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11-06-2003, 10:11 AM
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Starboard Reef at Three Months
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11-06-2003, 10:18 AM
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Ghost of reefers past
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Spanky, its definatly clean and bright, are you sure you aren't using oxyreef on it 
Looking good, whats the housekeeping schedule like on this setup?
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11-06-2003, 10:54 AM
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The Border Collie Mod
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Actually Doug there's nothing to do. I've cleaned the glass about three times in the past three months.
I run the skimmer wet, so nothing is coated on the inside of the skimmer to clean.
I add Ca and buffer, no water changes so far.
Biggest pain now is taking the becket apart and cleaning the Ca deposits out of it and I do that only when the air intake valve is open all the way. I've had to do that once in the past three months
Figure it this way. This is the way we have always done it in the labs. Biologists are not interested in cleaning tanks or understanding how they work (they are above it), so it has to not only be easy but pretty much self sufficient.
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11-06-2003, 11:08 AM
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No coralline on the starboard yet? Or did you scrape it off?
About running your skimmer wet, how often do you dump the waste collector?
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11-06-2003, 11:08 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
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What? No M. caps in there yet?
Looking good Jerel!
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11-06-2003, 01:47 PM
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11-06-2003, 02:25 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
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hmmmm, i was at Jerel's this summer,,,,,, never saw any aquarium,,,, ,,,,,,
methinks it's a fig newton of his imagination,,,,  
j/k,,,he does have one,,,got pics to prove it,,,
(don't any even ask,,,,none of 'em with Jerel in dem,,,)
but i'm still charging 25 cents for a peek into my mind's eye,,,
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11-06-2003, 02:25 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
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ohhh, forgot,,,
lookin' good Jerel!
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11-06-2003, 02:45 PM
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The Border Collie Mod
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ONLY 25 CENTS!!! 
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11-06-2003, 02:53 PM
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Look deeply into my eyes
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Quote:
Originally posted by Spanky
ONLY 25 CENTS!!!
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Well, it is MY mind,,,,,,
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11-06-2003, 02:55 PM
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The Border Collie Mod
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You get what you pay for I guess. 
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11-06-2003, 03:12 PM
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Shark
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Looking good Jerel, I'm suprised you haven't had some animals starve with such a clean tank .
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11-06-2003, 03:22 PM
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Shark
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hey that brain coral movd over to the left side of the tank......lol
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11-06-2003, 03:23 PM
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Shark
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Looking good Jerel, I'm suprised you haven't had some animals starve with such a clean tank
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Yeah, seriously, how can you expect to have healthy animals when you have nothing producing planktonic foods for them, just like in the wild. Ridiculous. Ludicrous.
Excuse me while I go back to falling off my log.
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11-06-2003, 03:35 PM
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The Border Collie Mod
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I'm in the business of growing corals not selling fish food.
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