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so after a catastrophic loss of an entire 150 gal tank a few years back I am finally returning to building the tank back uo. I cleaned everything out, cured the rock and sand and let it all sit dormant and dry for a veyr very long time. I got the urge finally to start rebuilding it and decided...

Awesomeness! I was not really expecting vinegar to do the trick but it turning out to be a strong possibility is outstanding!!! Thank you very much. Mike

So I am back finally after close to 4 years after having the massive tank crash that killed everything in My reef tank. So even though I bleach cleaned the tank years ago amd everything else has had those 4 years to dry up and blow away in the Arizona high desert heat and winds... There is...

Thank you to everyone for your responces. I am not going anywhere away from the forums or the site. I did reset the entire tank, except for all My live rock. I did add new sand and substrate and did a complete drain, scrape, scrub, refill and let it sit for about 5-6 weeks now. I am going to...

its a 155 gal tank set up for reef. for as long as I can remember I have kept, anemone and crabs in the same tank as well as shrimp...the only thing really new to me was the sea horses. in any case they didnt eat each other to death...there seemed to be normal activity and one by one a fish or...

So I have had My tank up and going in its latest configuration for a year maybe 2. I came into a little money where I could add to the tank again and made a decent order, reef package with jades, mated pair of sea horses,a pair of rock anemones, candy coral, and purple nana coral. I acclimated...

yep, PetSmart tests saltwater here, the girl used the drops for everything but what I think was ammonia test. I want to buy the test kits but those suckers arent cheap as most of you well know and for now I am going to have to rely on the cheaper method as long as I dont lose to much livestock...

well sounds like I will be staying with the ole tube bulbs for a while then, I am thinking heavily of looking at building the raingutter assembly idea I found but building a nice wood enclosure for it...ah well...more dreaming.... I will keep you guys posted

ok, cree leds then, I need to figure out how many total I need then I will figure out the color division later.. the other idea that was thrown at me is kinda neat but its with flouresent bulbs still, its another DIY thing making hoods out of plastic rain gutters and pvc pipe. the completed one...

I did go to petsmart and had them test My water params, they did not do copper testing but said that copper was rare in our water up here. as for the params, all the girl said was that everything was spot on...good for Me, yay!! My urchin up and died over the last few days, again no real clue...

So I am doing a lot of things DIY, making my own rock, working on trying coral frags of My own.... in the midst of keeping things going, piece by piece adding of this and that or making My own, one of My bulbs is going out, its not the balast, (changed to another working bulb and it works fine)...

an update with pics, yes those things that prove it really did happen lol... the DIY rock is coming along well and I have decided to add more of My own rock in, fortunately the mixture I am using seems to need very little cure time, and with the algae growth I have in the tank itself I am not...

well another week down, the DIY rocks are coming along beautifully if I do say so Myself, the first batch seems to have cured out faster than I expected, I have move the first two batches into a tank that has lots of algae growth to see how the ph does and see if I can get the algae to attach...

I was not aware of the PAIR rule for cleaner shrimp sadly, I would swear I had read they did well in any number, I have lost both cleaners I just bought 3 weeks or so ago but I think that in part is also due to something having pissed off My spiny urchin because there were several of his spines...

Ok, day 3 of rock building, I THINK I figured out why My rocks keep crumbling and I have a third attempt at a decent base table in the mould right now. turns out the concrete I was using already had sand and gravel in it, in the future I will want to buy a mix that does not contain those things...

points taken Jstdv8, thank you

so here is My baby, My first Duncan, 2 weeks old (in My tank at least lol) isn't he so cuuuuute

when I top off I use water I have pre-salinated to match the water in the tank. the only real reason the salinity in the tank should be changing otherwise is pure evaporation of the water increasing the salt content but the variation is kept with in .001 according to My hydromiter I keep in the...

yesterday I found one of My two newest cleaner shrimp (I had barely had it 2 weeks or so) down in a corner of My tank and live rock, dead. The other one I got at the same time and the one I have had for months and months are doing great, increasing in size and shedding, all the good stuff, but...

well a few days into it, I have made 2 attempts at making the first stage of the live , the first one I didnt let dry long enough ( i was over 24 hours) and it crumbled badly when I was taking it out of the casting so the next set will be staying in at least 48 hours..pictures to come later...