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My drip rate is pretty fast, about 5 drops/sec. I drip into my sump, not into my display. Limewater has really high Ph; a lot of people usually see a Ph drop in their systems at night when lights go out, so they would drip Kalk at night to counteract the drop in Ph. Don't drip the kalk into any...

2 tablespoons per gallon for a fully saturated mix. Only so much of the powder will mix with 1 gallon of water, so make sure you mix it up good and let it sit for a few hours. You'll see the powder that didn't mix settle at the bottom. You'll want to siphon the limewater at a point above where...

I completely agree with Mike; alot of businesses do it. Show me a Home Depot and I'll show you a Lowes within a mile of it. Same thing with Best buy and circuit city. Tropiquarium is a great store that attracts alot of people, so an ideal location would be a short driving distance from them...

I'm in oak glenn too, near the corner of starlight and snowdrift. That looks like a really nice UPS. The only thing I'd suggest is to test it out on a cheaper pump first, like a maxijet or mag-7. I've read some people saying they had issues with running their powerheads/pumps on certain UPS...

Wow Wendy, you must live down the block from me :) Funny thing is I haven't had any power outages all week. What are you looking to run during these power outages? I've been thinking about getting a UPS unit to run a few tunze's, and maybe my return pump and skimmer. They have 1000+watt units...

sorry to hear that Mike, hope everything turns out ok. You should check your salinity too. All that freshwater from the ATO may have lowered it as well.

I didn't know this before, but the blue-legged hermits come in two sizes. The bigger ones are bull-dozers, and knock down every coral you have that's not securely mounted. I don't know how you can tell which is which, but i got them from the same place at the same time, and some of them grew...

This is a great comment, but hard for newer hobbiests to practice because we don't have the experience to correlate a symptom with the appropriate cause. It would be great if an experienced reefer could start a thread that lists what we can observe,what could be the likely causes, and then...

I see alot of Efflo pics, but not many Solis. Alot of posts call it an Efflo/Soli...but I can't imagine they are the same thing. They are different, right? If anyone knows the differences, or has a pic of any Solis, please share!

I've had it with ReefCrystals as well. Low Alk, low calcium. Was looking to switch to tropmarin pro or maybe oceanic.

cool, I work in Murray Hill so maybe i can pick it up next week sometime. Can you PM me your address so I can google it? Thx.

Anyone have a fish-trap I can borrow? I'll gladly give you a frag of my orange and green digi for your troubles. I have a fat convict damsel that I've been stalking for over a year now, and I swear I see it laughing at me. I've tried the 2-liter bottle trick, even tried to hook it, but it's...

I've actually been looking at getting the tyree toadstool. The cheapest I've seen the real-deal tyree toadstool sell for was $35. Most are $40+. non-tyree green-polyp toadstools go from anywhere between $15 and $30, average is around $25. There is a difference between the tyree and most other...

Patriot - the hairy shrooms and 1 of the green caps are yours. PM me when you'd like to pick up. I work from home most friday's so that's the best time for me. still have 1 more green cap frag in case another njrc member is interested.

Have a peice of coral rubble that has 2 good sized green hairy mushrooms attached to them. Free for pickup in howell, 07731. Also have (2) 1 inch pieces of green/purple rim caps for free. They're sitting on the bottom of my tank so a little browned out. thx!

tropiquarium had a bunch of them last week.

red turf algae is tough... Mexican Turbo snails are the only things I've seen mow it down. I bought a rock from another reefer that was covered with it, and when I put it in my tank nothing would come near it. I bought 6 mexican turbos 2 weeks ago and the rock is almost spotless (I have a 75 gal).

Seachem Maxtrix is coarse white media that is suppose to culture de-nitrifying bacteria. Similar product to Siporax. I did what you are doing an ran everything in my canister. Just got to be too much work to clean it every week. For me, even though my test kits showed 0ppm phosphate &...

I was in the market for one this past christmas. I spoke to 3 different people who were selling theirs either because of upgrade or tank-breakdown. They all told me they loved it, but they could only get it to skim wet. I saw one in action and it makes bubbles like crazy, but the skimmate was...

I run 3 for 3 different media. I chain them off from 1 maxijet. I put the heavier media closer to the pump, i.e. Matrix first (heavy media, can tolerate higher flow), then carbon, then GFO. GFO after carbon because I change GFO more often so this way it's easier to get to. I used to run all of...