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I want to get this 180g I saw on Manhattan Reefs, but I have no way of picking it up. If someone with a vehicle large enough to put this tank in is willing to help me, I'll flip for gas and any tolls. Unfortunatly, the tank is in Flushing,Queens...

This morning I woke to find that the first column of my MRC CA Reactor was totally dry and the recirc. pump was sucking air. The effluent line was not dripping any water into the sump. Lately I've had nothing but problems with this reactor. I'm having trouble maintining my Alk because I always...

I want to start a small 5g frag tank (yes, 5g). I want to keep SPS frags in it. I was on the Hellolights website and found a 70W ballast, 70W 14K HQI bulb. Do you think one 70W 14K Metal Halide plus two Actinic 28W PC bulbs would be good for SPS frags? Thanks

What do you think of this light for a possible 20g frag tank? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=160216255015&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=006

Can anyone near me let me borrow their Alkalinity test kit. My Salifert keeps showing a rise in my Alkalinity day after day. I have tried to adjust my CA reactor to lower the alk, but after 24 hours of making a change to the reactor, the Alk goes up. To lower the Alk according to the MRC...

I'm thinking ahead to this coming summer. I'm thinking of getting a chiller. My sump is in the garage, and the fan I had over my sump struggled to keep the tank warm during the dog days of summer. My problem is I don't want to spend too much. Saw this one on ebay...

Anyone have a scrap piece of 4" dia. acrylic tube. I need a piece about 24" long. Thanks

My alk is running high, like close 12 dKh. I use Reef Crystal salt. I'm wondering if I have a bad Salifert Alk Kit. Anyone nearby (Middlesex)have a kit, Salifert or other that I can borrow to check my kit against? Thanks

What is it with Magnesium Test kits? Everywhere I look, they are sold out of Salifert's Mg kit. ???

I'm wondering when I should change the bulbs on my tank. I'm running two 250W 12k Reeflux SE MH and two 110W Super Actinic VHO's. They are on the following photoperiod: 12 noon: VHO's ON 1 pm: 1st MH ON 1:30 pm: 2nd MH ON 8pm: 1st MH OFF 8:30pm: 2nd MH OFF 9pm: VHO's OFF The last time I...

I have a CR-2 Calcium Reator. Lately I've noticed air in the line that feeds the reactor. You can see the air pocket here just as it enters the fitting on the recirc. pump inlet: This line is feed off of the discharge line of the pump I use for my MR-2 Skimmer. As shown here, it's the tube...

I posted this on the Spectrapure forum on RC, but no reply yet: I just spent close to $200 with Spectrapure and purchased a new membrane, MaxCap cartridge and Silica Buster cartridge. Basically starting over with new equipment. I just checked the PO4 in my display tank and it measured 0.12 with...

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Anyone know where I can get an Auto Shut-Off valve locally? Mine went bad and I don't want to wait for one to get shipped to me. I'm in Middlesex. Thanks

Has anyone tried gluing eggcrate to Acrylic? I tried it with Weldon 16 and it didn't work too good. Any ideas? Thanks

I'm battling a little hair algae so I'm back on this PO4 kick. I suspected my phosphate was coming from my Calcium Reactor effluent. Checking it with the Hanna meter I got 0.02. So I guess I was wrong. The display tank is reading 0.04 PO4. I checked the RO/DI water I use for top off and mixing...

I have too much time on my hands. I've had this idea about an Automated Water Change System that would basically be a "push a button and watch it go" type of thing. I kind of know how it would work, but I'm not electronics savy to be able to build it with relays and time delays, etc. I was...

This morning, I cleaned the collection cup on the new MRC skimmer for the fisrt time. To clean it, I unplugged the pump, took off the cover and wiped the inside of the cup as well as the riser tube. When I plugged the pump back on, the bubbles climbed really fast up the riser tube. I had to to...

I'd like to add a media compartment to my 55g sump. I wanted to use the compartment to hold something like Carbon, Purigen or Chemi-Pure. I was thinking of something using egg crate, This drawing shows how my sump is arranged and the arrows show the flow. This is what I was thinking...

I bought this drum from US Plastics. I want to use it to store Fresh Saltwater for water changes. The inside smells kind of funny. Is there anything I should do before putting water in it? Thanks...