Recent content by lilko

Hi! After reading few posts and some research I finally built my reactor, see photo bellow. I am not very good in DIY stuff, so yes you may laugh :D . After a bit of thinking about auto injector on float switch or similar systems I read about I decided for something else. Here is a brief...

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oh, well. your situation is quite easy jgagel. just get 2 biggest (whatever you can esthetically handle) clip on fans from walmart, put one on each side and off you go. You may also use just one fan, nice looking floor/office model.

here is my experience. 2 fans blowing in works much better for me. i first started with one fan in and one fan out. my tank temperature was still high. i change the orientation of the fans so both blows in and now i can take temperature down where i need it easily. IMO, your hood has to be quite...

I have 2 MaxiJets 1200 in my 48x18x18 tank, plus sump return from Mag5. Is it too much current? I want to keep mostly softies, muchrooms and anemone. Robert

Depends if it is cured, pre-cured or not cured at all. I added mine, pre-cured, from the day one. Then later on I just added more - to spread money spending :roll: I didn't experience any problems and tank completely cycled in about 6 weeks.

I used peat moss on my Discuss tank with quite success. Only thing is that peat ads light tea kind of tan to your water, but you may like it as I did. I would discourage you from using cola bottle CO2 system if you have some more sensitive inhabitants. I never managed to have consistent...

OR maybe buy yourself a tele adapter that gives you extra optical zoom. You should get one for around $50. I think you can get adapter up to 2.5x for your camera. I used one with S50 that is pretty much same camera with more resolution. With 7.5x opitcal zoom and camera on little tripod (to...

Digital zoom = image resize. It is computer calculated process to enlarge a certain part of the scene. The quality of the image degrades, because additional pixels to create enlarged image are added utilizing interpolation. :wink: rb

The lost of the current, that trips GFI, occures when you connect yourself to the ground. GFI, however, doesn't monitor ground - when there is a load (I should clarified this before). GFI compares what comes out to what comes in. When you take something away it trips. :(. Ground monitoring is...

A GFI is not dependent of a ground to function. It does not measure shorts to the ground, it measures the current difference between the hot and neutral wires. :) rb

Since your images are badly out of the focus it's hard to see what it is. In any case here is what worked for me to combat brown diatom. I used Seachem Phosphate sponge, since it also removes silicates after phosp. are gone. Cerith snails love brown diatom (at least in my tank). Shortened light...

Here is a picture how my all rock looks like. RB

I have 6 weeks old cycled tank with stuff you can see in my signature. Right now I have only 3 damsels and snails in it. What would be suggested light regime for present time? Should I have some periods with all my lights on? Or maybe just use some until corals will be added. IMO, there isn't...

I have no plan to add more rock at this time, based on my reasearch so far. I was more concern about what kind of corals I can keep with PC and NO lights I presently have. Lights are 2 x 96W PC SmartBulbs(50/50), 1 x 40W NO ActinicBlue and 3 x 40W NO 10000. Current is provided by 4 power heads 1...