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What a great honor! Congratulations & well deserved. [emoji41][emoji1303]


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New toy for my fuge. 90w Kessil H350

Got it for $80 on eBay.

If any of you watched BRS' video on which light worked best at growing chaeto, this one was the clear winner. But the main reason I am getting it is for PH. In BRS' test, the tank with the kessil had a super high PH. I'm gunna see if this makes any impact on raising the ph in my tank.
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Threw together this Co2 scrubber from an old cheap media reactor I had. PH went up .1 in 30 minutes. It's def burning through the media fast. I don't see this media lasting longer than 1-2 days.

I'm looking to buy a larger reactor that can hold more medi, and I will be adding a solenoid to the inlet that will open and close depending on the ph in the tank. Hopefully I can get it to last longer this way.

This combined with my new kessil h350 should really help keep my ph more stable. [emoji1305]. We'll see if there's any positive effects on coral growth.
 
Set up a dual ph scrubber. The one closer to the skimmer gets the fresh media and the second one gets the media that's half used up. Works much better as long as your skimmer can pull enough air.
 
Set up a dual ph scrubber. The one closer to the skimmer gets the fresh media and the second one gets the media that's half used up. Works much better as long as your skimmer can pull enough air.


My plan is to upgrade to a very large single reactor. I want to see if it will last at least 3-4 weeks.



That's the plan. First I wanted to run this ghetto setup for a couple days or a week and see what kind of difference it makes. I will def run the solenoid like BRS did. Although my plan was to add the solenoid after the co2 scrubber. If it doesn't work as planned, than I will run it exactly how they did
 
You have such a nice setup and selection of corals. It's no wonder that's it appearing in a magazine. Simply outstanding!
 
Well cyano is growing like crazy on my sandbed. Stays away from rocks and any corals, but it's a terrible eye sore. I finally starting running gfo thinking it might help, but after testing phosphates I'm not sure it will. :/

Hannah is so inconsistent, it gave me a reading of 5 and 9. So my phosphates are between .015 and .027.
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That's pretty low.. why not blast the cyano with one of the products to kill it and then run the gfo..
I'd assume the cyano is locking it all up right now..
 
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