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I wouldn't adjust the amount of media as you want to always use enough for it to become saturated during the stir process. The key way to control it would be to slow down the drip either with a control valve or controller or using a timer or some other method to turn on/off a pump if you are...

What you need to do is adjust both the Kalk and Calcium reactor so they are both working a bit. You can do this different ways but what I would do is try to use the Kalk reactor to keep the system in the 8.4-8.6 pH range if possible and then pick up the slack using the calcium reactor. I...

Very COOL! Welcome to the site, Carlo

Re: Alkalinity Help I can't make the meeting this month unfortunately but should be able to start making all the meetings starting with next month's meeting. I'm hard at work at the moment on a set of projects I started a bit before the frag swap in the fall. :) Feel free to pick my brain...

If the house was built in the last 30-40 years there shouldn't be any problem at all with the limited weight of the tank and water. Carlo

Not really an issue at all with the levels people would generally run for a home tank. Carlo

Yep no question about it. Just make sure you use ozone safe tubing and you're all set. Carlo

To bad they didn't at least use betas instead. Carlo

I read that somewhere also Rich but couldn't get it to work reliably for me so I still went back to running something with a bit more amps on the same line (via extension cord) to make sure it got sensed correctly. Carlo

sure thing It's not a specific product or anything. Just good husbandry. First if you are able to test 0.02 with a hobby test kit your phosphates are too high. Secondly any time you see cyano or any type of algae growing you know you have excess nutrients in the tank or they simply can't grow...

A light or another pump or anything that draws more amps is the ticket. Carlo

That's pretty funny Brian. Loved to see her face with that one. :) Carlo

That's very cool ReneeRN. Got to get some more info on it. :) Carlo

Nice setup, very similar to mine in concept with the skimmer pump(s) and regulating the flow. I think this is super important and something more people should do to get much better performance from their skimmers. BTW, if you don't need that egg crate I'd remove it. I've been doing some testing...

I'm sure I've got the latest catalog. What page? Is the meter on their website? Carlo

Nick, you may not get a noticeable cycle. If the rock you added was fully cured then you probably won't get it from that. Also if the dry rock didn't have a lot of dead organics in it then again you might not have anything to cause a new cycle. Are you adding a couple pieces of flake food a day...

Looking good. Can't wait to see updated pics with everything working! BTW, did everything I mentioned make sense? Carlo

In the past I always ran skimmed water back into the fuge. After talking with a few individuals about alternate setups I tried it again where the fuge sat between the tank and sump (dirty water). I so much hate this setup. I've been running it this way for close to a year to give it a good...

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Anthony, I guess it's a good thing you didn't buy a fish or he might have gotten a good scrub down too. Gotta break in that new brush. :) Got more rock in Friday evening so if you need more... Reefitup, let me know when you plan on coming down a head of time and...

Which meter did you get? Carlo