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Chris, I've tried Levamisole. I used it side by side with my own concoction. I found it to be far too harsh on the corals with a high loss of Acros. While I'm not close enough to help you with your testing I'll tell you a little bit about my setup which has worked pretty well for me in treating...

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John, I do agree if you use the same device (regardless of calibration) to always mix your salt and are having good results then sometimes "good" is "good enough" even if not optimal. In mladencovic's original post he was getting results of 1.030 with the refratometer vs 1.023 with the...

Time to put your new "toy" down and get out paper and pen and make a list of gifts you could purchase for her anniversary gift. You know it's going to cost you. :)

Nope move the LR out of the chamber and put it back in the tank. You really don't want the LR in fast moving water (if it's oxygenated) since you loose out on some important bacteria doing that. Use that chamber for something that will help the tank like carbon or better yet Chemi-Pure Elite or...

I understand the logic however it doesn't work with sg devices very well for marine aquarium use. You can quote text books all day long but I guarantee if you calibrate a cheap (under couple hundred bucks) refractometer or hydrometer using RO/DI water you are going to be off mixing your salt...

I've read that numerious times and just shake my head every time I read it. It's no wonder why so many hypo treatments fail. :) I just don't get why people try and calibrate at base ZERO instead of using a known solution in the center of the usuable range. Carlo

Yea, that calc is pretty darn handy. It's pretty hard to mess up if you use it. The only recommendation I'd make is a general one: Even when you know the "proper" amount to dose to bring something up do it in moderation. It's far better to spread a dose out over 2 days then to dose it all at...

No, that's about the worst thing you can use. You want to use a calibration fluid that is at sea sg. Carlo

I'm not exactly local but if you want to take a trip to Bordentown I can help you out. I have 53ms solution on hand that I use to calibrate my digital salinity meter with. If you were to bring the reference temp card it came with we could warm the solution to that of your normal tank and get a...

Since each person owns the copyright to their work you would need to get permission from each person who took the photographs. If you plan on coping the photo to your own site then you have no problem as long as the author has given you permission to use the photos or their work. If on the...

Oops, sorry about that. http://reef.diesyst.com/ Carlo

I myself would stop using the B-Ionic in your situation and start a kalk drip. The kalk drip will substantially help with your pH problem and will also help raise your calcium and alkalinity. Keep in mind the biggest change you will see is in the pH. Ideally you would want to drip the kalk at...

No problem. I picked up a hammer last week that was "dead" in the center. I got it pretty cheap. I dropped it in the tank to make sure it was going to make it and it seems to be doing good except for the center. I'm going to cut it into two different pieces tonight. Maybe I'll grab some pics...

It sounds like you are back in shape again. Here is a very handy webpage that can be very helpful in keeping Alkalinity, Calcium and Magnesium in perfect balanced. It has a graphical tool built in that will show you how you stand graphically to where you should be target wise and breaks it up...

What online sites do you guys normally order stuff from? What are some other sought after corals? Carlo

I don't think the "reefers" has the same negative connotation to boating people as the typical "normal" person and at least some of them think about reefs and not pot. :)

That's a pretty good article and I've read it a few times before. The only part of it I'd object to is the amount of phyto they feed. Looking at the pictures and text a dark green color is not what you want. A light tint is PLENTY of phyto and helps to keep the water fresher longer. In the long...

Yea, I'd like to get a frag of that also.

Doesn't matter at all for a Calcium Reactor.