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I have a 120g, 200g and 100g sump on the same system through a manifold. Same sand, liverock, t5 lighting on each no powerheads in the 120(fowlr)even the same clean up crew and I have the crystal clean sand with no algae in the 120 while the "reef" sits there some kind of brown algae in it...

I am not sure exactly what I have going on in my tank I am suspicious to it being Diatoms. I had a few patches on a couple pieces of live rock. then it moved to the sandbed and occasionally to the glass. It is very stringy and plush like a carpet, dark brown in color. 2 Hours later 2 hrs...

And I thought my kids were a good deduction on my taxes! Anybody see this? http://www.reefbuilders.com/2009/08/06/claim-fish-taxes-3500/ Anybody going to claim your fish? Interesting

I've never used a PH probe before, but I now have one on my Reef Keeper Elite. It has been calibrated and been running for a couple of months now. I assume these things need cleaning. How and how often do you clean these? How often should I calibrate? I would also like to know how long the life...

Is it possible that any of the nasties that we do not want to see in our reef tanks can make it past an RODI even with a TDS reading of zero? eg. silicates, phosphates, iron etc. Is a DI resin bed standard or do you need specialized filters/resins to take out silicates? Taz

I have been noticing more and more white spots all over my rockwork ,frag plugs, and my clam shell too. They do not appear to move and I was thinking along the line of eggs of some kind? They are almost flat and slightly smaller than a match head round. I know it is hard to ID off of a simple...

Really stupid subject to discuss, but I am amazed how efficient they have become. The last three visits I have made to motor vehicle were shorter and shorter each time. I went in today to do an address change,license renewal,registration renewal and another registration renewal for my trailer...

OK, so My fathers tank is OVERGROWN with hair algae. I have been trying to help him get rid of this problem for quite some time now by teaching him not to feed so much, replace 2-3 year old bulbs to which he couldn't understand..LOL, Phosban, more frequent maint, new ro/di filters and membrane...

Just found out that my mother has been using RODI water in her cpap machine for over a year. I do not know anything about these machines. I asked her what she is supposed to fill the machine with and she tells me distilled water. So my parents automatically started using RODI water thinking this...

What kind of controllers are you using for your whole system? Which one would you reccommend, the same one or something else? Tazmaniancowboy

Anybody here into ricordias? What kind of conditions do they require and are they hard or special to maintain? My wife stumbled across some online and loves the colors and now wants me to have some. I have always liked them myself, but never considered trying them( don't know why). Can they be...

Was reading over at Reef Central the other day and came across a guy that had a good point. Everybody suggests placing liverock directly on the glass bottom with no sand under it in fear of something burrowing under and causing a collapse. He was concerned about stacking pounds and pounds of...

What kind of heater is everyone using? What is the best. I liked the WON titanium heater, but I am hearing too many bad things about them. Taz

Does anybody in Central NJ have any 55g drums I could borrow for a week or two to transfer some water?. I have 2 but I need 1 or 2 more to pump (leapfrog)into the other and onto the truck. Tazmaniancowboy

I have never had to buy water, but I just ran into a problem. I hooked my RO/DI up to my house and found out that the well pump doesn't have enough pressure for it to work efficiently. My 100gpd unit is now producing a whopping .5 gals/hr for a grand total of around 12gpd. >:( At that rate it...

I just found my TDS meter and checked my water supply in the house. It appears to be 71ppm straight from the well and 110ppm after the water softener. This doesn't seem right to me. Could this be true? If so, should I hook up the RO unit before or after the softener? Logically I believe I...

I have some live rock that is probably dead rock by now. It was excess when I had my 120 set up. I put it in a rubbermaid bin with saltwater and a tight lid and had it in the basement for probably 2 years. when I moved it was put outside in the shade for 2 months( forgot about it). I looked in...

I'm finally gathering all the equipment to hook up my tanks. I have a basement sump (good ol' 100g rubbermaid)so I will be pumping up to main floor and then horizontally about 5 feet in each direction to two separate tanks. one tank is my 120g and the other tank is the 200g deep dimension tank...

I'm starting to get a list together for plumbing supplies to set up my new reef ready tank. On my last tank I plumbed everything with flex PVC and barb fittings all the way from the tank to the basement sump. This time I am thinking about doing regular PVC pipe. I've seen many people use both...

I had about 1-2" of sand bed in my 120gal reef. I assume this would be considered a shallow sand bed correct? I have heard people say anywhere from 1-2 pounds of sand are needed for a deep sand bed. Is there such a thing as Too much sand in a DSB? I will be building a 200gal reef shortly and am...