Recent content by Alexander1312

100% on electricity (and the general sentiment), which is why, e.g., Tunze obsesses about lowering the power requirements for their equipment as much as possible, which I do not believe is as much appreciated here. However, monthly leases should still be significantly lower than in CA, depending...

Oddly, I tend to agree with the majority of pushing back, but only due to logic, not to support the practice. In Europe, the reputable shops would never sell corals that quickly. It typically takes at least several weeks before their corals are being released to the public, specifically SPS...

So with Kalk and refugium, PH goes down to 8.05 at night?

What’s your PH throughout the day? Lowest, highest?

It often works short-term for most. And then people do not correlate subsequent issues they are seeing in their tank with the fact that they dosed Kalkwasser. Folks who have a high alkalinity and CA consumption in their tank, and those who have bare bottom tanks, they might be ok for longer as...

Looks like the best deal of the year so far.

I am still counting you to the anti-kalk camp haha.

I have four of them, two on each tank. Never had any of the issues others are stating. I replace the tube annually.

Looks like you do spend time on other sites haha.

Versas are still the best all-rounder dosing pumps. The Hydros sole seems to have some challenges, and the newest Hydros dosing pumps intended for water changes are VERY promising, but also VERY (!) expensive. They are in my pipeline of personal birthday gifts (no. 1 Aquawiz, no. 2 Hydros Duet).

Thank you. We visited your previous store once during one of our weekly hikes in Marin. I bought a commercial sized pack of Tropic Marin salt from you when I started my tank.

Just a little visual in case this helps…

Hourly during lights off. Running it 24/7 is only 31 ml over 60 minutes, so this should not create any noise. I am running a higher amount of alkalinity / highly diluted hourly over a 10 minute timeframe and do not hear much. Did I mention you should not do this? And don't complain about algae...

First of all, dont use Kalkwasser. But if you cannot help it, I used the Versas do dose several times of that daily and it was not an issue - and they are not noisy if well maintained.

If you were not so far away, I would offer either of my two sons, who are well trained in aquarium maintenance. One is more knowledgeable about fish and corals (14yr old), and the various intricacies, the other is more familiar with the equipment etc (17yr old). I would love to see them FINALLY...