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  1. Cleaning of my media reactors

    After seeing a blog or comment from Marc a few weeks ago, I realized that it had been awhile since I had cleaned out my biopellet reactor. After opening the NextReef SMR1, I was surprised that I was still getting flow for tumbling the media after I saw how dirty the plastic discs were. I took everything out and cleaned the interior of the tube, as well as the top and the plastic discs. I had set the biopellets aside after I had poured them out, and tried not to disturb them too much, except for ...

    Updated 11-28-2013 at 03:56 PM by melev

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    Equipment
  2. Rod's Food arrived

    I just got a shipment of Rod's Food delivered today. The Fedex guy woke me up, actually... and since I know he does such a nice job packing the food with dry ice, I put the box on the counter and went back to bed. An hour and a half later, I started brewing some coffee to start my day and fired up the Nikon.

    Rod's special packaging is almost magical. When you open up the box, all you have is frozen food, with no trace of the dry ice.

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    Feeding
  3. Product Review - The Flipper Aquarium Glass Cleaner

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    I wanted to do a review of a product that I have been using for about a year, so I feel that I have pretty good experience with it. It is The Flipper glass cleaner. http://www.flippercleaner.com/


    I saw this at MACNA 2012 in Dallas, and after watching a few demos of it in person, I had to have one. The booth at MACNA said it was selling really well, they had gone through all they brought, and promised to ship me one when ...

    Updated 11-27-2013 at 06:14 PM by melev

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    Equipment
  4. Some new additions

    I have many, many blogs to catch up on, but I'll start with an easy one, some new addition photos.

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    And here are a few coral that have been existing in my tank for a little while:

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    Tank Entry , ‎ New Additions , ‎ Photography/Video
  5. Enthusiasm renewed

    We've all been there. Your tank is on auto-pilot, you aren't making any new purchases, you see the same troublesome areas that need to be tended to but have little desire to actually get those cared for. Your patience is less than before, and what you want continues to be postponed by one thing or another. It's annoying, to say the least.

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    For me, that was very frustrating. I set up my 400g in February 2011 and by this point I should have ...

    Updated 11-25-2013 at 05:06 PM by melev

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    Tank Entry