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So today a picture crossed my newsfeed and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Here's the picture.

You might be wondering what he's doing, so let me explain. He needed to hang some lighting pendants over his new tank. However, what actually transpired here was sheer luck that he wasn't killed. Using a power tool PLUGGED into the wall while standing in water is very dangerous, eliciting my OMG-response.

Immediately I had to ...

Last year, I posted about the upgrade from single ended metal halides to TwinArc bulbs. I used the same reflectors and ballasts, but could now have 20,000K lighting for a few hours and 10,000K lighting for a few hours, daily. The best of both worlds, right? http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...l-halide-bulbs

10 months later, I knew it was getting close to the time I needed to get new bulbs, and I was really debating what to go with: upgrade to all 400w bulbs ...

This is the first part of the daylight period. I've been running the staggered lighting period for a decade now, and don't see why I'd ever stop. Here's the article I shared a few years ago explaining it in detail: http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...d-Lighting-why

Today I installed two new 400w bulbs and one new 400w ballast. One more ballast and bulb will be added tomorrow, and I'll take PAR measurements to know the difference ...

so it been a roller coaster of a year, took down my 150 transferred all coral to a 105g rimless tank. tank crashed lost coral(jan) then battled bryopsis and won then hair algae almost won. A kitchen remodel claimed the 105(didn't want to move it so I sold it), didn't want to move it so I decided to just get a nano till I finish up school. So here I am.
I purchased the nuvo used, as I didn't wanted to put money into different areas of the build. So equipment wise I traded for things I needed ...

Just to clarify heres the directions on the container,


Six drops of Phosphate Control will lower your phosphate by 1 ppm (mg/L) for every 10 gallons (37.9 liters) of water.


Does that mean 1.0 ppm or .01ppm?


My phos is testing at .04 on Hanna and I was going to dose 72 drops.

My tank volume minus rocks and sand is 120 gallons, so 6 drops X 12 = 72 drops to drop my phos by .01?