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260 gallons or so water volume.  DT and frag tank plumbed together.  CA reactor, G4 plus xxx skimmer, little Cheato left in sump while giant scrubber is kicking in 2 weeks.  No dosing and fish's poops are the only nutrient sources.

I don't check much except ALK once a while or when I see CA's PH change, and Mg for once in few months when I see  a little struggling or algea sign.

this frag ~ 1 inch and growing under 1/2 and 1/2 lighting in frag tank.

47 minutes ago, CuttleFishandCoral said:

Tom was the only person still needing to pick up his frag as of this past Sunday. One extra if needed. Matt was nice enough to give me a frag to play with so watch out. 

Don't u mess around with my frag.  Will pick up today for this Winter's ornaments :-).  Been extremely busy ( some good busy, some stupid busy, u name it all ).  Plus fishing season so this hobby is secondary 

49 minutes ago, Brian67 said:

Wonder jow you got matching stands?

Lowes or Ikea

2 hours ago, Gil&Fin said:

Were we supposed to be assigned a random number? Or is it first come first served?

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First come first serve for you only, but your Rhomboid will home in my tank.

What's dimension of the avast?

Yup, it works.  I hate photobucket spam site.

Yup, these fkers put them in early Feb and it got me too.  The $$ on that stupid cameras could had been used for fixing that big holes on the road damaged in last Winter.

$15

That Jbao is brand new unused?

1 minute ago, Emerald525 said:

It's already sold Tom with someone else second in line if that person backs out

 

Ok, sweet room

Wanna trade?

1 hour ago, Brian67 said:

I just hooked mine up straight to unit no more buckets or barrels  will flush the membrane weekly

I'd like to make thing simple or it's "cry me a river" when it comes to cleaning time.  Pond, you can get away with being lazy, not for aquarium.  It only take few months or sometimes few weeks to clean all equipments and containers.  I made a huge mistake when I started out with barrels on 4ft shelfs .   Water change and cleaning are the pain in the but$ of this hobby.  But I'd call it a success if one day, I could get away without water change, it's WIP.  

Good luck and grow some bad a$$ acros :-)

Mr officer.  In my opinion,  TDS creeping is not big deal for your size of tank, so a float valve (well mounted inside your sump) with direct feeding from RODI is not issue.  I ran this way for more than 3 years and I copied that from Reefjunkies but not sure he does that no more ( u could check with him ).  A simple  solution that will get you away from unnesessary redundancies unless you have dedicated roomy fish room and cool toys to play with.

I had this TDS concerns a while back when I saw RODI water trickle through floater valve when sump level went low but not low enough to get booster pump kicked in.  But if there's TDS creeping issue, the whole tank should struggle, not a piece here or there once a while.

4 hours ago, Brian67 said:

Curious how people set up there ATO's. I typically run a line directly to a float valve in my sump and check tgd vslve weekly to make sure it is working properly  i have done it other ways in tge past but finf this works the best for me. I set up redunancies to minimize leak disaters

anyone else use this method ?

please share your methods, ive heard that going straight ftom rodi csn lead to TDS creeping in to tank but not sure if this factual 

What do you mean by TDS creeping in to the tank?  

I ran direct from RODI to float valve in my sump.  I do see tiny dripping into the sump at the float value sometime when the water level was full/barely low ( this is what you meant TDS creeping???).  I want to fix it but don't know how.

1 hour ago, Brian67 said:

Up to you tom  if you wanna give uo spot to aqaunius he can either paypal me and i refundsyou or he canmoaypal you. Either wsy let me kniw

Thank you Mr. Officer.  So here is the spot if Aquanius or anyone wants for the last minute spot.  Hurry before the Officer's hammer slam down shut :-)

On 3/7/2017 at 3:41 PM, Aquanius said:

I'm in from the last thread.  Didn't see this one with the site going down and all

I am not sure what the rule is and I don't wanna make it hairy case; however if Brian is ok with it, then you can have my spot.  I am ok giving up my spot for you if you still want to be in.  Check with Brian on it.

Just now, Brian67 said:

It's good sized tom  when mattv gets back I will post pics. He had to go to beach for work and hoping to be back monday

Just messing around.  In Mr. Officer, we trust :-)

1 hour ago, Brian67 said:

Here is the list of paid, ONE MORE GUARANTEED SPOT, may be more but will not know till colony is cut

 

SPS grow out paid

 

Troy dean

Daniel lu

Scott 

Tom

Brian

Holly

Andrew 

Every1has1

Vance

That's a long list.  Is it a big colony or we are all getting CB's standard size here ?

28 minutes ago, milesmiles902 said:

Hehe. I heard a comment one time about someone getting people asking him same question when they stopped by his house.

He always said that if it had wheels...I could drive it.

Haha

Don't start.  It's atleast $30K so far and still counting.  If i get rid of all today, probably few hundred bucks.  It's a lose lose investment but fun hobby.

Looks yummy!!!

Paid

Pls add me, add me :-)

Hook me up when u frag that carpet.

Old school acro that it's hard to get color up.