Recent content by Slingfox

First post here has a calculator: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/liquid-phosphate-remover-dosing-calculator.561427/ If I were you I would not run the RODI until you get a new membrane. You are wasting the life of the DI resin as well as salt. The tank has been doing its thing for quite...

Sorry, my instructions were wrong. If the phosphate level on the tester is at max, then I believe you are supposed to dilute with fresh saltwater not RODI. That means you need clean saltwater though! This was a suggestion I have seen from Randy Holmes Farley from the R2R board in the past...

Take a look at the Reef Breeders Meridian 11. $459 retail price. If you are patient I assume it will go on sale at some point.

I looked up the recommended cupboard mats above. I will give those a shot. I will still need towels since every so often I spill water all over the floor by the display tank or in the garage . . .

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In case you haven’t thought of it, you should also replace your RO membrane if you have not done that in a while. For some reason people overlook this.

To get a read on the phosphate level, you can test with 2.5ml of tank water plus 7.5ml of RODI. Then multiple the result by 4. If you don’t have a single channel pipette (this is what I use https://a.co/d/cmHb933) you can accomplish this dilution by adding 10ml of tank water to 30ml of RODI...

Fill a vial with 5ml of tank water and 5ml of fresh saltwater. Test that sample then multiply the result by 2.

Tank at 3 months post reset. I bought some SPS during Black Friday. Most things are still small frags which I hope will grow out over time. I spent 4 hours yesterday tweaking the aquascape. Most of the scape is stacked rather than glued together so it is easy to rearrange. During the...

When your auto feed triggers, how many seconds does it take for your fish to eat all of the food. If you set it dispense only the amount the fish eat in 30 a 60 seconds that will help ensure there is very limited waste. You can do that kind of feeding a few times a day but you may want to try...

Why do you think the Copperband was able to survive 1-2 years then die? I have also heard before that many can get a Copperband to live for 1 year then they pass away. It seems like people attribute it to eating issues but I am not sure.

You have convinced me to not throw out my bottle of CG. I used to have a lighted refugium. Taking it offline was one of the best decisions I made.

Agreed with @derek_SR that an old filter floss sitting in the sump is unlikely to materially increase nutrients. If you are trying to reduce phosphate you should take a close look at nutrient import and export. What do you feed and what do you use for export? One thing which helped me bring...

Thanks for the video. For me it was like watching an alternate reality. In my tank the Yellow Tang is the boss and sliced the Convict a few times early on. Thankfully the Convict healed just fine and the Yellow Tang hasn’t sliced the Convict for a while now . . .

I recently got a Copperband (had to quarantine and train it myself since this was before Kenny’s shipment). It is now my favorite fish in the tank. It always greats me when I walk up to the tank and likes to follow my hand around when I do maintenance since it is on the lookout for critters...