While visiting Lunchbucket's reef in South Dakota, I noticed his Calcium Reactor bubble counter was moving in slow motion. It was really neat, and later at Goodwin9's home, I got a bottle of the mystery syrup.
I noticed my bubble counter was empty again as of yesterday (it either evaporates or bubbles the liquid up the airline tubing), so I cleaned it well and filled it up with this oil.
Today, I changed out the 5 year old membrane in my RO/DI system. And while I was at it, I decided to document the process, so that anyone that has one of my RO/DI systems will now know how to change the membrane.
My water change article has been released at last. It'll be added to my site in the near future, but for now you can enjoy it the November Issue of Reefkeeping Online.
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to visit several reefkeeper's homes in South Dakota. It was very interesting and I'll be adding that information to my site once I get the images edited and linked to some new pages.
About a month ago, I discovered at MACNA that I was misreading my nitrate test kit for a very long time. I use Salifert kits. Just in case you use the same kit, let me clarify one important step:
After the test is complete (including the 3 minute wait period), if the solution matches 10 or less on the color chart, hold the beaker up and view the color through the side with the color chart behind the beaker. Whatever that result is, divide by 10. So if it looks like 50ppm, it would be 5ppm.
A new page has been added: How to set up a Calcium Reactor There are many articles available on the web, so this one covers the basics and explains how mine is set up.
Other pages recently updated:
LFS page - Site Map - RO/DI filter changes
All the pictures from the Austin Tank Tour are uploaded. Combined, I'd figure there are some 40 megs worth of pictures, divided over multiple pages. Enjoy. :)
The MACNA pages should go online in the near future as well.
So MACNA was awesome. I had a great time in Pittsburgh and saw many of my online friends each day. I came home with handful of goodies for my reef.
I'm off to MACNA XIX in Pittsburgh, PA! Hopefully my reef will be okay while I'm away. :)
The most recent addition to my site has been the new pages about the Austin Tank Tour I enjoyed on September 1. I've got many of the pictures posted, but have 3 more tank's worth of pictures to edit and add. If you can't wait and have to see what's available now, here's the link:
The Reef Parameters page has been updated to match the look of the site, and I changed the layout of the stats themselves. I like the new look because it reminds me of a graph chart.
Regarding the Logo contest, I want to thank everyone that participated. I've got it down to the final two, and will decide shortly. The two I like are #10 and #15 on the lastest contest page posted, the one that had the poll.
I've started up a new section called Coral Growth Sequences, where you can see pictures taken over time displaying coral growth. It is a work in progress as time allows.
