Water Chemistry

Marc, you mentioned cleaning your over flow out in your recent article...curious if you have heard of anyone using that area as a deep sand bed? particularly in my tank the outlet from the overflows is at the top going out the back, no stand pipe to worry about cleaning and such. At the base of my overflows there is .25 to .5" of mud and bristles and pods. Just food for thought

so it appears I’m having a nutrient problem in my tank even though all levels are undetectable with salifert test kits.

the problem I’m having is I can’t figure out my source...i really don’t feed allot at all i feed 1 frozen rotifer cube midweek 2 hours after light out for all my coral that opens up at night and for my critters and i feed my fish and acans maybe twice a week but usually once (i know its crewl) they either get frozen brine or mysis depending on which i grab out of the ...

i really wasnt a big tester, but latley ive wondering why i cant keep certain Acros the oringinal color from when i purchased them, i found this nice article: http://reefbuilders.com/2008/09/03/g...-vivid-bright/ . So it got me thinking, i dose 2 part and test my cal and mag ocasionally same for nitrates(make sure bio pellets are working).So what else is missing? I had seen the Red Sea kits popping up on the internet, then i saw them at my LFS. Being a person ...

I haven't updated my pics in a while, but I've been fighting with the tank a lot. I have had some issues with frags not growing, and even a complete lack of polyp extension in SPS with browning out too. On top of that I got a GHA outbreak. I thought I'd been doing ok, but it really forced me to take a long, hard look at the way I kept my tank. I had cheaped out on my test equipment, so I decided it was time for an upgrade. I replaced my years old swing arm hydrometer with a refractometer, and ...

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