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    How to pump water up to the 2nd floor!

    Personally I've had good luck with a RV/drinking water hose--designed for potable water use. Been using the same one for about 2 years now with no ills effects to my reef--simliar to...
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    Power Outage For Nano Tanks

    Note: After the CaCl "heater" I bought a nice battery backup from Xantrex http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/204/p/1/pt/32/product.asp which I highly recommend. It can run a +200watt heater AND several mj-1200's for over an hour (much longer than the units you'll find at most home/office stores.)...
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    Power Outage For Nano Tanks

    Driveway de-icer pellets. mix them with water, in a sealed container, then float it in the tank. (that, plus properly sized/cut pieces of rigid insulation, kept my 90 gallon warm a few winters ago when my under-sized inverter died after the 3rd day w/o power.)
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    Seattle to hot 90º this week

    or use a sheet of rigid insulation from the home store. +it cuts easier (just a knife or utility knife) +has higher R-value insulation (to keep the cool in) +blocks out the sunlight (keeps out those scorching rays outside)
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    Hanging arms for light over tank

    If, like me, you don't have a conduit-bender (or couldn't convince the wife why we "needed" to buy one :rolleyes:) then you could probably just substitute threaded-pipe and threaded fittings--that's what I WAS going to do, until I stumbled across the bike shelf--which for me was: cheaper, only...
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    Hanging arms for light over tank

    I hung my (24") Outer Orbit over my nano using a "Folding Bike Shelf" I found on the storage/organization aisle at HD for like $6. If you have a small tank, it works pretty nice--holds up to 50 pounds--and it makes the center-line of the fixture about 11.5" off the wall, which is great for a...
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    Reefkeeper Lite pros & cons

    Thanks for the explanation, Alex! (BTW: I still haven't gotten my build thread posted yet but here's a pic of your/my rocks in all thier cycling/hair algae-y glory. :D )
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    Reefkeeper Lite pros & cons

    That's pretty sweet! I'm a total noob when it comes to controllers... but am getting tired of multiple timers and not enough room under the stand of my new nano... Looking for a basic unit that can control: -heater+chiller -actinic/HM/moonlights -2-3 powerheads -a timed top-off pump Is the RK...
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    transfer existing sand? Yes or No?

    keep enough to seed, but toss* the rest. bought my 80 gallon reef as a whole system and when we broke it down to move it the sand bed (also a SSB) was by far the NASTIEST thing I had ever seen (or seen since)--is amazing how many dead-spots there can be under that rock-work! is not worth the...
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    Tap Water TDS

    Unincorporated* King County, between Bothell and Kirkland : 22 Thank you, Northshore Util. Dist.! :) *And PROUD of it, hope it stays that way!
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    Deer Park that is good water

    Be careful what type you buy though. (DeerPark sells 4! :rolleyes: different kinds of water--Natural Spring, w/flouride, Drinking, and Distilled.) Only their Distilled tested w/o any Nitrates or Chloride: http://www.nestle-watersna.com/pdf/DP_BWQR.pdf (pages 15-18) Their Natural Spring Water...
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    How can I get copopods

    imagine being a full-time "copepod counter" ... wost job ever! :razz:
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    Clam gaping...

    Actually, he's talking about the shell colorartion in the 2nd picture. That the greenish color on the edge of the shell indicates that the mantle hasn't been fully extended--or that the shell hasn't grown, for quite a while.) But that's a great article, thanks for linking it!
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    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    Thanks guys! I'll probably shoot for a 1ppm ammonia load (just because that's the easiest concentration for me to discern on the test-kit. ;) ) And like I said--I'm in no rush, yet... ..Which doesn't mean I'll be patient enough to wait until the nitrates drop ALL the way to zero. (I already...
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    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    +85 degrees, Then I'll definitely leave the live tonga branch out during the cycle! :eek2: Would setting up an "ammonia drip" be a good idea, or over-kill? Thanks for the tips Don, and don't worry, I'm in no hurry to rush this tank (heck, I started this "simple little nano project", in March...
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    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    Aha! using continual small doses, to simulate a sustained bio-load---now that makes perfect sense, thank you!
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    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    (Not new to reef-keeping, but new to cycling a tank.) How high should the Ammonia concentration be to adequately start a tank cycling? I used liquid NH3 (not rotten shrimp) and put the NH3 level at 1ppm. It's 8 days later now, and although I have a vigorous diatom bloom, my ammonia level has...
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    unhappy clam

    Yep, photos posted--per Sid's advice I (tried to) move the thread into the clam forum: http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45923
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    unhappy clam

    oh, and that's a clove coral on the left, an open brain on the right, and the red dots on the rock "above" are just colored-epoxy. (that's the piece of formerly-alive-rock that I 1st tried to bury and have it attach to; right now it's "attached" to a small shell fragment, about 1/2-dime size.)
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    unhappy clam

    Thanks! Yeah I guess I'm going to let him rest a bit. Here's couple pics from last night--sorry for the bad camera work. (basically it's just showing that his mantle is barely extending past the shell.) The tank-mates are: blue tang, yellow tang, small school of chromis, pair of GSM clowns...
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