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I put them I an old Gatorade bottle with salt water and just shake it up once in a while. It will desolve in a hour or so. Depending on how big the rock is. Or I just smash them up with a hammer. But it makes a mess. I thought about an old coffee grinder but I haven’t gotten there yet. Oh. How...

Erin don’t like competition @Kensington Reefer He’s been doing it forever.

Technically, electricity isnt safe at all especially older wired homes. will your house burn down ? probally not. I did miss speak. 120v is the same. the differance is amps/watts. led uses less to produce the same amount of light. which uses less current. which is more efficient. technically. i...

yes, its safe..

newer lights are normally lower votlage. two wires is fine. black is power, white is neutral, green is ground. you can just delete the ground. only thing is you have to use a on/off wall switch. no slider light switches

That means I have a lot of fish still alive in my aquarium. Cuz I don’t see S.

Happy Birthday Foo. We are all suckers. The truth about reef keeping. LOL Crazy Hobby

I’ve done silicate dosing before. About 2-3 years ago. I wrote something up on here about it. Anyways. This is what I can tell you. I wasn’t getting the hair algae thing that you got. I was getting something that looked like Dino’s. So I went to Mack’s Dino’s page on fb. I swear up and down...

way back in the day. OG's use to say always calibrate with new calibration solution and calibrate each time you use it. if you wanted to be correct. they would say ro/di or distilled water is in correct cuz thats the base line not the target line.

I’ve done awc for years and years. It’s not for nutrient export really. Unless you have a smaller aquarium. I did it for trace elements. Just to constantly get a little fresh elements in there. So yeah. It’s not gonna help you much right now. Later when you’re using a lot of elements then it...

If you started with dead everything and just seeded or bottle stuff. With an over size skimmer. It has nothing to skim. Leave it off for a good 4-6 months. Let your bio grow. Focus on your weekly maintenance. Like wc and whatnot. Your aquarium is just too clean. Btw. I like running an oversized...

Hold on. How old is your aquarium ?

After you set everything up like everyone said. Don’t change anything. Do this a week before you leave. That way if it goes sideways. You’ll still be able to fix it.

Food usually makes the skimmer not skim well. So you’re probably right about the phyto. Although, I still don’t think it’s the skimmers fault. Either it’s dialed too high. ( super wet skimming ) or something is being added. Or shoot. The skimmer just isn’t broken in yet. Like he didn’t wash it...

Dc pump won’t change the overflow at night. It’s the phytoplankton that you’re adding. The skimmer is doing what it’s meant to do. You’re the problem. You want to add fatty elements and not have the skimmer do it’s job. Put the skimmer on a timer and shut it off at night. Let the aquarium settle...

This is what I can tell you about skimmers. I thought about upgrading years and years ago as I was running the same atb ac skimmer for hella long. Out of all the research that I’ve done. I’ve came to the conclusion that all higher end skimmers are fairly the same. The magic is in the pump...

Congrats Young Jedi. Well deserved. @tribbitt

Into the deep end we go. Gonna be a bigger aquarium soon.

Btw. The gauge itself can be a choke point. I’m lazy. What I would do is remove the membrane and move the gauge to the end and see if it is still backed up. Before I look at each unit. Then remove the gauge and see how the flow is.

Re thinking it. I think the booster pump is doing its job. Pressure is high because there’s a choke in your system after the booster pump. Ro/di systems don’t work well at 35 psi. They will work tho. 60 psi is the sweet spot. Since you have a pressure gauge. Tap that gauge before and after each...