Blue Z Reef

Wow, candy cane/dendro style fiesta! Cool colors, wish we had those reds and oranges!

If you just want light over the tank order a 10w LED flood light off eBay for $15. You can get them in 20k I believe or just cool white. Should do the job just fine for super low cost.

You tease! No linky :(

More flow and it won't settle as much so your filtration can take care of it. Otherwise siphoning is the only way.

Yeah everyone's skimmer goes bonkers after treatment. It's easier to deal with if you have a DC skimmer (to adjust speed up slowly) but you really just need to let it foam and get the stuff out. Run some fresh carbon and skim with your outlet wide open. Refill with saltwater If your skimming like crazy. I find that it cuts it out after about 30 min to an hour of very wet skimming.

Looks good, any fish in there yet?

Sign up for a free photobucket account, upload, and copy the part for message boards with the around it. It's hard for people to want to post in a thread about your tank if they can't see it, that's all.

Why wouldn't you want to? Are you suggesting just using a timer instead? I use the probe to adjust my reactor so not sure why I'd want to take it out....

Have you seen a floating canopy? Basically just a suspended canopy. Would probably be the easiest route. If they were LEDs id show you pics of that members tank with the paper Japanese latern things but those would catch fire lol

Post pics dude!

How old are your probes and were they stored properly if not new?

I'll take the booster pump, can PayPal to hold until I can come get it if you like. PM me about it.

LOL! ya I think I have like 200. Just keep fragging when they grow off the 2" disk and start a new one. They are all overgrown again

Bingo! Got er done, did the price go down or do I have early onset Alzheimer's?

When I click the email link I get this: Fatal error: Call to a member function indexScreen() on a non-object in /home/pnwmasin/public_html/admin/applications_addon/other/subscriptions/modules_public/subscriptions/paysubs.php on line 563 I am using the mobile version in Safari on my iPhone so not sure where to go in there.

Dang dude! Super jelly of your fuge skills! Looks great! How are you controlling the LEDs? How do you like them so far?

If you want more gobbstoppers I have a bumper crop lol! Also have Sunny Ds that can easily be fragged.

I use to take a jar of minced garlic and use a syringe to suck out the juice. If top it off with a bit more water when done and do it again next time. I wouldn't worry too much about feeding garlic 24/7, some recent studies showed it was actually bad in the long run for the fish. I don't bother anymore unless it's part of a pellet food and my fish have no issues and crazy appetites!

No but if it's glass and blows up it won't continually shock your tank A controller of some sort is the only way to prevent them from going rogue. There are cheaper versions if you don't want to buy a whole system controller. Or as stated before, find one with a built in external controller and separate probe.

Angels are hit or miss with nipping at corals

I've always had the best luck with titanium heaters that have the external controller. The most ideal is obviously having a secondary backup like a controller shutting it off if temp swings too high. It's unfortunate that the fault on them causes heaters to stay on full boar. I personally don't run heaters at all. My house stays between 68-72 year round and my tank stays about 76. No reason to run one and have any risk has always been my thinking. Corals adapt fine to the slow temp swings (larger water volume also helps).

Yeah that's a pretty broad estimate. Most search for the deals and some buy brand new, just depends on your budget. Catching someone doing a full tank/out of hobby shutdown usually nets the best deals on a whole package. If you want new, email Oceans By Design for a custom quote, pricing I recieved from them was very reasonable (for the tank, I would DIY the stand if you can). As far as the kole tang, totally fine in my opinion. He's got a 4' long tank to roam in for now. We've all seen WAY WAY WAY worse lol!

I've got a RO Elite with the new line of white DC pumps, they are amazing, you won't be disappointed! Super quiet, controller is nice with the 15/60 min feed delays and nice build quality overall.

I did this once recently and it leaked. I'm sure it's possible to still get away with it but it's definitely not like new stuff. I ended up using epoxy around the outside of those joints to seal them (2 part). Leaks were smaller pinhole ones but were in a few spots. May be worth a redo or epoxy safety sealing.

Could you just brute trash can the fish and everything and re-seal the seams? If you don't want sand in the whole tank I've seen people take a Tupperware and fill it with sand for a "wrasse" bed of sorts.