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Given the volume of your tank, I tend to lean towards water changes to stabilize parameters over what I call "root cause analysis" which I do for big systems. Since my quick math says you probably have a 30 gallon water volume, getting phosphate down with 2x 50% water changes a week apart from...

Depends on how much ventilation you have and how hard you run your AC. Everything is a thermodynamic system, and the heat has to go somewhere. Get a fan, you need some air circulation. Lots of options out there. On my big system, I have one "Vornado" fan pointed at my sump to create...

Used to relative often, like every 2-3 months. Now I am lazier and just let it be in my new system because it is still too new to care. I don't hate using 1/2 dose of chemiclean to do a water change, but now that I know more about the bacteria, I would say try to avoid that treatment if you...

You mean I need to find one of my five year old pens? I'll try. But two inline sensors were consistent with each other and the measurements make sense on line 1 and 2

I Google "bay area reefers michael" and it's the top link for me, and I put all my tank journal hyperlinks in my signature.

Maybe 300-500 gallons? I don't produce a huge amount with my non regular water change strategies. It has been slightly over a year. Next thought was just replace everything not visually new because it's all pretty cheap. Some of the sellers online say replace everything yearly anyway. What's...

The 1 TDS was after a long time of the filter running too. Very consistent, and only started recently when the second resin started getting close to half depleted, which is why I'm thinking of adding a second canister of the middle resin.

I'm running the pro resin, so it has the cation, anion, and then mixed bed. Possible sensor issue, but two of them are reading the same after years of the first reading correctly. The booster pump auto flushes for one minute every hour. Good thoughts, open to more. Thanks!

Is it just time to replace things? Tds coming in is 430ish. Here's what everything looks like now. Only getting 6-8 TDS after my ro. Just had my three stand sensor lose stage two so that's new and they both read 1 TDS out of the end.

Time for condolences, I lost a frag. This post was automatically created by BARcode

My guess is some type of gorgonia pinnigorgia https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/dbtc-gorgonian-pinnigorgia.28812/

I just like pestering you, is that so bad? Also, this Will guy seems pretty selfish. He is hoarding the front page of the BAR web site with all the "BAR had this free XYZ coral for you". Geez, we get it. You are helping anyone who asks. Here I go and get my tanks clean, and take all these...

Some things are doing well, some are not. I am still losing a torch ever month or so. The green devils hand leather has dropped a couple babies. The gorgonians are doing really well.

Happy clownfish and happy nems. The arrow crab is eating bristle worms!

Trimmed the tank recently after the rotalla went crazy Lots of baby trumpet snails for the assassin snails to eat. I also replanted the wall after the last pump failed. Hope the new one works longer!

The softies seem to be opening up and getting happy.

The mushrooms are doing well, especially the red ones. I added some display cheato to grow more nutrients out of the system

Is this a really good overflow? I would silicone it and leave the taking it apart for future you with huge pliers.

They look like they are doing great keeping things up, and for questions/when things aren't smooth, we are here to help. It isn't a bad idea to have someone on hand, but I don't know if even monthly maintenance is needed here. Only thing I might look into getting help for is removing the palys...