brandon429

fun fact one of the reefs from that edition lives in Pflugerville. this video is from a few days ago/made an update. I used to get my change water from River City but honestly I just can't anymore, their red sea mix water is nearly constantly cloudy with suspended items, opaque at times (assuming its from a not-ever cleaned holding vat where the expected precipitates and scums build up in the bottom then are cast into suspension then I buy it and it goes into my old reef) I changed to imagitarium ocean water from petco and my tank is 1000% happier. my water change bucket is 1000% clear at all times, plus it's shipped to my door. I should have done this years ago. evaporation: ironically that one gallon reef has more stability in salinity than any tank on this entire site and no auto topoff is used. the lid fits tightly on the *inner diameter* of the vase neck, directing splashes back down vs around the lip of the tank which would manifest as salt creep. I can tune the evaporation rate by adjusting bubble flow rate...I just took a 6 day trip to Lubbock and set the salinity at .024/very low bubble rate, and came back to .0245 after six days of 0% freshwater added. now a single strike from a nerf ball would fell the whole thing, there's tradeoffs to reefing at this size, but not stability of reefing parameters that's for sure. approaching 18 years old in December. B