What do you do when you lose power and you got a reef aquarium to sustain? Get that bucket out and move water every 15 minutes! Or if you planned ahead, you got your UPS battery backup and gas generator all lined up ready to go… (and you’d be a better reef keeper than I […]
There must be something in the water. Everything started breaking down in the past week or so. Starting from the MJ1200, to the EHMEIN return pump and Smart ATO’s mounting magnet… could the Kalk in the ATO water to be blamed? source
What’s up guys, back from Asia. Million thanks to Missaveragereefer for tending to the Reef while I was away! Sad news is that a fish seems to have disappeared, but otherwise both tanks are looking great! The Dropoff is having a little bleaching issue but nothing a little TLC won’t take care of. source
This week started off with a big coral haul from a local reef tank break down. I am very excited to try more SPS, Fiji Yellow Leather, as well as a starfish (Patrick?!). I am also super excited to finally be able to remove two BTAs that have been dominating the tank… now there is […]
In an effort to combat excess algae growth, I pretty much ripped up the sump and redid a lot of things including bigger return pumps, GFO, filter sock, dosing kalk… etc. source
This is an ugly update. The new male Yasha goby is still MIA after the initial introduction. The dino algae is not receding so I will be covering up the tank again with h2o2 dosing. I plan to start taking steps to raise the tank pH into the 8.3-8.4 range to see if it would […]
In the last video you saw the unboxing of my cleanup crew shipment from Reefs2Go, unfortunately most of the animals did not make it due to the combination of cold weather and shipping delay. The new animals that arrived two days ago are faring a lot better, here’s a run down. source
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