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Rodi water questions phosphates
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Stephen8169301
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Whites on only
nightmarepl
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I got exactly the same oneI dropped one of these in line with my RODI. Easy install and nice to be able to hit a button and see the TDS/ppm in and out of the unit.
Plus it lets you know when its time to start replacing filters.
Dual Inline TDS Meter DM-1
Why does BRS recommend this? Using a RODI system without a TDS meter is like driving a car without a speedometer and gas gauge. At some point you will end up in trouble. With RODI systems it is TDS that you will want to monitor for performance and filter quality. By using a dual TDS meter it...www.bulkreefsupply.com
nightmarepl
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nightmarepl
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With whites only on
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nightmarepl
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Honestly this is usually red brownish not sure if I’m seeing it wrong now lol but it looks green to me
Stephen8169301
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Drop some blue legs in there
nightmarepl
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Hermits? Maybe some turbo snails too? And some sand shifting fish?
Ok. Doesn't appear to be cyano. Looks almost like diatoms. Almost looks like dead spots. This might be asking a lot but can you post a video of some fish food floating around your tank so we can see how much flow is going on.
Yes yes and yes. Come to think of it I have three engineer gobies in my tank
nightmarepl
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I’ve been planning on getting shifts and stuff my flow should be pretty good i have 2 1100gph wave makers one on each side and mg return pump is shooting 900 gph from the sides aswell i even have sand flowing into dunes due to speed I’ll try getting TDS down, get some sand shifters maybe 2 diamonds gobies 2 engineers some turbo snails
Careful with the diamonds. They're usually pretty sickly at the stores and don't eat well. I had problems.
Here's the deal with engineer gobies they make a HUGE mess, but I love them and my kids love them. Every few weeks when they would make a sand mound somewhere I didn't want I'd just vaccum it out. I repeated this for a few months until they made their piles elsewhere
nightmarepl
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Hmm yah but diamonds look soooo cool honestly gobies are my favorites so i just wanna stock a bunch of them I’ll try two diamonds see how they do
Stephen8169301
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Haha went through 4 diamonds all too jumping I love them though but no more for me I’d drop like 10 blue legged hermits with some a bunch of shells for them
nightmarepl
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Yah ima try to stock up this month on the cleaning crew gotta organize my QT
Salted
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I watched the whole thing. Couple thoughts. Some of you will have an isssue with one or both. So be it. He is difficult to listen to. He really could use some help getting his presentation down on note cards and following them. Second, almost turned him off with the cat comment. “The cat starves but who cares about cats anyway”. Disgusting comment to make.
nightmarepl
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Not gonna lie listened to 10 minutes and the guy annoyed the soul out of me haha
the major problem is funding on most of these tanks if you got the right equipment right chemicals right stock you’ll have no issues..
My problem was from day one trying to save a buck and take stupid short cuts which hurt me in the long run which I’m trying to fix now…
Bought a nice 75gallon tank from some scammer on manhattan reefs who told me the tank was completely fine…
Once i got to city it was a fast exchange due to traffic couldn’t stand on the side long blah blah got home noticed the tank was customized they took out the inner over flow made his own drilled holes in the back all with some Europe sized bit… tanks loud as all hell till today…
nightmarepl
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Problem two is high end equipment thag makes life easy… algae scrubber materials to make 50$? Store cost 500 gtfo… this hobby got so dumb expensive it’s sad i ran a 20 gallon before which was literally flawless… i upgraded to this tank and it’s been hell from day one just don’t have the high end equipment to keep it above issue levels
I mean.. he's not my favorite person for a laundry list of reasons, but who cares ? I still watch his podcast every week. He's got experience his tank looks awesome and I think he's usually right about reef related topics, so I'm all ears.
if I want to learn how to sweat copper pipe I wanna learn from someone who knows how to sweat copper pipe. If I wanna learn how to grow orchids, I wanna learn from someone that knows how to grow orchids. I'm not really too concerned with their opinions on other things, their presentation or their view on cats.
on most days I can not stand the guy that taught me to sweat pipes. Quite frankly I literally can't understand him half the time. on most days he doesn't like me, but he taught me how to do it and it's one of the ways that I feed my family and afford to have a reef tank. Can't argue with a man that taught me how to make $200 in an hour.
if rich and I hung out and discussed anything other then reefing we'd absolutely hate each other. But the man can reef.
Take it or leave it I guess.
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