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Old 07/01/2004, 09:12 PM
alprazo alprazo is offline
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Delaware
Posts: 115
Top 5 Mistakes

1. Watching xenia, glove polpys and gsp grow off their rocks
2. Not removing hitchhiker crabs at first site + adding emerald crabs
3. Waiting a day to re-attach the frag that fell over and not using enough super-glue (I now use a whole tube for every frag)
4. Assuming that the circuits wont trip when adding 800 watts of light and not having a backup plan.
5. lack of battery powered air pumps for power outages. I lost 1/2 my tank last Oct after 5 days without power.

Oh yeh - FORGETTING TO LEVEL THE TANK AND BRACE THE FLOOR BEFORE FILLING IT. (I did this twice)

5 best things

1. temperature controller
2. Having a spare return pump
3. joining RC
4. Putting the sump in the basement
5. R/O with DI and auto shut-off