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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44772736/ns/us_news-life/ This story is pretty crazy. How would this even happen? I think that I would notice that the guy that was sitting beside me on the ride out was missing. Though I guess there is a bit of confusion with everyone stowing their gear after a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Flower I also used the hydrometer for some time. You only NEED a refractometer if you do hypo. Was it glass or plastic? My old instant ocean plastic hydrometer was complete rubbish. I'll never trust a hydrometer again.

Crazy. I really can't think of anything to do other than yanking all of your macro's, putting them in a bucket of saltwater with a light for a week and killing the tank lights. I think your choices are nutrient starve it, light starve it, kill it with UV or live with it. Maybe you should...

I think I would probably try a double dose of GFO and lots of water changes to try to limit phosphates.

I run both a wet/dry and a fuge. The most important thing with a wet/dry is to keep clean filter floss in front of the bioballs. Change the floss when water starts flowing over the floss instead of through it. I only float my balls once every few months. Weekly cleaning is overkill. They...

The dead Alveopora skeleton on the left side is a casualty of me getting hardwood floors refinished. Had to turn off my air conditioning and open the windows during the day (in the summer in miami) because of the intense polyurithane fumes. I lost three corals to the fumes and/or temp swings.

I don't have any pics of the tank after I had to take out all of the rock and coral to catch filefish that was eating my coral. I do have a crappy video that I made with the camera on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. The colors are washed out and you can barely make out anything really light...

You should be fine with a 4 bulb T5 in a 30G. I have 48" 4 bulb T5's in a 90G with clams and SPS. Make sure your fixture has individual reflectors. For bulbs I'm using 2 x ATI blue plus, UVL Aquasun 10K and UVL Super Actinic. I have some cheap LED's that I originally bought for my fuge. I...

Micro bubbles sticking to the needle can cause false readings. My first post here was "OMG I think I nuked my tank" because my hydrometer had air sticking to the needle and was reading 1.032. I threw it in the trash and bought a refractometer as soon as I figured out what was going on.

I'm not planning on changing anything and I know that there's almost always more than one was to skin a cat when it comes to reefing. I'm just curious as to what the advantages of a scrubber are over traditional macro's. Quote: Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 hair algae out competes...

Manually removing and starving the algae of light is a temporary solution. It is also somewhat difficult to totally control hair algae with a clean up crew. You really need to limit the nutrients that are allowing large scale growth of hair algae. Most people with reef tanks concentrate on...

I used natural sea water for almost a year when I first setup my tank. It worked fine, but my tank tended to smell a bit like the ocean (not in a good way) when I did water changes. I eventually setup an RO/DI unit and switched to using salt mix instead. It just seems much cleaner to me and...

This is a little OT, but this thread seems to have turned into another scrubber/skimmer thread. I'm curious as to why a scrubber is better than macro's. This has probably been covered extensively, but I haven't really done much research on scrubbers. Why would a scrubber be more effective...

Leather's can shrink down to 1/4 their size and look like crap even when they are healthy. It can also take them a few weeks to fully recover from trauma. More than likely it will be fine. Just make sure it has moderate flow and leave it alone. Messing with it will just prolong the recovery.

According to the manual for my Spectrapure Maxcap RO/DI, softening the water will actually help to prolong the life of your RO membrane. I use the feed and the drain from my washer for my RO/DI. I just attached a garden hose Y to the cold water feed for the washer and shoved the waste water...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 Tur4k.....what's the name of the lighting system???? I believe it's the Acanlighting 800-48B. I believe that Acanlighting A102AC-48B is the same fixture, but was renamed.

There's a DT at one of my LFS running an Acan lighting fixture. It seems like a pretty sweet fixture and there has been good SPS growth with it, but it is super expensive.

I just wanted to mention that you can get a Aqua Illuminations Sol Super Blue LED fixture for about the same price as a DIY. I don't have any experience with these fixtures, but they seem decent from what I've read online.

Quote: Originally Posted by morgan175 fl joe even with an aux filtration shouldn't the ammonia trate trite spike. Not necessarily. You may not have an ammonia spike if you used a lot of media from an established system or have a lot of macro algae to absorb it. Most of my LR came from an...

Quote: Originally Posted by florida joe Now this is where I need some enlightenment if I take a water sample to test for nitrates that seems to me that nitrates are in our water column now does LR rubble trap nitrates and if so does that mean my testing of nitrates in my water column useless...