Recent content by sandman450f

Ditching the bioballs is excellent advice, however you cannot do that until you replace it with live rock. Assuming that your tank has already been running for a couple months (completed the intial cycle) you should start adding live rock into to the display. If the rock is already cured (been...

I would not suggest you to use baking soda to increase your ph, as it may increase your alkalinity too much. If you are looking to increase pH you should use baked baking soda (soda ash or washing soda). The process of baking the baking soda burns off the CO2 which is a ph reducing compound...

Soda ash (washing soda, baked baking soda) is used to increase ph and alkalinity, use baking soda to increase alkalinity without too much affect on ph.

250 hqi (de) and Moguls are both good performers with good selections on bulbs (and ballasts to drive them) 250 de's in lumenarcs or lumenmax with galaxy e-ballast is my favorite combination providing good par in the right spectrums (subjective) and lifetime. If you decide to go with 400w, you...

Yep its been a while, all my time has been devoted to this little guy

Is the option for Bluesaint+ gone? I no longer see it on the lower left corner.

To Illustrate But after posting deleted someone found this

Oh bill, sorry man I guess you have better than 5 members now. In any case Im sure the "private message" that was "stumbled across" was actually the visitor messages which are public for all to see.... you know the ones where you invited folks back to your site I assume that was just a...

I heard his membership is down 20% since he banned Ariel

OOh Bills back?

That is a ringed cowry and is indeed reef safe. http://www.fit.edu/shells/descrip.php?CommonName=Gold-ringer+(Ringed)+Cowry one of the pages I have bookmarked for hitchikers http://www.chucksaddiction.com/Hitchsnails.html

this might help http://www.reefdiscussion.com/forums/vbglossar.php?do=showcat&catid=2

IMO stay away from the power compacts. They are inefficent in terms of power consumption vs output. In general pc lighting is not sufficient for sps tanks unless very shallow. The ATI is a very nice fixture, however you can purchase or put together a t5 retrofit setup (wont be as slick...

the current font doesnt look too bad IMO Note missing buttons *** actually not missing, but invisible.. they still work in their locations, just cant see them

uhm, well..... fruity? BTW, missing some buttons, particularly NEW POSTS, and whatever others... only home casino and arcade and gallery are visible