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Here's a March picture of my main reef aquarium every year since 2004. Sorry about the formatting, not every image is the same size pixel-wise.

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I use the 150gpd RO/DI system for all my water needs, both drinking water and RO/DI for my reef. Using it for maybe five years or more, you get used to how it operates. However, I recently had a customer with very high TDS reach out to me after buying one of my systems looking for a more efficient option because DI resin wasn't lasting long at all. After talking with my resource, I decided I'd try the suggestion with my own system to get some personal experience. This of course ended up with ...

If you follow my blog, you know I like all things tiny. So I'm always looking for small things in my reef. Today I saw a squiggly thing and didn't recognize it. Was it even alive? Was it fish poop? Look up at that thing, I looked down on the substrate beneath to see if I could find "the other half" of whatever it might be.

Turns out it was a snail, but I've never seen one without the shell. There was a large Astrea shell on the sandbed for the past couple of days, and I attributed ...

Every evening around 5:32 p.m. all the fish get excited about their pending meal. I have an Eheim autofeeder suspended over my reef in the upper left corner. It dumps food into the water though an acrylic bracket I sell on my site called the Eheim Chimney: http://melevsreef.com/catalog/eheim-...feeder-chimney This keeps the food in the water and none of it goes out/down the overflow into the sump.
What makes this time fun for me is watching all the Skunk clownfish rise up out of the ...

A new article can be found on Melev's Reef: www.melevsreef.com/cuc I shared my thoughts about what I recommend when it comes to adding the necessary critters to keep your reef looking nice.