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Hair Algae continues to fade and be eaten by urchins. Have not repeated peroxide. Skimmer is skimming like crazy, pulling a lot of green skimmate. Coral colors are returning for whatever reason, shocking to see sunset monti color up, one of the tricolor acros got its purple back. The brown crap...

I am going to need some 2" flex PVC for my Rubbermaid sump project. Is there any store in NJ that has it? I've only ever bought the 1.5".

Both times I ended up adding an entire pint bottle. Based on my (very rough) calculations, that works out to around 2.5ml/gallon. The results were similar during the second dosing. Less red in the tank and the skimmate. I guess that means it's destroyed a lot of the cyano or whatever. The...

Thanks Bob, I was wondering what happened to you! I'm going to do another pint, to work on the hair algae and kill more red stuff, which is staging a tiny comeback. Hell, I may start gargling with the stuff! Where do you get the percarbonate?

I stumbled over it on RC, seems like a fairly new remedy. I was talking to my reef-keeping neighbor, and he said an old-timer told him to put 1 Tbs. in his tank every week to maintain water quality, in FW!

And the hair algae did suffer from the peroxide. It fell apart overnight but only in some areas where I treated heavily. Back for more peroxide!

Kind of an amazing discovery today. I was using some hydrogen peroxide (3%, familiar item from the drugstore). The goal was to squirt it at the hair algae growths and they wither and die. Well I did that, with no impressive result, and I ended squirting in about half a pint of the stuff into the...

Looking for a nice piece of shelf, 12X12 or 12X18 or something around that, preferably in northern NJ.

My sunset and pokerstar montis are alive but they are almost the same color (grey-white with hints of their real color). Checked out my RO unit, AWI thought my membrane might be shot, but it's just the DI cartridge again, water is at 24PPM coming out of the membrane, dropping to only 16PPM out...

Looking at the pictures from June 2010 actually made me nauseous. What the hell went wrong with my reef??? :-(

Yes, been using various GFO products for a long time. I wish it were that easy!

Tank was covered with cyano again when I came back. Skimming went well while I was gone, took a solid 4 gal of skim mate out. Fish were underfed per my instructions, still gross. Going to reduce photoperiod to 4 hours, see if that helps.

Interested to see what the reef looks like when I get back from vacation. Current thought is that I will continue to UNBUILD and cook rock until the tank looks like it did in the beginning. Hope I don't lose my remaining (TOUGH) acros, but I have to get it "back to where you once belonged..."...

I think I'm going to shut down carbon dosing while I'm on vacaction see if that does anything.

Lost several of the urchins since changing the GFO. Also a few hermits. Starting to suspect some sort of toxicity. Could there be an issue with the GFO since I only recently switched to the high-capacity type. I wonder what a copper test kit costs. RO water is coming out at 16PPM, probably need...

I went to change the big GFO reactor and found the GFO had solidified Into something like concrete. It was really hard to get out, I had to chisel it out with a long screwdriver and a hammer. Not fun. I then tried to get the new GFO to tumble and found that the output hose was almost completely...

I WILL PREVAIL! Now that everything has gone so wrong, I am fired up about the challenge. When I set up the reef, my plan was to run some of my return flow through the pipes. Someone wisely pointed out that that was a great way to accidentally siphon every last drop out of my tank in a power...

I love my pistol shrimp-and-gobies nano but I was alarmed at how carefully I need to feed it. A few days of careless feeding brings on the red cyano. My method now is to try to feed the animals almost individually with a plastic tube or small turkey-baster type device, with the circulation pump...

One interesting tidbit to file away is that a 2" bulkhead cannot be easily fit into a rubbermaid tub's existing bulkhead hole just by enlarging it to 3". There are some existing support structures on the inside which would have to be removed in order for the back of the bulkhead and seal to seat...

I don't know what happened. I am starting to look on it as a good old fashioned tank crash. I went back and reviewed my posts and found that for after the blizzard power outage, for a while this winter, things were pretty good, not fantastic but pretty good. The everything went blooey! The brown...