Recent content by clive1001blue

would you install a RO before or after a water softener?

the tank was never too heavily loaded in the first place so bacteria populations would have been nominal at best though over the year, various turbos and crabs died (I left them in there to decompose) and would have provided a nitrogen source, live rock slough off should have also provided a...

interesting notion however my wife has enough to say about hydro costs for maintaining a pile of rocks. 'suspended animation' moderate light cycle, circulate the h2o column, don't skim, i.e. purely allow the rocks to maintain themselves, no feeding, no kalk, no vacuuming, no caulerpa...

I've had this tank established for 2 years after keeping LR in suspended animation for about 1 year and am about to move it all into totally new water, do anyone think I will suffer 'new tank syndrome'? I believe 'new tank syndrome' is caused by sudden gross changes in water parameters (eg. LFS...

check any one of these links... http://www.masla.com/reef/csm.html http://www.breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/ ... _surge.htm http://www.breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/ ... /surge.htm

I made a Carleson Surge device and it works awesome. cheap too. consists of some plastic tubes and a bucket, you can get it all at Home Depot. 3 things to consider, 1. make the joints tight or else you'll get a venturi effect via the seams and then the surge is loaded with bubbles. my surge...

Hi all, I have a 100 gallon, 6'x20"x20" with a 35 gallon sump, the 100 is drilled with a corner overflow and the sump is drilled off the side to a Little Giant 4MDQ which runs a Berlin classic above the tank. the outlets for the Berlin fill a 5 gal Carleson Surge device (assisted by a Hagen...

:cry: dang critter died, failure to thrive?, herbivores have always given me grief. the shrimps moved right in on the corpse, I used to get bummed out when a critter died, now I just sort of get angry. This tang had a literal smorgasbord of goodies on a 100 gallon tank with no competition for...

yeah thats the drawback, everytime you want to whip a new batch of Kalk you have to take the thing down, un-stopper and mix a new one, the kalk residue is wasted, unless you want to retemper it with new water...

my 100 gal. + 25 gal sump is running with a salinity of 19 and I will be moving the whole operation to a 65 gal. holding tank (yet to be set up) of new water in about 4 weeks. I know my salinity should be about 24 so I am going to set the salinity in the holding tank to 24 before I yank...

thanks for the advice all... its a 100 gallon with approx 100 lbs live rock, carleson surge device, 3 power heads, classic berlin skimmer, i got some nori today and san francisco ?reef entree? the tang (and shrimp, crabs et. al.) went straight for the nori!!!!!!!! I'll have to clip the nori to...

bought a yellow tang it was happy as a p.i.s. for 1 month infrequently browsing algae when it didn't know I was watching and was munching brine shrimp and blood worms with the best of them, now all of a sudden it's wasting away and doesn't seem to browse at all yet still freaks for the...