Recent content by mikea213

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Hey I need some advice on getting a new return pump. My tank is 180g sump is 30gal I run my gfo reactor and my cal reactor off the return. I had a mag 24 in there and seems to have done fine up till yesterday when the shaft snapped. This is the second time its had a problem. What would be a good...

Does anyone know what is causing this to show up in my tank? Its like a brownish gold showing up on the sand and the returns and on the sand its kind of thick mat. I do use rodi water with a reading of 0 tds the tank is 3 years old phosphates have always been about .33ppm and I have gotten them...

I dont I thaw the mysis in some tank water and dump it in

What would you recommend to feed that wont kick the phosphates up. Is a pellet food better?

Mix my own. I have tried io, reef crystals and salinity. Probably going back to IO since its cheaper and dont need the extra cal or alk since my reactor does that part

I have a tds meter on my rodi and it reads zero. I feed frozen twice a week and flake daily. I tried everyother day on flake made no change

It grows ok not to fast but it does tank is 180gal pen with adhi sump and evo 400 skimmer I have 2 mp40 run on one side and 2 other cheap pumps on the other side. Theres about 400lbs live rock in the tank at the moment close to that in live sand.

I use to do about every 3 weeks 40gals but now thats slowed down do to price of salt was geeting rc for 39 for 200gal box now it like 69 so mighy go back to plain instant ocean since I dont need the extra alk cal mag in my salt since the reactor does that for me. What do u think? Im self...

Ok I plan to turn up the blues slowly. On the phosphates I do have a sponge filter just before the return pump can I take that out could that cause phosphates? I am running a fuge. On the first chamber is the skimmer and heater then second chamber I have rock a little sand and chaeto then...

Ok whats good for keeping the phos down. I can turn up my lights what should the whites and blue be both the same, one more than the other? These are 200w lights at 2 watt each

I wash them everytime I clean the reactor since they dont make a replacement for the unit.

I do use rodi water. I tried awhile back gfo and could only gdt them down to .33 and I dont over feed.i dont have algae growning in the the tank. Temp on tank is 78 all the time should I increase it to 79 or 80?