 3hours a time however i am looking for a black suncoral now and placed a wanted add on the site as i believe tehy are quite scarse to get hold off now ass they are on the banned eec list thats the black suncoral

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