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I will be posting an update soon on my new 195 build but I am trying to battle algae and red slime algae for the last couple months. I am asking this question because it seems my cheato macro algae isn't growing much. I can't seem to find online what a good lighting schedule is for it. Right now I am using t-5 18000 lights for the Refugium. Are these lights to strong and how lunch should I have them on for? Ally parameters are good in the water with my phosphate at 1.0, I recently added ...
Hello all! For lack of better terms I would consider myself a "water nazi". I sample my water at least three times a week to verify everything is at its proper levels. After I test my water, I usually make a trip to my local LFS to make sure my tests are accurate. The last test I conducted yielded these results: PH - 8.2 Salinity 1.025 Phosphates 0.0 Nitrates 0.0 Calcium 500 Magnesium 1350 Alkalinity 8.9 About my tank: 75 gallon ...
Hi all. Been following Melev since his early days. I am reconstructing a smallish reef tank, around 50 gal including sump. I'm planning on including a controller for this iteration of my tank, and am stuck on the type/brand of heater to include. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I would like to order one soon. In my last iteration of this tank, prior to the rebuild, I had a heater that I'm not sure ever came on. The pumps and lighting kept it quite warm. This new design is using ...
hello everyone show me your skimmate is something i started at tcrc our local reef club and i though i would start it here. i want for everyone to share their dirty pictures.... XP no not those silly! i want to see what your skimmer cup looks like in a week or if it gets full before a weeks time just take a pic of it full. i also want you to tell what skimmer you have what are you waiting for! reef octopus xs-200 a little less than a weeks collection and skimmer ...
I posted before that I've been having trouble with many of my snails dying. Not sure of the cause I've tried many things and received many suggestions. I took out about 70% of my live rock and have been cooking it for several months. I wanted to see if there was something on the live rock that was killing the snails. I'm happy to report that after a number of weeks in the cooking barrel all the snails are fine. So wanting to do a little control test I took one turbo snail and ...
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