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The title is just a tad misleading, but I thought I'd show you what it looks like to me.

Using a Salifert PO4 test kit, I measure the water from my reef tank for Phosphate. The ideal reading is 0 to .03ppm (yes, it should be super low). Over the years, I've seen numbers as high as 3ppm in my tank to as low as 0. For the past 23 months, I've been dosing vodka daily to maintain lower nitrates, and it helps keep phosphate from rising but doesn't omit them like it does for others. ...

My angled tank is turning three next month. And I've been contemplating a new tank in that spot. I came up with an idea today, which I think will be amazing. Hopefully I can build it in the next couple of weeks. I know you guys want all the details, but I'd prefer to reveal it once completed. It'll be a little bit bigger, it'll have a nifty way of looking at it, and it'll incorporate a Vortech MP10 internally. I'm stoked!

Here's an older image of the tank in question.

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I've been ignoring how the pendants were hanging at an angle over the SPS vat, but it bugged me. I wanted to direct the light down into the vat and get them level, so I thought about various options.

The easiest solution was to use one of the spare Vortech magnets I use when building sumps to keep the two pendants straight. Simple, free, and it works.



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Over the weekend, I tackled a relatively small project that turned into an exhausting task. The copper pipe that comes up out of the slab foundation feeds the water heater, and it had to be relocated. To do so, I had to cut out the concrete around those pipes, which allows for the necessary alterations that get the water heater completely out of the way once and for all (I hope!).

I rented a concrete cutting saw, and walled off the fishroom from the living room.

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It's hard to believe that two days ago, the fishroom was there, and today it is gone and ready for the big expansion. I'm sharing some of the pictures I took with my Nikon (rather than those taken with my iPhone 4) tonight, so you'll see a little repetition.

I began tearing out the walls while Bobby worked on the plumbing on 9/28.


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