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Yes, agree with your concern. I had a 5 litre container before but had an issue recently when this overflowed, so I wanted to be safe while I was gone. While I think salinity is very important, my focus is on the skimmer. Turning it off for several days or a week is not something I wanted to...

I returned last night after 16 days of vacation, and I could not find any problems with this tank (there were a couple of coral casualties in the nano tank, though). The neighbor's kid did a great job with the feeding and helping with adjusting the skimmer - an important lesson learned for next...

I think this post was a bit misunderstood or drifted in a different direction. The bottom line message is that using specifically vinegar but also citric or muratic acid as often recommended is not a great idea for pumps, various types of plastic, but also rubber-based materials such as...

I assume you are referring to the flow directors? These do not seem to help for two of the four gyres I am using them with (12 weeks cleaning cycle).

Kalkwasser?

DELTEC is much more popular, and there are more options for ozone (many use both UV + Ozone). Reef Octopus seems to be non-existent in Germany, and I have not seen Hydros. Red Sea (a non-German brand) is pushing very hard in major retailers but gets very bad feedback when discussed in...

Here's another video from my visit to the Karlsruhe/Germany Vivarium this week. It recently added a second shark (after the other died, I believe, due to an accident). I am not sure if I have shared this video already, but I found this quite exciting when they added the second shark, and the...

Based on last year’s experience, I have focused on finding more literature, but the one I really wanted to find was about to get another update, and only releases in August - which is a brand new edition of the Fossa/Nielson The Modern Reef Aquarium. they are about to re-release Volume 1 after...

The whole family (almost) corralled together. Happy Fathers Day!

I thought you do not clean your pumps. Not using any acid is preferred of course. I would not be able to do this, and I am mainly concerned about the gyres which are covered in deep corralline after 12 weeks. The return pumps or skimmer pumps should be fine with normal water, although I believe...

Co-founder of Abyzz talks about not using common cleaning acids to clean (certain) parts of (their) pumps, based on their testing. It sounded though as he does generally NOT recommend to use the common knowledge cleaning acids such as vinegar, citric acid, and myratic acid. I have already...

All looks fantastic. Did you do ICP tests on the Red Sea at all, and if yes, care to share the results?

10 days into vacation, both tanks looked fine until yesterday. I noticed the Red Sea ATO filled up a rather large amount of water yesterday (timed out after a while), and another round today. Simple reason was that the skimmer overflowed while lights were turned off. This led to the 5 gallon...

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I have gone on their website twice so far. Never understood what their purpose is really. The fact that Jake was one of the co-owners seems to be the only remarkable thing about them. The one positive thing that the current management seems to do is to promote more women in the hobby, which is...

Good point. Subtract 0.05 from that :). CO2 is around 420 ppm which is broadly what we have when we are home, except when windows need to remain closed. Still, I cannot justify all this stuff to myself to bring PH higher.

Not sure if this is not rather an improvement over MH. Specifically in a home environment.

PH for both the frag tank and the IM 150 - good enough for me, no kalk, no CA reactor, no scrubber.

Yes, most other flow pumps look beautiful so there is tough competition. But he has to listen to his customers. As he said though, brilliant technology, and they released an updated model recently, and I still believe this could be a ‘better’ gyre.

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