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I've been keeping it low, less than 5ppm, I could possibly try dumping more in.

i'm guessing the bartletts is a male?

apparently if you put the correct punctuation, its hit turns into a bad word, lol. its hit - it'*****.

pretty much what i'm doing besides the no3 dosing and carbon dosing, i might throw back on the gfo as well, if all else fails i'm going to try an approach with tech m again, it'***** or miss for me.

i took care of the cyano, bryopsis is really testing me.

Man i wish my rocks looked that clean, lol. I either have to deal with bryopsis or cyano.

No, your about right i believe, i did the math as well with just two fixtures from AI above my 135g and how long it would take to break even. The only thing you're missing is the heat put off by an 8 bulb fixture, but i have the ATI 8 bulb over my tank for the reason of the savings is far down...

Even in the 54, you might find your fish won't swim in half the tank. I had a purple dotty back in a 90g, 2/3rd's of the tank was always empty accept for him and the tang who was the only other one that wouldn't take his crap, the other fish would't go near that side. The cleaner shrimp ventured...

Tunze has the second float switch to kill the ato, the top off that comes with the red sea looks just like an RO shut off valve, it's a float that plugs a hole once the water reaches the right height, it's mechanical, not electronic like most of the ato's you buy, the water is gravity fed.

i have a tunze ato, hasn't failed me yet.

I'm right next door in Winslow township, i might be interested in some corals if you decide to part.

Well, I make my own water so no store for that. Second, I run the drain line to the pump in the basement. And to fill the tank I have a small pump from the mix bucket to the tank. I don't lift anything, nice and easy.

I was agreeing with you on this, though i might have came off as a rant, lol. A ups is great for keeping the tank a float that extra hour or so to give you time if your out or just a small outage, i gave the long response as i've looked into this hoping a battery backup would work, it's less...

Uninterrupted power supply.

I see, I may have misunderstood your first post then. My duncan can usually take a whole krill down, not sure how big your shrimp is or the shell it left behind, but if it can fit in it's mouth it will take it.

I don't know what size system you run, but to get an idea of how expensive an electric backup can be, if i wanted to run my full system for 24 hours after losing power, i would need about 4 200ah batteries. They run i believe about 300-400 a piece for decent ones, along with a 12a charger to...

It's possible if it was small enough, though i've had peppermint shrimp that would rip the food out of their mouths so i don't think their sting is all that powerful. It's possible the shrimp wasn't doing to well and getting hit with the duncan was the last straw. He may also be hiding, they do...

a high wattage ups would be able to run a few pumps for a while to take care of short term outages, but anything longer than a day or if you temp fluctuates too much in that time frame, you could have some issues. a small backup generator to only run the tank would not be much more than that...

I don't know the area personally but my generator has saved my tank probably 3-4 times now, i've been here in south jersey for 3 years. Honestly, any backup system would be worth it in my opinion.

get the single use pinpoint packets, i've used the bottles before and don't trust them as much. At least not after the first use of opening them, as they get a chance to interact with the air at that point.