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  1. All Sorts of Dosing Questions

    Marc and any of you that can help,

    I have been dosing for about a year now using 2part, and dosing alk and cal unevenly. I seem to be dosing much more alk...I dose about 2.5oz of alk daily, and maybe dose calcium once per week if even that. It seems my alk drops daily where calcium drops at a much slower rate. Would you suggest I begin dosing in equal volumes of alk and cal daily? Would I then dose 2.5oz alk and 2.5 cal? I didn't dose in equal amounts as I believed this would increase ...
  2. Day 458: 15 month anniversary

    It's time for another mini-update. Here's how the tank looks today.

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    A view from the back.

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    The Anemone Cube

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    View from the living room

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    The newest addition are these little fish from Sustainable Aquatics. Originally I thought they were pink skunk clownfish, but they are actually ...
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  3. Cloudy moments - calcium reactor drama

    I tend to prefer to show you pictures of the reef when it is gorgeous, naturally. Not often do I post pictures like these.

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    Fear not, nothing is amiss. It was more cloudy before I took these pictures, and at this point post photo edit and typing up the blog, it's already a little more clear.

    The calcium reactor burned through a lot of media over the past six weeks, pretty much liquefying ...
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  4. A whole bunch of Topdown eye candy

    It was time for me to get up on the walkboard and get some nice pictures of a number of corals from the best perspective: looking down. Here are the results from today's session.

    Using a Nikon D90 and 105mm Macro lens in a Top Down Photo Box, pictures were framed, shot and processed in Lightroom.
    You can purchase one here: http://www.melevsreef.com/node/42


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  5. Saturday - it's raining... what to do

    Done:
    Clean the penductors and get the flow improved again
    Fix the sandbed on the left end of the reef
    Rearrange the rock and corals a little for a new look
    Remove dead coral rubble in the sand
    Make space around the Sebae anemone and move some zoanthids
    Clean the overflow panel
    Clean the Vortech pumps - soak in vinegar
    Feed the fish
    Water change
    Clean the sump of detritus, tube worms and other calcifications
    Clean the skimmer body ...
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