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Unread 08/12/2008, 03:30 PM   #1
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Thumbs down eHow Article - 24 steps to setting up a 240gal reef

Anyone else see this article on setting up a 240 gallon aquarium: http://www.ehow.com/how_2210859_set-...r-captive.html ? I was searching around google and found it.

I guess to comment I need to create an account, but I don't even know where I would start. My only thought was to say that setting up a 240gal reef tank is probably not well suited for the eHow format.

NOTE: Newbies - disregard this article as this is not how you want to successfully setup a reef tank!


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Unread 08/12/2008, 03:34 PM   #2
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IT'S THAT EASY!

No cycle no nothing... Everything done in an afternoon... but just make sure you have a chiller and ozone though, or you're screwed.

To think I've been doing it the hard way all this time.




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Unread 08/12/2008, 03:38 PM   #3
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oh my God!!!!

my favorite part (this is the order it is given in the directions):

1. arrange the corals, anemones as you like.
2. add water
3. add salt


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Unread 08/12/2008, 03:52 PM   #4
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ignorance is bliss, right?


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Unread 08/12/2008, 06:09 PM   #5
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I signed up to eHow just so I could comment on this article. Somebody might read that, and actually think that's it's good advice. I was going to throw up RC's url, but I wasn't sure if that was allowed.


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Unread 08/13/2008, 06:54 AM   #6
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eHow not to do something.


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Unread 08/13/2008, 08:32 AM   #7
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There are dozens more and they are all horrible...

Not one that I looked at said to use anything but tap water. One says to do water changes using dechlorinated tap water *without salt added*.


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Unread 08/13/2008, 09:11 AM   #8
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I can't link to it now, came up on the eHow search, but clicking the link redirected me to the main eHow page


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Unread 08/13/2008, 01:40 PM   #9
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I can't get to the 240gal article now as well - even searching. Maybe it was removed? Can anyone else get to it?

Some of the other articles I read I wasn't in 100% complete agreement with on everything, but this one was just so off. If they have removed it that is good as I wouldn't want any newbie tumbling on to it and having everything go wrong for them.


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Unread 08/13/2008, 02:59 PM   #10
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I think they must of removed it.


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