Manny Tavan

Went out diving yesterday. This was my second time out. Last year I didn't have a reef tank so I had a completely different experience this time. Was much more aware of my surroundings this time. Thought I'd share some pictures

Sadly, i’m still in hawaii snorkeling and scuba diving through the weekend. Been seeing a lot of cool corals and tangs tho

Will do novice omrra this year. Just built a 2017 R6

Racing and drifting

A 30% water change will lower your nitrates by 30% unless there are nitrates in your rodi water (chloramine). Or your test kit is bad. Easy way to know is mix couple mls of 50% tank water and 50% rodi. Then test nitrate to see if they come down by 50%. If it doesn’t then your test kit is bad

Get salifert kit if you want nitrates to go down quickly, only a water change will do that carbon dosing with nopox took months to make a change in my system and it was only a small effect (nitrate from 5 to 1) maybe look at a better light for refugium. Not sure what you are using not feeding fish for 5 days won’t make a difference. Lighter feeding over months will slow down nitrate build up but won’t really make it go down

small world!

I’m a pulm & critical care doc...basically the last doc you ever want to see

Interesting. I did some research while in college on sulfolobus (volcanic hot spring virus). It was a long time ago...

Same thing happened to me. First time around i used blue. Second time i used the clear pvc cement which makes a huge difference. Got mine from amazon “oaty medium clear pvc cement”. Didn’t use primer

I’ll trade you a regular banana for it and take that crazy one off your hands

Got my wiring sorted out

Yes. It’s the stock reefer 170 sump. 17x17”. Wanna buy it?

Just wanted to give Charles some major props on my new sump. It’s awesome and the price was better than anything I could find online. I spent all afternoon getting the old sump out and the new one in. I’m still fighting with all the wires. What a pain!

I was eye balling that mummy eye chalice too! It’s a nice one

Is it reef safe?

Homedepot has white. I buy black eggcrate on brs

ace hardware has pure ammonia - it's like $3 a bottle but you'll only need a few mls

That’s perfect. The marinedepot advertisement was starting to flood as well but that solves the issue

Could the auction posts be in the sponsor forum? Would suck to lose access to great corals sold locally Golden basket has it's own subforum in the sponsors section http://www.pnwmas.org/forums/forum/24-golden-basket/

I hear yellow is the hardest color to keep on acroporas but your corals always have a lot of yellow and oranges. Amazing!

Are you located in Salem?

Rudy, do you have a mother colony picture of this one?

call the city and find out if they have chloramine in the water. Mine does so I upgraded my 4 stage to a 6 stage. I don't have the BRS 150 gpd upgrade but I regret not getting that. 90gpd is too slow also automatic shut off is a life saver! I added the flush valve also BRS 6 stage 150 gpd with automatic shut off and flush valve is the best value imo. I ended up spending more by doing upgrades on mine and I'm stuck with 90 gpd

you can replace the cartridges if they are bad. Easy to check TDS to see if the catridges are bad