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Very intriguing. Scott Fellman would be so proud. He calls them Biotopes (species specific, in this case). The one thing you didn't mention was what fish you were planning on stocking with. Have you looked into Sea Grasses? I'm not sure if they flouresce, but they would give you the ground...

The stuff the club sells at 1/10th the price of the stuff you get in LFS.

Yeah, we've tied ours on as well, but I still don't care for them! I was wondering if those hoses coming straight up were annoying like that? Does the hose tend to kink? Sit nicely in small places (not that that's important for our application, but it might be for someone else)?

Jose, I was wondering about that when we sorted through it the other day. How do you find the hose connections v. the connections on the TLF reactor? The connections on the TLF reactor always feel a bit flimsey and ready to empty my tank on the floor to me. These (with the straight up the top...

Thanks for your input. We felt that, being a game, it was more suited to open water, in spite of the educational component.

That PO4 reactor pictured is the one most of us use (the Two Little Fishies brand). They are fed by a pump though I think the 900 & 1200 are way too strong for this. You want more along the lines of a 400. HTH.

As Matt said, the numbers of those three will have different effects on the other numbers. Low Mag specifically is going to make Ca harder to keep high if that number falls. As a GENERAL RULE OF THUMB (chem nerds, please bite your tounges), you can expect to have a hard time keeping Ca any...

Re: February Meeting I think you just got over the jinx from the last meeting. I doubt two could strike so close together. My bet is you're safe!

You probably won't have the excess dried organics that you have on Marco Rock (unless there was a good population of sponge in the 120). You might have some smell, but I personally haven't encountered anything as bad smelling as curing Marco Rock (good thing the looks are worth the smell)!

Great rebound from the back-siphon disaster of '07. Looks good, Francis.

Fresh picked rock probably has less completely dead organic matter in it (most of the organics are pretty tolerant to some air exposure). I cured rock that came into an LFS after it arrived from the distributor (so it wasn't in the vendor's system at all). It didn't smell nearly as much as the...

LOL. So glad I'm not in THAT camp!

These dose kalk out as water is fed into the chamber so the water inside is always full, if that makes sense. My kalk reactor has an in-feed and an outfeed. I use an Aqualifter to move water out of my RO/DI bucket through the Kalk reactor. The water feeds into the bottom of the unit pushing it...

Hydno is very short polyped and when left with a little room to its edges has always been well behaved in my tank. IME, hydno is as delicate as it is deadly. I have a purple fungia that religiously goes after the hydno next to it. The hydno ALWAYS loses. My hydnos are all on separate rocks so...

Frogspawn is a great coral to add to any tank. I love the way it sways in the flow. I've found them to be fairly hardy and a wonderful centerpiece. While not a FAST grower, it grows nicely but is easy to frag so that when it "outgrows" your space, you simply chop off the extra heads and sell...

LOL, Francis. When we needed a "dosing" solution Kalk REACTORS weren't on my radar. My choices seemed to be either a Ca reactor or a dosing strategy of adding Kalk to the system, which seemed way too manual a process. With a topoff of 6gpd, creating a Kalk solution seemed daunting to me. So...

My concern would be absorption of PO4 or metals which would largely negate the use of an RO/DI to begin with. If you could put water in one and let it sit for say a month (stirring ocassionally) and then send it out to a water testing facility to see what's in it as compared to what is in your...

I don't know, but we may just boot up the pool to find out!!

If you don't faint after you get the estimate, let us know what it looks like! I've always been interested (obviously), but I don't think that our house faces the right way.

I think he's referring to the "image"?!