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I am 100% confident I have gotten MEN from club members. One was at a meetup earlier in the year. One came from a freebie years ago (different tank I ended up tearing down). It's why I quarantine, I get stuff happens and I don't hold it against anyone. Especially since it was free, and unless...

Things stabilize regarding losses?

I'm in a similar boat. I have so many frags I could give away right now, however having Monti nudis I don't think it's right to do. If anyone's interested though, lmk. I have so many huge semi-colonies of purple cap, green goblin, rainbow encrusting, strawberry encrusting, ... All are very...

+100 on the posts about don't worry about all this, use what you have, it'll be fine. As noted in the tank cost thread, the more and more you let this escalate into "let me get a couple sps", "what if I might keep X so I better buy Y now" thoughts you're exponentially increasing the needs and...

I'm using whatever I happened to have on hand, can't say in detail off hand but could track it down if folks are interested. Regarding the strengths, fishing line when catching a fish is subject to sunlight and friction and ... Though the weight is just about weight and not accounting for that...

I'd take it! I was considering driving to AC to buy one if they had it.

Looks great previously. I apologize for not being clearer before, but I'd try some standard 20% water changes on a standard schedule next time. Sucks it is continuing sideways :(, but you're one step closer to debugging since you have a bit more info now. If something extreme happens after a...

Your statements on the first parts are aligned with my statement, but the implication you're drawing is different. My statement is: * January 1, you add in new GFO. Your alk consumption is elevated to be `coral + GFO` * February 1, your GFO is fully depleted or removed, your consumption...

I hang all my lights with fishing line attached to basic screw in hooks. Invisible, and more than strong enough. Your cables will be more than more than strong enough :)

Suggestion as a test: 1. Water change, see if coral gets better. If so, could be the water is missing something, or could be bad juju in the water (add some carbon media) 2. Partial gfo replacement, see if alk usage increases. Careful not to bottom out your phosphates Also, always a good...

As a clarification: my mention of GFO wasn't towards GFO as a boogieman causing bad coral growth, but more simply that GFO consumes alkalinity. If you replace your GFO with fresh ones, presumably it'd more quickly suck up alk. After awhile, as it gets bound, it'll consume less to eventually...

where are you getting glass then?

I've bought the red sea ones. Would love to know of a cheap replacement

Dosing is easy to assess. Take some saltwater, measure alk, use the BRS calculator on how much you need to raise it by X amount. Add X amount. See how close you get. If you're saying consumption is decreasing, the most obvious answer would be corals not growing as fast as before. Is that...

Good thought. If you're looking for prettiness, and care about warping, you should peruse all the various places that make covers and see what they do. Regarding heating, the other thing I've seen people do is use the foam insulation panels. Maximal is cover them all the time and take off when...

Solid, thanks for all the feedback. Given all this I'm probably just going to have my kids run it, and let it lay on the ground. I messed up my back attempting to boogie board, forgetting that I'm old and my body is useless. I can try and hang it once I'm fully mobile again (which is probably...

Wonderful, thanks! Now to bribe my children to do a tubing run for me. Maybe I'll run a second line so I could have a saltwater reservoir out there too!

Mine all got eaten.

My RODI equipment is in my garage. I have an approximately straight shot from an old vent hole in my garage wall, into the crawl space under my living room, across to a crawl space vent to the side of my house, where my RODI reservoir for my display is. I ordered RO line and float valves from...

I had a great grow out of this and then it got nuked in a frag tank incident. If this restarts I'd love to try again.