Webbed Feet

If you have an accurate other way to test salinity .. why don't you just compare and see if it is still accurate? If so, give it a try in your sump and see if you like it.

I can tell you the lid you had it in was made in China.. 🙃

I use a Wemo outlet for a pump.

Interesting stuff. Thanks for replying! 🙂

Hi, I own a Red Sea Max E-260. These models have a glass screen that sits upon the length of the rear tank wall (before the rear sump) that is meant to block the view of the skimmer and prevent light causing algae in the skimmer, etc. On both of the tank sides there are two glued on plastic clips that the screen clips into to hold the screen in place and allow it to swivel forward for maintenance. Regardless of the swivel feature, often for maintenance the glass screen needs to be removed. Well, Red Sea designed the plastic horseshoe like clip pretty darn tight as far as snapping the glass screen out of the clip when needed. And, of course you might have guessed, one of the clips broke and I am finding the adhesive on the other clip was either not well done or it is just failing as that clip is lifting up when removal of the screen is needed. I contacted Red Sea U.S.A. to obtain replacement clips. To my dismay, I was told replacements do not exist as they are only produced on a per tank for new tanks basis. The offered solution to me was to purchase a new tank. I will forego screaming out my opinion of an aquarium manufacturer, of such a purported caliber, that cannot provide replacements for small plastic parts so essential for such a product. Also, as I will be tearing the tank down for moving to a new room soon and can work on it, coralline is slowly working its way under the adhesive for the front glass to side glass panels. It does not appear to have worked past where the side glass meets the front glass, but under where the over-run of the adhesive sticks out onto the front glass slightly past where it meets the side panel glass. I find myself looking at it concerned about what if the coralline should start to work deeper into between the front glass and side panel glass meet and endanger the seal. I have thoughts of attempting to clean it up best possible and add sealant a bit down the sides while the tank is torn down for movement. I was wondering what thoughts other forum members might have about it? Thanks!

Hi, Over the last number of months water changes seemed to not be resulting in chemistry parameters being moved in correct directions as expected, especially using Red Sea blue buckets. So I thought "why pay for more chemicals" when I could mix in or just use Red Sea black bucket to help push tank parameters back up with a partial water change, that have gotten lower than desired. I comprehend that a partial water change will not completely put parameters where the fresh mix is at, but should result in pushing things in the right direction gently dependent on if the change is 10% or 30%, etc. 10% should be difficult to measure much change. Mysteriously at the time, livestock responses to water changes were not showing the expected positive changes, and upon recheck of the tank water I was having to supplement quite a bit more than expected regardless of the fact that I had reduced overall livestock in the tank (rate of livestock draw should have declined as far as demand for calcium, etc.). Classic mistake on my part (I make em all), I was relying on manufacture representations without testing my fresh mix results. A blue bucket I'd almost finished off was way under the parameters claimed for the certain salinity. I opened a new black bucket and made up 30 gallons of RO/DI using 80% black bucket and 20% blue bucket, let mix for 24 hours, and measured calcium at 380 at 1.024 salinity. If you know the parameters on Red Sea blue and black mixes... that is ridiculously low if 80% black bucket mix has been used at 1.024. Alk and Mag were both also too low both just hitting what a bucket of blue at 1.025 should produce. Anyone else finding such results?

Hi There! While I joined the forum a couple years ago, never had time to visit it much. I've only been in the saltwater hobby a couple of years and have probably made at least 75% of all the mistakes most make. So looking on the bright side I only have 25% or so of the mistakes left to make and then it will be time to start over again making all of the mistakes a few more times again! I am in the middle of creating a nice 25 gallon setup that is to end up a intermediary "growth / introductory" tank for new stock on the way to my 70 gallon. I have a little 14 gallon that will be my quarantine tank for anything not SPS. Within a month or two I will be tearing down the 70 to relocate to a different room. With an older 30 gallon that is up and running, the new 25, and the 14, I think I can house livestock while I do tweaking and reset up of the 70. Hopefully, what I've learned the last two years will result in many positive changes and a nice restart for the 70. It will be a great opportunity to let the creative side out with some aqua-scaping! Also, a great deal of clean-up and reorganization of all things for the hobby. Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to getting to know folks here. Webbed

Thank you for the welcome! Yes, I was pleased I managed to rescue the clownfish. But note to self, saltwater + light + Tetracycline = pink jello water. Would have been nice if the saltwater shop "expert" had known and mentioned that. But then several didn't seem to know very much about how to successfully rescue ill fish at all. Ten hours of internet reading had to stand in for shop staff knowledge. But, there is a lot to learn in the hobby and learning is good!

Hello everyone, I'm a late boomer guy that has found himself returning to old loves. Back when I was around eight years old, I started keeping fresh water aquariums. By the time I was twelve I already had my first fifty gallon tank. It was wood on all sides with a glass front, for a kid the price was right. Surprising how long it lasted as I remember using it for my first saltwater setup for cold ocean critters collected from the Oregon coast when I was nineteen. Kept it in a basement where it stayed nice and cool. No fish, just tide pool animals. They successfully spent about a year with me and then I returned them all to their home in the ocean. Looking back on it, I have no idea how it was the tank didn't crash. I think I drove to the ocean and came back with some replacement water for them once. Things actually grew! Amazing huh? So two to three years ago I get a little fourteen gallon Biocube, and then a used 29 gallon one with a halide. I've had successes and failures. Through it all this one very stoic, and lovely, tube anenome has withstood it all. I've raised a baby clown that once balloned up like a puffer, but I rescued it after being told the wrong info by a saltwater shop crew on medicinces and turned my fourteen cube that I know use for a quarentine tank into pink jello. A water change, a great deal of web research, and a month and a half later the clown was back in fine condition. Today, just manually dosing, I am getting so many reproducing mushrooms I need to give some away. Local shop won't pay a thing for them or even trade some salt or anything, so perhaps I'll get on Craigs and give them away. It's time to get a larger tank and all the good stuff. But it is hard to learn what is good stuff and what is crap. Same as when I was a kid, the aquarium hobby industry still willingly, and knowingly as far as I can tell, sells a lot of crap disguised as good stuff. Learning the differnce takes quite a bit of time. So I very much look forward to everyone's posts about what they use and what you've all learned not use.