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My latest blog on Reefs.com was published today.

http://www.reefs.com/blog/2011/08/03/ammonia-alert/

Have you tested your source water yet?

As my tank approaches its sixth month birthday, I ran the full battery of tests including ammonia (0). All is doing very well. On Sunday, I set a timer for four hours, turned off the skimmer, and added 6 capfuls of Microbacter7 to add some extra bacteria to the system. The timer reminds me when to resume skimming.

Year to date

This is one of those projects I've thought about for some time, but finally got outdoors and implemented it. I wanted to see how this works, and will clean it up after I've had a little time to work out any kinks in the execution.

Steven Pro, the president of MASNA, shared his recent trip via Reef2Reef today, and I thought some of you find mind it interesting to learn about where things are being imported from now, and possibly in the future.

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef...teven-pro.html

For the past 5 or 6 weeks, I've been avoiding the task of getting the 84" tall 265g poly tank out of the fishroom to clean it. It's easier with a second person, but with the Texas heat I've simply opted to put it off day after day after day. Well, at the same time my reef was at risk in case I needed saltwater for an emergency, not to mention the lack of water changes that couldn't be performed.

Friday night at 10pm, it was 103F outside. Since I was more motivated than usual, I decided ...