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Isaac

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  1. plumb in a bypass on the manifold, pump it back into the sump. this allows you to dialup/down the main flow. over time when the pump gets gunky, you can dial its back up w/ that. I have a bypass i dont use for that, but its handy when i need water to "disinfect" new stuff.

  2. 90mins after the change, nitrate 60ish. we calculated it to be about 75% water change. so.. original off the chart test was around 240-250 w/ these numbers. crazy man, CRAZY. test again in the morning, may start his fish drinking everclear!

  3. so im at my neighbors house, and i notice his tank is.... lets say struggling yes? struggling. "dude, let me test your water" it went off the API scale in under 30 secs (its a 5 min test). So we know, at a bare min, 200, factoring delays and titration of a normal test... its probably like 600-800. but i digress. "me: you have any salt?" "him: i have this bucket" "me: still got that barrel?" "him: yea" "me: pull it out, ill go get my smaller barrels" 90ish gallon water change on a 160 w/ liverock.... so 60-70%? 1hr on mix, 40 mins for the water change.... I made my 9pm conf call at work.

    farg im exhausted. oh yea, his skimmer was dead.. like dead dead.. so not he has my old skimmer too *lol*

    anyone got some bourbon?

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  4. i switched from pro to instantocean/coralife reef variants since i have the CARX. no reason to pay extra for stuff you are already adding in at a more costly manner. I wouldn't do a large water change until you have a full algea bloom on both sides, or you are just extending the bloomtime[tm]. lack of patience in the enemy! blink.png

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  5. mine has 4 now- 2 carbon, 1 gfo, 1 extra for carx... more the merrier i say! I also prefer to have external-sump stuff, makes for more water volume... if you have room. I just cant wait for rory to be done! i wanna see it DONE!!! chopchop! hehe, paaaatience grasshoppa.

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