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Each day for the past week, I've been marking how much water is being used by my reef. I took a piece of blue masking tape and applied it vertically on the acrylic reservoir I made.



Each day around the same time, I drew a line, marked the day and time it was measured.



What I've discovered is that the ATO reservoir holds more ...

To keep humidity levels down in the fishroom, it's important to have a vent fan that exports moist air out of the home. With my last tank, humidity was a factor but once the vent was installed, a marked improvement occurred. During the remodeling project, I tried to clean up the old fan but it had shorted out, leaving a dead motor in its wake.

When the 280g was running, the vent was directly over the tank. I felt that was the perfect spot because it would exhaust heat from the ...

Jessy has been bugging me to use the iMac for more than just skype, so tonight I offloaded pictures onto the Mac, processed them in Lightroom, uploaded them via Cyberduck to my site and have a few shots to share with you.

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Well, I had to work a lot both before and during the event, so I was tired. I was happy to see so many happy people though. We had over 300 people attend, and I got a couple of new corals. I need to post up a bunch of images, and promise too.

I pulled out the test kits tonight to see where things are. I'm happy to report great numbers across the board.

Salinity 1.026sg
pH 8.22
ORP 313
Temperature 79.3F
Alkalinity 10dKH
Calcium 480ppm
Magnesium 1450ppm
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0

Even with these excellent numbers, I'm going to do a 50g water change tomorrow.

The LED refugium lighting was installed two nights ago, and they look fantastic. Totally ...