Recent content by Ilsimen

Actually, It's taken a turn for the worse in the last couple weeks. Not sure what's wrong with it, but it wasn't looking it's best when that picture was taken, and now it is looking even worse. In fact, there is a section where the tissue has become detached from the rest. I hope it survives...

It's a Nikon Coolpix 4300. Haven't quite mastered it yet, but not too bad Mike

Thought I would share some of my pics. Hope you enjoy. Mike

Thought I would share some of my pics. Hope you enjoy. Mike

Was under the impression it was a "nitrate factory", and therefore was bad for reef tanks. I think I have enough LS & LR to take care of my biological filtration needs. Thank you, Mike

It's been going for a couple of months with the bio bale installed with only the rare bubble coming from the output, but only about 8 hours now since I took the bio bale out. It's driving me crazy all these bubbles in my tank. Thank you, Mike

At the advice of several more knowledgable people than I, I have removed the bio bale from my CPR BackPack II skimmer, and now I have bubbles from hell all through my tank. It's almost bad enough I can't see the back of the tank around the skimmer output. :x I know that removing the bio bale...

Thank you for clearing this up for me. Like I said, I'm no expert. I've been in the reefkeeping hobby for just over 2 months (had FW for years) and I'm learning something new everday.

I'm not an expert, but I believe I read something once that in order to reap the benifits of using garlic to help with ich that you have to squeeze the cloves yourself. Something about a chemical in the garlic that only lasts for a short while after being squeezed. Therefore, using store...