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It is a more reliable maxi-jet that has an adapter that fits RO tubing easily. They don't last forever, but I get 3-5 years out of them for $20-30 a pop.

Water changes mostly, but Ferrion for a supplement. Chaeto Gro is a product that is newer on the market. Remember that high tide lifts all ships. Iron can help hair and other types of algaes grow too.

Buy a quiet one 1200. There is a fitting in the box where you can slide in ice-maker or RO sized line, or you can use 2 part putty to make a fitting. This will work for quite some time and it is cheap and easy and you won't ruin a more expensive DOS by using it continuously. You will need a...

29 dKh is solid output number. Unless you have like a MaxiJet on full blast with no ball or gate valve, then the reactor will produce more. Coralline is likely your biggest consumer - you can use pincushions to keep it down 6x18 is not that big, but it should get you more. Maybe you have a...

You might even be running it too fast. Who knows. Test the dKh and let us know.

Unless your CaRx is really small, it should be able to keep up if it has a good tune and you are not trying to "control" it with a pH probe. Some people have no interest in this, but if you do, let me know and I can show you how. Even my 4" body and 30" tall Korallin could handle a 10,000...

DOS is not made for continuous duty, but some use them for that. Probably expect a year or two instead of a decade+ from a pump made to be continuous duty. Masterflex is the one that people use that is made for continuous duty and is industrial grade. Kamoer is priced more like a DOS and made...

If you call them, it is usually around $20-30 in the winter for a larger box. The website calculates way too much. 2-3 day ground from Salt Lake City to here works fine on Dry Ice in the winter time. ALWAYS call them instead of using the website. The last few times that Scott and I ordered...

When you take the water out of the different kinds of foods, the po4, protein, etc all end up being about the same, or roughly the same. If you don't rinse frozen food, then the "juice" can add things that you don't really need unless you have NPS and dry food can be a bit better. Pellets are...

You can bet that they read your email. Give them a deadline for a solution or else chargeback is happening. ...not just communication, but a solution.

Lots of them send wrong tanks on purpose hoping that people just accept them, or accept them for a discount. Glass Cages was bad about this a decade ago if you custom ordered anything. If they don't make it right, call your bank and charge the card back. This will get their attention. If you...

My general thought with most engineers is that they are more than happy to spend somebody else's money - needed or not. Has anybody ever met one that said "you are good?" Probably, but I have rarely met one. If anybody finds one of these good ones, then let me know. :) You can probably do...

Please, please beware of claims by manufacturers, which you appear to know. How could a carbon molecule only grow "good" or "bad" things depending on the source? This is pure bunk, and it has been shown as such many times by Dr. RHF on r2r - many companies have claimed that their pellets do...

There are probably better ways to control nitrate and phosphate. Bio Pellets and adding in organic carbon is far from natural. If you have room, add another skimmer, fuge with chaeto is natural. 2+ inch sandbed should be able to handle most nitrates if it is mature and left alone. Otherwise...

What do you want to know? You will likely remove much more nitrate than phosphate and will still need some other way to remove phosphate. I would not do it on a new/newer tank where the whole nitrogen cycle is not yet complete - anoxic areas converting nitrate into nitrogen gas. Any carbon...

I also just remembered that all of the HLLE studies used lignite carbon and did not appear to have the same issues with bituminous or ROX. Even then, we all seemed to use lignite back in the day, when it was all that was available, and I still had no HLLE issues.

I just fed the fish once a day a normal amount of flake food. Absolutely nothing else.

If you still have the cloves, buy the Angelfish Plus food with the fenbendazole in it - it is green and called like Deworming I, or something like that. Just feed your fish the flake food a little at a time. I got some cloves out of nowhere and I had to do this and it took a few months, but...

The HLLE study used A. Bahanius which are not really all that suited for aquarium use are notoriously skittish and difficult to acclimate. I also have never had HLLE issues when I used carbon, and ironically, I had an A. Bahanius that got some HLLE in a introduction/isolation tank that never...

Unless something has changed in a few years, you are going to have to do it yourself or just live with it. I hope that somebody does it now.