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    Seachem Prime and tap water instead of ro/di?

    Getting and maintaining a simple RO unit isn't that expensive here since the water starts out so pure, you don't really need the "standard" 5/6 stage unit like most places sell unless you make a whole lot of water. I got a bulkreefsupply 4 stage unit and run a 1 micron sediment filter, followed...
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    Bad Hair Day!!!

    thats amazing i wonder how hard it would be to find a barbie afro pick
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    Worst day to have corals come in :(

    dude you gotta get down to that warehouse tonight or I think you'll be getting it friday
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    Favorite Little Tank Gadget?

    RO wash bottle. I can't imagine not having one for cleaning test kits, rinsing mysis, cleaning glass, washing saltwater off my stainless tweezers, mixing with dry foods, spraying my cat to get him away from soaking foods, rinsing corals after dips, and on and on. honorable mention to 12"...
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    If you wind up with the bad glass anoemonae (sp?) be rid of them easily..

    i've never really understood the point of chemical based aiptasia killers, a turkey baster and some boiling RO has killed every aiptasia i've ever encountered... i can see doing peppermint shrimp or berghia for a large infestation where you can't reach them but then don't you have to get the...
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    Interesting, thanks for explaining that. For some reason I didn't think about OH- being counted as alk but it makes sense now. Also got two more data points and it looks like the alk is starting to do its thing, it is down a full point now. t=32:00 temp:70.6F alk:10.4 Ca:380 Mg:1170...
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    Black Friday Deals

    bulkreefsupply sent out 10% off to email subscribers and it stacks with the preferred reefer discount if you've been in a BRS group buy before. and there's a certain chop shop doing $20 crocea clams with $50 purchase if you want to take a risk. edit: no local places are doing anything that...
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    yeah my alk is still way up there at 10.8 and still reading consistently for the last 3 readings, which is odd because the water I have in my normal mixing bucket that has been mixing for a couple weeks now is still showing 7.0 and my test kit is matching the test solution. My bucket is an early...
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    Post pictures of your stand and canopies

    Here's my new 16x16x10" shallow 10 gallon tank and stand I just built, its hard to tell from the pic but it isn't paint it is a really dark stain; you can see hints of the grain. Light is a matching LED pendant that isn't quite complete.
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    I started a (much smaller) experiment, it is a gallon pitcher with a tiny hydor pico pump in it for circulation. I found that if I fill the pitcher to a line near the top it takes 140.0g of aquavitro to hit 1.026, so I filled to the line, weighed out my salt and stirred it vigorously with a...
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    Worms in tank...

    I keep getting notifications for this thread but it appears that threads from the invertebrates subforum aren't showing up in the recent threads on the home page. Is this supposed to be the case?
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    Leslie's Picks on CUC's

    I like stomatella and collinista snails because they are more active at night and also they reproduce readily so their populations can change depending on how much algae is growing. Also I have a single blue hermit and a eunice worm that take care of any meaty foods the corals don't catch, plus...
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    The main one I'm referencing is this one on RC
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    Thanks for the suggestions, the paint mixer sounds like a great idea and I know they make small ones used for stirring gallon paint cans. I have a pitcher that has a line around the inside that is exactly one gallon and I have a .1g accurate scale I use for mixing two part, sounds like I'm...
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    Nano Lighting

    6 cree LEDs over a small cube like that all running at 100% is more of a coral bleaching apparatus than a reef tank... I have 3 blue and 3 white XR-E crees over my 9" cube and run my whites at 33% and my royal blues at 50% and can do acros and clams down to the sandbed and have to start new...
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    huh, I'll have to do some experimenting since I just need a gallon or two at a time... sounds like a need an hourglass kind of contraption to slowly add the salt to a gallon pitcher of water with a circulating pump.
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    Aquavitro Salinity alk concerns, anyone else using it?

    I got a bucket about 6 months back and have been using it for water changes and so far I have been mostly happy with it. When I first got it I mixed up a batch, let it circulate for several hours and tested with my Salifert alk/Ca/Mg kits, and they all matched the results on the label within a...
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    sanding plexi

    depends on how good the cuts were, if it was a sharp blade meant for plastics then probably 220 until the saw marks are gone followed by 400-600 until it is smooth. if they are a little rough then you can start with 150 to make it go faster. I like to wrap the sandpaper around a foot long piece...
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    Worms in tank...

    I have some of the same ones and looked them up once, they are Timarete sp. and are usually known as cirratulid worms as they are in the family Cirratulidae. They reproduce readily and are good at keeping sand stirred up and clean, and every now and then one seems to make itself neutrally...
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    Anyone have DYI Overflow Box Plan?

    I like to use what is called a "herbie" drain setup, where you have to drill two holes and have two drains. If you drill the back glass then you drill one lower than the other, and the lower drain is just a siphon with a ball valve on it that is the "main" drain, and then you have a second...
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