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Manny

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  1. Almost new impeller. Been sitting in garage along with some free bags of ocean salts if you buy it. 

     

    Sorry im posting here instead of the sales forum (not active member). Am in Mclean

  2. I found a baby oyster at a restaurant and would like to find out if anyone wanna host it in their sump or something.  Time is of essence since I don't have a SW tank anymore and it's just sitting here high and dry.

     

    Anyone in Mclean area who can host this guy please text me their address. Hopefully tonight after the real baby is sleeping.

     

    571-278-6249.

     

    Thanks,

    Manny

  3. I read a translated japanese article a year or two back that discusses gac regeneration. Turns out you can regenerate gac using the opposite steps as gfo. Lye first then acid. acid dissolves a bit of gfo though. If you have both mixed, maybe you can try the gfo steps and it may help gac as well

  4. One thing that has saved my livestock (fresh and saltwater both) is judicious use of water conditioners such as Prime (Seachem or equivalent). Helps even during power outages. I 'm not sure if the lack of food is what killed your fish since most likely can survive a long time without food.

     

    Personally I wouldn't do anything too drastic, maybe toss in a bag of carbon. Every 12 hrs dose it with a bit off Prime to keep nitrate in livable condition (until the bacteria recover). Use a syringe to target feed your fish, but i think you might underestimate their keen noses.

     

     

  5. Didn't want to drill the tank so I built a self priming PVC one for about 6 bucks (no glue to boot). Google you tube for it. Looks like an L and U. Hard to explain and pm me if you need a pic. With 1 inch PVC my external pump (1200 gph) seems to keep up fine.

  6. I got the 75 kit six months ago. Its bright, and the dimmer/resistor is not very linear. Optics are plastic/kinda ugly (but then again the whole DIY is rarely good looking). I bought a few other ones to test out and in terms of price/performance/ease I would go with the multichip approach if you still want to do the Diy. However considering it costs only 175 bucks for a 140w commercial one, I wouldn't do it again.

  7. What about those power switches to handle the startup load? Seems like an expensive way to deal with only a few seconds worth of load. Can one plug things in manually and in sequence?

     

    Maybe we can do a group buy/installations :)

  8. Okay so I just started out recently and I don't have as much stock as some of you. My level of preparedness is even worse, but thanks to this kid who works at petco in Vienna: go buy a bait keep alive pump at dicks sporting store. It's only 10.99 and runs on two D batteries. Supposedly it would last 52 hrs.

     

    Now this thing is noisy (ironic since the name is hush bubbles), but it's great. My snails are going back down from the top of the water. I don't have D batteries thanks to all these greedy horder, but I use a bunch of coins to fill in the gaps.

     

    Good luck everyone with the power situation. This might go on for like a week.

  9. I dropped by the address (Georgetown on 34th) a few times for this deal and knocked on the rusty door on a few time. I came back again last Saturday. Are you guys ship only place or can one actually see the frags as well? Or are you not open weekend?

     

    Thanks,

    Manny

  10. I have built a couple versions using 100w SMDs and also warmer 3w ones. The 100w ones are crazy bright! 3w full power are also bright as well, but obviously aren't concentrated. They run hot as well

     

    However I think the taotronics one is a hard to beat. It's much more wife friendly.

  11. Hi everyone,

     

    I'm just curious as to how your sand bed/live rock became so full of life. I'm not talking about bacteria or hair algea :). Did you guys buy the microfauna from somewhere to seed? Are any of you guys in Mclean and willing to part your dirty grunge so my tank can become a bit diverse?

     

    Thanks,

    Manny

     

     

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