Recent content by purplefirefish

Sorry to hear about your mandarin. Interestingly just this week I had a fish come up missing. It was a chromis. The day before is came up missing it was acting strangely with another chromis on the tank. The small one would not leave the large ones side and they would lock lips for a few...

GFO - granular ferris oxide, a phosphate remover use in reactors. GAC - granular activated carbon. I use both in my reactor and my problem algae is almost completely gone.

Oh what the young ones will do now days for a thrill :wink:

Today I cleaned the glass on the main tank. On the soon to be sump I added some glass panes to create a bubble trap, made up 60 gal. of water to fill the sump on Fri. Now, yesterday I finally got the tempered glass for my UV shield in my getto light hood and added new hqi bulbs.

I have a sure flow mod on a maxi jet 1200. It is the only pump in my tank (in the process of setting up the 125 tank) Its been moving water for about a week now. at first it had a little vibration to it, but now I can't hear it at all. I have to check the water surface just to be sure it is...

I have finally finished scraping the tank glass. It took taking the tank out of the basement and putting it in front of me in the living room, and 2 Kent scraper blades. Now I have to decide on a return pump. The sump will be in the basement, approx. 8-10 ft. below with 5 elbows. I have to...

I have been using well water for the last 6 years for my reef. I do have a booster pump for my ro/di. And the house has copper pipes. I've successfully raised lps and sps corals while living here. TDS before RO/DI - 450 to 550. After TDS is at 0-1

I have a 120 that has been neglected for at least two years. On the good side there are still some coral and fish alive. On the bad side the whole front of the tank is covered thick with corraline algae. I am in the process of moving everything out of the tank into another tank that I have...

I have been thinking about the "dorm refrigerator" chiller DIY. Would it be more effective if the coil of tubing were in a container filled with liquid, H2O, antifreeze? Since the mass of the interior of the fridge is full it will maintain the cool temps better. right? and I believe liquid...

First off let me say that I am no expert nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn express last night. But I have a mated pair of black ocellaris. I added a smaller one approx 1 year after the first was introduced. I'm not saying you have to wait a year as ocellaris are usually very easy going. I would...

:evil: sorry but this will probaly sound like a ranting lunitic so I appologize in advance. Now on to the story. About six weeks ago I purchased a 3x250hqi hood on eBay. the seller had over 11000 positive feedback so I thought to myself that this should be a smooth transation. I kept...

I got mine from Premiun Aquatics. I realy like them

I've heard quite a few at the LFS, but this one ****ed me off the most " after your tank is done cycling in 4 weeks add a LTA and if it dies wait another 4 weeks and try again" :evil:

I was cleaning out my refugium the other day and I found 3 of these little buggers. They are about 2 inches long. I have a lot of bristle worms and these kind of resemble one except that they are black and have what appears to be little suckers around their heads. So whats the verdict, friend...

What about your lights? I know that when it is time to replace my bulbs the algae on the glass needs to be removed every couple of days. Which I need to do now. Its been almost a year. :roll: