If you could buy one item for a new tank to make your life easier and the tank better

[Letmegrow]

TDS meter.
P04 meter.
Nitrate test kit.
Good refractometer.

If you don't have a simple way of doing massive water change -Back brace / hernia belt.

 

[zt444a]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8167118#post8167118 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stlouisguy
and just like that, another thread takes a turn to the dark side.........

ROFLMAO... And that's alot of laughing...

 

[stlouisguy]

what about this for the fish room

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-7552765-9459351?asin=B000FZXB2E&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B000FZXB2E|Sunpentown_13000BTU_Portable_Air_Conditioner&nAID=14110944&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001

Can take 12 gallons of water out of the air per day

I wonder if that water could then be put back into the reef system?

 

[DrBDC]

I wouldn't. Too much chance for contamination. May even be copper coils which are real bad. That's why you shouldn't use distilled water or dehumidifier water either.

 

[Markk96]

My plan is to get an Aquacontroller III, I want to be able to see what my tank is doing from work, have it send out emails and alerts.

 

[DrBDC]

I love my AC3. Certain things aren't necessary but nice. i.e. ORP if you don't use ozone. Easy to add then with an enaly unit for cheap but w/o you can usually look at the tank and know approx. what the orp is but it's still nice. The pH controlling is awesome too. Now they have an expansion module you can add even more automation to the system and eliminate the need for a lot of other stuff. On mine I run the pH, temp, and orp. But if I got a ca reactor I could either swap out the orp or go with the expansion module. Right now I have a litermeter for the kalk topoff and an extra security statment that if pH rises over 8.5 to stop the litermeter. An extra protection. I still haven't set up the web interface though. The aquanotes program is nice to enter things in that you change i.e. bulbs, water, etc. so that if you forget how long you just look through the log. You can also compare it to the graphs to see if something you did changed something.