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This weekend, my reef got a huge cleaning, tackling a lot of things that I felt needed addressing. My lighting fixture above hadn't been cleaned in seven months, so each Lumenbright pendant was taken out carefully, wiped down, the glass removed and cleaned on both sides, reassembled and reinstalled. The light rack was wiped down of dust at the same time.



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I have an RO unit, 4 stage with a separate DI teed in to allow for non-DI drinking water. I am running a 150 gpd 98% renection membrane. It works very well (750+ tds in, ~20 tds out after RO, zero after DI). The problem is it won't shut off. The ASOV (auto shut-off valve) just pulses, never actually cuts off the brine water flow. I checked and rechecked the installation, using Melevsreef.com's troubleshooting guide. I replaced the ASOV, no help. However it did change. The original did nothing ...

Hi all, I'm in the process of building a new aquarium set up, and I was wondering if anybody has every removed the ugly black overflows on the all glass aquarium magna overflow. They are just siliconed in place, and I would still have the Durso overflow in place. I just thought the tank would look much cleaner without them. Anybody have any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Over the last two weks I added my fist two corals to my tank both are looking great