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I took my kids to the Academy of Science and quickly snapped this shot as I walked by. I thought it looks surprisingly good. I used my iPhone 12 with an orange filter.

I bought this from Amazon just for the bracket. It comes with a float valve that according to the reviews, and also my experience, doesn’t work. ZAOJIAO Auto-top-Off ATO Solution Auto Water Filler Adjustable Float Valve Mounting for Aquarium Sump https://a.co/d/iCL9RTz

I don’t have Apex, so this will just be a guess. But I do have some Wi-Fi reef stuff that was difficult to get to connect to my wifi. There’s 2.4ghz WiFi and 5.8ghz WiFi. Lots of new stuff doesn’t support 5.8ghz, only 2.4ghz. When your router is pumping out 5.8ghz and your Apex only...

Thank you for the explanation. That all makes sense.

Thanks for your input. Are you basing my tank resetting itself on the presence of ammonia? Others have said that the API ammonia test kit is inaccurate and always reads .25, like what I’m seeing when I run the test. Would your response still have been the same if I hadn’t mentioned ammonia...

So for my major cleaning i did not use any chemicals at all. I just rinsed out my sump and removed some of the algae that had grown on it. The sump really wasn’t even that dirty. Everything was rinsed with RODI. At this point it seems like my RODI could be the culprit right now. As far as...

Thank you. I have new filters on the way and now I will put them on some kind of replacement schedule. How often do you replace your RO filters?

I really appreciate the help, so thanks for grasping at those straws! The fish seem fine and are acting like their normal selves.

All of the filters are 1.5 years old.

Yesterday I thought my tank was smelling a tiny bad. So I did a water change and changed out my activated carbon. This morning when I wake up, my tank smells really bad. The worst it has ever smelled. Also my millepora colony has started to RTN. I go drop off my kids at school and when I...

Sounds like it could’ve turned out much worse than it did. Happy to hear you and your aquatic friends are unscathed.

Fish is gone to its new forever home.

Free Davinci Clown to a supporting member. I’ve had this fish for about 3 years. The fish is healthy and has never been paired up with another clown. Not sure about the grade of the fish, but it was $90 when I got it at Aquatic Collection. I had to pull it out of my tank because it was...

Hello everyone. I just thought I’d post a little update. Over the weekend I moved my tank to gain a little more space in my small living room. It took me about 7 hours to move. I also did a major cleaning of everything during the move. I broke down the whole system and put everything into...

Thank you. 2 Inkbirds incoming. I also saw the the recommended thread before I posted this, but I didn’t read it far enough to see the answer I was looking for. Next time I’ll be more thorough before I post a thread.

My tank (50G total water volume) has 2 Cobalt Neotherm 150w heaters. I have 2 for redundancy so if one heater fails my tank won’t get roasted or too cold by one big heater going bad. One of my heaters tested my plan out and got stuck on at full blast. My tank got up to 86 degrees. I’m not...

I’d like one please

Thanks for your reply! So my system has about 50 gallons of total water volume. I have a protein skimmer and i don’t run filter socks or filter media. I feed one frozen cube per day. Do you think that .3 phosphates isn’t too bad? Or is my usual .18 phosphates more acceptable? When I went...

Thank you for your reply. I’m definitely more concerned about phosphates, not so much with nitrates. Would you mind answering a few questions? How do you run GFO in your system? How long does it last for you? Finally what do you do to keep it from bringing your phosphates down to zero?

Hello everyone. I need some help controlling nitrates and phosphates, please. I just got back from the longest time I’ve been away from my tank. I was gone for 13 days and everything worked like it was supposed to equipment wise. That’s the good news. While I was gone I used TDO Chroma...