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^whattheysaid (ie. looks great)

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 555645)

Wonder if it creates intense heat like Draino seems to. Tank looks really sweet to me but if some aren't as colorful as they once were at least you have polyp extension galore and they look otherwise healthy.

mixing up the sodium hydroxide it got pretty hot and I would imagine that the chemical reaction with saltwater creates some heat as well. It pretty much melts stuff on contact.

Everything in the tank does look healthy, and I'm happy with the colors of most things except for a couple corals that I know have looked better in the past so I just have to be patient I guess :razz:

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Originally Posted by Chaloupa (Post 555650)

WOW Christy...your tank looks amazing!!!! Good to see that SOMETHING is working..however scary THAT is!!! Um...sorta miss the Purple Regal....I liked him in purple better :lol: But you have some seriously gorgeous corals

LOL, yeah I need to get my old nikon out again. Once I switched to a canon camera he turned out blue. There are no actinics on this tank either so that doesn't lend to the purple end of the spectrum.

Thanks for the compliments guys :biggrin:

Now that is a sweet looking tank! Nice work Christy.

Wow Christy.. It's looking nice!

Thanks guys, over the last few days stuff looks pretty happy in there. I would imagine everyone is feeling better not being choked out by cyano :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by christyf5 (Post 555662)

Mixing up my first batch for the doser melted my holding container in half :neutral:, Calcium is low on the reactivity table though other group 1 and 2 metals are much more reactive in water.

This guy has the sweetest hair ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFLv...eature=related

Tanks looking amazing as usual, that's some pretty unreal growth you have on the SPS Christy!

Definitely looking good....:thumb:

Mitch

Christy, have you been conducting more pest eradication with the sodium hydroxide?

No actually I've been incredibly lazy lately and haven't even done a waterchange in the past couple of weeks (or since I did the last NaOH testing). I do need to get my act together though. Some of the rocks were removable so I just yarded them out and removed them manually, a couple of other rocks were just coral bases so I popped the corals off of them, chucked the bases and re-epoxied them down. Others on non-removable rock have been plotting against me and reproducing at will. The plan is to go after the rest or a goodly portion of the rest of the majanos on Monday if I'm feeling up to it.

I did check the rocks that I treated a few weeks ago. One rock is completely clean and the other had one majano out of 4 come back (I think because I didn't get it quick enough before it sucked itself into the hole, either that or a new one grew in its place (it had several growing next to the ones I nailed but I was worried about the number of majanos I was nuking and the first time using the NaOH.)