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Update: Everything was doing well until last week. I had noticed that the corals were looking a little bit pale a week ago on Friday but didn't have time to check parameters etc right away. So, I did a quick water change and left for the weekend. On Monday I got to work and saw that...

1. Don't give family members any food. 2. Put lobsters in a cooler with some seawater and chuck in ziplock baggies of ice. With an air stone and daily water changes they'll be ok til your family gets hungry. 3. Eat lobsters. Seriously, I'd be glad to take them off your hands, but...

I'd love some and am also close to Green Marine. Jonathon

Headline: POTENTIALLY HUGE DISASTER AVERTED!!! The other day when I was leaving to go home I glanced at the tank and noticed that the aquamedic pendant that illuminates the cheato section of the sump had fallen into the sump. The wire holding it up had broken. Luckily there was so much...

Looking great Ian!

We use YSIs at the lab - they are easy and reliable. I agree with Rich, though - a good refractometer works just fine and they don't need to be calibrated often. If you really want hi-tech and hi-precision, go with a freeze point depression osmometer. They're about $9K and will give...

A few pics - taken July 14th. Attached files

Frag poker (imagine the little cups of water on the table to hold our bets, plus since it aint money it aint illegal). Evening Edutainment: Comedy Marine Science, a new concept in broader impacts. Of course, so much of it really isn't funny... Survival training? (e.g., How to survive...

Great idea. Do you have space for a kegerator? Club green marine.

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It sure is - but not so easy if I'm not at RTC for 2 days in a row!

I'm thinking about putting the food in a fridge and using a peristaltic pump for delivery or making a small cooler with an ice-probe chiller to keep the water cool.

Got it - you are talking about increasing availability of "nutrition" (=food) and keeping "nutrients" (NO3, PO4) low. I've thought about a drip feed system for phytoplankton and zooplankton so that the tank can have a more constant stream of coral food. Maybe most importantly, the tank doesn't...

I feed rotifers and phytoplankton 2-3 times/week and cyclopeeze 4-5 times/week. Plus mysis (PE and hikari), pellets and nori. But, nutrient levels in the water are v.low and I have been running GFO for the past 4-5 months, plus massive cheato growth in the sump. Maybe I'll shut off the GFO...

OK - moved most of the frags to the display tank. Here are some pics I took today using the photo-tube that Sergio gave me (Thanks!). Can you spot the frags you donated (or sold me Jim)? I adjusted the color balance in iPhoto because all my photos were blued out. Two weeks ago I was...

Heat sink definitely necessary. I was considering watercooled using copper or aluminum tubing, but the silicone mat is a good idea.

Great thread Mike! Really informative. Thanks.

Did you hear back? The stunner strips look great - could line the edges of my lumenarc reflectors with them - but am worried that light penetration would be low with no lenses.

Good idea!

Cool. One of my grad students lives in the Tenderloin - are you serious about getting them there? FYI, I found them for sale @ $116/bulb here: http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=28_35_682&products_id=4987&osCsid=3229821dbd89a7e7b8502f445abe4ea1 and...