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Ehehhehe, thanks for all the support and PM's, but this was just an April Fool's joke I'm not selling my tank, but already thinking to my new build! :P

So we bought a new home and after a long discussion we decided that we don't want to ruin it with moisture. We also need money to fix some stuff in the new house and contractors are expensive. It is a sad day, and I'm in tears while posting this thread. I'm selling the livestock first. You can check out my tank thread for an (almost) complete list of all my corals and fish After all the livestock is gone I will sell my equipment. It is a long list that I will put together asap. Just give me a few hours to put prices on the livestock. You are free to come over and check them out. The more you buy the more you save. It was really nice to share my passion for reefkeeping with you guys, but life goes on. I will keep reading the forum and serve the BOD until the elections. Thanks Alex

If it is, this link might be interesting: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/133061/0 Down the bottom there are tips about care and natural habitat

Phoenix here too. And Radiums on the other tank. Blue is the new yellow

Beautiful fish Kim. One of my fav ever

I have an old one if you want to try it

Amazing. Thanks for sharing

Welcome on board. We love pictures too

I went for a 1/2 for water in and 1 for water off. You want a strong flow in it. Filled up to almost the top with sand as fine as you can find. Possibly with a filter before the intake. The flow should be as fat as you can without blowing the sand. Sand can be just playsand from home depot or aragonite (for buffering) or a mix of the 2. You have to change 1/2 of the sand every 6 months or so. You may want to set up 2 of them if one is not doing enough, or a single 20 gallon tub. It really depends on the tank volume and bioload. This is what Antony Calfo is suggesting in many writings. There is also a 100+ pages thread on Reef central about it, but I think I told you all you have to know.

This is a good point. Skimming wet means you are removing a lot of calcium, so find a way to put it back in the tank

I know that Algae and Clay enjoy skimmer crackers when they meet. I saw them with my own eyes

As said the output difference is so little that you can consider it as the same light. The only difference is that the Sunpower is a nice fixture (speaking of aesthetics) while the Powermodule is more like a design object. You decide depending on your needs. I went for the Powermodule, but I'm an euro arty-farty metrosexual kind of guy

I would leave the tank without dosing. It will be risk free... I use to leave my tank alone when I go to Europe for 3 weeks. Just food for fish once a week. I also turn off the skimmer (I actually just remove the cup) The tank can live without all that

AWESOME! (nutty)

Just to have an idea: when I mean skimming wet I mean about 5 gallons of skimmate per week, which for me is about a little bit less than 0.5% of my water volume. When I skim dry I do about a gallon per week. This is for all the foam lovers

Seems that wet skimming removes more organic material if you see it as total amount removed. Dry skimming is more efficient in terms of organics removed compared to the water volume. This because the first kind of skimming will remove a lot of stuff, included some that are not supposed to be removed. Mainly calcium, which is like 90% of a wet skimming cup if I remember well. The dry skimming does have the downfall to have some organic compounds "draining" down the column and go back into the tank before the bubbles can pop. I think that the best is something in between. But it also depends on the design of your skimmer. Cone skimmers allow you do skim a little bit on the dry side without having a lot of organic compounds falling down, or draining back into the water column. So the scenario is always evolving with the technology. The problem is that there aren't recent empirical researches about this, so it is just what we suppose and what the good sense suggests. Does not mean that it is true For me it depends on how the tank is doing. I usually skim between dry and wet, but I set it for wet skimming when I see some issues. It seems to work well for my setup. It also depends on how efficient and powerful is your skimmer compared to your tank, and the design of the skimmer.

I'm in the process of upgrading my tank and I might be selling my 48 ATI Powermodule 6x54w. I'm thinking about going with t5 + led spotlights for the new tank. Still torn about how to do it, so my 48 ATI could be on the market. I never tried the new Tek. The old one wasn't an impressive fixture. For sure go with ati bulbs.

The cheapest is the DSB in the bucket. The bucket is free, a few $ for 2 uni-seals (I used 1'' and .5''). A bag and a half of sand from home depot (the one sold for kids to play with), an used maxi jet and some tubing. I think it wont cost more than $20. If you have an external pump you can feed the bucket with that. It is not filtered as recommended but it seems to work for me.

I agree with big frequent water change for initial lowering the nutrients. Water changes always works. As for probiotics, whatever it is (MB-7, vodka, rice, red wine, zeo, xaqua, etc) in most of the cases a macro/refugium setup is gonna compete with the carbon/bacteria and it is not something you want. If I remember well you have concrete bricks in your sump. Keep an eye on those

I'm going to Italy the 6th for 3 weeks, otherwise I would have offered. Hope everything is well

Sorry about you dad. I'm in the process of moving and probably upgrading and I'm planning it this way: you can set up the new tank with fresh water or, better with water from water change of the 75g. Or a mix of new and old. When you are ready move all the water from the 75 to the new tank, as a big water change. Put rock and corals. Throw away the sand and get some new one that I would add after a few weeks. It is possible that you are gonna lose some corals or fish. You will have a few mini-cycles but if your 75 was well established it will handle it. Good luck with everything

I'm running a rdsb. I started it just a few days ago, so I can't tell yet. A lot of people are having luck with it and it is only a few bucks

http://www.dursostandpipes.com/

subliminal message lol

Looking great! The light is a Sunpower not a Sunpod!!!!