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    Auger aquarium feeder

    Sent DM!
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Nitrates still a bit high but January 3rd they were 41.4 ppm so really happy about the progress so far hopefully that contributes to my phosphates getting lower than the .90 ppm I'm always getting
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Thanks, I only did it because I got it when I bought the tank and figured I would try it out. Only dose as needed, currently only ALK as my Calcium and Mg have been really good
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Also had a really cool happy face looking coral from the frag swap growing well! Thanks to who ever brought it forgot the name of it, makes me happy to look at :)
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Long overdue update! I finally decided to get serious, I started dosing Lanthanum the way shown here (set it inside my skimmer after diluting original solution), so far so good! However I think my phosphate levels are still high due to a large amount accumulated in my rock work. I had a bunch...
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    DBTC: Armor of God Zoa

    unfortunately I don think it made it will look again to see if I can see it in my tank :(
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    Tank tour sign up thread

    I'll be happy to host but I am located in Manteca if anyone wanted to make the trip down!
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    9 footer disaster

    Those are rookie phosphate numbers I'm trying to get my tank back down to that!!! Nitrate does sound a bit high, sorry to hear about your losses...
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    okay great, I was worried going to try to take out all the built up leftover shells and old frag plugs out the sand bed later tonight to make it look nicer!
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Going to do a full update soon, but I did have a question about using a gravel filter on my sand bed. I know it's good to get a lot of possible phosphate build up in my tank which can be found in the sand bed however I have a Dimond Goby and a Large Tiger Conch (one of my favorite tank...
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    Locked my car keys in my 98’ civic

    I’m sorry to hear this literally was at harbor freight this morning and thought about picking up some!
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    ThePhoReefer’s IM25 Lagoon 2.0

    as a fan of torches I can say this is amazing!
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    I appreciate all the hard work you put into the guide sorry forgot about it with my busy day I’ll definitely read it over again
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Thank you I’ll try this out tonight I’ll add it directly into my sump air intake and record a more accurate reading once I get my RODI set up good on Thursday
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    Bigfish's swim into the sea - a tank journal

    Thank you this is very helpful! Seems like I need to dose around 53 mls should I spread that out?
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