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Oh yeah. I know. It will be nice, I'm sure of it. I have many years ahead of me at this one place. No more moving for at least the next ten years. It will let my tank mature and settle in nicely. I do want some very easy to keep Sps corals- Montiporas and seriatopora etc. nothing too hard to...

I was walking by it and it caught on my arm. The thing spun off the tank and landed ballast first on the floor. It's ok though, I wanted to get a new light anyway. I set up the phosban reactor yesterday and got the octopus skimmer running. Surprisingly, the skimmer started pulling skimmate...

Just accidently destroyed my aquarium light. Looking for a new one now.

I put the old 48" fixture on it last night. Looks ok. I'll add that last piece of rock this morning. A day off feels great.

Thanks Eric. I'm glad I get to keep something at least. It's not a dream tank with a silent overflow and a huge sump with complicated equipment, but it will do. I have to make the most of it.

Lol. I try. I work too hard not to have something that I enjoy doing. The next ten years will be spent paying off my home, my credit and my student loans- and my wife's. Maybe we can stash money back for retirement as well as some for our kids educations. We are actually doing pretty good...

Hmm. I haven't measured it to be exact, but I think you are right- about 5-6". I'm hoping to have some nice anaerobic areas for denitrification. Once every so often I will clean out a spot of sandbed to keep hydrogen sulfide from building up. An in-tank DSB is not my first choice, but I don't...

So in the process of moving and buying an even smaller home, I had to pack up my 75g and put it in storage. I'll be getting it out and set back up in a few years, probably at my own taxidermy shop, hopefully. In any case, I am very glad that I kept it instead of selling it. So this tank will be...

Get out while you still have a retirement account!

Not much I can do but complain to the company. They don't care about their customers, since you have to legally have public water service in the state of Louisiana. They charge $30 flat fee and $14.95 for the first 2k gallons and $4.95 for every 1k gallons after that. I use about 5k gallons a...

Lots of free floating things in that water. They have a 100 micron and a 50 micron polyester mesh filter that can be back washed to easily clean it. I might get one or two of those and then run it through a water softener. I think I almost got this figured out.

I'm thinking that I'm going to get a big blue sediment filter at 50 microns and then add a water softener to the system as well. Disgusting,.. The water system has been in the news a lot lately and as Guy said, it's drinkable but the quality is deplorable.

That isn't my bath tub. This is water that someone else uses in their home. I checked my own water too and it is just as brown. I will, however, bleed the inside and outside lines again to see if it makes any difference.

That is our parish water system. It's all over the news in north Louisiana. Greater Ouachita Water Company has been screwing over their customers for years without ever making improvements. This is the water quality that thousands of people get on a daily basis. And they say that it is...

I did! But that doesn't ever mean that I get my way,...

So I moved and had to go to a different water company. Plumbed in the new trailer and found out that the water quality is even worse than I thought. Example: So a lot of that junk is sediment and no telling what kind of chemicals. It's like taking a bath and getting dirty on purpose. I am...

Is this forum really back? Why? What? How?

No, I have a three year old daughter.