Tank Entry

Is it time to change your RO/DI filters? I date my system each time they are changed out, to help me keep track. They should be changed every six months, so I'm actually a month late in doing so. Whoops. However, the TDS reads zero, so there's no reason to worry, right?

Wrong.



After turning off the water source and opening the valve after the system to bleed off the pressure within, I removed ...

When the Vortech pump starts rattling, the first thing to do is realign the motor with the wetside. If it goes back to silent, that's perfect. However, over time, the rattle may return and refuse to go away. When this happens, you need to replace a small part inside the wetside.

I had this problem recently with one MP40w, and obtained some new parts prior to beginning this little project. Having a local fish store with parts is ideal, but if you can't do that, they are now available ...

Today, I decided to take a little time out to clean up my reef. I removed empty snail shells littering the sand bed, siphoned out the cyano bloom that has been bothering me for the past couple of week, blasted off some of the corals usually affected with AEFW, and moved a few pieces around.

The Platygyra pini (maze coral) was being heavily shaded by the "orange blob" to the point that I knew I had to rescue it soon. When I pulled it out today, I was rather surprising how much that ...

At Next Wave, our annual one-day conference, we fly in speakers and peruse the vendor's wares for stuff to bring home. I held out until the end, but after selling an item from my Reef Shop, I had cash to burn.

So I raced into the vendor's room to see what was left, and bought a bunch of goodies. Two of the vendors had a disaster; the airlines didn't ship the livestock on their flights, so they arrived and had nothing. Everything arrived around 1pm during our conference after ...

I decided to take a few pictures last night and these came out pretty nice.













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