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What are you planning on using to dim? If you use an apex, you dont even need to power them via the eb8, and can simply use the dimmer to control the on/off. You also wont get that annoying bright flash on power down.

**** sooner, i refuse to answer you question! Does that answer your question? Meh, the petroleum geologists make about double my salary, but I get to live in austin instead of houston. I consider it a worthy trade. Bio3/Chris - Honestly, I'm not sure. Is the extra step you're referring to letting it dry prior to cranking up the heat? If so, it seems to me that the heating process is going to drive off the water anyway, unless there is some other reaction happening that I'm not aware of. My preference is to toss the stuff anyway.

This is an adventurous build I think you may run into some difficulty dialing in your colors without being able to control each color "channel" independently. I'll follow along and help when and where i can. Good luck!

Hydrogeologist here, so i'm pretty comfortable with the subject matter. I have a groundwater treatment system that uses 55 gallon drums filled with activated carbon to remove chlorinated solvents from groundwater. You *can* bake out the contaminants, but only a certain subset of contaminants are able to be removed via thermal destruction. Things that fall into the class of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) will come out very readily in that temperature range. However, heavy metals will *not* come out as a result of increased heat. The kinds of things that I would personally be concerned about in my tank would include both VOCs as well as heavy metals. Given the relatively low cost of carbon, I would personally be inclined to toss the stuff and replace. Although the tropic of the thread was technically "can carbon be resued", the answer is yes, albeit with caveats. Whether or not this is the best management practice for reefing depends entirely on your risk tolerance as well as risk tolerance from your wife beating you to death for spending more money on your tank

Parenting success ! My bc29 is a result of "proper parenting" as well. Cheers !

Seconded the capacitor. If the ballast and bulbs are new, the cap is all that is left really. --- I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?lt1cco

Can you run over exactly what you've replaced?

Welcome, and good luck. Don't have any of the stuff you need, so uh..... yeah.

If this is the same tank from reef central (maupin?) i think the light is set up pretty high off of the tank.

bait a hook. you know who the first fish to it will be.

you gonna plumb that BC into the dropoff tank?

i keep a mixed reef by the window

I've actually got a bunch of the guts as well, if you want to try and perhaps swap in a new pump connector.

Time to go LED.... Bio and I both did it.

NERD ALERT. coupled with JEALOUS ALERT ON MY PART.

i was always kind of surprised that they never carried saltwater. how can you pass up 50% of your client base? and the stuff with the big markup!?

hadn't thought of that, but i'd feel better having a meter that rules out any other funky electrical effects.

It eventually settles on the bottom. It's known as "trub"

Man, talk to stephen about his experience with reefkeepers. GO with apex, mine has been flawless, and I am picky.

Ag, i really love the dimensions and height of your tank. feels like perfection to me.

Dangerous game you play there brian

I'll see how much is left over pham. 2 people have pm'd me. I'm kind of in an LPS mood

Looks great! What do you have going on downtown?

You would be my hero. I just need it for an evening.

maybe a simple email to them will work. I've found that asking is the easiest way to get a discount if one is not readily apparent.