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Hi all, I am going to be going out of town this week for a wedding in Denver this Friday I am putting my wife in charge of the tank(s) while I am away. She is pretty good at following directions, but does not really understand how the tank works. The last time she was in charge of the tank...

Hi All, I was playing around with some video on my tank last night. It is crappy iPhone video, but I thought I would share anyways. I am new at this video stuff so take it easy on me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UR-ne5_3zk I put a few other vids of the DT on my new Youtube channel...

Hi all, I recently purchased a couple new test kits. I am trying to get into some good routines for testing and tracking my water parameters. So the test kits I purchased filled in the gaps of what was missing, or replaced kits that I was not satisfied with. I am using Red Sea Pro for...

So I was just checking out some saltwater tank related videos this morning. And I see one of our members Saxman. Mr Saltwater tank TV guy Mark Callahan did a video of Marine Expo 2013, and the screen shot of the video has Saxman (Greg) and Lionfish Lair's Things with Stings booth. So, of...

Hi all, I have been on the look out for a different Alk test kit. I have tried the API test, and its okay, but I don't think it is super accurate. Recently I have tried the Red Sea Pro line of test kits and purchased their reef master test kit (Calcium, Alk, Magnesium). They are decent tests...

So first question I have to ask is: Why do tank problems always have to happen right before I go to bed??? So I got home yesterday and noticed that my tank sounded different. The drain line to the sump sounded louder then normal. I looked all around the tank and could not find anything wrong...

Things are about to get a little crazy in my house. My wife and I are expecting our third child in the next 10 days or so. I wanted to get a lot of the larger tank maintenance done before our addition. I want to use this thread as a tracking tool for what I have done and what needs to be...

Looks like AquaIllumination has a new fixture on the market... The Hydra LED. Here are some stats (copied from AquaNerd's blog). Quote: So, what’s the Hydra got to offer? For one, this new module sports seven distinct LED colors that include Cree XT-E Cool White, Osram Oslon Deep Red, Cree...

Hi all, I was talking with the wife about all the spring storms coming our way. She suggested that we may need a portable generator. I have been pushing for this for a while now, but now she is on board. What is a good generator for home use? I am not looking at spending a ton of money. Just...

I came across The Oatmeal- Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal. Fantastic...

I am looking at adding a set of dosing pumps to dose for Alk and Calcium. Looking for suggestions. I dose BRS 2 part. I have checked out the BRS dosing pumps... They seem just okay (I like the price) And I have checked out some of the higher end dosing pumps, like the GHL Doser. For your...

Hi all, I came home late last night after visiting a friend from out of town and had planned on going right to bed. But I wanted to do a second feeding on my tank (125g). So downstairs I went to feed the fish. As soon as I opened the basement door I did not notice the familiar blue glow from...

Hi all, I have been into keeping SW tanks now for a few year... I have had anemones (bought one and it split like crazy, ended up with about 11 separate small ones). This was in a 29g nano tank. I lurk around this forum most weekdays when I have some downtime at work and such. I read a lot...

I just read an AquaNerd article on how AI is going to offer an upgrade kit to change an outdated Sol fixture to a Vega... $200.00 MSRP + SH, it includes everything to perform the upgrade. AI will even do all the work if you ship your old Sol unit to them at no charge (you probably need to pay...

Hi all, I recently went down to Florida on a little golf vacation. The tickets were cheap and my folks have a place in Fort Myers. So, I was able to do it on the cheap. My wife got a quick crash course on what to do in the tank (she keeps a little Nuvo 8 in the kitchen so she has a little...

Hi all, I recently purchased some new LED lights. I went through a US supplier who gets the units built over in China. They are Evergrow lighting Co IT fixtures. I went with the IT2080 which is a 32", 99 LED, full spectrum unit that is controllable. I ordered them a week before Christmas...

Hi All, I have decided on which type of LED fixture I am going to get for my 125g reef tank. I am going to go with the Evergrow Lighting IT fixture. They are dimmable and controllable and you can design your own custom spectrum layout. You can design which LED's go on what channel and what...

Hi all, I have been doing some research on the off brand LED's. There is a big thread on the other big forum. The D120's that are out there on ebay and other places can be dimmable. They use Bridgelux 3 watt LED's. But most are just white and blue LED's. It is nice that you can control...

Hi All, I am battling a bit of GHA. I took my algae scrubber offline a few months ago. I was not growing green hair algae on it, it was more brown/red algae. Well slowly but surely I started to get some GHA growing in the bottom of the rockwork in the low flow areas. My flow is provided by 2...

Hi all, I am working on setting up a frag tank. I have the tank ready to go and I am planning out the sump right now. Before I get too far into the planning of the sump I would like to pick out what skimmer I would like to use, so I can get the glass cut the the right height. They system will...