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Here you can find the daily poll topics and links to the threads. Feel free to PM me with poll topics you feel would be interesting.
2018 Polls:
Adding new creatures
Age - Is 60 too old
Aiptasia - How do you battle it
Alk - Acceptable swing
Alk - Alk and nutrients relationship
Alk - Monitoring
Alk - SPS Dominant Measurement
Amino Acids - Do you dose them
Anemones - How long to find their resting spot
Apex - New Brain, Old Modules
Aquascaping - Methods to hold rocks together
ATO - How long does your reservoir last
ATO - Independent or controller dependent
Bio Media - Which do you use
Bubble Algae
Buying - Most important element to buying livestock
Carbon (GAC) - Do you use
Caulerpa Sporulation
Chaeto - To Tumble or Not
Chillers - Do you use one
Clowns - Have you tried breeding them
Clowns - What's your favorite
Clowns - What's your favorite
Controllers - Which do you use
Converting people to the hobby
Coralline Algae - Do you try to control
Coralline Algae - Most important factor in growth
Corals - Distrupters/Movers
Corals - Do you grow them on the back glass
Corals - Feeding Frequency
Corals - Frags or colonies
Corals - How do you feed
Corals - What tools do you use to feed
Corals - How long do you wait to mount them
Corals - Target vs. broadcasting
Corals - Spawning
Corals - What's your favorite
Corals - What's your preferred dip
Costs - How much have you loss in fish
Crabs - Are Emeralds reef safe
Crabs - What's your favorite
Cyano - Have You Had It
Decorations - Do You Dare
Dosing - How many times per day
Electrical - Are GFI's necessary
Equipment - What do you keep as a backup
Evaporation - What do you use for replacement
Feeding - Pumps on or off
Fish - Flame Angels - Do you keep pairs
Fish - How many per gallon
Fish - How old is your oldest
Fish - Inches per gallon
Fish - Disease - What have you encountered
Fish - Mandarins - Appropriate tank size
Fish - Watchman Goby - What is your favorite
Fish - What's your oldest fish
Flow - How do you program your circulation pumps
Flow - Internal flow rates
Food - Do you make your own
Food - Do you pay attention to expiration dates
Food - Have you tried nightcrawlers
Frag Tanks - What's you frag tank height
GFO - Do you use
Glass - Do you paint yours
Glass - How often do you clean yours
Ground Probes - Do You Use One
Ground Probe - Placement
Hobby - Do you challenge yourself
Hobby - Favorite part
Hobby - Single fish or coral get you hooked
How long have you been in the hobby
LFS - How close is the nearest to you
LFS - How Often Do You Visit Yours
Lighting - How blue is your reef
Lighting - How do you hang yours
Lighting - LED's - How high do you hang your fixture
Lighting - Measuring strength
Lighting - Preferences
Lighting - Ramp times
Lighting - Shimmer Effect
Lighting - T5's - Bulb change frequency
Lighting - T5's - Bulb change frequency - BRS
Lighting - T5's - Bulb combination
Lighting - T5's - How high do you hang your fixture
Macro Algaes - What's your preference
Maintenance - High or low
Maintenance - Do you hate it
Manifold - How do you feed yours
Nightmares - Ever had one
Pests - In the Reef
Phosphate Export - Preferred method
Potassium - Do you measure for it
Power Outages
R2R - Are you addicted
RAP Orlando - Are you going
RAP Orlando - Did you go and what did you get
Refugiums - Sand or bare bottom
Return Flow
Rocks - What's your preference
RODI - Changing DI resin frequency
RODI - Resin - Preferred setup
RODI - Resin - Premade or pack you own
RODI - What do you do with waste water
RODI - Water pressure
Sand - Have you ever used black sand
Sand Beds - Do you stir them with a powerhead
Sand Beds - Is a clean sandbed attainable
Scuba Diving/Snorkeling
Shrimp - What's your favorite
Skimmer - Do you use one
Snails - What's your favorite
Socks - How often do you change yours
Spot Feeding - Tools
Stands - Preference
Stands - What's you display stand height
Starfish - What's your favorite
Summer time - does your tank take a back seat
Sumps - DIY or Prebuilt
Sumps - Location
Sumps - Sizes
Tangs - What's your favorite
Tanks - How satisfied are you with yours
Tanks - How long did the uglies last
Tanks - How long have you left yours unattended
Tanks - How many do you have
Tanks - Size in an apartment
Testing - Preferred ICP test
TDS - Do You Know Yours
Urchins - Sea Urchins
US reefing vs. other countries
UV Sterilization
Videos - Do you watch them
Vitamins
Washing your hands
Water changes - Do you adjust to match parameters
Water changes - what do you do with your old saltwater
Wrasses - Six Line Agression
Yellow Water
Zoas - Do you love them
Zoas - What size frag do you purchase
Zoas - Zoa Pox - what is it.
