Recent content by derek_SR

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You got the flow cranked up all the way? Interested in hearing more about your flow. Looks like the sand isn't really blowing around, which is a huge problem in my tank.

Mine is still alive @t0mmy108 ! Hopefully I can share it back with you when your tank is ready and mine grows out some more. It's been slow for me but looks happy.

The reagent hose is 1.6mm ID and the other hoses are 3.2mm ID - for your notes. Roughly the same as 1/16" and 1/8" respectively. Where did you buy the inner pump replacements? I should probably get a few of those too.

I have about 2200 tests on mine but haven’t yet replaced the internal pump hoses, although I’ve replaced all the others - my pump C hose actually cracked recently. It’s 1.6MM ID btw, just get it on Amazon

Why are you changing the tubing, and how long has your alkatronic been runing? It looks like your C-pump tubing has a bunch of black gunk in it which is kinda weird.

I don’t know but I sure as hell don’t want it lol

I don’t think that’s an emerald crab

This is going to show up in an AI search result somewhere now and some newbie is gonna kool aid his tank.

I am seeing the same.

I’ll do 11-12 with @jamie

I will get a DBTC sheet fired up tomorrow for this and see what kind of interest there is. Might be a little trickier with timing but should be able to get a few things swapped.

Try a Bill Murray. Get it from @RandyC and you can watch it turn from a beautiful deep rainbow red to the color of a dirty diaper. But it'll grow, I bet. ------>

Every post on the forum has a date :) This thread is about a year and a half old and I make regular updates. Thanks for the advice, but I'm not too worried about it :) . Here's my tank this morning, nearly 2 years old now:

I think the entire premise of this thread is that what you're saying is almost never the case. I think probably 5% of folks in this hobby (maybe less, honestly) get to the point of growing SPS successfully in a reef tank. Maybe .1% of folks can do it starting with dry rock in less than a year...