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Thank you Anthony and Terri, for hosting the meeting and for your gracious hospitality. Food was great. It was nice to put some more faces on screen names too.
Take two 2 litre plastic bottles, cut the top portion off of one, the bottom portion off the other. Insert the top portion you removed into the bottom of the one you removed the bottom from, and attach, i.e. glue, zip tie, etc. You can do this with a single bottle, but it's easier to remove the...
I'm using some strong magnets (http://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=164) to help hold up some of my Pukani against the back. I also used some 3" PVC fitting around the bottom of the overflow chamber to get some water flow in those dead area's, and I also drilled some 1" holes in the pipe...
Here's a few things worth reading:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php
see link to part ll at the bottom
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-10/sp/feature/index.php
http://www.reefland.com/forum/marine-fish-care-health-disease-treatment/19255-fish-quarantine-process.html...
I think if you're the type of person who would rather work on a regiment of just doing monthly changes, then just get the standard GFO and change your GAC at the same time. If you are going to change it based on your test kit readings, then you should go with the HC, since it will last longer...
If you used the reef calculator, you may have selected the wrong supplement. I use the BRS (regular) reactor with the HC in a 180, and it only calls for 1.41 cups. All systems are different, but I replace mine every 9 to 10 weeks. I only change it when my PO4 levels start to go back up. I would...