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I just gotta say, “are you sure you want to use GFO”?

I have been there and done that, GFO does work, but I think there are better ways to keep phosphates in check. 

Beautiful piece!

Here’s a bad comparison between blue and violet led flashlights on the same mushroom. The violet is the one that’s also “lighting up” the water.

You should be able to find that at HD/Ace/Lowes.

Nice, 180g too small now?

Curious to note the flow coming off of it was quite a bit more than with the cage, if I had to guess something short of double the flow.

Haven’t had an mp40 fail like this until this morning:

Nice, I’ve been flirting with running a reactor for years. I even have all the junk to make it go. Soon!

Thanks, I’ll keep you guys posted!

Picked up a cheapo 1m 24w strip of reds/blues off eBay, wrapped around a 1/2” aluminum tube and crammed it all in an old eheim heater. I’ll throw it in my tank tonight and see if it will grow some chaeto.

Tuesday morning in Albany 

What’s the IP rating on these? I’d be real interested if I was able to submerge it in one of the chambers on my AIO. 

On 2/5/2019 at 3:28 PM, pdxmonkeyboy said:

FWIW... at it is worth a TON because its coming from me...

Hanna checker for Alk.. you will thank me 1,000 over 

Nitrate and phos .. red sea pro algae control test kit (phos and nitrate)

salifert calcium

 

But honestly, with that size aquarium I wouldn't test anything I would buy two 200 gallon boxes of salt, mix them together in a trash can and then just make and change 5 gallons of water every week.  and I mean EVERY week.

With that small of a tank almost every problem is going to be addressed by just doing a water change. 

 

 

This

That look like crazing on an old tank. Are you 100% sure that wasn’t there before the glow stick incident?

Here’s the key phrase:

”mock-up before I glued“

38 minutes ago, PowderBlue said:

Hahahahaha that’s awesome.
I just budget for each! It’s a win win lol


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Make it hail!

1 hour ago, albertareef said:

Ok - this freaks me out a little bit.  Good thing I avoid the desert I guess...

https://troutsnotes.com/uroctonus-mordax/

northwest forest scorpion aka U. mordax 

These flashlights are also super fun to light up scorpions at night in the desert. They glow really bright, and they are everywhere! 

I have a big frogspawn colony and a bigger hammer colony if you are interested. They are both about 8” across, the hammer is more round though.

That’s pretty good customer service, I’m impressed.

To be fair, I’ve had my share of issues with my apex, more often than not it’s related to net connection issues with my router, usually just resetting the connection gets me going again. 

When’s trash day in your neighborhood?

For what it’s worth, I’ve ran standard aquarium airline (clear vinyl) for co2 on planted tanks since the early 90s, zero issues. I run straight co2 on my welding rig, same tubing, no worries.

My best luck has been with chaeto too.

Feed your fish the same amount everyday, and once every two weeks toss half of the blob of chaeto.

ATS works, just kind of a PITA to harvest. 

Royal blue ones are pretty cool too, exciting different pigments. 

Too lazy/no time to fab something up, anybody have a 48” x 24” footprint steel stand available?

 Thanks