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hey, boozeman- well, not alot to say. lighting specs are in my sig, i'm running a hob berlin in one of the overflows. it's modded and fed by a mag 7, so it performs awesome. i JUST got a mrc cr1 calcium reactor today. hurrah i use a milwaukee ph monitor, a viaaqua 300 watt titanium heater...

Hey, thanks for the replies- Billyr- They don't go anywhere, actually. They just house equipment. Everything is in there except 2 Seios. gives it a nice clean look w/o a sump. One is also being used as a refuigium w/ cheatomorpha. I haven't yet put in a sump because of the extreme weight...

Hi, everyone! Been awile since I've dropped by, thanks for the reminder Witfull. Hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL week and doing well. Not alot of news here, except I upgraded last year to a 240 gallon. It's a sumpless system, but I built dual internal overflows to provide surface...

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Oh, another benificial idea (if it is possible) would be for you to purchase hang on fuge, or partition off a small portion of the tank for this. Growing macro algae like caulerpa or chaetomorpha will help reduce nitrates and po4 without sacrificing the asthetics of your tank to hair algae...

Hi, DP- I would recommend removing the live rock long enough to scrub it very well w/ a toothbrush, like MWrager did. The problem w/ hair algae is that it traps organics below and within it, which is plenty of food to keep it going. It is almost impossible to just make it die off in the...

Hi PSU- I have 3 cleaner shrimp, 5 peppermints and a coral banded in my 125 prop tank. They all get along fine w/ one another. I have heard some negative feedback regarding the coral banded but mine has never harmed anything. It loves to posture agressively though. Funny to watch. HtH...

Washing soda is usually with all the kitchen and laundry products. I use arm and hammers pure washing soda. It is in a yellow box w/ the red arm and hammer seal. Comes in an approximately 3 pound box. I had trouble finding it too, but finally found it @ Fred Meyer. The 6:1 ratio is correct...

Hi, Mattie- I would figure out what is going on in your system first before you try anything like the others said. Do test your MG. (AAArgh, can't believe I forgot that!) Get some accurate readings for alk and ca and then decide what you are going to do. If you should decide to try the...

that's awful! My prayers are with him! I should have a talk with my mom, she is allegic everything (has to carry an epipen everywhere). I set up a 29 reef for them. Maybe i'll buy her some aqua gloves! :(

Oh, yeah- Alot of reefers with small tanks are very happy using the 2 part additon dgasmd and mps mentioned. They are supposed to be alot more balanced and easy to use. Also probably wouldn't be too expensive for a 20 gallon. :)

hi, Mattie- I would consider upgrading your test kits to seachem or salifert, though the red sea gives a good baseline, they are notoriously inaccurate. If you had a precipitation event this would account for the sudden drop in values. Have you considered a product like kents turbo...

Hmmmmm- Marco, welcome to the board! That is an interesting question. I do have a flame angel in this reef, but I have never seen it harass any corals. That fish might deserve a little more scrutiny from me. When I do the upgrade to the 240 tank I was going to move this fish...