Recent content by Sir Ottis

I checked the conductivity of the water today with a more sensitive meter. There is Zero voltage leak in the water. I installed the grounding rod anyway and still got Zero on the voltage meter. I will be replacing the phosban media this weekend as well - it is time anyway. My GSP have...

Would a Flame Angel nipping at a Pink Bird's Nest cause it to bleach out in 4 weeks? In 6 months, I have had a monti cap bleached out and so did 2 acro frags. I am not opposed to removing the flame from the tank, if I can catch him. He isn't worth the time or money to ruin corals if he is...

Numbers Today Ph - 8.3 Kh - 180 Am - .03 Po - 0 Ca - 500 N02 - .01 N03 - 0 I just noticed my voltage meter doesn't read below 80 volts. I will get my hands on a more sensitive meter tomorrow. I also read on the ground that the eyelet on the ground wire has to be above the water level of...

Thanks for the link. I will read that tonight. My LFS told me that I needed to change my phosban reactor medium and make sure it is lot leaching back into the sump. They also recommended I try a grounding rod.

Did a pwc this morning Ca 500 Ak 2 Corals that have not made it: Frogspawn - slowly recinded into their exo over a 3-4 week period Montipora cap - bleached out over a few weeks Pink bird's nest - bleached out over a few weeks Hammer - slowly recinded into their exo over a 3-4 week...

OK - will do I don't usually use purple up. I haven't used it for a long time. Just recently for a few weeks now. That said, this problem has been going on far longer than my use of purple up.

I have been putting in purple up, 2 caps every other day, for a month now. I put it in about 8 hours prior to testing. I usually use reef crystals and do not use purple up. I lost most of the coraline in July and couldn't get it to grow back. I bought a LR with it covered and having success...

My tank crashed last July (Out of town) due to power outage. I had an overflow that did not regain it's siphon, which did not circulate the water through the chiller, and the timer never cut off the halides. All of my 90 gal tank of corals were melted. My fish survived the event. I imediately...

I recently added a Reef Octopus dnw-110 to my new sump. Obviously these guys are notorious for their crappy instructions. How high should I get the bubbles in the skimmer? I have been impressed with the build quality - except for the metric sized pvc parts.......**** China.

I would use 1x6 birch. That is what I used myself. It is better to use smaller slat sizes to reduce any swelling that eveporation will cause. Nothing like being exact with your build only to have it warp out of square. Another option is to use a furniture-grade plywood.....which would give...

A watched pot never boils

So........I have had a Copperband Butterfly come up missing in my tank. I don't know if he died and was eaten by my clean-up crew or what. He didn't jump out of my tank. What are your experiences with "missing" fish? btw - I also had a Coral Beauty come up missing about 6 months ago.

I love my Blue Pumping Xenia. It grows extremely fast.....which I frag and trade in. If it didn't grow so fast I would still love it. But it and my Colt corals grow so fast they make great trade ins. I keep a small frag of each and I trade huge sections of them every 3-4 months or so. My lfs...

I am building a fuge which will house a chamber (post fuge chamber) for a recirculating pump for a protein skimmer, uv, and a phosban reactor... to recirculate back to the supoply chamber in the sump. My return pump back to the tank is 1000 gph. What flow rate should my recirc pump be at?

Looks like small feather dusters and orange/red mushrooms of some type