Recent content by MolaMola

This post (maybe others have posted the same method) has CHANGED my tank maintenance life. I knew people filtered junk out of water thru socks instead of endless water changes, but I did neither and got tanks too full of old detritus bc of the PITA felt socks. Plastic mesh takes 20 seconds to...

Not any salt I know off the top of my head. Of all the liquefacient salts I know, some could be tank water additives but can't replace NaCl. Let's see what the chemists in the group have to say...

It's a semester-long elective class for 7th-8th graders. I made it up and lobbied my district hard for it. Kids have no idea it is an entire second science class with no homework or tests but just tons of sciencey activities, heh heh. Super fun, depending on the class composition. We are in the...

Got the email and thought it would be funny to my little marine science class. Not a soul got the joke. So we did a little claim-evidence-reasoning exercise. A few kids got the joke, as I could see on their faces. Others - nope. Two camps argued that "hydro" means water so it must be better than...

I have not attended in a long time, but I have helped with registration in the past and/or could do cleanup/setup as needed.

I was looking into extensions awhile back and found a couple links in my otherwise incoherent notes... I don't think this is what you are looking for: Kessil light extension cable Maybe this power brick extension but not sure about the connectors since I have no lights at home...

Have you inspected the montis after lights are off? I lost a battle with MENs back in 2018. I only found them bc I had turned lights off for a few days to try to get a handle on some cyano or something. I had never seen that tank in the dark before, which might be why I didn’t know they were in...

Thank you for the frags. Wow, what a beautiful tank you have there. I really enjoyed seeing the full colonies, corals moving with the flow, inverts, and active fish including clowns tending to their eggs. I wonder which of the groups of students tending to our tanks this week will notice the new...

Wow, you made an awesome box of biodiversity there - very cool. It must be fun to sit back and look at the motion with all the different shapes and textures in your jungle.

Looks great! So many hideouts in the rockwork - nice. Fish look happy. Haha - I see your urchin likes to pick up things to disguise itself. As you add more corals we will see what it prefers.

nice fish ;)

Look and feel everywhere for salt or water from a leak. So many possible sources. Could it even be from somewhere other than the sump?

No, I would say the weir cannot keep anything out of the overflow. After I removed the stuck snail, I temporarily cable-tied plastic mesh to the weir to cover the overflow. I think that was over three years ago and the same mesh is there and no one has gotten into the overflow. You can't really...

Fun! Nice job. I wonder what would happen if you came across large totes for $5.00?

I have a similar drain setup. Is your overflow screened? Before adding netting, I had a large trochus snail get lodged in the main drain. Like @CoralReefer said, you can probably unscrew that pipe. Fingers crossed