Recent content by PatrickM98

Hi Everyone, I'm getting back into the hobby after an absence of about five years. I ended up losing everything in my first reef tank due to an extended power outage following an ice storm. It was pretty discouraging, but now I've moved someplace that doesn't have ice storms and invested in a...

Thanks everyone for your replies, I wish I could have replied sooner but I have been working 12 hour shifts for the past three days. In reference to my lighting, it is a single 96W Smartlite bulb in a 36" fixture. I also do use RO/DI water directly from the LFS, it's the same stuff that they...

Hi everyone, I started a new tank about four months ago (30L), filled with a 4" sand bed and 35# of uncured live rock. The live rock has gone through the curing process, and currently my ammonia, nitrite, nitrite, and phosphate levels are at zero. I tested my water using my home kits, along...

I just got some of the Deco-Pack from Flying Fish Express, and am happy. Although the Fiji is nothing great, the colors and shapes of the Hapai and especially the deepwater Tonga rock are excellent. MUCH better than the stuff at the LFS that they're trying to sell for $10.99 a pound.

I have a Skilter 250 (with the filtration media removed most of the time) on my 10 gallon tank and it works adequately well. It's far from a very efficient skimmer, but it works fine for small tanks. The problem with putting a good skimmer like a Prizm on such a small tank is the possibility...

Hi everyone, I set up a new tank last night and am having some problems with cloudy water that I'v never had before. After the water cleared from the salt mixing, I added a 20lb. bag of the Carib-Sea bio-active sand, followed by 10 lbs. of live sand from the LFS. The water became very cloudy...