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Woohoo... Unfortunately a local CMAS guy is getting out of the hobby, so I was able to snag his AC Jr. with a dc8 module for $115.

I was worried at first with it being a used one that it may not have the serial port that I can tie an auto top off into, but didn't care one way or the other for that price I was buying it. Well thankfully it has the serial as well too!

Tomorrow I'm snagging my aqua lifter and ...

My wife and I are new to the salt water community. We got a 55gal tank from some friends that is in desperate need of some good advise. We have two mated clown fish (that have apparently never mated) and a striped goby (not sure what type yet). It has a Whisper Power Filter 60 hang off the back filter, one Hydor Koralia fan, a heater, about 3 inches of very dirty live sand and about 15lbs of live rock. Our end goal is to have a reef tank. We have done some research into building our own filtration ...

Hello i figured since i haven't really done much on this site that i would at least post some pictures! The better ones were doctored using the photochop technique in the featured section

EDIT: broke down and got noise ninja fixed a couple pics.

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The weather is in the 90s, and I'm cleaning up equipment in my fishroom. Today I took down the lights to clean the reflectors' shells and both sides of the glass. I'll be wiping down everything, like the rim of the tank, the sump, pumps and plumbing. I also need to do all my water tests.

I'd like to clean up the display tank a little more, trim out some dead stuff and move a couple of corals.

On Monday, I'm going to BBQ. What are y'all going to do?

I know this is a really dumb question but I really just have not other Idea what could be going on here.

I have tested the parameters in the tank 160 reef 30 - 40 gallon sump. the tank has been running for 10 months now reading over the last three weeks
sg 1.027 read with both hydrometer and refractometer
am 0, nitrite 0 nitrate 10 ppm
cal 385 - 400
alk 9.6 - 10.5
mg 1350
phosphate 0.00 - 0.05
tank temp between 76.7 and 77.9
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