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Old 02-09-2010, 02:23 AM
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Skimmer seems to be working well on top of that, after jdigital borrowed it and said there was some excessive noise, I stole the silencer from my coralife super skimmer, and its dead silent. My computer case puts out more noise then my aquarium now.

Good to hear man!
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Old 02-09-2010, 02:33 AM
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and I finally found the hose for my ato :O now i just gotta figure out how to wire this thing up,
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Old 02-14-2010, 07:01 AM
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well, crud. intresting day at the least.

Was bombing through my test's everything was looking good showing little nitrate's. Then the ammonia test showed me what I might be expecting, readings of ammonia.

Did a 15 gallon water change, with another batch of 15 brewing for tommorow. Yay for upgrade cycle's.

note to self, get a seachem ammonia tag for next time i upgrade.

so all I can really do is change water as fast as I can make it. Put the carbon into a reactor instead of the sock now.

Now reading a zero or close to zero reading on ammonia and nitrate is still well within the yellow. So crisis adverted for the time being.

Did some more aquascaping today, will post a picture tommorow before i water change.


On a second note, got my moon light controller in on friday, and took awhile to decide how to mount the led's, turns out the rare earth magnets I bought awhile back are coming in handy yet again. A bit of super glue and a rare earth works pretty good on my conduit bar light rack.

Just my luck however the moon is at 0 % on the lunar scale.
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Looking good.
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Old 02-16-2010, 07:08 AM
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picked up this guy today, I am hoping it goes fairly yellow in the future, the colony is huge about the size of 2 normal colonys I would find on an average day and then a bit. I have no idea what the name for it is, but it filled in my tank nicely provided it color's up in the future.




Im starting to fear apocolypse is upon me, ammonia is not showing nor nitrates today, i am used to seeing at least some nitrate's.

All i can do is brew more water incase the day arrive's. and hope it's just a smooth tank transfer.
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alk 6.0 dkh
mag 1400
calcium 500

calcium dont seem to be dropping at all, I have no idea whats going on with the mag rising. But my alk has been low.
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adding a little bit of baking soda should help bring the alk up and the calcium levels down, btw the scape is looking nice.
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adding a little bit of baking soda should help bring the alk up and the calcium levels down, btw the scape is looking nice.
thanks, although im still not content with it.


added the apocolypse button tonight. so I can lay low on the whole mad scientist scheme for the next few days.

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Just a quick update, since i fell off the wagon for a few month's. To much world of warcraft, then new job.... found my way back on it. I thought I was going to have alot more losses then I did. But in the end the biggest casualty was a green polyp birdsnest.

Lost a couple fish recently being my bi color blenny and a royal gramma, after checking my water I am still not really sure on what caused this, My best guess would be increased feeding's may have lead to ammonia spike.

So picked up a tail spot blenny this week, funny how I found the exact fish i was looking for... right away... this never happen's.....

As for the royal gramma, im in no hurry to replace that, adds color but 0 personality..

Anywho a couple crummy pics because it never happend without them.


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