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Wow Mike and Nik....nice looking fish.

That looks to be an 18 - 20 ounce curved claw hammer. :grin:

Welcome Joel! You have found a great LFS in Aquatic Obsessions. I'm right across the river from you in Sayreville. I also have a 90 gallon tank....custom 5 foot tank with a 40B sump. I'd suggest starting a "Tale of the Tank" and I'm sure you'll get all the advice you'll need.

I'd look into picking up a stock tank or two. There are two on Craigslist right now....100 gallon for $50 each.

What I'm saying is that there is not a single heater out there that won't eventually fail. It will fail in one of two ways; stuck on, where heat goes through the roof; stop working all together, suppling no heat. A controller will stop the first failure from happening. The second one can...

That's more than enough bacteria food.....you need to either boost nitrates (adding something like sodium nitrate) or lower phosphates (like running GFO)....to get the nitrate - phosphate ratio in line to what the bacteria need to eat the pellets, leaving you with a balanced low N/P tank.

You need both nitrates and phosphates for biopellets to work. If the ratio is off, one or the other won't be brought down. It's not necessarily the Redfield ratio (16:1, N to P), but in the ballpark. I'd run GFO to bring the phosphate down, and then let the pellets do their thing.

+4 Jager. No matter what heaters you buy, run them through a controller. Regards of the brand, they will eventually crap out on you, and the controller will stop the "stuck on" failure.

I appologize, I stopped reading once I saw this, "havent done a water change since feb or march." I've got to believe you have a water quality issue. Unless you are using a specific system to remove nitrates and phoshates, water changes stabilize sps/lps, and keep them happy

HD also has nylon bolts and nuts....in the drawers in the hardware department. And to the best of my knowledge, all HD's carry GE Silicone I.

You want GE Silicone I.

Nice pictures. I've been to quite a few aquariums my self....but not Georga yet. If I'm not mistaken, I think George is the largest aquarium in the US.

Pete, you seem to be a bit upset. I can offer you the beta version. However, it does have a slight oxidation problem with the aluminum and steel components, not to mention the severe voltage leaking problem with that motor in saltwater. :o :grin:

It's either the float switch or the Aqua Lifter. It's easy to test....plug the Aqua Lifter directly into an 110 outlet and see if it pumps. That will tell you if it's the Lifter of the switch. If the Aqua Lifter is making noise and not pumping...it's most likely the rubber diaphrams which...

I made an acrylic cover for my Glass-Holes overflow and used the 98 cent spray paint from Home Depot. That was in 2009. Here it is today still looking brand new. Lightly sand the acrylic before you paint and you'll be just fine.

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Dan, did you see the October meeting info......they will be making food at this meeting.

I had a nano with 50+ aptasia and started using concentrated lemon juice. The issue was with such a small tank I would have ended up with a large bowl of lemonade. So what I did was boil a mug of RO/DI water in the microwave and using a turkey baster cooked the little SOB's. I did this...

Maybe you should go away more often! :p :grin:

THIS is disturbing....a new 12000 with multiple leaks in the front cover. I wonder if this is a problem with the 6000 and 9000?