muddybluewater

Cleaning the fuge is the main reason I don't have sand bed in my fuge. It looks like you have a turbo snail in there, you might want to add a few more snails and I like to keep a few hermits in there also.

No thanks, I don't need any concrete shoes right now and besides I think Guido would agree with the rules.

Try to keep the bulb about 3-4" off the water (again this is from Melev's)

My fuge is about 12x18x12. I think is is 27w. It is a 100w equivalent in a r40 fluorescent spot light bulb. They are marked as daylight bulbs, blue packages.

I buy it by the gallon it is definitely a equipment saver.

Congratulations.

I just thought it was funny and had to share it. I woke up my wife from laughing when I read it.

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I usually let mine get to the size of a basketball and then pull out about 3/4 of it. I use a clip on light from Home Depot with a 5000K bulb. Melev's recomends a 5100K but anything from 5000-5500K should be fine.

Welcome. The diatoms will go away with time. Try to do 10% water changes for several weeks to replace the original water with ro/di.

You can also siphon some pods out of the fuge and put into the display

I am very happy to say I can't win this contest. Thanks for the thread John and the sponsorship.

Give the system time to mature. I would not put a mandarin in until a year or more. You can add copepods to the main tank to increase the population faster. The pods you see on your rocks and substrate are probably amphipods. They are much larger than copepods.

I would like the green apple. I will PM

I would recomend Minwax Helmsman spar urethane, It is in a green can. There is also a man-o-war in a blue can but it dries much slower and you need to wait 24 hour between coats. It should be about $15 for a quart.

You can get marine poly at Lowes. It is kind of deceptive by the name it really is not much different other than it has a uv protectant. It will not hold up any better to moisture than regular poly.

I wouldn't run it without the glass. Your fish don't need it any way, but the uv might give them a good tan.

Nice tank, very good deal. I was looking at it yesterday. Keep us posted on the build.

UV lighting makes both 12k and 14k bulbs that would be more blue than yellow. You will slow down your growth slightly but I think you will like the color better. Reef Geek and Hello both have them.

Try some frozen Brine with spirulina. Everything I have eats it very well.

If you squeeze enough lemons eventually you are going to get a squirt in your eye.

Is the next meeting an official ARC tailgate party?

I use a mag12 return pump and use the sponge block to catch any pieces of chaeto that break off. I just clean it real regularly to keep nitrates down as much as possible. I also have a split sump now but was running a sump like you have. I liked having the fuge in the middle to keep the skimmer as far away from the return pump as possible. That helped keep micro bubbles from making it back to the display. I also have a piece of egg crate siliconed on the top of my baffle for my fuge now. I have used poly fiber in the past and it caught all of the small pieces of chaeto.

I built the frame work 14 1/2", the finished wood is 16" so it hangs down the side of my tank 1 1/2". I built the frame then built the cabinet to go over it. I then set the frame inside of the cabinet and attached them together.

I like it and will be checking back to see how it is progressing.