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It's very good. I would not consider running a system without one. It's also not too expensive compared to skimmers and reactors, and I'm my opinion far more effective. It takes up almost no space. Theres a bunch of other benifits to it. Opposite lighting schedule stabilizes ph swings. Grows...

Ok. Maybe I'll just let it evap back down to 1.025, and maintain it there.

My ATO float switch got stuck on yesterday afternoon. Salinity dropped from 1.025 to 1.022. No ill effects what so ever. I fugured I'd just let it evaporate back down. This morning all corrals are open and everything is happy. Once the level stabilizes, I thing I'm going to slowly lower my...

I still have my glass tube thermometer in my tank that reads slightly low. My clowns host it at night, so I left it in for them. It consistantly reads 76, when it's actually 78.5. It suction cups to the glass. The clown wedges itself between the tube & the glass for the night. I guess it could...

I'll have to get something else. Temperature is critical.

I just got one last Saterday. What is so bad about it?

This is what the scrubber looks like 3 days after I cleaned it out. I clean it once a week. Scrub it with a stiff tooth brush and rinse it in tank water.

I have not reduced my nutrients. I still feed the same amount and do the same water changes. The scrubber has eliminated my nuisance algae. It started working pretty fast too. You can help seed it by rubbing some of your current hair algae on the growing surface. I'm not saying it's ok to...

Yes amazon.

The Santa Monica HOG 0.5 algae scrubber is working wonders on my nano. The hair algae has dissapeared from the dt less than a month. The scrubber is small too, 4" by 6". The 0.5 designation means it can consume the nutrients from 1/2 a frozen cube a day, regardless of tank size.

Hmm. I guess h2o2 dosing is more common practice then I thought.

I wouldn't recommend putting hydrogen peroxide in your fish tank. There are many more conventional safe ways to lower nutrients and starve out algae. None of them work fast. But they do work. Water changes, protein skimmers, Medea reactors, macro algae, turf scrubbers, are a few proven safe methods.

Pardon me but what is a POTM?

I agree, and if I kept high priced live stock in my tank, I wouldn't want one either. I have lost 2 or three frags that I didn't glue down well enough. The only regret is I can't keep coral on the bottom. They certainly are not for everyone.

My pistol shrimp is a good guy. I have never seen it kill anything. I have seen mine push away live snails that came close to its cave. Never tried to attack anything. I have to keep all my coral out of the pistol shrimps habitat. Mine is a tiger pistol. Maybe some other verieties are more...

At least 3, maybe 4 months ago, a frag of zoas got knocked over and buried by my pistol shrimp. A few days ago, the shrimp was doing a remodeling if his aquascape. And he pushed the frag out of the dugout. To my amazement, it still has flesh on it. I can't wait until they open up. I forgot what...

This shrimp likes to hang out right there on these zoa's. They use to close up when he stepped on them. Now I've noticed, they barely react. Interesting example of Learned behavior in a colony of primitive animals.

That's a good harvest. How many days growth is that?

That's what I figured. Thanks.

That's great. These scrubbers are catching on. Do you recomend rinsing in public tap water? Will the clorinated water slow the grow back? Would you think I should rinse in RO or even some tank water?