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  1. If it's not one thing it's another

    Well it has been quite a while since I have posted anything so I will give a quick rundown of how things have been going.

    First off sadly I have been a little busy caught in life to really take great care of my tank (second child born, in-laws in town, oldest back to school, etc.) so it has been running on autopilot for a while. I am fighting a fairly large hair algae problem currently and I think it stems from me not adding any live rock when I did the tank restart at the beginning ...
    Tags: disaster, update
    Categories
    Tank Entry , ‎ Tank - Full Summary , ‎ Electrical , ‎ Plumbing , ‎ Random Thoughts
  2. well, I broke down and did it....

    I finally did the one thing with this hobby I swore I would never do. Not that what I did was a necessarily bad thing but I just had a hard time convincing myself that it was worth it. What exactly is it you might ask? I finally broke down and purchased a Vortech Mp40. That's right I swore to myself that I would never spend that much money on what always amounted in my head to a very expensive power head but, as I have gained a very generous promotion at work and would like nothing more but to see ...
    Tags: mp40, vortech
    Categories
    Plumbing , ‎ New Additions
  3. 9 hours well spent!

    Well everything finally came in and so my day was spent putting it all together aside from the bio pellet reactor. I had requested a completely different one but to make a long story short Coral Vue sent me this bohemoth to make up for the delay, unfortunately I have no use for a reactor this big and will be trading it in on one a little more tank size appropriate (if they had sent me a larger skimmer that would be a different story though)
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    Now that ...

    Updated 03-04-2012 at 11:39 PM by melev

    Categories
    Plumbing , ‎ Equipment , ‎ New Additions , ‎ Photography/Video , ‎ DIY projects
  4. auto top off up and running

    It has been a while since I have had the time to make any changes or upgrades to my tank let alone post anything on here but this morning I finally got around to getting my diy auto top off up and running to get this one mounted I got a left over piece of pvc from my closed loop setup and used a bastard file and my dremel to cut a notch on both sides of the pipe so it would have a snug fit over the acrylic that makes up the sump. using heat shrink and but clamps as well as wire nuts i not only extended ...
    Categories
    Electrical , ‎ Plumbing , ‎ Equipment , ‎ DIY projects
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