2017 Polls:
2-Part Dosing Formula Improvement
Aiptasia Removal
Age - Aquarist not Tank
Alk Demand
Alk Importance - Where Does it Rank
Alk Level - Where Do you Keep Your
Alk Monitoring System - Considering One
Bristle Worms - Good or bad
Carbon Dosing - Favorite Method
Calcium Demand
Calcium Reactor - Do You Use One
Coral - Do you Acclimate
Coral - On Overflow Box
Coral - Target Feeding
Display Tank - Glass or Acrylic
Dosing - How Do You Dose
Drain Method - What's Your Favorite
Eclipse - Notice Anything Different Today
Evaporation
Feeding - Auto Feeder
Feeding - Frequency
Feeding - What Do You Feed
Filter Socks or Not
Fish - Do You Name Yours
Fish - Fish Only or Reef
Flow - Laminar vs. Turbulent
Frag Tanks
Freshwater Start
Heaters
Ich Free Tank - Is it Possible
Insurance - What's Covered
LFS - How Far is Yours
Lighting - Height
Lighting - Time at Max
Magnesium Demand
Magnet Cleaners - Leave them in
Male or Female
Micromanaging - Do You
Moon Lights
Other Pets
pH - Low Point
pH - High Point
Poll About Polls
QT - Preferred Method
QT - Yes or No
R2R - Time per Day you Visit the Site
Return Pump - Best in the Industry
Salinity - How Do You Test
Salt Mix - Favorite Brand
Salt Mix - Which Product
Snails - What Are Your Favorites
Socks - Mesh or Felt
Spousal Involvement
Stability - Defined
Stability - Most Important
Substrate - Sand or Bare Bottom
Sump - How do you Keep it Clean
Tank - Automation
Tank - Dedicated Species
Tank - Have you Ever Upgraded
Tank - Location
Tank - Monthly Operating Costs
Tank - What Size
Tank - When is it Considered Mature
Testing - Frequency
Temperature - What's Your Average
Travel - Are You Ready
Water Change - Frequency
2018 Polls:
Adding new creatures
Age - Is 60 too old
Aiptasia - How do you battle it
Alk - Acceptable swing
Alk - Alk and nutrients relationship
Alk - Monitoring
Alk - SPS Dominant Measurement
Amino Acids - Do you dose them
Anemones - How long to find their resting spot
Apex - New Brain, Old Modules
Aquascaping - Methods to hold rocks together
ATO - How long does your reservoir last
ATO - Independent or controller dependent
Bio Media - Which do you use
Bubble Algae
Buying - Most important element to buying livestock
Carbon (GAC) - Do you use
Caulerpa Sporulation
Chaeto - To Tumble or Not
Chillers - Do you use one
Clowns - Have you tried breeding them
Clowns - What's your favorite
Clowns - What's your favorite
Controllers - Which do you use
Converting people to the hobby
Coralline Algae - Do you try to control
Coralline Algae - Most important factor in growth
Corals - Distrupters/Movers
Corals - Do you grow them on the back glass
Corals - Feeding Frequency
Corals - Frags or colonies
Corals - How do you feed
Corals - What tools do you use to feed
Corals - How long do you wait to mount them
Corals - Target vs. broadcasting
Corals - Spawning
Corals - What's your favorite
Corals - What's your preferred dip
Costs - How much have you loss in fish
Crabs - Are Emeralds reef safe
Crabs - What's your favorite
Cyano - Have You Had It
Decorations - Do You Dare
Dosing - How many times per day
Electrical - Are GFI's necessary
Equipment - What do you keep as a backup
Evaporation - What do you use for replacement
Feeding - Pumps on or off
Fish - Flame Angels - Do you keep pairs
Fish - How many per gallon
Fish - How old is your oldest
Fish - Inches per gallon
Fish - Disease - What have you encountered
Fish - Mandarins - Appropriate tank size
Fish - Watchman Goby - What is your favorite
Fish - What's your oldest fish
Flow - How do you program your circulation pumps
Flow - Internal flow rates
Food - Do you make your own
Food - Do you pay attention to expiration dates
Food - Have you tried nightcrawlers
Frag Tanks - What's you frag tank height
GFO - Do you use
Glass - Do you paint yours
Glass - How often do you clean yours
Ground Probes - Do You Use One
Ground Probe - Placement
Hobby - Do you challenge yourself
Hobby - Favorite part
Hobby - Single fish or coral get you hooked
