Recent content by richiev

Note that on a given electrical circuit, you only need one GFCI not one per outlet. In most places that means one per room, however it has to be near the first one. You don't really want multiple, because debugging what tripped can be a nightmare. I'm also unclear if having multiple leads to...

Might help to have a full context picture so the location can be seen better. That being said, if the question is "would this be super safe to put in a living space", having a compromised seal on the bottom of a tank seems like a non-optimal situation. Usually convos about chipping have the...

Tank size?

Location? I'm interested in the Monti, though distance would affect getting some.

Titanium grounding probes require you to have a grounded (3 prong) outlet which is connected to a properly grounded circuit. My guess is you're connecting your power strips to a 2 prong outlet via an adapter, and then connecting all your 3 prong power cords to the power strip? In that case the...

Good question. I'm not really sure. Yellowing I think the answer is carbon. Particles the answer is some sort of mechanical filtration, including a sump full of chaeto. Bubbles, more bubble breaks before the skimmer water hits the return. Water changes always help just about everything!

Flash back to my original reef tank. This was around February 2008. T5 lights. Acrylic. Sump, drained to by in tank piping. No idea why I had the heaters in the display. Big wall of rocks, but I used some fiberglass rods to get a couple pedestal style pieces together.

Fair, but in this context the full comparison is success rate of someone who does it as a full time job versus others. My assumption is the survival and successful irradication rates he has is higher than someone doing a big quarantine for the first time.

I would call around, such as Kenny at high tide, and see if you can get the QT done for you as part of a next round of getting fish in. No idea if he/someone would do that, but even if they charge a bunch for it, it'll likely be cheaper than repeatedly changing upwards of 127gallons of saltwater...

I'd love to get a piece. I'd put it in my display since my frag tank has monti eating nudis. Though my montis in there grow like crazy because of that wrasse and params.

How much all in one did you use, and how much ammonia? Ammonia stalling when you used the bottle bac and when seeded with existing rocks seems unexpected. No chance you dumped a crap ton of ammonia in there? Additionally are you confident in your ammonia reading? Salifert hopefully is reliable...

I kept a road bike in my garage, near my saltwater mixing station. My experience is that fixie / single speed is gonna have a rekt chain and bearings :). Also LOL do you have the LEDs mounted through the front wheel, :).

I had a lot of issues with this tank, so haven't been taking pics as much. Semi quick recap: Lost a series of corals, especially LPS and torches initially would suddenly go from fine to polyp bail out. Eventually found that was correlated to when I'd feed from my packet of Rods Food. I created...

Gave it to @blink today along with some atomic broccoli and frag holders. Will possibly trim my main one and have frags available in the future. FYI @FooFtr

This time of year my tank gets a ton of nice morning sunlight. I wish there was a way to do this all year. It's showing off some torches I picked up from @fishy408 last night in a great light! (pun intended) Sunlight powered FTSes Some tank shots from before the full lights are kicking on...