All Blog Entries

I started this tank in January of this year. My live rock was purchased from a friend who lives 5 minutes up the road... the rock was only out of the tank long enough to be moved to a bucket at his house, and then into the tank at mine. I even started my tank with his water... so no acclimating or anything. Worked very well. The only "cycling" I went through would be the same as if you cleaned your tank really really well and stirred up all of your sand and such. There was a ...

Do you guys discard a DI cartridge at a reading of 1 or just keep it till it goes higher?
I remember reading about DI releasing ammonia (something about binding power) first when exhausted, Any truth to that?
If that's true then one shouldn't even have two inline as after the first is exhausted it'll just saturate the following one with ammonia?
Thanks for your help.

hey guys just got home from the hospital from my rotator cuff surgery. im only 16 so its kind of unusual for me...but ya know stuff happens and people get hurt.

well anyways since they had me all drugged up i couldnt drive so my parents drove me, and on the way back they gave me a huge surprise...they pulled into the best lfs and said get whatever you want for the 180 gallon, although they only paid for 10 dollors i decided to buy myself a present and got 1 four inch red sea sailfin ...

Here is my March FTS!

I just realized by making successive blog posts that I am monopolizing the "Recent Post" section on the right side of the home page, I apologize and promise this is my last blog entry for a while.

The algae bloom came out in full force a few weeks ago, but is now mostly gone. I actually grabbed several pieces of the fast growing macro lettuce algae and tossed it in the refugium. It is growing well and I plan on putting a few pieces in the display tank from time to time to ...