Water change schedule

We were lazy last month and missed a water change. But we notice NO deleterious impact on the corals or fish. So the schedule now will be a 25 gallon salt water change every two months.

Algae on glass

Don’t fear it. Use it as a filter medium and then scrape it off when you don’t like the appearance. Don’t let the algae build up get to the point that it is decaying and sending bad nutrients back into…

UV sterilizer bulb replacement

It’s time for a new bulb, and a new pump. Around the six month replacement time, the original bulb burned out. In an effort to get max dwell time we may have had too little flow. We ordered and replaced…

Auto top-off slime?

We just noticed a fair amount of white slime in our freshwater tank used for adding water to the system to replace evaporation. The system is coming off-line for clean-up and re-evaluation. A 50 foot RODI tube will be run…

Fresh water top off

For the 140 gallon system, we have been undecided about a freshwater top off system because we were undecided about adding an external refugium. Initially, we installed a 60 gallon glass cube as the sump tank with the intention of…