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  1. nuhabit

    My Refugium

    I have what I would think was hair algea growing in it. The stuff is brown not green. I wanted to show some pics but it doesnt upload the way it use to I guess. Any help with that? I have a main pipe coming down from upstairs to the basement, it "T's" to the sump and the fuge. I haveit flowing...
  2. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    Yea I googled the worm and noticed the spiral myself but I dont see that in my tank. I will keep an eye on it ofcourse but just dont see that spiral yet. Any other possibilities?
  3. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    The tank is about Two years now. Worms huh, that is ok with me since they are harmless. I dont see any sign of life in them is there suppose to be?
  4. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    Here are some pics of the dots. Dont look like anything is moving. They are hard and dont come off easily.
  5. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    I'm starting to get little white dots on overflow housings. I'm thinking calcium deposits but calcium is 460. Not a great pic but they are just little hard white dots.
  6. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    READ THE LABEL....OMG.....Now that IS great advice....I'm gonna do that more often
  7. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    And yes it is the brightwell
  8. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    Yes I use recipe 1 which raises the ph. I usually only have to add the Alk from BRS every 3 or 4 days, about 80 ml. Once in awhile the Mag. Calcium is even more rare. With all that do I need to add the ph buffer or is that being redundant? And the kh buffer from the LFS is the same as the Alk...
  9. nuhabit

    Chemistry

    Ok I usually use Reef buffer to raise my ph to 8.3. I ran out and went to my LFS and they didnt have my usual stuff. They gave me Alkalin 8.3-p kh buffer.I use the two part from BRS, isnt that the same as the kh buffer??????????????? My head hurts.
  10. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    The preflter thing is my fault. I didnt clean the ones on my overflows in the main tank. When I finally did I hand bad stuff in there. I just left them off.
  11. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    I've been wondering how the BRS reactor is at tumbling the pellets? I know it works great for the my carbon. I dont really like prefilters. I'm worried about nasty bacteria hanging out in them.
  12. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    I've noticed debris moving around in the reactor, thinking it's bacteria. Have you noticed anything like that? WOW this stuff in the skimmer really STINKS.
  13. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    So downbeach how is it going? I am running just 500ml which is half of my suggested ml and my nitrates are getting lower. Slowly is the way to go. I put in 1000ml last time and it was a disaster. Big bloom wiped out coral very discouraging.
  14. nuhabit

    Changing Salt

    So I finally picked up the Reef Crystal so here I go with 20G a week for awhile. My nitrates seem to be coming down with only 500ml of P/N bio pellets in the reactor. Since I started the pellets with a quarter of recommended pellets no bloom occured. The last time I tried pellets I killed a lot...
  15. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    What was your phosphate before the pellets?
  16. nuhabit

    Changing Salt

    I change 35g every other week. 200G system so 17%. So maybe 20G every week which will increase the overall amount of water change. This will also work on a nitrate problem I'm tinkering with. Does that sound like a shock because I'm not thinking so
  17. nuhabit

    Changing Salt

    OK I'm thinking of changing from Coralife sea salt to Reef Crystals. What is the proper procedure if any to do this. I've been using Coralife for 3 yrs now.
  18. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    Yea I've heard to keep away from light just wasn't sure about dark. Figured I'd give it a try. I have a BRS reactor running carbon with the refillable cartridge. I need to get another cartridge to make it that much easier to change out. I'm not sure what the bio pellet reactor is but I use to...
  19. nuhabit

    Starting Bio-Pellets

    I wrapped the reactor with paper to keep the pellets in the dark not sure if its a good idea....what do you people think.
  20. nuhabit

    Glass lids

    I work at a window factory I can get everything here except the clear screening
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