Recent content by Simon Garratt

Ive got to say that after doing tank articles myself for quite a few years now for magazines, there is a very fine art in pulling the right info together and putting it into a format that allows lessons to be learnt by the advanced or begginer reefkeeper, regardless of the scope of the system...

Hi Peter not sure about whos going from MR, (hopefully people will chip in) or what the full speaker line up is, but I understand Christine Williams is on the lineup. Christine is a very accomplished speaker with some very interesting talks, so well worth the trip imo. She's also very...

Hi Finz Can you take a photo of the skimmer running and Ill see what i can do to help. usual issues are: 1. New skimmer that needs to bed in (takes anywhere from a few days to a week or so) 2. Feed pump isnt powerful enough or has poor flow rate (external models only which doesnt apply...

Sadly this is an all too common occurance imo, where short term initial visual changes are taken as an improvement rather than being observed over the long term and studied in detail to acertain if indeed those visual changes are in fact an 'improvement' in the health of the coral with...

Hey well done guys and guyessssss... Now...speaking as an ex mod from another board of ohhhhhh way too many years incarceration to mention...I have a bit of advice.. Just remember.... The one armed man who goes rock climbing with itchy b*******x is still an idiot..... Regardless of how...

One of my Squammies right under a 400W 10k...(sits in about 1" of water at low tide)... And another.. Regards

Ohhh....i just got goosebumps....:shhh:

Just remember though that saline solution has a different refractive index to true seawater so you have to allow for the 1.5ppt differential. regards

Duh..... Ive just realised that Daisy is Tahl.... how thick am i at times.......what a moron....:o Hi Tahl....hope your doing well honey...when do i get you as my chauffeur again..:D Si.

Will do Cathy.. send me your email address and Ill put it through in a word doc so you can paste it where you want.. regards

Kathy...if you want me to put a calibration guide together with a bit on what it all means i can do. regards

Hi S&THILL. This page from my site may be of help to you in tracking down various possibilities. http://www.reef-eden.net/chasing_ph.htm regards

Good post Daisy... This is something i spend alot of time advising people on to be honest.... When your out of calibration, not only are you running at a salinity different to what you 'think' you are, chances are that if your over reading, then you are also dosing things like Ca,Mg, and...

lol... its amazing how the same questions crop up across the hobby boards on so many occasions.... so to save me re-writing a load of stuff out...heres the responses i gave on another forum regarding LR calculators and other related issues.. Hope it's of help.. Then from another member...

About 20 cycles now Bob as its a fairly new colony. After playing around with about 25 odd species to date, i can tell if a particular species can handle imediate placement under such conditions within just one or two cycles by using a Nanoscope to observe the tips and lower tissue before any...