DIY projects

Anyone know of a reef safe, preferably easily available at home depot or lowes, plastic dip for magnets? I would love to make my own frag mags and use them for other in-tank reef applications. Thanks in advance.

Howdy Reef Addicts!

I have finally completed the fish/equipment room in my basement! I built a 6' x 8' room that will hold my sump, filtration, water top off, chemicals, etc. All reef related items. I will also have a 10gal quarantine tank set up here.

I thought that the room was going to be plenty large, but now I find myself wishing it were larger, and there isn't even anything in it yet! I ended up using a high-gloss white paint for durability, even though I didn't want ...

I really like talking about this project but I'm going to do my best to keep this simple along the way. After failing to find the product I wanted last night and spending about an hour reading on my iphone I was able to find sealants and epoxy that will work. So I'm hoping to save the next guy some reading time.

Wood is cut. Need to coat it in something to waterproof it that’s reef safe.
First product I got is Bondo all-purpose fiberglass resin

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I've always loved mixed materials in buildings and designs. The last home my family built had dark, charcoal grey polished concrete floors. My room had light green walls and rich wood furniture. It was actually very calming. Since then I've played around with a few ideas. I built a concrete fish tank that functioned fine but didn’t come out perfect and I never had a second go at it since it was pretty hard to make. But let’s bring it forward to today. Plywood tanks. I've read up on all the ones ...

Having run two previous successful tests on algae patches in my tank and having no negative results to date, I thought I share the process.

I used the following-

1 cap full of peroxide
1/2 tsp baking soda
Baby medicine eye dropper
Small plastic dosing cup
Turkey baster

Mix the peroxide and baking soda together in a small cup and mix until the baking soda is dissolved but viscous. Suck up into the eye dropper about 1ml of the mixture. ...