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Here are my notes on UV flow rate. In parenthesis is math for a 25W unit. You can upscale or downscale based on UV unit wattage. UV Flow Rate 25W UV unit example calcs Low flow for ich and parasites: 10-12 gph per watt (250-300 gph) High flow for dinos, bacteria, algae: 30-35 gph per...

I don’t use LRS food very much (I do have some in the freezer which I use on occasion. Instead is use a combination of cubes from Brine Fish Direct. Their brine fish and mysis are very high quality and the pricing per pack is the best I have found. I will place my yearly order soon so if you...

I am waiting for AF4 to release their Black Friday deals (they have a countdown on their website). I assume one the sale starts, the BF pricing will also be reflected on the major online retailers. This device has been well reviewed but it is not cheap. I travel a decent amount so I plan to...

Welcome to the club!

Diatoms is a pretty chill game. The one below, however, is terrifying.

No check valve needed for reef tanks. The sump should be able to accommodate any drainage of water from the display tank when the return pump is powered off.

Apparently the cartridge can process 75,000 gallons of water so it will last a very long time! Replacement filters can be purchased from online water filtration sites for $256 or so. This is the search term you can use in Google: Pentek CRFC20-BB cartridge

Have your considered using a chloramine monster in your setup? https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-reverse-osmosis-chloramines-monster.html?queryID=3e46c2e3af2c88fb91f9bb23dc4b27d9&objectID=850&indexName=brs_prod_m2_default_products

Good idea! I just replaced my carbon filters this past weekend (and ordered a new set from BRS) but will use this 13.5lb pile of carbon I am about to have!

Did you notice any difference when you switched to CAC? I bought the 0.5 cubic feet which will take me years to go through. Maybe I will break it down into smaller chunks and see if any club members want to buy a small amount to test out.

For those who aren’t aware of the CAC carbon from ClearwaterSolutions, here is an explanation on why many hardcore SPS folks (specifically, the Moonshiner community) have stopped using ROX carbon and switched to CAC...

If anyone is interested in splitting a CAC order let me know. I want to switch to CAC but don’t use carbon often. Therefore, 13.5 pounds would take me years to go through

I believe the science of skimmers has been around a long time so what about Tunze’s skimmer allows it to skim phosphates better than other skimmers. I have not been in the hobby long but it looks like the tech upgrades to skimmers in the last few years have all been pretty basic: DC motor, more...

If you want a temporary home for some fish I have a 10g quarantine tank that is running empty. It is currently filled with therapeutic levels of copper but I can switch to unmedicated.

Here in the Bay Area, only one LFS has rigorously quarantined fish: HighTide Aquatics. Does that mean all the other LFS are not taking enough precautions to sell disease and parasite free fish to consumers? I accept this as economic reality since most reefers don’t care about quarantine...

Maybe I am a dummy but I don’t see how pick-up directly from the LFS and putting into a home tank directly is worse for livestock than going into the LFS tank then to the home tank a few weeks later. I have ordered from Bioto several times. They ship directly to my home. If I wanted to save...

Here is a video on ammonia dosing from Dr. Sanjay Joshi and Mike Paletta:

I have found dosing ammonia as an affective way to keep my nitrates from bottoming out. Here are my notes, mostly based on posts from Randy Holmes-Farley on Reef2Reef: Dosing Ammonia More bio available than nitrate 20 grams of ammonium bicarbonate (about 4 and 3/4 teaspoons) in 1 L RO/DI...

It is possible but I don’t think 25 bumblebee snails can kill 2000+ vermitid snails in a month and a half, but I could be wrong! Coral snow is also nice for water clarity so little downside from what I can tell. When I got rid of the vermitid horde I also pulled out every rock and scraped all...

There is cyano bacteria everywhere in our environment—not only your reef tank. You could set up a new tank, add no livestock, and eventually cyano will find its way into the tank since cyano bacteria can travel hundreds of miles inland from bodies of water. More tangibly, it is almost certain...