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The thing missing completely is the DI stage from what I see here. Also, what is the TDS of the water coming out of the filter? What is that TDS comprised of? While this is probably fine for home use for the average Joe, personally I'll stick with something that can give me 0 TDS water for...

I hope you didn't throw away that refrigerator box! If there's a cap you'd like/need us to put on the meeting please let us know. Say... 98?

I can definitely see your confusion. I would have made the ame mistake! I can also "see" the other side. I'm sure there was a more effective way of communicating with you to have avoided the confusion in the first place. Those that know him well probably understand as he must use this verbage...

You and your family continues to be in my thoughts and prayers. So sorry she suffered so much. What a wonderful brother you are to have been by her side through it all.

Good ideas for meeting food are: Pasta Dish (Baked Ziti, tortellini alfredo, etc) Wings Deli platter/bread Dip/Chips (spinach & artichoke, taco, crab, buffalo chicken, etc) Pretzel tray Salads (fruit, pasta, etc) Ham Ribs Franchaise/cacciatori/etc

I feel that unless you are going to TREAT the animals in QT there's no sense in doing it. To QT just to sit and watch proves NOTHING other than that the fish is either resistant or not currently sypmtomatic. If you don't treat you could still be moving Ich into your system. With corals I can't...

Interesting bit HERE. Quick. Run home and test your RO/DI bucket...

Come early. Leave drunk.

Before you even dream of corals you need to find something better than "tap water" to use. At the very least I'd have your TDS tested before you use it. We have water that's pretty good at around 60TDS, but others on the forum have a TDS closer to 400. 60 water isn't the end of the world, but...

Cool. We'll be there! With 100 of our closest friends. ;D Not sure what you'd like us to bring so please let me know (Beer still? Something else?). Everyone should plan to bring a covered dish/app to relieve a bit of the burden on the host. I still have plenty of purple cap, if anyone is in the...

Diatoms will burn out unless you replace them through water changes. Is your source water/salt free of silicates? There is commercially available silicate remover. Diatoms are a dusty brown algae. Not usually able to smother. Dinoflagelletes are also silicate fed. This is a stringy snotty...

Sounds like a post count limitation. Not a surprise. How many posts do you have?! And don't go around senselessly padding until you hit the limit either!!

Since there will be no fish/livestock in the tank you can drain the whole thing and replace the water. The bio-capability of a tank lies in the rock/sand/tank. Not the water.

Whoah. That's one hefty expectation there, Billy! Good luck with it!

Whoah. That's usually only because you've made the RC Mods angry. That usually takes posts that may resemble a commercial entity or disagreeing with them openly. They've recently upgraded their forum software and there's no telling what went awry. I've not had any problem logging in, so I'm not...

Did you just register there? If so change your email address and re-send the activation email.

Brown algae on your sand = Diatoms. Nothing you can do about that except let the silicates burn out (don't use the Red Sea salt if you want to burn those out any time soon)

There's no need to skim a newly cycled tank. Before all is said and done you'll replace all of that water anyway. Just go ahead and run the tank with the water, rock, sand. If the rock is dry and clean then you'll want to create an ammonia source (Raw shrimp or fish food. No fish.). If the rock...

With a predominantly saltwater crowd, they are all probably opening it thinking that these are going to be SW fish. Hence the large number of looks but no interest. Subject changed.

They should have advertised it! I'm sure MANY would have signed up!