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Description from Marine Depot: C-3002 - Rated for up to 800g. Reactor height: approx. 29"; Diameter: 4.5"; Ground: 6.25"; Filling amount to 6.5 kg. Eheim 1048 recirculation powerhead, bubble counter & brass check valve included. http://www.marinedepot.com/Korallin_C3002_Calcium_Reactor_with_Eheim_Pump_Saltwater_Aquarium_Calcium_Reactors-Korallin-KL3002-FICRRA-vi.html Selling for $340 + shipping.

Isaac aint no dummy. This was a great deal.

wow. good deal. if i were over there, i would pick this up for sure!

Sounds good to me. I figured that with all of the money coming in from the entry fees and the donations/prizes that it was already being documented. It should be, its only fair. It is a way of covering your butt in case of need, and keeping organized.

Samsung. Hands down is better. Samsung produces several of the very top rated models, where Sanyo is a cheapo brand. I presonally have an LG, and love it. Got it at video only.

Those skimmers kick butt. I love my AquaC EV. I highly recommend whoever buys this to get the mag18, supply this skimmer with as much pump as you can and it will rock your world.

I am aware of the difficulties involved in keeping a tank that big. I want it to be similar to Steve Weist's tank, except a little bigger. I know that I will most likely have to walk into the tank to get toward the middle...its a dream...maybe it will become a reality. Lets hope Cora gets a good job once she's done with her physical therapy PhD...cuz lord knows i only contribute so much without an eduction. You will be in on the build...I will post a thread, maybe you can come vacation in Idaho and help me put it in. (whistle) I cant believe this is around still. $900, thats crazy talk. Materials alone for my new frag tanks was $200 each.....and they are small compared to this monster.

Your fish does look a little thin. You can see it around the face, and the dorsal/pectoral fins. I would just feed it a variety. Mine was eating like a horse, whatever I threw in the tank. But, it had sat in the LFS for 6 months, due to it's high price and the bad economy.

Man, that is a sweet tank. I really feel like it isn't big enough though. After getting the deep dimension bug I think that I am going to make my next tank a 72x72x36. I just have to wait till Cora is done with school and we buy a house...so kindof the same deal as you have, not enough room. Good luck, free bump.

Nice! Did you get my sargassum? I love that fish, cant wait till I get my new one. Eric, a lot of the color depends on the lighting. The brighter the light the brighter the fish. They had it under standard shop flourescents at the store and it looked pretty good, but under the 400w halides it looked amazing.

Crappy cell phone pic, but I have 5 full heads and 2 babies poking out with a bit of tentacle showing. Not sure how many that counts for...

Nice Video, I forgot how badass that game was!

Wow, last night was an amazing game. We had a couple friends over that went to undergrad at Arizona, it made for a fun, in-your-face evening. I had a blast, that was so much fun to watch....a little sloppy at times, but fun to watch. How about that field goal???

figured out the problem. it was the controller. the first plug is wacked out and not working properly. when i opened the ballast i unplugged them, and when i plugged them back in i guess i switched plugs. that is why the one firing changed. i guess i will be contacting neptune to see why this dc8 is shorting out. thanks for the help everyone.

no the same bulbs are in the same sockets. i did try using a couple spare bulbs that i have, but as far as the radiums, they are still the same.

I dose 5:3 mag chloride to mag sulfate. I use 5 half cups chloride (from BRS), 3 half cups mag sulfate (epsom salts), and 1/2 gallon rodi water. Bob is right, you shouldn't dose just mag sulfate.

Radium 20k, 2 months old. Lumenmax reflectors, about 4 months old. It is hardwired the whole way, no plugs all the way from the socket to the internals of the ballast. I opened the ballast just to look, and everything looked fine. Put it back together and now the other bulb is firing, and the one that was firing before, is no longer firing...this has to by symptoms for something...

i turned them on, they both fired! then the one that didn't fire before turned back off...

All connections are good. It is wired strait from the socket to the ballast in the basement (where it is hardwired inside of the case). FYI, this is a PFO pulse start ballast.

So my landlord came over today to drop off some stuff and I asked her if she wanted to see the tank. She came in and I went downstairs to turn on the lights and only one was on. Then after she left I went downstairs and made sure the controller was in the right state, and that the ballast was on. The ballast makes the normal humming noise for each bulb, but I am getting no light. The bulbs are about 2 months old, but I tried another anyways, and nothing. The ballast is still humming, but nothing is coming out.

I agree with you garrett. With a mass food like mine, some corals get what they need, sometimes they dont. I try to gear mine toward everything and have a TON of 10-100 micron foods, not to mention what gets ground up in the blender. I do see sps sometimes trying to choke down a chuck of squid or something, makes me laugh. But hey, if they get nutrients from it externally (not sure if they do or not) then more power to them. I usually desolve it in a cup of water, then spot feed the LPS with the stuff that stick to the bottom, and spot feed the SPS the smaller particle stuff that floats around. I did a 5g bucket full of it last time, next time I will probably do 20 gallons, and start having some of the LFS sell it.

I feed my own homemade blend, which I am now producing in larger quantities and selling over here it Utah. You could do something similar, but realize that it gets messy, stinky, you have to have a freezer to put food in while you are working on it, and it takes time. Here's my ingredients: Mysis Shrimp Chopped Krill Rotifers Oyster Eggs Cyclopeze Brine Shrimp Selco Vitamins and Ammino Acids Green Nori Red Nori Brown Nori Fish Roe (usually salmon-we'll see whats available inland) Sea Urchin Mussels Clams Oysters Whole Shrimp Eggplant Peels Garlic Golden Pearls Athrospira Algae Daphnia Mini Mysis Silversides (chopped) Plankton Frozen Food Squid I take all prepared food and just let it desolve in some RO water, then I add all of the seafood, which is raw, and just keep blending, not pureeing, but blending till there are all size bits. Add it to the food and put it back in the freezer. I keep doing this until I get them all added, and then mix it all real well and put it in ziplock freezer bags.

[language filter], i love those fish, i really need to set up a fish only/predator tank. there are so many killer fish out there that aren't reef safe...

I tried the bottle and after about 6 hours they still wouldn't go near it. I ended up pulling a couple rocks, and caught one of the two. the other is going to endure the treatment...i hope. I just added the treatment and half hour later he is still doing good.