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I’m a big fan of the cut rocks. I suggest watching the BRS series on YouTube. In particular, I think they discuss aquascaping in the WWC and BRS method series. Here’s my latest. I have some of those double cut rocks. They’re from Marco Rocks, but BRS stocks a ton of it. You can tell which pieces they are. Pretty flat, and super easy to drill for frag plugs. Love it! Start a build thread as suggested. Put a piece of cardboard down the size of the inside of your tank and start putting rocks together. We can offer some advice.

I know! I’m really excited about my acros. The ones that have been in longest are really starting to color up nicely.

Re-scaped pics Left side Center Right Other random pics From the left side down the tank

Re-scaped. I have a lot more places for coral now. Up close with my rhomboid Tough to see, but I added floating shelves. The overall look was definitely inspired by [uSER=31993]@d2mini[/uSER] Here’s a brighter picture

Thanks! It was a giant mess before. Half the room is also our storage room for the house. My stuff had spread to the other side and vice versa. I’m hoping it will stay organized now.

Organizing the fish room in the basement. A bunch of Ikea shelving to the rescue!

Upgraded my calcium reactor regulator. I wasn’t able to dial it in to low enough levels before. Now the solenoid stays open for a few hours, which I like because I can adjust the PH level to increase dose as needed instead of changing the flow through the peristaltic pump. The big change is the low flow needle valve and the low pressure gauge that reads at a much lower scale. I can now accurately set it to 3 psi. This needle valve is really nice. Also way pricey. If I knew I was going to be in this deep on the regulator, I might have started with the carbon doser. It is what it is though, and the system now works incredibly well.

Good job being creative! So the straight pvc pipe ends right about at the water surface?

Here’s my build thread Warren's Crystal Dynamic 220 https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_fid=2873&share_tid=83243&url=https://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?/topic/83243-Warren%27s-Crystal-Dynamic-220&share_type=t

220 gallon display. 70 gallon sump (but not really). It’s 7’ x 28” x 22” height. I feed heavily twice a day to keep nutrients from bottoming out.

Nice collection of fish!

Haha. The sacrifice for a regal angel and copperband. Otherwise I would love to keep a few maximas.

It’s the only thing my regal reliably eats at the moment. My copperband is a pig and eats pretty much everything. If it wasn’t for the regal, I probably wouldn’t do it, simply out of laziness [emoji23] the regal just won’t eat from the water column. He wants it to be on the sand. Not even from glass, though he did at from glass while in QT. The things we put up with!

Feeding a frozen little neck clam. Gone in 60 seconds. I turned around to ready my Sony camera and it was almost all gone.

A few pics of my rubrisquamis flaring his fins.

Looks great! Looking forward to seeing it progress.

Very interesting content in that patent. Thanks for the link!

Ahh. I looked up the MSDS. It has both, but more calcium hydroxide.

Aiptasia X works better for me than kalk, but it’s sodium hydroxide, so don’t go crazy! Kalk paste doesn’t seem to damage the tissue as quickly as Aiptasia X in my frag tank.

No it sells for MSRP everywhere. I think saltwater aquarium.com and premium aquatics are sponsors and it can be had from either of those.

I’m in the minority. I really like my salinity (conductivity) probe. It is sensitive enough to show me when my salinity is dropping. I don’t have wild swings like some folks report. If you decide to get one, make sure you start the calibration while it is bone dry. Also run the cable away from power wires.

Oops. Too soon. Forgot to answer the question. So far so good, but time will tell how well it stays calibrated. They suggest calibration once month. It’s harder to clean though. You need to rinse with RODI. The old Milwaukee, I just rinse with tap. It’s clean enough around here to ensure the glass and sample well don’t form deposits if you wipe it off with a lint free cloth.

I don’t recall if Milwaukee does this, but try a non-rechargeable battery. I know all Hanna checkers will not work with rechargeables.

Ouch. I think a leopard wrasse took my RMF Acid Trip frag to bed as a pillow. It’s nowhere to be found. I can’t go digging around since everyone is asleep now. Sigh.

First, let me say this. I hate analog refractometers. My experience is that they go out of calibration if you look at them. Yes you can calibrate each time, but that’s a pain. Also, reading them isn’t exactly clear. Where is the line? It’s fuzzy, so which part of the line do you count as your measurement? A long time ago, I switched to the Milwaukee MA887. I love it, except for one thing. It is very consistently +.002 SG. It always has been right out of the box. During DC MACNA I spoke to someone at Milwaukee about this and he was super defensive and rude. I found out their calibration standard is different than normal. I got a bottle of it and sure enough, it reads what it says it should. IMO it is -.002 SG from other standards that should be 1.026. I have tried every standard I could get my hands on. It is always +.002. Strangely, a friend of mine had the Hanna version of this same checker and it is dead on accurate. Maybe Hanna calibrates it with different fluid. I finally came to the realization that this is fine as long as it is consistent, and it is. It doesn’t lose calibration. Ever. Not a single time that I have tested it has it been off. I’m willing to sacrifice accuracy for this kind of consistency. Along cake my current tank build with a new 2016 Apex. It has a conductivity probe. Nice! Except everyone complains about it being off. Not mine. Mine doesn’t do wonky things. It reads a little on the high side though. Just a few weeks ago, I saw the Hanna salinity checker announcement. I guess they retired the old version that is almost identical to Milwaukee. Being a gadget person, I decided to get it. Besides, I hate having to go to the basement to fetch the Milwaukee. I want a dead nuts accurate refractometer on every floor of the house that has a tank. My tank was a little low on salinity. I knew it was drifting due to wet skimming. Time to test out all 3 salinity probes! This is dead on: +.002 as usual (I cover the glass with my hand when it is reading) Apex is also showing high. Almost as high as my Milwaukee There it is. Now to see how consistent the Hanna stays over time.