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If you need to buy, then rubbermade stock tank is what you want to search for. Tractor Supply usually has them in store.

Vibrant is a proven algaecide, was fined by the EPA and had to stop production. You might consider not mentioning Vibrant as a carbon dosing source in your article. They used GLB Algimycin 600 which is a polyquat and the same ingredient in AlgaeFix, Fritz and many other properly labled...

Also, please don't try and kill dinos. Dinos are in every one of your corals and you will harm them too. Watch this, if you have not:

I am not a dino pro. Sorry. I have live rock going back to GBR and Marshall Island days which does not allow most things to take hold. I would deal with them by ordering some live rock and letting the stuff spread while also manually removing the hair and dinos. Put the real live rock in the...

Get some urchins and more snail/crabs to eat the hair. It will help if the dinos don't have places to live. Keep pulling the algae to help out the increased crew. An order from a place like ReefTopia is a good idea and you money goes further. Watch the video from Rich Ross on Algae from...

no3 to n2 requires an electron donor which is complicated, but might be good to discuss in your article. I vacuum my sand in 20% intervals over a year every 4 years to remove the mostly inert grey sludge/mulm that can gum up a working DSB - mine are about 3 inches. Dr. Ron and I disagreed...

You might consider discussing how heavy/toxic metals often bind to organics and using a skimmer can be the most effective way to remove them - these metals often come into every tank in fish food. Gas exchange is too important not to discuss. The triad of heavy metal removal, gas exchange and...

Joes and AipX are watered down Kalkwasser with some lemon juice, vinegar or some other additive, so just mix your own next time in a bit of water. Home made mix is usually stronger and more effective. Red Solo Cup, Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime and an old Salifert Test Kit syringe. I mix it thick...

Don't worry about iodine. Neither OES nor MS can tell which type of idoine was in the water and only Iodide is useful... Organic Iodine, elemental iodine, iodide, iodate, I++, shineola, etc. and all of the other forms show the same peak on ICP, but they are not useful. The compound matters...

I would vacuum 25-33% of the sand with those water changes. Get the gunk out that has settled in there, if there is any. Don't do it all since you need the oxic and anoix zones to establish again after you mix them up. Maybe do another quarter or third of the sand a few months from now. Suck...

Keep feeding it well and it should be OK. I had the same fish from ORA/Biota and it was a weird fish. It never really wanted to eat algae since it probably never saw any in it's whole life - it eventually got with the program. It also did not know how to act around other/different fish for a...

I would also get the salinity up to 35. This way, if you have a testing error, you are less likely to get low enough to make LPS mad.

This is the best presentation on Algae that I have ever seen:

Change water weekly over the next month or two. This is the ultimate reset... and also the cheapest. See if Petco or Chewy has a sale on IO where you can sign up for auto ship and cancel it a week later. Get some urchins. Continue to pull the hair algae on your own. If you have been...

I usuallty hate AIO tanks since you have to take the manufacturers version of what is correct instead of figuring it out yourself as you adapt. I would avoid most of them since they all seem to have seam failures and total catastrophies - espeically Red Sea (BRS has deleted posts/reviews with...

Call Air, Water, Ice, or the like and talk to them. Avoid BRS - just too much garbage from them both in increased prices and them supporting total crap companies for profit. Get extra sediment, carbon and DI resin and just have it for the next time - most are interchangeable if you get the...

Anybody need fish? Want to get this tank closed down.

Some of the cheap Chinese ones can elevate Tin. It is part of cheap plastics. If you do ICP and see elevated Tin, then don't worry about it. While the levels might be high, nobody seems to know the set point for Tin and the elevation does not seem to be a big deal in most tanks unless it gets...

Go on the marketplace or CL and see if you can find a $10 powerhead. Maybe you will get lucky and find a tunze pump since they last a long time. I would not EVER keep AI, EcoTech, MaxSpec or the like on hand as a backup... then the warranty runs out while it is in the box. It is not like any...

I don't know what that would accomplish. You have to have a NMR of a known compound to compare against to try and determine anything. I don't use anything out of a bottle in my reef tank, so I don't really care about SeaChem. If I need a compound, then food-grade dry from Amazon and I make my...