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Does anyone know... how do you post in a sales thread and have one of your own picturs apear as the icon in the marketplace?
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how to in the marketplace section
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sorry I wasn't clear. I didn't mean I want to attach a typical pre-set icon. I want to attach my photo as that icon. i see others are able to do this. question is how do they achieve that?
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anyone???
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- Bellmore, NY
Do you have a sample thread... I dont think thats possible.
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Cool. Learn new things daily 
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Apparently its impossible and doesn't matter. See, learning all around...
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Thank you Widdy... it worked and is so cool.
Since I owe you:
Nitrates IMHO is best managed over the long term. consistant water changes ( I do 30% monthly), bi-weekly may be better though.
Growing macro algae and setup of a refugium helps in a big way.
control/consistancy of bio-load, this means #of fish in tank and fish size... amount and type of food you feed... invert and clean up crew.
having the right amount of live rock in the tank... you can never have enough howver, space is always the limiting factor.
Water volume is your freind... increasing as much as possible will help.
Bio-pellets is an alternative (not substitute) to not having enough LR and LS
Siphoning your sand avery 6 months or more if never been done.
try and keep No3 and Po4 within the redfield ratio of 16:1
Since I owe you:
Nitrates IMHO is best managed over the long term. consistant water changes ( I do 30% monthly), bi-weekly may be better though.
Growing macro algae and setup of a refugium helps in a big way.
control/consistancy of bio-load, this means #of fish in tank and fish size... amount and type of food you feed... invert and clean up crew.
having the right amount of live rock in the tank... you can never have enough howver, space is always the limiting factor.
Water volume is your freind... increasing as much as possible will help.
Bio-pellets is an alternative (not substitute) to not having enough LR and LS
Siphoning your sand avery 6 months or more if never been done.
try and keep No3 and Po4 within the redfield ratio of 16:1
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- Westchester NY
Thank you Widdy... it worked and is so cool.
Since I owe you:
Nitrates IMHO is best managed over the long term. consistant water changes ( I do 30% monthly), bi-weekly may be better though.
Growing macro algae and setup of a refugium helps in a big way.
control/consistancy of bio-load, this means #of fish in tank and fish size... amount and type of food you feed... invert and clean up crew.
having the right amount of live rock in the tank... you can never have enough howver, space is always the limiting factor.
Water volume is your freind... increasing as much as possible will help.
Bio-pellets is an alternative (not substitute) to not having enough LR and LS
Siphoning your sand avery 6 months or more if never been done.
try and keep No3 and Po4 within the redfield ratio of 16:1
You're welcome. You didn't owe me... But thanks for your advice, much appreciate it. I've ran way too many methods in my time in the hobby. I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to my tank. Biopellets, Zeovit, VSV, Coil Denitrator, NoPo-X, pretty sure there's a few more.
Now, it's been 8 months since I removed my skimmer, 3 months since last WC. I use a lot of Seachem Matrix Pond biomedia, filter floss and an ARID chaeto reactor. Working out okay, certainly room for improvement, but for now it frees up time for me to focus on other things going on around me. Just tested nitrates this afternoon, sitting around 10ppm. Can't complain...
Thanks again, and please keep sharing... helping just one person from re-inventing the wheel can save them that much time and effort.
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Referring to this thread -- http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/chemistry/169262-gfo-good-great-not-sold-3.html
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- Westchester NY
LOL, yup tried alot of the stuff you did above. I haven't had the guts to take down my protein skimmer yet but it makes sense to me. Personally I think nitrates under 10 is fine. under 5 preferable... right now I'm running at 1.5 as read on the red sea nitrate pro kit... woa. Po4 is at 1.9... It took me almost a year to lower it to that level by simply cleaning things up and cutting back on bio -load... now I have to be careful not to strip it too much. I do have mostly SPS in my tank so I like it a bit cleaner. However, I did notice that corals like xenias and button polyps as well as shrooms grow much much slower now that i'm running a cleaner tank. which I like as the SPS's are flying.
I remember when I got to 10PPM No3 it stayed there for quite a while and i got frustrated and even posted here about it. However, I kept to the regiment and little by little No3 started to creep down to the 1.5 level that I'm at now. so I started to raise the feed amount... my goal is to try and keep it between 5-2. Trying to get it down to a science. to me thats the hard part... automation.
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help lowering nitrates? water changes 10percent weekly
I'm convinced I'm a hobbyist of all the various equipment and methods, than the actual reefing hobby.
Having a mixed reef does has its challenges; finding a harmonious balance.
We'll always be a student of this hobby. On the horizon -- Triton Method or DSR method. Exchanging maintenance for extreme testing, save on salt to be spent on test kit. You decide.
http://www.triton.de/en/home/
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/glennfs-1500-liter-reef-using-hisdsr-method
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widdy, do what i did.....lower your water volume to zero.....no more nitrates, phosphate, bleaching, rtn, stn, redbug, flatworm, bristle worm, asterinas, cyano, nada....
broke down my tank several weeks ago.:lol2:
Seriously Tom? Taking a break? Good to hear from ya...been awhile, hope all is well.
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yes taking a break for a while. R&R aquatics broke down the tank @ the beginning of the summer. been traveling and golfing with the family through out the summer.
been spending more time with my new addiction.....golf!
this could get more expensive and more addicting than reefing.
for sure, it's just as frustrating when things don't go as you expected/hoped.
been spending more time with my new addiction.....golf!
this could get more expensive and more addicting than reefing.
for sure, it's just as frustrating when things don't go as you expected/hoped.
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