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Hey Jason--nice meeting with you about corals. How many channels are there for adjusting the spectrum? They should work for you as long as you can dim several channels independently to get the...

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Your phosphate reads zero and this is your most important clue. If phosphate levels are truly zero then your beneficial bacteria will not be able to exploit the available nitrate. The small...

I have more photos on MR. Several of the sunsets are sold, but have not bee picked up yet. I can also do fresh cuts. PM's sent.....................Jim

Heat is an LED's worst enemy. Many of these fixtures overdrive the LED's which shorten their life-span. I built 2 of the 1/4 inch mesh screen tops for my 50--works like a charm. I am doing a diy...

My Acropora have gone nuts:silly: and have grown into monster corals. To bring some sanity back to my 50 gallon reef, I am offering multi-branched mounted frags of Sunset Milli (Acropora millepora)...

What a stinky surprise! Nice one indeed...................Jim

Your leopard wrasse appears to be doing well:highfive3:. One of my favorite species to keep in an established reef. Once they become adjusted to their new surroundings, they are fairly easy to...

Nice shot Andy! ..........................Jim

The dino bloom ended 2 weeks after the power outage. Two tiger pistol shrimps and the yellow watchman goby made it through and seem to be doing well. I did have a ballast failure on my T5's and the...

Hi Jamie--yeah it was a major hit to the chops. We'll slowly restock until we get the tank back to normal. I have to do quite a bit of fragging to encourage coral growth. I trimmed the dead...

Thank you for the comments. Losing the fish was a tough one. The green clown goby was a resident for 6 years, the leopard wrasse was about 3 years. The leopard wrasse was starting to transform into...

:doh:Two weeks ago, the power went out during an intense thunder storm. Generator was not working and the intense heat created the perfect conditions for an oxygen deprived reef tank. The...

Your tank is looking very nice. I'm thinking about switching to LED's from T5's. The AI products seem to be working well for you............................Jim

The equipment upgrade is now in full swing. I replaced my Euro Reef skimmer with the Reef Octopus DCS 150. This skimmer is powered with the DC 3500 pump and it performs very well and it runs...

Hi Andy,

The washers probably wore out on this one. I'm sure other Mag owners are checking out their washers. Thanks for posting...................Jim

I may to try a controller in the future. I expect to receive the new pump soon. Apparently most of the vendors do not have the Dc 3500 in stock. The tank has recovered with no ill effects so far. ...

Hi Chris,

I did an annual impeller replacement on that particular pump. The Diablo DC-3500 has adjustable speeds. I have one on my new skimmer and it seems to work very well. They have a fairly...

The pump was at the end of its life and could not be salvaged. The fittings were worn on the pump motor so the impeller would rotate about 1 to 2 degrees off true. The pump was always kept clean and...

Before work, I looked at my sump and was pleased with an inch of brown skimmate produced by the Diablo skimmer. All was well and it looked like the skimmer was getting broken in nicely. When I got...

For the skimmer, I just unpacked the Reef Octopus DCS-150 and have it running. Very nice skimmer and the tank should benefit from the upgrade. My Euro-Reef worked very well, but was underpowered...