Recent content by tadashi123

oh man, a sweet deal. i should have logged on earlier! congrats to the lucky buyer.

freshwater lol yeah yeah, not relevant to reefing. :smile:

Well I've been out of the reefing loop for a few years and on a whim decided to set up a planted freshwater. I dropped by Aquarium Village yesterday and ordered a tank and stand. These are some stand up guys with competetive pricing. I spied some really super healthy ORA mated clowns. Electric...

also if you're dont need HEPA i highly recommend the sharp plasmacluster air filter which neutralizes odors by ionization. but it's NOT like a gimmicky sharper image ionizer. this is tried and true and actually infiniti offers plasmacluster in their cars as an expensive air quality "option" in...

+1 pellets lol. Also, i am very conscious of "fishy" odors in my home so i run an austin air junior air cleaner in the same room as the fish display. It's a little spendy at 300 dollars but it has 6.5 lbs of carbon/zeolite to adsorbe odors. Most other filters use those charcoal sponge pads. This...

hey prattreef, thank you so much for your reply. I had a feeling it would be ok but the doctrine of RO only has been instilled in my head for so many years. I just needed an ok from a fellow aquarist... hehe thanks so much again

Hi, I've been out of the hobby for 2 years and jumping back in sometime next month. But my moral conscience has always made me uncomfortable with the exorbitant amount of waste water with RO membranes. Now, I live in Brooklyn and out reservoir source is supposed to have low TDS. Do you think i...

Hi, wondering if you stocked the illuminata tank + stand? And if you had means to deliver it to Brooklyn? Kindly PM a price quote. Thanks very much. -Michael :smile::smile:

not to go off tangent, but bob, what kind of denitrator do you run?

well now you have a phos reactor AND a refugium all in one! hehe I second house of laughter's suggestions. also manually remove the algae and double check the tds on your ro/di.

2 tsp, 5 tsp, 10 tsp... it's all irrelevent since the effluent you're dripping is saturated anyway. anything insoluble will precipitate out. no harm done :) only wasting kalk! lol as far as ph, what are you reading in the morning before lights on? and what are you reading at night before lights...

as the mantra goes, "dilution is the solution to pollution"... however you would need a crazy skimmer upgrade since you're looking at 3-5x tank turnover through the skimmer. This is also where dilution is a double edged sword.. you would only efficiently skim when you reach a treshhold in DOC...

you can try recalibrating your pinpoint in another room, and rechecking your salinity by scooping a cup of tank water and dipping the probe in that same different room. sometimes you get errant readings from electro interference from lights/ballasts. also, check it with batteries and not on AC...

to each his own i guess :) reefkeeping is as much about trial and error as it is about science (or pseudoscience with the plethora of bogus literature and snake oil products out there) good luck, ellebelle, in whichever route you take. it was not my intention to transform this thread into a...

the vodka induces a bacterial bloom of sorts. as the bacterial population increases it depletes the system of bioavailable N and P. Many subscribers of this method have rather nutrient poor water as a result and have to supplement amino acids. Many also use this method to "cultivate"...