Sharkey18

Thanks for the link Jan! Isaac was nice enough to lend me 1 20g tank that is now set up as a hospital tank. I gave the fish a fw / methylene blue dip yesterday and I think I almost killed it. Moving it to the hospital tank tonight.

Hey, you advertising my fish?

Thanks Paul! No wonder the coast guard is after you! David, i don't know the difference between the gill and gill covers but it seemed to me that it was coming out from inside the gills. Nothing looks broken or open to me.

Where are you moving?

I used mine for the first time yesterday. Most fish liked it but some of the Bangaiis spit it out. Will try again tonight.

Best bet is probably to be patient anyhow.

Would love to Isaac. I don't have the time or the patience to get it right....

Dare I say that my tank is starting to look good? I've recently made some changes that seem to be working. I started running GFO and started dosing alk. My sps growth has taken off and the color isn't bad either! Months and months of recovery work finally starting to pay off. Thanks to everyone who has helped me along in the process.

That is awesome.

So glad the baby is doing well. What an adorable kid!

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Inevo, I am going to try that next. Needed to order more sponges.

LOL.... you might be right! Hey this chick needs a lot of salt..... mling... i try to change 100g every 2 weeks, but sometimes I stretch to 3. I don't carry a drop. I have a decent sized fish room and a 100g water barrel. I siphon 100g out of the tank, then pump the new 100g in. I am doing so much because of an ongoing phosphate issue. It does seem to be getting better so I might start stretching the changes out to 3 to 4 weeks. 100g every 2 weeks is super expensive so I am unlikely to switch to reef crystals long term.

Awesome fish. Glad it's doing well!

I knew what you meant

OK, so pretend like I have no idea what you are talking about. Well, no need to pretend. So I have a T off my return pump.... like in the pic below. I could then go from the T and split into 3 tubes, each with a ball valve to control flow?

Thanks! Looking into it now...

So what pumps are people using for UV, Carbon, GFO and other smallish applications? I have 2 pumps on my skimmer, 1 for gfo, 1 for carbon, 1 for UV. It's just getting a little crazy....

That video totally creeped me out.

Here's my story: I have been running carbon for about 4 months. ROX, NOT tumbling, in a reactor. No problem. Trying to conserve on equipment I added a second reactor for GFO inline with the carbon reactor. I was hoping that I could tumble the gfo, then turn down the flow with a ball valve and NOT tumble the carbon. Well the laws of physics crushed my dreams because without an overflow valve, limiting the flow OUT of the gfo obviously slows down the flow into the gfo, thus no tumbling. So I thought, so what if the carbon tumbles a little? It's the harder rox, I should be fine. Wrong. Within a week of me letting the carbon tumble a bit, my scopes tang showed signs of hlle. No problem for 4 months with no tumbling. 1 week of tumbling and I have signs of hole. The 4 other tangs are fine, but I immediately stopped the tumbling all together. Henceforth my carbon will not tumble.

yup.

Awesome. Issac, why are switching away from reef crystals?

So i bought 3! boxes of instant ocean salt when pet solutions was having a great sale. It arrived today, but it's reef crystals, not plain IO. Any problem in me using the reef crystals? My system is about 400g and I change 100g at a time.

Oh man.... I was like... Rob's moving to mexico????