Recent content by richiev

Same situation for me. My frag tank I keep over permanently in there. My display i add one when I go out of town, though I might switch to permanently put one in there with black tubing ran along a back overflow and a bubbler in the sand so it's all invisible. Maybe give yours a try again to...

Perfect timing. Trustworthy brand, though given how similar this looks to the Amazon ones I'm wondering if they're white labeling something and if it's reliable given it's new. Have you had one for a long time and found it reliable? I like my other hygger stuff.

Both my USB, battery backup, turn on when the power cuts, bubblers died. Another exacerbating factor in my tank issues. Anyone have a recommendation for equivalent ones that last more than a year or so with minimal to no use? USB powered preferably. Maybe bonus points if the battery can be...

Thanks all! I have the return pump and Kalk dosing still working, which means the only thing it's currently lacking is maximum flow. I think it's stable enough that I'm not considering it an emergency, but I really do appreciate the offer. The tear down would be kinda sad, but also would be a...

My unlucky streak continues. Left town for a couple days, have all my backups in place, and of course right after leaving my primary power supply dies. I even got a wonderful alert via home assistant that my EcoFlow power output dropped to basically 0, but I was driving and assumed it was a...

Emphasizing that last sentence: a person who has deep experience and ties into trading and markets is doing advanced and high risk (and therefore potentially high reward or major wipe out) trading techniques. Please everyone else don't go and research opens and shorts and turn a crappy couple...

This is quickly going OT, but kinda relevant cause maybe people could be diversifying buy buying commodities like salt :)? RE dollar-cost-averaging, that is a reasonable/interesting strategy, but for it affecting this it's less about incrementally buying stocks and more a statement of "try and...

Copy-paste from the other thread's start (I originally had the same question), emphasis mine: > After over a year out of reef hobby, I decided to come back. After debating with wife about the tank size, we stick with 48” long. I pickup a new CDA 140g the tank (48x24x28” high) yesterday along...

Who realistically keeps hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars sitting around in liquid cash waiting for a market dip? Alternatively, who is going to go and sell off a house or other large capital value item, and be able to find a buyer right now, so that they can similarly buy the dip...

Is the overflow siliconed on the inside of it, the outside, or both? Maybe possible to put a thick bead on the non siliconed side? Cutting it out on a brand new tank seems like it'd be extremely frustrating. Another hack option, cut a piece of PVC into a third and silicone it around that...

Also, reading the first post again. Given this a new tank, have you contacted CDA and said wtf (nicely)?

Oh God. That's a great point. Arbitrary tariffs hitting electronics I figured. Arbitrary tariffs hitting stuff like salt I didn't consider, but that definitely will happen and that sucks. Salt ICP tests. At least there's some aquarium food that's made in the US (hopefully the SF Bay stuff...

I was going to comment the same thing as @Coral reefer , but that's an interesting point. Still feels wrong though. Maybe taking a different view on it, would it feel safe to cut a visible hole all the way through the overflow? Pin prick or gaping hole the answer should be the same. The answer...

I don't want to pile on here, especially given Michael you're probably bummed, but this is the key theme to take from the thread. There's other valuable stuff too, but using tech industry speak, if you do a root cause analysis or 5-whys analysis, the source of these issues are likely this.

Lost the clam. Rest of the tank seems fine. Bummer because I had that clam a long time, but nice this tank is so robust.