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Gonna take The girlfriend and her kids to some tide pools this weekend. Anyone have some suggestions. I would like to check out some I have never seen plus it is research for my future cold water oregon coast tank.

Nori tied to a weight. A tangs feast. I have had good luck with the new gel foods on the market too.

I have had problems with contaminated tubes and lids providing false readings. Take some water to a LFS and compare with their kits.

I do come that way occasonially. Usually about once a month. I will let you know when I am headed down there. Think in the next week or so maybe.

I have a Kicker comp 10 inch sub in subzero box with 200 watt rockford amp had in my car a few months and swiched it out sounds great could handle bigger amp I bought it brand new still have the warranty and original box will install for the right price or trade Looking for 48" VHO set ups or a hundred cash.

I beleive I have one on a small rock. You can have it. Would like to get a rock of equal size in return if possible.

A little up date. 24 hours after adding activated carbon(11 oz). My Nitrates had droped 5ppm. Did a 20% water change last night. This morning Nitrates down to 10ppm. Yeah progress. Another 20% water change tonight. And I think I may have it down to around 5ppm I hope. Then I will adjust my water change schedule based 0n a 10% water change. I was reading some articles about having old sand and it not being able to complete the biological filtration process. I think this may be part of the issue. As I have no idea how long it has been in there. I will do some more research about this and let you know.

I do not run purigen. But I have done some reading about it looks like I will be starting to use it. It just happens that today is my water change day any way so that why I am just going to up the percentege. Retest and then start doing 5 gallon a day change till it is solved.

That tank is beautiful. Someday mine will be too!! I added some activated charcoal to a new filter sock. Noticed a small reduction in the last 12 hours(5) we will see after work another 12 hour period. Then I will be due for my weekly water change. which I will up to 20%(from 10%). I will keep you updated. Cant thank you all enough.

That is why I am on here is to see from experience what others have done and to make the most educated move I can. Grassi I have seen your tanks a while ago. I have your longspine urchin and some zoos. If you are feeding only every three to four days than I am feeding four times as often as you. I feed once nightly. I would be curious as to what and how much you feed. I know each tank does not have the same creatures or requirements but any information I can get will help me better in the long run.

Tank is 8 months old in my house. It was running two years before I brought it home. Tank, sand, some rocks, couple fish, and all the water. Yes I really did transport all 110 gallons of water. What a PITA...

You are correct. I just bookmarked several to read later. Cant thank you guys enough. Keep up the great work!!!

That is what I will do. Then it looks like I will be building a refugium. Needed an excuse for another tank. Thanks alot guys.

Is it possible to do a 50% Water change and not harm anything(re cycle the tank)? I will be looking into a better cleanup crew today mine is very sparse. Along with stocking up on water(man I really should start making my own). What is the difference between a refugium and a sump. How much and what kind of carbon should I use I have none in the tank. Looks like I have along way to go thanks for all the great advice.

Best of luck...

Maybe an excuse to get some more live rock wink wink. I will just do small water changes each day this week and reduce my feeding a little. Thanks for the Info what about mangroves in my sump. Maybe I will do some more research on this vodka dosing I hear about. Any good links? What about a few more hermits to eat some detrius(or would that just raise nitrates further)

I have noticed the nitrates ramping up in my system. Almost to 20mg/l Yesterday. my system is mostly softies. They are staying very small and slow to open. Same with the nems. I am sure my tank is over stocked and I probably feed to much. My skimmer is probably too small(I do get a pint of skimate a week). But I was wondering what the best way to lower nitrate is. Without spending a fortune. Small water changes each day and my normal 10% per week? Or up my weekly water changes to 20%. I am also concerned with the fact that my calcium lowers when I change water. Any help will be appreciated I am pretty new to this saltwater game. Nitrate 20mg/l Nitrites undetectable Ammonia undetectable Calcium 380 Kh 7 PH 8.2 Magnesium 1200 PH 8.2 Specific gravity 1.026

I will make a comment when I pick my jaw up off the floor... Nice work, not many would tackle that caliber of project and make it amazing. Makes my tank look like a cracker jack prize.

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I kinda figured on that. How do I get the time and locations of the next meetings? Thanks to you all

Any idea when another group buy on these will be i am interested in a few

I have that stuff speading like crazy... I need to learn how to remove the small starts and put on plugs or small rocks. Maybe you can help me. I do have a guy in Aloha oregon that will take them for a small store credit. Although he does not have much in his store to buy. But it gets the out of view of some of my rocks.

I am new to forum and reefing. Do you need to be a full fledged member to attend these meetings. I would love to learn more than I have already from this site.

The PC has four 65watt bulbs. What do you need to get for the VHO set up? What would be the advantages of putting t5 bulbs in a PC fixture, and how would you go about doing it. I cant see getting the reflectors in cause this thing has four seperate reflectors.

Just picked up a Halide setup(single hanging reflector). I need to do some sort of actinic lighting along with it(any ideas will help). I have a Jalli 4x65 watt power compact fixture. I was just going to switch it to all actinic bulbs. Till I studied the tank further and am thinking there will be no room to hang both fixtures in a manner to get all the light into the tank. So I was thinking of trying to mount two 48" VHO bulbs. One to each side of the Halide reflector. What you guys think? I am willing to trade my PC fixture(new bulbs less than 2 months) I also have two 46.5" VHO bulbs(never been installed) one is aquasun one is super actinic. I am willing to trade all this for some thing that will work. I am open to different ideas as well, Thanks in advance for the help...