It's been nearly 400 days since the 400g was restarted, and overall everything is vastly improved from where it was about 90 days ago. All the color has returned to the corals and new growth is readily apparent. One nuisance I was observing was this strange brown patchy stuff on the substrate which looked worse than diatoms but not enough to be dinoflagellates. When I cleaned the area between the sandbed and the glass to get that nice clean white look, the next day it was instantly ...
13 months ago I blogged about the reversed check valve and how it was plumbed in. http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...ning-(Blog-500! Here's the video showing it in action, released tonight.
Sometimes running a reef tank is like raising a kid. You do everything you're supposed to and they still misbehave and don't even grasp the concept that it will do itself in in the process. Two days ago, it was time to dose Prodibio. The water looked good, the corals vibrant. I added the proper amount of each vial, including their new Coral Vits vitamin additive. That stuff has a citrus-like smell to it. Once it hits the water, the sound of the reef changes as it pours into the ...
This video discusses removing hair algae effectively, and adding a clean up crew to keep it away. Also, my tip to weakening it in the first place.
Today's wordy blog is about Sunday's power outage. We had a rainy weekend, but nothing that would suggest power would go out. About 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, everything went dead. As usual, I was awake but winding down. UPS' were chirping, the Vortech pumps were providing flow from their battery backups, and I lit a couple of candles and filed a report with the power company. The recorded message was that power would be restored at 6:30 a.m. so I took a nap. Around that promised ...
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