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I buy a plastic paint scraper at Lowes that uses safety razor blades (replaceable). Cost a dollar. That 12 inch jobbie doesn't work very well on bow-front tanks.

What Nery did was pretty spectacular, almost as spectacular as the guy who went with him and had a camera stuck to his face.

I saw an ad on Ebay for a Corallife 4 lamp retro kit, NIB, for $75 and $42 shipping. I priced it on MarineDepot fot $300. I contacted the seller and he swears it has never been used.

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I am using 2 of the 1050's in my 75. I think they are not as strong as the standard Koralia-3's I was using. Now I wish I had gone with my gut and gotten the 1400's. JMHO.

Your plasma link is bad. Good article. Nice to hear from practical experience from someone who has actually tried the latest lighting gadgets.

Assuming my memory is correct, I used a 40lb bag of crushed coral which was almost a 5 gallon bucket full. I am planning to dump half of it. Washing half a bucket of CC a little at a time shouldn't be too awful.

I am using crushed coral, not sand. However, I think my bed is too deep. It's about 3 inches. I am going to lower it to about an inch or so - more than a bare bottom but much less than a deep sand bed.

I thought I would use this opportunity to clean up the crushed coral a bit. I don't want to recycle the tank if I can avoid it but I'd like to remove as much detritus as possible. I am also going to remove about half of what I am currently using.

I developed a small leak on my outflow bulkhead. It's on the bottom of the tank so I am going to take it all down, seal it, and put it back together. While I have it down, I want to change the outflow from just a tube to a DIY spillover box. I also want to change the inflow from a tube to something else. I am told the PVC tubes get very brittle after several years and I don't want to risk another leak or even a complete meltdown. What I am planning is to get 2 or 3 fairly large containers from Walmart and offload all my rock, livestock, and some of the crushed coral bed into them. I will add a power head to keep the water moving and maybe a bubbler as well. The instructions on the sealant say it needs 48hrs to cure before adding water back into the aquarium. Does anyone think this will have adverse affects on the livestock if they are in makeshift containers for 2 or 3 days? I know livestock is shipped but that is mostly overnight, isn't it?

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True but it is $100 emergency on a weekend service call.

Sorry. I was speaking from memory and misquoted the 850. I have 2 1050's in my 75 and it seems just about right. They don't seem to be as quite as strong as the older models, perhaps because they are controllable?

what about 2 of the smaller evolutions, the 850 for example?

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one. Did you decide on a nitrate test?