After 20 years in the reef keeping hobby, I was about to call it quits. My 90 gallon reef tank, setup since 2000, was giving me a problem that I couldn’t fix. The problem you ask, was brown water. Water so brown that I couldn’t see my fish unless they swam near the front glass … Read more
Here in the midwest, I am not a stranger to power outages. From thunderstorms, to tornadoes, to the electric company just not doing their job, to solar flares that threaten our power grids, I have had many power outages over the years since I have been keeping my aquariums. Many years ago, around the summer … Read more
In my last post, I mentioned that it was time to replace the RO/DI parts in my Kent Marine 60gpd HI-S unit. I ordered the replacement parts direct from Spectrapure which consisted of a 90 gallon per day RO membrane, a high capacity color changing DI cartridge, a sediment prefilter, a carbon block prefilter and … Read more
I have been having a recent battle with cyano and then I realized that I haven’t replace my membrane or DI cartridge in many years. I cannot recall if it was 2008 or 2010 but either way, it have been too long. When I tested the water coming out of my Kent Marine Hi-S unit … Read more
I am now having space issues, as in not enough space, in my aquarium with my soft corals and today I rearranged my largest soft corals to the right side and put everything else on in the middle and to the left. I am not sure if I like the new layout but it seems … Read more
Nothing much to report this week. I did a quick water change and cleaned the skimmer today and because it was 11:30 pm, I didn’t have time to feed the aiptasia their last meal but hopefully, I will have more time next week. Also, all the aiptasia that blasted with Joe’s Juice is back. They look a … Read more
Water change Wednesday…. I think I am going to call Wednesday “water change Wednesday” from now on. Although I have changed water on other days, it seems that Wednesday is the day but I digress….. I did the normal 5 gallon water change and cleaned the skimmer, which is starting to pull less and less … Read more
Another 5 gallon water change, cleaned skimmer and overflow teeth. I also used the turkey baster to stir up the crud on the live rock and also to deal with some cyano. I tried Joe’s Juice again on the same rock as before. As you can see below, most of them except for the … Read more
Here is a full tank picture of my 90 gallon taken on 2/9/2013. I recently upgraded my bulbs from Aquatic Life T5’s to ATI T5’s. The new bulbs look so much better to me. More details t0 come about my bulb upgrade in the near future.
I was hopeful that Joe’s Juice would have terminated these nasty little buggers but it looks like, after one try, Aptasia = 1 joes’ juice = 0. I am going to try Joe’s Juice a second time to give it a chance to redeem itself. There is one on the far bottom left that looks … Read more