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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...

I could be wrong but the aquarium chillers I have seen don’t require ventilation to the outside. Regardless of whether you get a chiller or not it seems like a bad idea to have a hood without a vent.

During the first year of my reef tank I had a vermitid explosion. I literally had thousands on the underside of my rock scape. I completely irradiated them in my display tank mostly by dosing the calcium carbonate coral snow every few days for 2 months straight and added a few dozen bumble bee...

I used to have the Jebao 4-head doser. 2 heads failed within the first three months. The ones that worked kept on needing to get recalibrated. Thankfully I found a good deal on a 4-head Versa and it has been working flawlessly. Looks like I may need to get 1-2 more dosers so may try the Jebao...

I plan to bring at least 6 containers of Stratosphere zoas. I assume most in the club will have them in time!

Unfortunate to see one do the reefing focused LFS go down. Very tough and expensive business to be in given the high cost of the Bay Area and the tremendous competition online. Hopefully the business survives in some form.

I hope the aptasia didn’t come back. I had one pop up and battled it on and ofd for over a year. I initially spot treated with Aptasia X then ended up pulling out the rock and pouring boiling water and peroxide. Unfortunately, t kept coming back and eventually poppies up on a second rock then...

People say you can coat it with kalkwasser or use a syringe to inject it with lemon juice, vinegar or hot water. These kind of slot treatments never worked for me. It would kill the target anemone but it would show up again elsewhere. I currently have my Aptasia under control via a...

Medical/lab gloves can be purchased on Amazon for cheap. I just put a box in the same drawer with my testing supplies.