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  1. Biopellets: Skimmer modification complete

    For the past two weeks, I was thinking about modifying my Euroreef protein skimmer so it could work in conjunction with my NextReef biopellet reactor. I was considering drilling a hole in the body of the skimmer, inserting a uniseal and then pumping the effluent of the reactor into the reaction chamber of the skimmer. In this way, it would definitely export dead or dying bacteria exiting the reactor. Perhaps that stuff was causing the dinoflagellates in my tank, I really don't know.
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    Water Chemistry , ‎ Plumbing
  2. Graphs

    Yesterday I posted up the latest water parameters from my tank. Here are a couple of graphs to show how the Aqua Controller tracks some variables.

    ORP: I've been dosing Hydrogen Peroxiide (3%) each morning, so the ORP rises sharply and then drops down over the next few hours. I'm dosing it to kill dinoflagellates, and that dose is 1ml per 10g actual water volume. This is done daily for 7 days, and today is the last day. It appears to have worked.

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    Water Chemistry
  3. Water tests from today

    The parameters continue to look excellent. And the brown stuff I've been worried about seems to be declining, but then again it is early in the day and the lights haven't had time to awaken that stuff today.

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  4. Chemi-Pure Elite Review

    When I considered writing a review for Chemi-Pure Elite... I thought to myself, "that would be a very short review!" Namely because the product is so simple and effective, but then I began realizing that this product does SO MUCH that I can talk about... so I decided to give it a go.
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ID:	5039BOYD is willing to make some VERY outrageous claims with this product, and while I cannot put a stamp of approval on many of these, I am willing to say that this is a valuable ...

    Updated 04-26-2011 at 10:35 PM by matt_longview

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    Water Chemistry
  5. Bio-pellets- to use or not to use??

    Hello everyone.
    What would be the best solution to get rid of a nitrate issue? I Have been thinking of using vertex bio-pellets with a Two Little Fishies Phosban Reactor 150 with a max jet 1200 pump. Would the pump be strong enough for this use? My tank (75 gallon) is now 2 years old and would just like it to be more stable and get rid of the up and down cycle i seem to be in for the last year. My nitrates cause me the most headaches and phosphates have always been close to zero or just above ...
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