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Neto

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  1. Got a red sea max 170 if you are interested 

  2. For small tanks, 10% of a water change would not make a huge difference in ALK. Try to use a salt that has an alk close to what your target is.
  3. I like it, however you have to be careful with the return check valve, they can get dirty with algae and stop working correctly and if that happens by looking at your nozles, probably 80% of the tank's water could drain to the sump.
  4. Greetings I bought new nitrate, alk and cal test kit from Salifert and compared to my expired test kits, see the results.. The biggest difference is the nitrate test, and even though the test kit expired some months ago, it makes me question the results of the new tests. Has anyone had issues with Salifert test kits? I have heard that expired test kits will only be slight off but wasnt expecting this much.
  5. can you be more specific on model? I have an ATI 8 bulb unit and have replaced the ballast once, it wasnt very hard and they cost around $25 bucks.
  6. beautiful nano! what do you do for phosphate removal?
  7. There is a RBTA that has been shared in the wamas community for a while that survives pretty much everything. I used to have the same problems with BTA's but I got this one and it has held very well for over 6 months.
  8. Leishman is the boss of Cyphastrea corals
  9. lower your white lights helped me on several algae issues. Now on my 8x24w T5 unit, I have 5 blue, 1 pink and 2 white ones that only come on for 2 hours a day.
  10. Update: After one dose of chemiclean, I was able to get rid of this green cyano type algae. This is a bit strange because I tried the red slime remover product a few weeks ago and that didnt work... A few days later after I did a water change I got another algae outbreak of brown type like diatoms or dyno's.... My guess is that all types of algae are competing for space on my system! It was either GHA, Cyano or Brown diatoms or dynos... I got tired of this and got rid of most of the live rock. The algae seemed to be slowing down now, I only left one rock with the BTA. Now thinking on the changes I did before all this started, I do remember introducing two pieces of dry rock that I got from my brother in law he bought from an LFS in Puerto Rico so maybe those pieces where contaminated and full of phosphates? Who knows..... I am cycling new dry rock outside my system and will add it slowly.... So far i have lost almost all my SPS, only a few frags left and zoas seem to be doing ok. thanks!
  11. I just saw a bunch of black ocellaris swimming together on aquatic creations. My guess is that they came from the same batch.
  12. very pretty and unique, never seen anything like it.
  13. I have and will try that if the CUC that i am buying doesnt do the job.
  14. thats a good one, however since I have a nano, I always use non-stored water
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