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I has always used tropic Eden meso flake. But for the last 5 years or so I used a local feldspar sand that looks like this. It is a nice large grain (2 to 3 mm) so it was slow to shift and was a cool color. Wrasses were fine with it. What I found is that Nassarius snails did not seem to like...

Just coral, clams, snails and urchins. The surviving fish just went through to opper in a separate holding tank, and started metro on Sat.

Well last night I sucked out as much cyano as I could, and dumped in 50 scoops of chemi clean, light out today and hopefully that will push down the cyano back to manageable.

Sure me too, in fact, I have six along the back wall of my aquarium. Still though the trick is the amount of space between the flow point of the pump and coral. And as those corals grow out, the dead spots start to happen. I'm just curious how people are dealing with that

Neither, I shove some poly fil between a baffle and call it done. Pretty old school I guess but a big bag of polyfil costs me about 15 bucks and last a year. It's all 3/4 cross and euro braced both top and bottom. The plastic lip on top is completely cosmetic.

You've got some nice dense growth throughout. How are you finding flow management? I've always found the challenge balancing areas in front of large flow pumps where they can literally blow the flesh off to opposing sides where there is nothing to move water. I'm somewhere between the Steve...

I'm find it irritating that I can no longer buy Bayer complete in California. I'm switching to the Mike Paletta super dip. Is anyone else using this method? Info can be found in the reef builders article linked below https://reefbuilders.com/2023/12/20/how-and-why-to-dip-newly-acquired-corals/

Just starting browsing this thread, so I'm asking old questions. Did you bring that up an iron spiral staircase? If so, my back, neck, arms, and legs are all having sympathy pains.....

Another thing I did which is related to the aquarium but not really part of it was add a mini split to the back room. We have central air conditioning in the house but it's pretty mild where I live so we almost never use it. Also that back room was an add on someone did sometime in the 80s so...

Nro membrane might stop e coli and coliform. A UV sterilizer. Definitely will. That would be the advantage. That said, it's pretty rare out here in California for them to get e. Coli and fecal coliform into the water. It happens fairly often back East or there are bigger rains etc. So I don't...

Fyi, a pressure tank can be stored on its side. Just throwing that out there in case that makes the room under your cabinet a little more doable. I've installed a lot of RO filters over the years for customers. Lots of times I can just take apart the disposable and slide it back behind there...

Thanks, there will be. For now I'm just getting over this setback. I won't be ready to add anything until January

I'm gonna need to figure something out. I just learned the one local store is closing. High tide is 4 hrs north.

For so many reasons!

I'm about a mile away from the ocean so I do get fog most mornings until about 10 am. But yes The not having a $600 bill has been great. It's what caused me to buy a too big aquarium...lol My system is close in size a little smaller. I have 22x 470 watt jinco panels and 2x 14k batteries. At...

Hi all, Extruded aluminum has been a real game changer in the marine aquarium hobby, light weight, non corrosive, and strong! Also unusually expensive for what it is. Recently I put solar on my home. I did it myself and learned a lot about a lot. One of those things was solar mounting rails...

Something I did not really talk about, I auto change 2.5 gallons daily. Instead of it going down the drain it first goes into a 20 gallon end of the line tank. What it adds for me? A tank that's separated from my main system yet shares similar parameters. Coral, inverts, can go there and not...

Yes it's a 54 watt aqua UV, but I only put a small portion of total flow through it

I'll take some shots of the display in a while, it's not too terrible. Algae, diatomes, and cyano including lyngbya. All are manageable if kept up on.

I did and I may, but I had too many fish not eating for too long so as soon as copper was done I got it out of the water and everyone is eating. I'm told it's easier on the fish though unlikely to eliminate uronema marinum internally. So first will be metro soaked food