Recent content by scifi_3d_zoo

Hmm... PurpleUp is unproven. I think it's just more junk additives that they try to sell. If you bought every "additive" they try to sell you there'd be nothing in your tank but a 100 diff. bottles of crap and no livestock, maybe even no corals b/c all your money would go to stuff like this...

Man, there is nothing wrong with your #'s. Seriously. But air your house out once a year or something. My pH was 7.6 going to 7.5 b/c of CO2 in my house. Randy Holmes has been helping me at ReefCentral. I aired my house out during the last hurricane and that didn't help. I tired running a...

I've seen a lot of other tanks, with softies and whatnot, run without skimmers before. No turf algae either. Just big fuges, etc. SO it is possible to be skimmerless. The last TOTM at RC did not have a fuge at all... and was full of SPS. I think it depends on what you are stocking what you...

It's an interesting idea but so far it is all anecdotal personal accounts. No testing, research, statistics, #'s, etc. I also noticed your tank, the one you are making all these claims on, does not look very well established. It's not grown out, indicating age or some success from your...

http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=122009 Well, since I made that comment 2 months ago my opinion has totally changed. My skimmer was not being harmed by my sock. It was a prefilter on my skimmer pump. It didn't look bad but that little bit that was there was occluding flow to my...

I don't have to clean my rocks off much anymore. But there's usually little to nothing there for most of us. I use to have a LOT of stuff on my rocks and I thought for years it was just my rock. It's all gone now. And my nitrates have always been the same. BUT... since tanks are so diverse...

You can see if you get better growth or polyp extension in shade. You should also test your nitrate levels to see if it really makes any difference. I wouldn't just switch to weekly water changes when one large monthly one will suffice. And yea.. you are supposed to feed these things...

It would be interesting to see what the actual "statistics" are but I keep hearing about tanks leaking all the time. Even custom ones. It can be a HUGE catastrophe. You should choose wisely here. I've heard things are better in the same order as everybody else is saying here. I would NOT...

I want to chime in here with one for the opposite opinion so far. You can use them. They are nitrate breeding grouds. If you change them continuously, like every 2-5 days, it'll be ok BUT it's just more work. Personally I found the same effects were had, like clean rocks with no detrius...

Personally... I refuse to setup a QT tank and do 6 week treatments on Tangs. If you want to get rid of ICH that's what you are looking at. 6 weeks. And IF you take care of that then buy a piece of coral from LFS and throw it in who knows what's on it? You could reintroduce ich all over...

I decided to go sockless and all it did was clog my skimmer up with detrius. Now I have to break my sump and skimmer apart here to clean everything out. I think it's easier to change the sock once a week and then maybe after a year or years you might have to clean out the sump a bit. I was...

Hmm... that sounds like a lot (3 cubes)... even IF you did it every other day. Man, you don't have any algae problems? I assume you don't have any Tangs since it sounds like you are just feeding meaty foods? I do it once a day to every other day. I alternate this and the types of food...

Well, it shouldn't be really heavy or even that noticable on a "DAILY" basis. Might be a sign of too many nutrients or something. You have algae problems anywhere else. Other than that it is NORMAL. I'd say every 4-7 days I have to clean mine. 1-2 times/week. THe stuff you rub off will go...

Oh man... don't mess with those "test STRIPS". Test kits are ok... especially for pH. Just get another one of diff. brand in case you ever question the results.

Never heard of that. I would just forget about where you read that. It must have been something really old or outdated. Most of what i hear is 24 hours... with a pump to circulate it. You can get away with less than 1 hour if you want. Like most things you can get away with a lot .. it all...