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150 Gallon Tank (Day 49) Since this tank is in the garage, I gotta make sure the tank is ready for the hot weather to come. I used to be able to cool the 6x3x1' frag tank in the garage with just a bunch of 5V fans, so I'm hoping the same is true for this tank. I had a few 5V USB fans laying...

@MichaelB If you don't end up using the ORP probe, I'd be interested in grabbing it from you. Thanks.

150 Gallon Tank (Day 47) Bacterial bloom is finally really starting to clean itself up. Can't wait until it's crystal clear again. So far uglies have been limited to diatoms for a few days and a bacterial bloom for 3-4 days (so far). Let's take guesses as to what's next. I knew these things...

I use this in all my systems for the fuge. Works great and is dimmable so you can adjust to your needs. https://a.co/d/d2GcPoq

150 Gallon Tank Water parameters as of tonight Alk: 7.2 Ca: 415 Mg: 1275 Nitrate: 3.1 Phosphate: 0.7 This is more inline where I normally run. The extra feeding and dosing of Sodium Nitrate has brought my nitrate level up to my normal range. I'm guessing the extra dosing of NaNO3 is probably...

Hah....seemed like a lot too when I first took it off.

150 Gallon Tank Been fighting a cloudy tank the last couple of days - most likely a bacterial bloom. I thought the UV would clear it up within a day or two, but we'll just leave it be for now. Added a used Bubble King Double Cone 200 skimmer with a Red Dragon 3 pump I've had sitting around...

Buy a masterflex peristaltic pump that takes two tubes in a single head. Connect the tubes such that one is pulling and the other is pushing. As long as there are no clogs, they should push or pull at the same rate as long as tubes are the same length (or make sure tubes are primed first). It's...

Mostly pests and bacteria (hopefully, bad - vibrio is free floating). But even when running at slow flow rates, it does clean up the water a bit compared to without. I don't run them on all my tanks, but in general, I would if the option exists.

150 Gallon Tank Got around to plumbing in a 57W AquaUV UV Sterilizer. I was looking online at bulbs and I just noticed that Pentair & AquaUv sterilizer in the 50W range are now $900!!!!! So crazy. Glad I held onto to this one instead of selling it. Instead of using a pipe clamp, I ended up...

In my book lots of acros > rockscape :p

Damn...at that price, I may need to repurpose my carbon blocks and UV sterilizers. I also have a bridge to sell.

I haven't tried to increase the concentration yet. I've had relatively small tanks (<75 gallons) besides this 150 gallon, so there wasn't a need since a liter of my current solution would last months. If this tank takes more, I'll probably try increasing the concentration. I feed New Life...

150 Gallon Tank I love it when things do what they're supposed to do. Chaeto photosynthesizing and gettin' rid of that CO2 and making some O2. So many bubbles! :)

I try to buy reagent or food grade Sodium Nitrate and mix a solution myself. This is what I used to use, but unfortunately it's not available anymore. Sodium Nitrate, Reagent Grade... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0190TOJUS?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share So now I use this now, it's only industrial/tech...

Water parameters the tank is at now. Except for nitrates, I'm at the levels I normally run around. Alk: 7.8 Ca: 435 Mg: 1365 Nitrate: 0 Phosphate: 0.07 Adjusted parameters a little and turned on the carx with CO2 (running a very high pH - 7.35 - right now, so not much media is being...

It exists and has for a while. Oceans wonder has had one. https://a.co/d/0v0rY3Y But here's a quick Google search as well. Tons of people have made one...

150 Gallon Tank I figure I should actually test out my water. ;) For those wondering, I use Salifert for Alk/Ca/Mg and Hanna checkers for Nitrate (HI782) and Phosphate (HI772). Major elements were a little low and I'll adjust those over the next couple of days. Alk: 6.2 Ca: 410 Mg: 1200...

150 Gallon Tank ....and the first test acros are in. I probably shoulda have tested the water before I put them in, but we're just winging it over here. (T-B, L-R) - Candy Corals Blazing Rainbow, TSA Bill Murray - Reef Raft Red Wing, Reef Raft Canada Rainbow Splice I usually put in acros...