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At curb at 3629 West St in Oakland. It's double bagged in white garbage bags. I did some diy reef rock but moving and u-haul gave me one trailer down in size so... It's right under a lamp post with some other freebies I posted to craigslist.

That makes sense -- I meant to reply earlier but I read your reply before I tried it. Thanks!

I used a tooth brush to clean the rock. I found one small patch (maybe 6-8mm) of thick green algae. The rest was very pale. There was a lot of brown crud on the rocks. Maybe remnants of the diatom bloom? The rock is looking a lot better after the cleaning. Three of the hermit crabs are still...

After another dump of GFO due to the lid coming off v2 of my GFO reactor, I ran out of patience and got a Two Little Fishies reactor. I was a bit surprised I still needed to put some filter floss in up top to prevent GFO coming out. I get it is designed for multiple types of things to be used in...

Oh, and for update: 3rd DIY GFO reactor seems to be working well. I need a slightly more powerful pump or the hosiery is getting clogged with the initial sediment (going to clean it tomorrow and find out). No huge change in the tank but the hair algae isn't coming back quickly. The bits I...

Thanks but I think my 3rd attempt is doing well! I appreciate the offer though.

Version 2 of the DIY GFO as outlined above failed. The support at the top of the canister was not strong enough for the force of the hose pulling to the side. I wrapped the whole thing in hosiery as a failsafe so I didn't leak too much GFO. I almost threw in the towel and bought a commercial...

I used a lamp and got a slightly better view in. It looks like maybe too rapid a tumble but I think it's good for now. Anticipating changing the GFO after a week. I'll save the old GFO but with a baby and a small tank, probably won't get into recharging it (so it'll get tossed or given away...

I actually don't have any carbon. I could scavenge some from the HOB filter as it came with a few extra cartridges. Next time I open it up, I'll put some in although might not be much in the cartridges. I made the next version: I didn't realize that the slightly opaque cup that is...

After watching the BRS video on GFO, I know my tumbling is not optimal. It's not all of the media tumbling. I need that bottom up flow to get it doing that. I'm going to go get some more supplies and try DIYing a bottom up flow one. Or I'll give up and order :).

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I modified the DIY GFO reactor. The pump I was using had a little insert to step down to roughly the same diameter as R/O tubing. So I used that at first. A couple days ago, I removed that insert and used some 1/2" tubing. That increased the flow and the GFO is tumbling now and there is a ripple...

Oh, and it doesn't seem to be growing fast -- it is two small patches plus on a couple of the hermits. I think part of the problem was I'd get some pretty heavy deposits on the skimmer neck. That plus not vacuuming the sand bed and likely overfeeding. I cut back, cleaned more, did more water...

Okay. I was worried it was too fine for a stocking. But I did rinse it well yesterday and it looks like that would be better. Just not enough tumbling with my small pump. I'll try the ladies stocking in the 10g hang on back filter next.

Other way to ask about the pump is which pump would you recommend for the Two Little Fishies reactor? Maxijet 1200?

This is the GFO I bought from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RI5LE5K I looked around for a suitable DIY container. My wife had some unneeded glass baby bottles with plastic screw on lids. I drilled a hole to fit an R/O tube and used some synthetic filters that came with my...

Actually, I have a tiny pump and could DIY a reactor. Amazon has 1lb GFO for $17 with prime. I'll try.

I do have a small aquaclear-like hang on back filter sized for 10g. Maybe that would work to run GFO? Did a search and looks like might work.

I don't have any - it seemed to slow down though. I think tool many nutrients with the uneaten frozen food. I'm going to try the frozen Mysis again once out of the woods. But I'll let them get good and hungry so the actually eat all/most of It. For now, I'll keep doing the water changes and...