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Nope, just regular old true percs. Nice colors though. They have been around a long time, SlimyFish/ChrisZs pair. They love the torches for hosting.

Thank you! It has looked better but is now recovering. I see a light at the end of the tunnel... I had a shallow sand bed, but have been removing it slowly, soon to be bare bottom. For me, I had rock and/or sand leaching phosphate. Removing it seemed to have a positive effect, I can keep phosphates at 0 now with GFO only. I was doing allot more than that before. Also the tin issue on the triton test prompted me, in case solder bits were buried in the sand from the lighting. Thanks for starting the thread, I like seeing people's tanks, lots of fun.

Here's a quick and dirty shot Tank is in a recovery from all the tin found the triton test

Wow that is doing great, love the scroll coral.

Looks nice!

Its an option for sure, but with my 8 year old daughters hands in the tank regularly, just not worth it. I had a power head go bad and got quite a zap myself. Saltwater is hard on everything I suppose.

Thats a great tip, going to add that now.

I hear you Charles! Always scratching my head trying to remember. Going to make a printout and paste it in the cabinet. Think I am done moving things around.

Hey fishman, Yes, it could be like this: EB8 Plug->GFCI->Equipment. But I did use 6' extension cords EB8 Plug->GFCI->6'Extension cord->Equipment. The EB8 to GFCI is done via 1' extension cord jumpers, they are hard to see in the pic. Hope that helps - Jeremy

Thanks Bombertech for this tip back before the great site crash. Most of us use GFCIs. The work, they save lives, they are a good thing. However, when 10 things are plugged into your tank, and component goes bad, your entire tank shuts down when the GFCI trips. It is not necessary for everything to shut down nor ideal. A simple fix is to move the GFCIs from the typical configuration: GFCI->PowerStrip->Equipment To the (more expensive) but reliable configuration: Powerstrip->(for each outlet one GFCI->Equipment) Here is an example of that configuration using 12 dollar GFCIs and electrical boxes from home depot: As a really cool bonus, it is possible to have the controller detect trips. with a relay wired into each GFCI. It is hard to see, but these outlets are all equipped with relays Note the mono jacks hooked to relays. Also, pointing a webcam at the wiring closet can give a visual if you suspect a trip but don't have the relays. Well there it is, overkill?

Ah, reeftronics has some pretty sweet reports: http://www.reeftronics.net/programns.php?member=theclark

Do any of the APEX gurus know how to easily document the APEX outlets? Basically I am looking for a way to generate something I can print and post by the wiring closet. Like EB8-1 - Pump EB8-2 - Skimmer Etc... I could generate a list by hand but was curious if there is a way through the legacy or apex interface or a utility that works off of the XML API. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing!

Awesome Matt, thanks for writing it up. Phosphate rocks suck! Or at least they leach....

Heck of a job, congrats! What do you think made it grow so much faster?

Fun day, got to head down to GoldenBasket and a couple reef buddies houses. Ran into: Rudy/GoldenBasket MattV Reefnjunkie Ssappington BlueZReef Hope you all scored some good stuff, those on the hunt. It was nice to catch up with you all.

My Chaeto is way down, otherwise would not hesitate. Getting it growing back now that I have stopped carbon dosing. So if you are still looking in a few weeks...

I had to stay pretty low in the 7-8 range due to carbon dosing. Plan to move it back up now somewhere around 8-9.

Yes good point, it is great Jessie managed this through the crash and selling his tanks. Huge thanks! More shots of the Dragon mega colony please!

Wow Dragon, that is amazing, nice work! I think we should all re-post our tank info/lighting etc since it was lost in the great crash. Just interested to know everyone's reefkeeping techniques so we all learn a little in the process.

I agree, thought I was doing a good thing keeping all the live stuff on the live rock. My issue was insane amounts of phosphate leaching from the dirty old rock. It was terrible. Bleach and muriatic acid for any used live rock in my future. Then I would feel pretty good about re-using it. Good luck on the hunt!

Just a quick update... A few hundred gallons changed out so far (automatic and manual). Have to say, the coral looks allot better. 200 more gallons and it will be time to send water in for re-testing...

My final pic, 11 heads. It was a nice frag, now a nice mini colony. Fun growout, thanks Jesse, Jeff@Cnc and all who participated.

Thumbs up, I like the concept, love the startup, definitely considered this myself. Competition is good for all of us. On that point, IOT is bringing allot of competition indirectly. Some day perhaps we will be running our aquariums with standard off the shelf hardware and a controller such as the google/nest/revolv platform. If you haven't googled IOT, it is shocking how APEX controller like it is. The difference is, it is for the masses, not just aquariums. The future is bright for reef automation. Kudos to reef controllers for bringing the concept to market, in fact APEX would make a great IOT controller. Ran across this today, 8 outlets, 89 bucks and web accessible. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HXT8IN2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=29ODKZKFS7APL&coliid=I2WUSQML7TKTSB Pair that with a good controller that knows how to talk to web devices, you have the beginning of a reef automation Internet of Things.

Too bad no one picked this up....