Recent Blogs Posts

I thought I would share a few pictures of my small tank with some before and after pictures. I broke down my 65 g reef some time ago, (and for the mean time) (before I get a larger tank in the wall) (in the house that I dont have) I keep this small system.

I have had this system running for around 2 years or so, here are some old pictures...




...

Hey everyone,

I've been running the Bulk Reef Supply Pelletized GFO in my BRS Reactor for about 3 weeks now...since then I've noticed that my ball of chaeto in my refugium hasn't been growing, and today I gave it a good shake and it was very soft and stringy instead of the usual dense "crunchyness" if you know what I mean. Any ideas? Could the GFO be having a negative effect on the Chaeto?

After about a week of researching and thinking and reading some more I decided to try building a "zapper". I don't have any pest anemones but I've been looking for away to remove stray mushrooms without pulling the rock and chiseling them off. After all my reading and thinking I went out and got some supplies. I dug out some non-copper speaker wire and some used oxygen tubing out of my grandpa's garage. I purchased a 12V 600mA power supply, an on\off switch, marine epoxy, a carpenters ...

Attached Thumbnails

       

So its another nasty cold winter day here in town, we have some beautiful blowing snow, and some -30 weather. We kept busy, and warm, this past weekend by making one last trip to the dump, cleaning up the floor, getting all of our insulation into the tank room, and getting our blue board up. I also realized this morning that I forgot to buy a door for the tank room. I to buy one sooner rather then later I think.

The glass arrives on Friday, it will just be the tank glass for now. ...