How long have you been in the hobby
LFS - How close is the nearest to you
LFS - How Often Do You Visit Yours
Lighting - How blue is your reef
Lighting - How do you hang yours
Lighting - LED's - How high do you hang your fixture
Lighting - Measuring strength
Lighting - Preferences
Lighting - Ramp times
Lighting - Shimmer Effect
Lighting - T5's - Bulb change frequency
Lighting - T5's - Bulb change frequency - BRS
Lighting - T5's - Bulb combination
Lighting - T5's - How high do you hang your fixture
Macro Algaes - What's your preference
Maintenance - High or low
Maintenance - Do you hate it
Manifold - How do you feed yours
Nightmares - Ever had one
Pests - In the Reef
Phosphate Export - Preferred method
Potassium - Do you measure for it
Power Outages
R2R - Are you addicted
RAP Orlando - Are you going
RAP Orlando - Did you go and what did you get
Refugiums - Sand or bare bottom
Return Flow
Rocks - What's your preference
RODI - Changing DI resin frequency
RODI - Resin - Preferred setup
RODI - Resin - Premade or pack you own
RODI - What do you do with waste water
RODI - Water pressure
Sand - Have you ever used black sand
Sand Beds - Do you stir them with a powerhead
Sand Beds - Is a clean sandbed attainable
Scuba Diving/Snorkeling
Shrimp - What's your favorite
Skimmer - Do you use one
Snails - What's your favorite
Socks - How often do you change yours
Spot Feeding - Tools
Stands - Preference
Stands - What's you display stand height
Starfish - What's your favorite
Summer time - does your tank take a back seat
Sumps - DIY or Prebuilt
Sumps - Location
Sumps - Sizes
Tangs - What's your favorite
Tanks - How satisfied are you with yours
Tanks - How long did the uglies last
Tanks - How long have you left yours unattended
Tanks - How many do you have
Tanks - Size in an apartment
Testing - Preferred ICP test
TDS - Do You Know Yours
Urchins - Sea Urchins
US reefing vs. other countries
UV Sterilization
Videos - Do you watch them
Vitamins
Washing your hands
Water changes - Do you adjust to match parameters
Water changes - what do you do with your old saltwater
Wrasses - Six Line Agression
Yellow Water
Zoas - Do you love them
Zoas - What size frag do you purchase
Zoas - Zoa Pox - what is it.
2017 Polls:
2-Part Dosing Formula Improvement
Aiptasia Removal
Age - Aquarist not Tank
Alk Demand
Alk Importance - Where Does it Rank
Alk Level - Where Do you Keep Your
Alk Monitoring System - Considering One
Bristle Worms - Good or bad
Carbon Dosing - Favorite Method
Calcium Demand
Calcium Reactor - Do You Use One
Coral - Do you Acclimate
Coral - On Overflow Box
Coral - Target Feeding
Display Tank - Glass or Acrylic
Dosing - How Do You Dose
Drain Method - What's Your Favorite
Eclipse - Notice Anything Different Today
Evaporation
Feeding - Auto Feeder
Feeding - Frequency
Feeding - What Do You Feed
Filter Socks or Not
Fish - Do You Name Yours
Fish - Fish Only or Reef
Flow - Laminar vs. Turbulent
Frag Tanks
Freshwater Start
Heaters
Ich Free Tank - Is it Possible
Insurance - What's Covered
LFS - How Far is Yours
Lighting - Height
Lighting - Time at Max
Magnesium Demand
Magnet Cleaners - Leave them in
Male or Female
Micromanaging - Do You
Moon Lights
Other Pets
pH - Low Point
pH - High Point
Poll About Polls
QT - Preferred Method
QT - Yes or No
R2R - Time per Day you Visit the Site
Return Pump - Best in the Industry
Salinity - How Do You Test
Salt Mix - Favorite Brand
Salt Mix - Which Product
Snails - What Are Your Favorites
Socks - Mesh or Felt
Spousal Involvement
Stability - Defined
Stability - Most Important
Substrate - Sand or Bare Bottom
Sump - How do you Keep it Clean
Tank - Automation
Tank - Dedicated Species
Tank - Have you Ever Upgraded
Tank - Location
Tank - Monthly Operating Costs
Tank - What Size
Tank - When is it Considered Mature
Testing - Frequency
Temperature - What's Your Average
Travel - Are You Ready
Water Change - Frequency
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