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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.

You can exhaust just right into the room that the unit is in. If your HVAC is setup right, then it should grab air from all over the home and distribute it. I would not force air into the HVAC unless it is running already. You can get portable units that don't put out as much heat, but they...

Have used them extensively in Missouri. For Colorado, I find no need as long as remember to turn the humidifier off on my furnace and exchange plenty of air in the house, which also keeps the in-house co2 lower and helps the humans and keeps the pH up in my tanks. I just suggest a portable...

I would like this. Sending you a PM.

The web site works good in safari or chrome on iOS without the app. Just sayin.... if you need to use it this way. :)

I have a few that you can have it you if you want to come to Longmont.

Did they tell you what they died from? More likely that the died from what I said rather than what you supposed. Many talented hobbyists for many decades will tell you the same thing. Even if you are the exception, probably not a good idea to recommend it to others.

Trochus are going to be the first to die if you have to raise you nitrate level, or just keep it high. They don't often do well with temps over 78 degrees. They are more sensitive. They do a LOT of work when you can keep them happy. They are from the pacific and not available at...

I use a 10ml syringe to get the muriatic out, probably from an old Salifert test kit. I tip the jug to the side until the syringe can get to the liquid. I hold my breath for the few seconds and walk away before I breathe again. The stuff can be nasty, but it is not death in a bottle or...

You are gonna usually pay more to get rewards and points - BRS, for example, is rarely the cheapest place to buy from. For MAP stuff, please buy locally. You might get a few dollars in points from a web site, but the product is the same price and it is better to keep your money local, IMO...

I have residual nitrate around .1 and phosphates at 1-3 ppb and I can get algae overgrow my tank if I don't have critters to eat it. Pincushions, snails and sometimes a rabbitfish can help. I rarely have had tangs do any good, but some have. Sand beds have no way to make nitrate out of...

I used the same brute for over a decade and even while there was no salt in there, I would get TDS around 5-10 even though if you caught the RODI coming out of the unit, it was always 0-1. For me, this is just the cost of doing business? :) I would not worry about RODI reservoir values too...

I imagine that you are full, but if you are open to trade, I have lots of valuable and rare SPS.