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Lets make a decision people! I’m about to post this elsewhere. Buy it before it's gone.

You take the hospital tank hypo while the display tank remains fishless (and at normal salinity) for the eight weeks. The ich needs fish to complete its life-cycle. With no fish for eight weeks, they die.

Installing the Bio-Pellet Cover A piece of black electrical tape was placed on the reactor where the seam of the drain pipe will be. This will assure the seam area is also blocked from light entering the reactor. The drain pipe was placed over the reactor and zip tied in two...

Nice progression shot Pete......a before and after.....looks good.

What salt are you using? What are your alk, calc and mag numbers? How are you dosing the above? Which Marineland fixture do you ?

Back to finishing up the black out cover with door for the bio-pellet reactor: That curved little piece of plexi was clamped into place on the door portion and drilled and tapped for two 8 – 32 bolts. This was then bolted to the door with flat head nylon bolts so that the flat head portion...

My wife bought me a little gift. Now I would normally model these for you, but I don’t want to be the cause of divorces when your wives see my Adonis like body modeling my new underwear. Dance :eek: :o :grin:

I’d DIY the fix, no question. Carefully measure the dimensions of the broken glass. Take that to your glass shop. Cut out the broken piece with a sharp razor. Make sure you get off all the old silicone. Pick up the appropriate RTV silicone and glue it back up. Use tape to hold...

Most certainly deserved. Congratulations Jim!

Mike said it above…..hospital tank for your fish with eitherhyposalinity or copper while you DT sits fallow. To the best of my knowledge these are the only two ways to permanentlyrid your tank of ich.

Matt, I’m actually having yours sent out to be gold plated, engraved, and then encrusted with diamonds. However, if it’s not back in time, you might just get a 9 9/16 inch length of drain pipe or the black beauty I have in the sump right now….or maybe both. Don’t hold your breath...

Wow, a super trekie. I’m willing to bet you were out in San Diego when my wife and I mistakenly scheduled a trip while Comic Con was going on in 2011. One night we had to wait an hour an a half to be seated for dinner……and that was only if we were willing to sit with a “single.” Well of...

Now I speak with the greatest of ignorance, but I would have a tendency to rip it back down as fast as it went up. Keeping it high can’t be helping. I think I’d be doing a good 50% water change and then fall back to doing smaller ones. Just an opinion of an ignorant person! :grin: I...

Wow Mike, sorry to see this. Your best bet are water changes. High calc will do it too, but you start getting about 550 and you now have calc issues. Again, water changes. In regard to the cause of the problem, I shall quote my father, who repeatedly said this to me over the years...

I know that some stains of bacteria grow quicker in the dark. I wasn't expecting these aerobic strains that we are trying to nurse to be one of them. But I guess it is. Anyway, if you have THIS BRS reactor and it takes the same size canisters as THIS dual BRS reactor (which I would...

Looks like you have a nice plan. The silicone you want is GE Silicone I (definitely not the II) The one thing I’d change in your plan is to drill the tank and put in a Glass-Holes overflow kit. The kit comes with everything including the drill bit to drill the glass. My experience...

HEY, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SUGGESTED DRAIN PIPE! :grin: I’m still mulling that over in my head. I have nine-plus feet of drain pipe to work with. I’m thinking of a slip kind of window to check in on the pellets. I’m also thinking that I don’t need to check them that frequently. So even...

Well here are your full tank shots. I wish I knew what I was doing with white balance. I tried two different white balances and it's still not close to what you see in person. You can't even see the purple cap, which jumps out at you. Oh'well.

With Jim telling me I’ve got to keep my biopellets in the dark, and Zippy suggesting drain pipe, I made a trip to HD and brought home ten feet of drain pipe. I went with the triple wall four inch pipe that has a black center portion and a white covering. It’s made of HDPE (high density...

When I use to make furniture, I use to get my stuff at Interstate Hardwood Lumber Co at 850 Flora St, Elizabeth, NJ 07201. There was also a place in Hightstown, but I can't remember the name. I've got to believe there are furniture grade lumber yards in the Trenton area.