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Pulled about 50lbs. Of rock from the badly laid out right end of the reef so I could vacuum out the substrate under it. It wasn't as nasty as the other end of the tank under the rocks, the water circulation must be better on that end. It's tough to remove substrate by siphoning, the hose keeps...

Nobody wants to see that. They didn't even like my NemoSpeedo!

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Tumbling much better with the screens. I nominate the Foxface as the toughest fish in the reef. He got the velvet, was sick as a dog, hiding and with cloudy eyes, and he fought through it. All better now, swimming around. I guess the chromis and the lemon wrasse never even got sick. Dunno how...

Changed the GAC reactor. Then pulled 4 buckets of water out while siphoning out the substrate. Some of it was quite disgusting, near the rocks. It was black in the siphon and turned the water in the bucket black. It stunk so bad that the boys in the livingroom upstairs caught a whiff and...

Replaced the DC-8 power block for my Aquacontroller III. Not a durable piece of gear; three of the outlets have failed during the time I've had it. I had a spare so why not? I don't use it for much these days, just turning the lights on and off, and the top off system. When I go back to Ca...

Here's couple photos of the encrusted and troublesome sump before I got rid of most of the junk. Here you can see the entrapped heater cord and the partially blocked pump intake: That damn cord is still trapped. Partially cleaned up: Area between the baffles is filling with deposits:

I'm thinking I will put a 2" bulkhead in there to go to my reeflo dart. Shouldn't be a problem.

I dunno, I have considered that. Everything else is doing okay. I'm gonna change the carbon and continue major water changes, waiting for my new salt. Was thinking of putting one of those poly pads in there to see if something metal is in the water? I'm dashed. Continuing to clean up. hair algae...

Don't remember the dimensions but I measured and it will fit, both front to back and underneath the drains if I remove the bottom shelf surface. I've been looking at some good threads on RC about using stock tanks for sumps. There is a flat spot for another bulkhead, over the existing one. Or...

Normally the only pink slime in my tank is cyano!

Anyone have any tips on using a Rubbermaid trough as a sump? They have that one bulkhead, which I hear can be leaky, I guess I would hook up the return pump there. Then I will need to have a pump to feed the skimmer, how can I mount another bulkhead? And I will need to mount the ATO float...

Well, the fun just keeps on coming. Whatever killed the Majestic and the butterflies took out the PBT and tomato clownfish last night. How do you kill a tomato clownfish? I thought they were bulletproof. It looked like Brooklynella or velvet or that combined with ich. I have almost no experience...

All my lighting cables are wired into heavy duty 3-prong plugs (Thanks for the idea MikeM!) which gives solid connections and lets you use economical heavy-duty extension cords (just don't plug the MH into 110VAC!).

I want to throw in a really stupid tip I came up with. I run carbon in a reactor, and have been frustrated by the tiny carbon pieces blowing into the tank through the sponge. What I did was not worry about that and just temporarily mount a filter sock under the outflow from the reactor. All the...

I was thinking about A. Squampinnis actually. I had a school of the big square anthias for about a year. I really liked them! Which ones have you had? Some are definitely easier than others. When I had the squares the male never learned to eat dry food, he was a frozen-only kind of guy. The...

The replacement ballasts came. It's great to see the reef fully lit again. I am going to mount them near the tank now instead of in the garage. I am not sure that the 12' light cables were the issue, but this is the second set of Lumatek ballasts I've replaced. I have to change up something...

No sign of the majestic, I fear he's dead. No body though. Pulled out another load of dirty gravel and broken dead coral. I'm going to change salt brands. Since everything is going so lousy, it seems like a good opportunity. I've been doing Tropic Marin since forever, which is expensive...

Kind of a tough day in the ol' reef. I lost both the Burgess' Butterfles, presumably to ich. Found one corpse only. The majestic angel, he who survived so much trouble, isn't looking good, he's hiding, color isn't good. The PBT has gotten over the ich. The tank is looking still better, the...

Part of the problem with this very attractive idea is it puts you at the mercy of the town water department. If they mess up (too much chloramine, runoff gets in the supply, etc, etc. you can have a tank crash. My friend's store in Chester is swamped (*hah) with customers having algae problems...