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A refugium is a tank that is connected to the DT that houses different macroalgea's. The purpose of a refugium is to remove build up of Phospates and nitrates in the water. The area in the back of your nano is not a refugium but more of a wet/dry type of filter as where the sponge hosts bacteria...

Before you start making your way into reef tanks, you fisrt need to get a few bases covered. First is your lighting... You need 5+ watts of light per gallon of water. They make some nice retrofit lights with PC and MH in one unit. Second I would consider moving up to a wet/dry type of filter...

You might be pushing the mandarin a bit early as your tank need time to build up an abundance of copepods. They say you can get them to eat live brine, but from what I hear it's not an easy task.

does anyone know what eats cyanobacteria?

Looking to get a small nano cube, maybe a 8 gallon... Any suggestion on a brand or model? Just starting to look into them as a second DT. Hoping to get something that closes up tight as I want to get a dwarf octopus.

Where is the ugliest tank contest? I havent seen it yet

thank for the info, I did not know that... what should I do about the CA at 560?

I have a Hagen master test kit and it says mg/l on the instructions for the test.

My test kit reads out in mg/l not PPM. as far as I can tell I'm very hard water. I think I need to lower the alk but not sure what I should use.

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Figure at max adding 1 or 2 fish every 14 days to the tank.

I an using Oceanic salt in a 180 setup, the water perameters are as follows: Temp:78.6 PH: 8.2 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 10 CA: 560 KH: 160

I have a Calcium reading of about 560mg/l without adding any calcium to the tank.. Is that too high for corals and inverts?

Willing to work a deal on the chiller, ozonizer and Ca reactor? Please email me at ncoastconstceo@aol.com Thanks

Interested in the calcium reactor, can you please send some pics ncoastconstceo@aol.com

I'm looking for a good used calcium reactor, anyone have one for sale?

I have a 180g Reef satup with a 55g fuge. I have the SS220 and it works great. You can pick them up for about 142.00 online. Well worth the money

I'll take it!?! E-mail me if it's still avail. ncoastconstceo@aol.com Thanks

Are the ASM Skimmers good quality skimmer?

Thumbs UP or Thumbs Down? Looks pretty cool