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  1. Hard block of aragonite sand in fudge?

    Do you have a sand bed in the display? I ask because if you do and its not a clump then I would say that its " 1 - A sand bed without a diversity of sand bed infauna. This allows Bacteria to glue the sand grains together. " "The fuge was a new addition to the 2 year old system 5.5 months ago"
  2. Kalkwasser, Calcium and alkalinity.

    Just stop using the kalk and use a dkh buffer in your top off. All the calk is whats driving down the alk. You need to add both adding to much of one will crash the other. I'm not a chemist but Mg can go out of wack also all 3 have some relation ship. I use kents dkh buffer in my top off as...
  3. buffering top off water

    I dose DKH buffer in my top all the time if its needed. I use more when I'm lazy with the water changes. Use a test kit so you can keep it in range ideal is 8-12... Stop adding any cal additves untill the dkh is in range.
  4. Tank photos... Mixed 65g reef... Dual Cv250 de's

    NP... Ill be replacing the bulbs soon going to try the xm's ill post the pics when i do.
  5. Tank photos... Mixed 65g reef... Dual Cv250 de's

    http://capitalreefs.com/250de/
  6. Tank photos... Mixed 65g reef... Dual Cv250 de's

    http://capitalreefs.com/papo/
  7. acrylic paint in the new reef?

    I wouldn't be worried about the paint causing any problems. More so I would think the paint will chip off in time. Action of snails and other things scraping the glass.
  8. Spectrum vs. PAR

    reefnutz, I’m not sure if you’re trying to justify to yourself that a higher Kelvin light is better or what...... What they are saying above is plan and simple..... Even though the 65k is putting out more light in the spectrums you don't need or want. It’s still putting out more light in...
  9. Aquacon “just that an aqua – con”

    go to google and type in aquacon..... You will find a whole list!
  10. How to Avoid a Reef Restraining Order?

    Hey man life is to short be honest!!!!! Walk up to the door tell the guy you and the wife took a walk and you saw the lights "as we all know what they are" and you wanted to talk to him because your in the hobby yourself.... Now if the guys is grwoing drugs in his house then u may want to run!
  11. Aquacon “just that an aqua – con”

    Posted by Ryan on April 05, 2001 at 16:20:58: I called up Aquacon today to make a purchase using the $160 of store credit that I thought that I still had. Apparently, the money owed to me by Aquacon has been dissolved along with the old Aquacon. Yet, if you notice that in their “About Us”...
  12. Aquacon “just that an aqua – con”

    Aquacon “just that an aqua – con” This company is out there to do nothing other the rip us off! They have no respect for there customers or the animals. After ordering the following: 1 yellow Tang 1 medium blue hippo tang 14 Scarlet Reef Hermits • 24 Astrea Snails • 4 Emerald Crabs 3 Sea...
  13. kent liquid iron

    LOL..... Only in japan!
  14. kent liquid iron

    Yea i would have to say I never dose iron and my macro grows like weeds.... TDS on my ro/di is never higher then 3.... I also does kalkwasser and they say that causes metal to precipricate out of the soltion... IF i dont clean the tub it will build up a darker film on the bottom over time....
  15. nitrates! help!

    If you can set up a preg to grow out macro algee!!! Stuff feeds off of nitates ...... You can aslo try xeina! Loves a dirty tank!

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