Recent content by SeanMc

Feeling a little less panicky. Thanks.

Thanks! I have the arm. Looking to swap a working light onto my existing arm.

It does flash for a second when I plug it in, but not consistently. Maybe one in ten tries and I didn't see an obvious pattern. What is the jump-start fix?

My Kessil 360 WE just died suddenly. My tank is basically dark so I'm looking for a replacement to buy or borrow ASAP. Anything that I can mount on their gooseneck mount. Because of where my tank is located in a bookshelf, other lights won't really work. I'm in Oakland. I was hoping to get a...

MP10 if you can stomach the price. Tunze has a line of small pumps that might work for you. I have a 6020 DC that has some of the adjustable flow features you mentioned. Cheap at around $65. I've had mine for 2.5 years.

Ugh, sorry friends. It looks like it melted overnight.

I have a very small jawbreaker mushroom that detached after changing the flow. Oops. I don't have a place to rehabilitate this but I put it in a cup if someone else wants to give it a try. The mushroom is maybe the size of an eraser head. Downtown Oakland.

I hadn't heard that, but I will try that. I also like the idea of alk in the lower 7 range because then if I go out of town and the manual dosing doesn't get done, the alk is only dropping from 7 to 5 which isn't a big swing. Yes, I test with Hanna checkers. My Hanna ultra-low phosphate is 0.00...

Definitely possible it was the light. I was confused by that one because it grew aggressively for six months, wobbled a couple times and came back, and then began a slow decline that I couldn't reverse.

This seems correct to me. I do anecdotally feel like when one is unhappy it affects the balance in the system. I could see there being a real benefit to being stricter in a smaller tank with pulling things that aren't doing well. It's a tough line drawing question. You don't want to throw things...

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It's room temperature. I've only tried the ESV stuff. It took a while to dial in the right dosage, but it has raised the nitrates on my tests so it seems to be doing its job. Five drops per day directly into the tank has keep the nitrates steady around 20 ppm for several months now. Does...

@tribbitt 's tank is an inspiration. I love it. I'm looking to do something similar to what he has, but peninsula style and a little fatter with all the bells and whistles. I buy seawater from High Tide. I don't test it. The alk is low, so I throw in an extra dose of ESV when I do a water...

September 17, 2025 Battlecorals Buy #2 In early June, I bought again from Battlecorals. This time I got a Backdraft and Muthaship. Expensive red tables. Adam threw in small BC Aquatic Man and a Mariachi Static frags. Pretty happy about all of them. Backdraft is perhaps overpriced, but, IMO...

May 15, 2025 Changed the Direction Flow and Overall Turnover I changed the flow in a big way. I removed the diverter on the top of the powerhead so that instead of coming out at an angle, it shoots straight up. I did this trying to increase the overall flow in the tank, since I was moving...