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I am an un-fan of Bose, I don't think they give good value. My system has a Sony multimedia receiver that acts as the switching center for everything, a Polk Audio subwoofer, Polk center channel and four Polk Audio surround speakers. I like it a lot although I have too much tinnitis to be an...

The great folks at Reeflo replaced my Super Dart Gold with a refurbished unit. The extra cost was worth it for the 5-year warranty! They even threw in a new impeller and the back half of the volute with a new shaft seal. Ahhhh. Now I have two working Dart pumps. Once I follow the bearing...

I killed maybe 30 mushrooms. In the morning...gone.

I made up a batch of Eric Borneman's pest killer formula (http://www.njreefers.org/showthread.php?61395-APTASIA-MOJAMO-PEST-killer....Eric-Borneman-s-recipe) for the first time. A few thoughts: 1) The mixing container gets too hot to hold when you mix the stuff. Don't plan on moving it if you...

Done and done.

One interesting thing was observed after the big insult and deaths involved in the blackout. When I built my reef I made a support structure on PVC pipe with holes drilled in it, see way earlier in the thread. It connects to a barb fittting in the tank. When I do water changes I run a hose to...

No, it doesn't spread like you think. It reproduces with internal brooding, so it can make daughter colonies anywhere. My advice is to not let the original colony get much larger than 3", that seems to retard the spawning activity. It's cool to have new colonies, but they seek out the best...

I am still dosing VSV. Only to the tank. That's why the skim ate is so important. If that slows down, the carbon is just building up in there!

Shoot Bax I think I may be able to use that sump to replace my inadequate one. Can you hang on to it until I can have a look? Is it at the garage?

I can tell the phosphates are dropping in my tank. The fouling of the glass has slowed down and changed from green to clear. As part of my self-directed "reef intervention" I removed my once-proud Phonepe birdsnest colony from the tank. It had become a football-sized ball of bubble algae. I...

I'll still never forget my first visit to Aquarium Stock Company down on Chambers Street near city hall. There was a tank set up with (I think) a copperband and a coral banded shrimp. I was already a freshwater aqauarist and that made me swoon. I almost fainted. I was well and truly hooked.

Added lawnmower blenny, small unimaculatus foxface, small kole tang . Also added big powder blue tang trochus and top crown snails from AO. The algae removal team is on the job! The top crown snail is huge and eats algae like crazy. May have to buy more of those. Plus it has live barnacles on...

That's too good an offer to pass up. The foxface and kole tang I got are working hard, but they're so small they don't have much effect. Are you able to catch the blenny?

One sad result of losing your algae eating fish is that after a couple weeks you find oout what algae they were keeping down. Now getting hair algae, even on the glass. Was going to wait to buy fish but I need to get on top of this. I wanted to wait for a Magnificent Foxface but I think I'll...

Thanks all.

It's a challenge. Now my ORA Joe the coral is starting to RTN, trying to arrest that. Hey I'll get to try some exciting new corals!

Pulled out the rtn'd coral branches and dead and marginal corals yesterday. Small bucket full of branches..

My generator is a 5500w Honeywell from Costco. It's portable. I would have done better if I had run it 24 hrs the whole time, it was an expensive mistake.

Many angels are reef safe with sps only. No clams, no acans, no "fleshy" sps. Look in the reef fishes section on RC for more info.

Thanks Sandee, I'm still in shock. Power has come back on after more than five days. I'm still not sure what happened to specifically cause my problems, but.... I was not thinking clearly at least some of the time. There was a lot going on reef and non-reef related. The worst thing that...