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Welcome to the forums! I hope that you enjoy your stay. I have never done brackish tanks and I hope someone with more experience with them can help you. I would like to suggest buying a refractometer at the very least so that you have accurate control over specific gravity. I wish you the...

Would it be better to pay$5-7 at the gas pump if we weren't 20 trillion dollars in debt and the money spent on wars and debt could be in the middle classes pockets instead? The dollar has lost so much value over the last 30 years, its ridiculous.

So I've been watching my tank And paying attention to my plate coral some. The edges of it had died back all the way around, before I started doing water changes. Now, the tissue is starting to grow back towards the edges in small strips. Good sign that the tank is recovering. Alkalinity is...

This morning I added 12oz of calcium supplement and I have been dripping in 4oz of alkalinity this afternoon. Things are looking better.

I didn't measure before I started water changes. I just assumed it was present.

Been doing water changes, 4g every other day. Temp, 78 Salinity 1.026 Nitrate 0ppm API Phosphate: near 0ppm API. Calcium 400ppm Alkalinity 7dKH I'm going to bring up calcium by 60ppm and alkalinity by 3dKH to try to get my corals to start growing again. I increased my photo period to...

Fixing to order a jebao RW4 for the tank and another bag of GFO and probably another box of salt... This time reef crystals. 4g water changes are very easy to do every other day until I can get nitrate under control.

I'm thankful for that. But think about what Trump is calling for too,... Closing of certain parts of the internet... Which is a violation of the first amendment. Then there is banning or limiting the freedoms of a group of people because of their religion... Which is another attack on the first...

I think the only reason to attack someone is in self defense... And I don't see that being done on a national scale. Terrorists are using our civil liberties against us and both parties, with the exception of Rand Paul, is calling for exceptions to our freedoms. A small group of people is...

I hate how Republicans are calling for more surveillance. But so is the left.

Those who desire security over liberty, deserve neither. Security of our nation is done by the second amendment. Everyone has a gun, basically. Our soil can not be invaded by an army, but it can be done through liberal policy of multiculturalism and tolerance. I wasn't around during the 70s...

I'm so torn between buying an AI Prime or a Hydra 26. I've been told that with the Prime, I need to turn it up or with the Hydra 26, I'll need to turn it down. What do you think for a 29? One puck or two?

When supply can't meet demand, the price is raised to match demand or supply. That's how the free market works. Today, the US has so much extra oil that it is driving the price of oil down. Today at one point it was valued at ~ $24 a barrel. The government is considering letting US oil...

In a free market society, the supply meets the demand and matches the price that people will pay for it. You said it yourself, earlier, that the US produces most of its own energy and that oil from the middle East is technically unnecessary.... Therefore, why is it our fight? If the Chinese...

Did another 4g water change this afternoon. I bet it's like a breath of fresh air going into the tank. I poured off the old saltwater into the sink and it smelled rank and sour. No wonder the corals are performing poorly. Going to do another 4g water change tomorrow and wait a few hours...

I'm a libertarian, for the most part. I have both liberal and conservative ideas. I'm a free market capitalist and a small government advocate. Essentially, if you pay attention, you know who I'm voting for in 2016.

You have to hand it to the dictators that came to power over there though. They ran their countries cruelly, but the rest of the world didn't have so many problems with terrorism like we do today. America bombs schools, hospitals, civilian facilities, mosques and so on,... Is it any wonder why...

My first tank was a 20g tank widh crushed coral, a seaclone skimmer and a cannister filter. I had CFL bulbs.

The skimmer pulled out a bunch of green junk overnight. It didn't overflow, so that's a good sign. Did a five gallon water change and added an extra gallon of water to the system with the protein skimmer, so that's even better. I have to buy more salt soon. There are a few things I need to...

I just reinstalled the protein skimmer. It's OK but takes up a lot of room. After a decent light, I'm looking into a better HOB protein skimmer for sure. I don't have the room for an algae scrubber on my system. Holy crap, I just had an amazingly awesome idea for an algae scrubber...