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A much easier fix is to cut back on what ever you are using to maintain PH and let your PH drop over time and your calcium rise. Keep testing every few days and you will find the sweet spot eventually.

If it is cured rock then the rock has already cycled during the curing process and you probably will not experience a cycle.

Calcium and PH work like a balancing act. If ph is on the high side then Calcium will be on the low side and vice versa. I bett that if you let your PH drop to 8.2 then your calcium will kick back up. Your calcium is just fine where it is.

Originally posted by wablondie98664 you should not use airstones in a saltwater tank, causes salt creep and the bubbles can get caught in the fishes gills. So how do the fish on the reef keep air bubbles from getting caught in their gills? An aquarium with an airstone has no where near the...

If your dell is like mine it came with a Windows CD. It is nice because you can install just windows and not all of the other 3rd party crap that comes with computers. You just install windows by booting up from the windows CD, and then the drivers from the ( Drivers, Utilities, and...

Supplies cost me $150.00 total. Here is the finished product minus the inner corner supports. The corner supports are just 2 1X4's in each corner and a 1X4 in the front and back middle. I will post a picture of the corner support later on since I still have to put them in.

It's not the clearest or most recent picture, but here is one of my 125 gallon reef

I ran some 9-12 month old NO 10k's and actinics on an extra VHO ballast I had. The bulbs where extremely bright and are still going 6 months later which makes them over a year and a half. I am sure that they had lost alot of their usefullness but the tank sure looks awesome and the frags grow...

Originally posted by Beth that the person who is now anti-DSB used to be the same person who got us all using DSBs! LOL DR. Ron does like to change his mind:D The reasons why I do not go with a DSB is because I don't really like the look of 4-6 inches of sand in my tank. I would much...

here is what the stand and canopy together look like. I used pine trim on the stand to help the stand match the canopy. Keep in mind that the pictures don't really show the rounder edges very well and they both need some sanding done. I will put more pictures of the inner braces and door...

This is a picture of what it will look like once the doors are attached. It will look alot better once it is all sanded smooth. I will install corner braces made out of 3/4 inch birch to help reinforce the corners. The reinforcment is not needed but I figure that it gives me more piece of mind.

I installed the bottum braces. I did have to take one out to fit the bottum in. I replaced the brace after the bottum was in. I could have just made the bottum out of 2 pieces of wood to avoid removing the brace but I wanted the bottum in one piece.

I made top and bottum door trim the same way that I made the side trim. I will run a router around the corners and then sand flush whaen I sand the stand down.

I cut 4 12 inch wide doors out of birch. I routered lenths of pine and then cut strips of pine 3/4 inch wide for the door trim. i attached the trim with glue and finishing nails.

I will add in bottum cross braces and a floor later on.

This much took me about 4 hours today. That includes setting up all my tools and cutting everything out.

I made some thin lenths of pine to cover the ends of the Birch Plywood. I will sand these down really smooth and round then off which will look really nice. you can see the top trim and you can notice that I cut pieces of birch to cover up the inner brace from the outside.

I cut two lenths of birch 2 inches wide on my table saw and made a frame for the bottum of the stand. I used my nail gun for this but screws would work just as good since the trim will cover them up. I cut two lenths of idaho pine 2 inches wide on my table saw and used a round over bit to...

I used my nail gun and shot some nails to hold the brace snug against the front and back. You can also use screws just make sure not to strip them or screw out the other side.

I flipped the stand over and ran screws along the top to really get a tight seal between all of the pieces of wood. Next I cut a 3 inch wide 71 inch long piece of birch and glued it along the inside top of the stand on the front and back. I used clamps to hold it snup against the front and...