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View Poll Results: What do you find hardest to maintain with your aquarium? | |
Alkalinity
|    | 10 | 17.54% | |
Calcium
|    | 6 | 10.53% | |
pH
|    | 8 | 14.04% | |
Magnesium
|    | 4 | 7.02% | |
Temperature
|    | 18 | 31.58% | |
Low Nitrates
|    | 11 | 19.30% | | Reef Links |  | 
08-01-2007, 10:21 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Barberton, Ohio Age: 28
Posts: 164
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pH for sure I don't know why. Never can hold that sweet spot so to speak.
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75g (7/04), 4x65watt cf, ASM G3, 65g refug, turbo-twist UV sterilizer, 2 koralia, Quiet One 3000, 123# LF, solar fairy wrasse, blue hippo tang, banggai cardinal, green chromis, O. clownfish, royal gramma, yellowheaded jawfish, serpent star, xenia
29g (9/04), 65 watt cf, coralife needle wheel, wet/dry, 1 koralia, 25# LF, coral beauty, b/w percula, yellow watchman
75g (8/07) 4x65watt cf, ASM G2, 2 koralia, 30 g refug, Quiet One 3000, 100# LF, Blonde naso tang, frogfish | 
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08-01-2007, 10:30 PM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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Well...pH would be tough...but knowinf buffers is good. I am making my own (NOT FOR THE TANK) It is actually very interesting how they work. I think I am going to have to go with temperature...my heater just hates me hah. _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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08-02-2007, 04:33 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 216
Karma: 25
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I went with the temperature | |
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08-02-2007, 04:55 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 140
Karma: 34
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Temp. _________  120 RR AGA, 2000gph, 840watts lighting, Aqua C- 150 (w/ mag12), DIY Kalk Reactor, 7 years reef keeping
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08-02-2007, 05:07 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 3,568
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Well if P.H is the problem just get some boraxo laundry booster aka Borate to hold it steady once you get the P.H where you want it .. But use some Arm & Hammer washing soda aka Carbonate soda not not the Bicarbonate soda as that tends to lower P.H once the carbonates are exhausted ..
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. | |
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08-02-2007, 07:45 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,474
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I picked temp by default. Never a problem with others.
Temperature is the only thing I have an issue with particularly on hot days. (which we don't have often here in PNW) _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | |
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08-02-2007, 07:49 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
Posts: 5,812
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My sanity?  | |
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08-02-2007, 07:55 AM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 30
Posts: 1,008
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tempreture  ,just trying to find a chiller that wont cost an "arm and a leg". _________ 4x24w T5ho 135ltr/35gal marine cube 15kg of liverock 2 yellowtail damsels.. more to come  Got Questions? Need Answers?
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08-02-2007, 08:32 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,474
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mattgeezer  tempreture ,just trying to find a chiller that wont cost an "arm and a leg". | Just get a room AC. I was down at Home Depot last night and saw they had many inexpensive ones...I mean really inexpensive!
You might as well enjoy the "cool" also. | |
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