Recent content by jda123

For sure. IMO, nitrogen and phosphorus always need advanced articles. The best hobbyists understand that no3 and po4 are waste products and that ammonia, meta phosphate and organic phosphorous are what is important. I don't think that you can succeed for long at a high level without this...

Also, aragonite, calcite and dolomite does not have to be saturated to unbind phosphates. Even at low tank levels, rock/sand are binding phosphates. Lower the water column level and the po4 will unbind - raise it and the rock/sand will bind more. This is not an absorb and leach thing... it is...

I don't think that it has ever been shown that anything needs phosphate to survive. Organic matter needs phosphorous (P). Orthophosphate (po4) is what is left over after most other forms break down - this is the only form that a hobbyist can test for. po4 is perhaps the least important for...

Have you chatted with Hemdal about this? He, as well as others, have seen long term mortality rates rise using CP while it does seem to be a good acute cure. Might be good to at least mention in your article that lifespan has been observed to decline on some species - and some wrasses and...

Lysmatta Wurdemanni are from the Flordia Keys, are the best at eating aiptasia and almost never eat coral unless they are starving - we would eat coral too in this situation. The others are hit and miss on both. Don't take a chance and buy peppermints unless you know where they come from...

When people have purchased things from me, I have given to Coral Reef Alliance, Scripps Oceanographic (funds pHd programs for their students for good folks to carry on tomorrow), Save the Reef and also had people give money to Mural to buy things for his school tank.

Can you take some photos in daylight? Best thing to do is usually go back to basics and make sure that your refractometer is calibrated dead-on-balls accurate, temp is correct and all of that.

I want a tank that I can light with a single Metal Halide. 36x36 is going to be it.

We will see if I find a tank. Probably have no interest in ordering something at full retail, so I might be the guy with 1000 lbs of GBR, MI, Fiji and other good real live rock in bins for a decade.

I don't have any charity suggestions, but see if an organization like Bone Marrow registration, or the like, will come and register people at the event... and encourage the members to get on the registry. This is kinda reverse charity that might pay off years down the road in a big-time way.

Probably nobody knows what a 300 2G is. What are the dimensions that you are looking for and/or will fit?

I know that this is a long shot, but thought that I would ask before I went and looked elsewhere. Over 100 gallons is what I am looking for and a 36x36x27/30 would be great. Time to let my larger tanks go and get some smaller ones.

Just out of curiosity, with the short lifespan, will you start more juveniles ahead of time to have them ready to replace the adults? If you just keep the home co2 below 500 ppm, then pH should not be an issue with any tank. It will help the humans, dogs, cats and everything. However, the...

Most people spend more battling dinos and filamentous algae than they would have spent if they had purchase live rock in the first place. You can catch a shrimp or crab in a bottle trap in a day or two, but dinos or hair algae can take a year or more. GFO, Al Oxide and other orthophosphate...

The Eheim has been awesome for a few decades. Super reliable and the batteries last for a long time. They are not expensive either.