Recent content by FinalPhaze987

Not entirely true, as there are those that run the moonshiners program and still perform waterchanges. The essence of it is stability, hence why there are daily doses of certain elements that are depleted quickly. I send in an ICP for each batch of salt I stock up on and do the corrective doses...

Between the two of them my apex reads 146w at the plug. Both are at the peak of the photo period and running at 51% intensity in the ATI app. Being under driven hopefully equates to running cooler. Last night, out of curiosity, i cranked them as high as 95% and got a reading of 890 in the front...

My daughter's spring break came to a close and dropped her off to the airport. Put the baby to sleep by 9pm and finally had an opportunity to work on the tank. Pulling out the old set up was a PITA. Wire management is nice till you gotta change out equipment. I hung the new stratons and fired...

Im running a Geo AR618. It does a pretty good job at keeping levels low, but left unmonitored, can bottom out NO3. Depending on my PO4 levels at that time, I'd dose NO3 or cut the lighting schedule to keep both from bottoming out. I try to shoot for a 5-10 range for NO3 and 0.06-0.12 PO4. WC...

Looking good. I like your choice of warm colors for your zoas. It's a nice contrast to all the blue and green usually seen.

At first, luckily she married a really nice guy that can tolerate it. Lol

Got to work on prepping the lights for install. Still in the works. Although I could probably get these up tonight, I dont think I have the patience to spend an additional hour tuning them and running all the wiring. Pretty excited to see the spread on these things. Compared to the Straton...

Your little sister is so much cooler than mine. She's a psychiatrist that tells me I'm OCD & crazy when I talk about our hobby.

Plumbing my skimmer with outside air was the best thing I've done for ph hands down. Ive noticed a similar improvement to your numbers when working properly, but have also noticed similar drops in pH when shutting it down due to high co2 in my household. Sorry your pump went down. Ive got a...

It would be crazy if his fish has grillz..haha

Install coming soon...

I thought about it and concluded that the juice ain't worth the squeeze. I dont really find an urge to polish the water all that much unless I'm throwing in some coral snow, and you're right, its nothing a sock can't handle.

Seeing all the crap it pulled out had me thinking it was helping to keep my nutrients down...man was i wrong. I still saw a gang of crap settle in my sump with it on. I just got tired of fixing it everytime it jammed and having to smell it in my living room. It would be nice to be able to...

With my sons basketball season coming to a close, I finally had a free Saturday to do some much needed maintenance. Gave a bunch of corals haircuts to keep them from touching. Early on, I knew this would be a problem, I guess I just underestimated how often I would have to do it. Diatoms...

It's not everyday that a piece of history gets offered up in DBTC.