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Hey treesprite is that the 75g that I gave you? If so I am real glad to see you drilled it successfully. dave

I get stung by my hammers and by birds nest . The best thing I have found is to run the hottest water I can tolerate over my hands and fore arms when I am done in the tank. I let it run for a minute or two. Since doing this I have avoided the really itchy bumps associated with those stings.

Forrest is the tank I gave you the one showing streaks? I hope it isn’t tempered on the front and back panels!

I have a used 75 in my basement that I will give away for free. The bottom is tempered and I am not sure about the sides. It is not drilled. I got it for free from wamas user tooth decay who ran it as freshwater cichlid tank. Pick up in purcellville or centerville..

I replaced the ro membrane and my filters and Di are fairly new (maybe 40 gallons through the filters an di). My tds is now zero or one each time I make water.... all good on the rodi front!

The RO is original to when I bough the system about 2 years ago... weird to see the TDS shoot up that quick.. one hting I didnt mention is that on the last go around the system was making a wheezing sounds which is the first time that has ever happened.

I have an Air Water and Ice cyclone system and I changed the filters about 2 months ago (less than 50 gallons ago). This morning I made 5 gallons that showed 2ppm on my portable tds meter. The next 5 gallons showed 3ppm and the next 5 gallons showed 7ppm. The filters all look brand new. I did not change the horizontal sealed looking canister on top of the unit when I did the filters. I have never replaced that unit. How often does the enclosed unit need to be changed? My rodi system is about 2 years old. By the way what is in the horizontal canister?

So I have to put a gallon of fresh water into my sump every night due to evaporation. My thought is to put in one gallon of fresh into the return pump chamber.... siphon out one gallon of tank water from the skimmer chamber... and then add a gallon of salt back in.... effectively doing a one gallon per day water change.... after time it seems this would be the best way to keep all parameters stable. I have about 80-85 gallons of total water volume in my system. What do you think?

If you feel confident that a tang would help then get a small one. Keep it until it gets big and then trade it in for another small one. The cost would not be terrible since you would probably get a year from the tang before you need to trade it in and really....at the end of the day how valuable is your stress relief? Maybe run a little GFO, manually remove what you can, an toss a beautiful yellow tang in there! I hear the tang police sirens in the distance but in my mind I would bend the rules to reduce my stress and stay in the hobby.

Thank you ma’am

Madweazl can you post a link to the bucket deal. I. Can find the boxes but I prefer the bucket. Thanks

I have had my new 75 DT set up since October 18 and everything has been running pretty good. I soaked my dry rock for about 6 months before I set the tank up. I added new sand, about 40lbs of dry rock and one or two pieces of live rock from my old tank because they had coral stuck to them (see the big birdsnest in the top middle of the tank). Here goes... please be easy on me... I have only changed the water twice... once was 20 gallons around Dec 15th and then I did 10 gallons on Jan 5th. System volume is around 95 gallons. Here are todays test results: pH- 8.0 API test kit KH- 5 API test kit CA- 440 Salifert PO4- 0 Salifert PO4- 0.03 Hanna Ultra Low PO4 My system: 75 G DT Skimz UP34 Sump Vertex 180i Skimmer I run one sock and clean it under the tap about every three days I use RODI water that I make and it has had a TDS of 1 or lower since I started this tank I feed once a day and rotate between pellets, flakes and frozen daily I have one small clown, one small purple dart fish and one medium black cap basslet (basslet has only been in the tank 2 weeks). Small CUC that probably needs to be replenished soon Question is do I need to address the KH or should I leave well enough alone?. I have some KH Buffer that I used once or twice in an old tank about a year ago but I hesitate to use it since things have been stable in my tank.

As weird as it sounds I get those same symptoms from brushing against my birds nest coral. But mine itch intensely for a day or two then disappear. Nothing else that I handle irritates me but if I bump that birdsnest I will be in trouble for a few days!

I bought this Ricordia (?) and this SPS today at the great Black Friday sale at Supreme Reefs. Ben or other can you help me identify the exact name of these two corals? Hard to tell but the Ricordia is bright orange with a green mouth and the SPS is yellow with green hints and Ben told me it was a good starter SPS when I bought it today.

wow.... ask and you shall receive.... fantastic answer madweazl!

This is a rock flower that I bought at Blue Ribbon Koi last weekend. They also had about 20 awesome clams when I was there but I have no idea what s left.

Mine was placed on on a small rock on the sand bed. I have a 75 gallon tank with AI Prime above each side of the tank so I dont think I have too much light going to it. It decided to crawl under the small rock I had and is half buried under the sand. I think I am going to move it to my large rock work and see if it will attached and be happy there.

Reef Escape is more expensive but my understanding is that they do an in-house quarantine with copper treatment when they receive fish. You also have Supreme Reefs just off the beltway which has a very cool operation going with fish but largely focused on corals and some really high end corals. It could a little out of your way but you have Blue Ribbon Koi near Manassas and Capital Aquarium in Manassas. BRK has a great selection of fish and corals. You also have Quantum Reefs which I have only been too once a few years ago and I dont recall good or bad about that LFS. In a nut shell I really like Reef Escape and Blue Ribbon Koi for fish and I really like Supreme Reef and Blue Ribbon Koi for Corals.

I bought a stunning RFA but it doesn't want to stay out an look good. It is trying to shove itself into the smallest crack it can find on the rock I placed it on. Is it normal for them to try and hide for a little while? I am hoping he ends up sitting out and showing off. Here is a pic of the one I bought!

I believe brs is running a 25% off sale on them right now. That is the full extent of my knowledge of these lights...... haha