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So who all is attending MACNA this year?

Good to see you all still around! And YES! My dearest of friends can ALL get discounts! Just sign up before October 31! ;D

Hey Gang! NJ Reefers Club is very excited about hosting MACNA XXI next year in Atlantic City (how fitting that 21 is in AC?!)! The convention hotel is the Sheraton attached to the convention center. It should be a great time and a great location. For the family, there is shopping and nearby...

New Jersey Reefers Club is throwing an all out Frag Swap & Symposium. We're flying 3 speakers in from around the country, we've got 18 regional vendors, and local area Fraggers as vendors for the swap. We've gotten some excellent donations thus far with far more on their way. The raffles should...

Noisy?! Say it ain't so! Yeah, NJRC was there in force, making just a LITTLE bit of noise. There were 20 or so folks from NJ in attendance at MACNA XIX (often traveling in packs). We had a great time. I've resized my bazillion pictures, but haven't picked through them yet to decide what to...

Our LFS gives you 1/3 to 1/5 of what you would spend to buy it. They aren't going to pay more than wholesale for it. Can't really blame em, can ya?

The smell is normal, albeit disgusting. How many/what size fish are you putting in there? That might determine how much of that smell you need to put up with. Small bioload and the tank may already have enough bacteria to handle it. The ideal QT tank wouldn't have any rock in there at all as...

The purple nudibranches which are increasingly popular in the stores around here only feed on specific sponges... and nobody's sure what that sponge is. They are beautiful and destined to failure. I believe that each of them require such a specific diet that to keep any of them would be...

A TDS meter will max out well before it measures the TDS in our tanks. After that they just read "ERR". We use Salifert test kits for all parameter checking. They're a good mix of reliable and affordable.

Unfortunately how much Ca/Alk you need to add to your tank is completely dependant on the animals you have living within. What you'll need to do is watch your consumption and attempt to dose to meet it (watch it fall over a week and then figure out what you need to add to bump it back up and...

One of the guys in our reef club had an outbreak of bryopsis and ended up accidentally overdosing with mag. He saw the results and was shocked. After the shock wore off he surfed around until he ran into some other threads on high levels of mag killing off bryopsis...

I hate using test kits for things, especially PH. I like to know at a glance what my PH is. My problem with those hand held PH testers is that they need to be kept in solution/tank water or they dry out and then can't be used anymore. I've had 2 of those style units and fried them both. I use...

I've never heard of CO2 being "dosed" into a tank for any purpose other than reducing PH for a Ca reactor. The two chamber Ca reactors do a fairly efficient job of elevating the PH in the second chamber after the initial calcium breakdown in the first chamber. We do keep a fan blowing across...

We ran that same light over 120 for a while. We kept hydnophora, digi, montipora cap, along with some other stonies, but they didn't grow as fast under the PCs as they did once we switched to MH. As already suggested, water changes do more than just dillute pollution, but play a large part in...