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My wife's cousin joined the military a few years ago and left his aquarium for his parents to care for. However, his parents wanted nothing to do with taking care of it. Soooo... when I heard that I could acquire a 125 gallon tank, stand, sump, skimmer, powerheads, and lighting for free; I jumped on the opportunity! All I had to do was rent a trailer, break it down, and transport 2 hours to my house.

It was July and the hottest day of the year. Luckily, I didn't have to carry stuff ...

Well I sat down with my receipts and came up with the cost so far for this build. I have spent more money then absolutely necessary, but I wanted to experiment with some things, I had to buy some tools, and I bought some items in bulk because I know I will be building more of these. So I am just basically going to give you the break down of all the things I have used on this project.

Tools:
Soldering Iron Adjustable from 20W to 50W $20.99 Radioshack
Electrical Pliers ...

Hey everyone,

Need some help. I've been running Biopellets in a phosban reactor for a month now with no reduction in nitrates. Flow is strong in the reactor.

My parameters are:
Nitrate 25ppm salifert
phosphate 0.00ppm Hanna
Alk 8.0 Hanna
Calcium 430 Salifert
Nitrite 0 API
Ammonia 0 API
Mag 1350 Salifert

The tank is about 3 years old. Nitrates have always been around the 25ppm, I have good water flow, two MP40's, very ...

My Beaked Leather Jackets (that is what the Australians call them vs. Orange Spotted File Fish the Americans call them, I like the Aussie name better) continue to do very well. They eat mysis, nutramar ova, flake food, and even sera marin granules. I thought I would take a few quick pictures.

This is what they did to my pocillopora.

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I just went to feed my fish & when I turned the power back on my skimmer stopped, i took it all apart check out these pics