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I really like what you have planned, especially the tank!! I have my sump and service equipment in the built-in garage (no basement) and there is no sound in the house.

Well I had to be in the area of AB Fish, so I picked up a couple of Hi Fin Red Banded Gobies (Stonogobiops nematodes). These are so similar to the Dracula Goby, I don't...

Water chemistry looking pretty good today. Ca 526, Alk 10.9, Phosphate .004. I was going to change out the GFO but it looks like there's no need. I think I'll change the carbon, that's got to be exhausted at this point. I really want to order a couple of new shrimp gobies for the nano, and...

Kind of funny story: I have a soft spot for acro crabs and other bycatch, so it makes me sad that you don't often get them these days, now that responsible sellers dip all their acros before sale for bugs and flatworms. Diver's Den often has what they call Trapezia Pocillopora/Acropora Crabs...

Thanks for the link, Paul. I don't need ANY more xenia, but if you have any recipes for cooking it, I'd like those!

Took a ten day vacation and once again things looked better when I got back! My tank sitter refuses to wash the frozen food cubes, that may be the secret! New skimmer worked flawlessly, but the calcium reactor clogged and was half full of gas when I got home . When I went to readjust it, I found...

Yeah and the neck wiper helps consistency. There's almost nothing to clog on that skimmer, unlike all my other ones!

I think either Ca or Alk are out of whack. I had a problem a while back where I could tell when the Monti Caps stopped growing. I upped the Ca reactor effluent and it started growing again, but you can see where it stopped, like rings on a tree. My gfreen slimer has slowed way down now, and the...

Finally sold the MRC 400R skimmer. Guy in Alberta Canada bought it. WHat a PITA to ship that thing to Canada! Ended up being $150 to ship. Loving my new skimmer, which is really making a lot of skimmate.

Replied, hang in there!

Thanks, good to know! I was gonna use the turkey fryer outside.

I took the large rock out of my 30G nano to try to remove the murderous pistol shrimp living in it. No joy. I cleaned the rock up and dumped 4 liters of soda water on it, no shrimp! Tough little bastard must have a sealed apartment inside the rock. Maybe if I bake it... New skimmer on the big...

A new wallet and a bathrobe! Gahhh! Fortunately, I had the foresight to buy myself a new reef octopus 500 skimmer and an internet connected home theater receiver, so Xmas wasn't a total loss. Whew.

Congratulations!

ReefOctopus went crazy for the first time, and the switch in the waste collector shut it right down. I was a little unsure about my new waste collector (about a half gallon) versus my old waste collector (made from a 5G bucket), but I realized that it means that when the skimmer goes nuts, it...

Willing to do September if that can be North.

Getting a dice steady drip of cider-colored skimmate, very stable, very controllable. In the other news, I got a Siamese cat.

Hi-tec...yet stylish...needs some LEDs in the base...go over big in Europe As a skimmer, I already got one jussst like it!

How much you want for them? :D Late today the skimmer "broke in" and quickly filled its skimmate holder. Off we go!

I fiddled with the SRO 5000 it and it made some skimmate. Sort of like baby's first poopy. In my heart, I don't think anything can equal the power of the ETSS downdraft skimmer, it was able to pull out a load of RANK DARK STUFF. But, like all beasts, hard to control. Also, I think the bioball...