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I bought a dehumidifier on amazon. Heaven Fresh is the brand. Works awesome. Can select always on, 50, 60 or 70% humidity. Plus you can plum it out. Keep mine on 60%.

Yes it should be. Origami has a chart in his photo gallery for calcium and alk balance. Mag should be approx. 3x amount of calcium. ie. calc is 400 mag should be 1200.

No top or screen top will increase you evaporation rate. And increase the use of your heaters. My evaporation went from about a gallon to 2.5-3 a day. A little gap/opening on opposite sides of a glass top helps a lot. I have taken that plastic piece off of glass tops and replaced with egg crate.

+1Let the ribbing begin.

That looks like a Kalk overdose not an Alk. Either way the pH is on the high side but if it's settling down, I would say caulk it up as a lesson learned. Let the Alk come down also. pH will probably drop over night too. This is why my Alk and ATO dosers are set up on the Apex with this final code after the dose times. "If pH >8.30 then off". If you do not have a controller get some digital timers.

Welcome back!!! I to came back from a three year break.

What size water change and how often were you doing before?

Man that is one nice set up. Almost turned around and waited for you to get off work, so I could follow you home and help set up.

Did you get it yet. I'm across the street at QR. lol

I'd like to see tank parameters throughout this process.

Awesome.

From both AWI and Spectrapure- "If your TDS is truly zero then there is no phosphates in your mix water." Hanna ULR meters do not read fresh water and it is suspect about freshly mixed salt water. Test the tank only. Source is usually feeding and sometimes dry rock. What are you feeding?

Sorry. "The noise they make and eventual failure" I'm referring to other brands. My 2 MP40's on full blast are super quite.

I would stick with a vortech. I've run several different "wave makers" and what gets me is the noise they make or eventual failure of the pumps from turning on and off all the time.

Thank you Bailey! Star fish are a very fun animal to study. There are many many kinds that are different shapes, colors and sizes. In the picture is one of the many in my tank.

Hello and welcome to the hobby. With just one fish I would pick as much hair algea off the rocks as you can then turn the lights off for several days even a week. After that run the lights only when you are usually home and awake with a timer. Say like 5-10. Also, feed only what that one fish will eat in about 30 seconds.

I've used the Deep Blue pads for Nitrate and phosphate on small systems with sumps that have a filter tray with good results.

Welcome to the club.

Welcome to the club and growing addiction.

The time and that thread were not my favorite, but the comment made me crack up. Thank you. I'm glad to have meet many awesome people this past year and to have the 2 new stores doing very well and others doing good also. And to Vince and Steve thanks for putting a store right off the beltway that I cannot drive by without coming in and spending hours at a time.

I read in think it was coral magazine the author would seperate the male for a week or so to let him fatten up after a few sets. As soon as he went back in with the female they would breed again. Also said that if he is constantly carrying eggs that he will start spitting them out to eat and rarely carry the eggs full term.

Same thermometer? If not that's probably where your at. Does the heater turn off in your tank eventually?

BRS 2 part total package with dosing pumps and Rowaphos. Yay!!!!!

As Tom said. pH will not read correctly in tap or RO water once calibrated in 7&10. My RO/DI reads 10.5 I'm really suspect of a calibration shift in your probe. Mine has shifted .4 in a matter of days. From 8.1 jump to >8.5! Some probes will go crazy prior to dying also. I would go through the whole calibration steps with 7 & 10 again if you haven't already. Have you tested with a test kit?

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