yes i have, and most of that life will die off in a tank.
no where in my statements did i say a couple of weeks, and i take offense to you referring to me (i feel i am included in your lumping of "you guys") as a disreputable person. whatever bad experience you may have had does not include...
ok, so we set up our flask and added one gram of limestone that is saturated with Pi. then we add 100ml of RO/DI. therefore the lime will give up .75 of its Pi to reach EQ. why does tank water test neg for P when sandbed water test higher?
hey Sno, glad to have another Badge around. never had a reef tank need rescuing. but when i had a store i had friends on the force and they always called me to come and get the stranger pets most criminals have....the number of monitor lizards, snakes of all kinds, birds, tarantulas and...
dead rock will become "live" in a matter of weeks once bacteria and life finds it. to become "true live rock" give it a good 6 months. it will have a strong anerobic zone deep inside.
so what you have in your tank is "live rock".
my dorsalis wrasse is an active pod hunter. i feed maybe once aweek and he is not hurting. but then again, my maroon hunts too...i guess they learned not to depend on me for food.
a perfect tank is boring...rip it apart and start over...lol. most of us cant afford another tank and all that goes with it,,,so we play and tinker with what we have.,,its more of a hands on underwater playpen than a visual centerpiece.
ok...seriously you could think about a harem of fairywrasse, not true schooling but very attractive, colorful and easy to feed, the are active hunters and need little supplemental feedings.
did the same thing on this coast. saturday it was 90+ then sunday when i got up it was 65* and we only got up to 72* and it was sunny. i cursed the coming of fall. atleast now it is feeling warm again,,,but nature was giving a taste of that whicj is to come.,,,GRRRRRR.
after i did the DSB experoment i found out exactly what DSB really stood for "dumb son of a b%^#" ,,,LOL. the nice thing about taking it apart is the redoing of things as Nikki said, plus a tank is art and you can change the picture when you chose.
greetings Dr. CW. glad to have you here! i look forward you you making my brain hurt as it stretches as it attempts to gain just a fraction of your wealth of knowledge.
..."give it to me straight Doctor, i can take it"
Dr. Johnny Fever, WKRP.
i could, its a matter of there being an opening for promotion. if you promote the gov pays for the move, if a lateral,,,i would have to pay. ill wait to promote:D
who has time for soaking,,,lol,,,i prefer a more brutal form of reefing,,:D
i also took apart my 3mdqx and it showed no signs of build up,,guess some pumps are more suseptible than others.