Sorry to hijack... Christy, after looking at Brad's system... I'm thinking OUR nutrient issues are in the rock... Brad has very little comparitavely, NO refugium, ultra clean setup, WAY more flow and really minimizes feeding. I know I feed too much, and with your fish biology background you likely feed more than the corals should be exposed to as well. Brad's rock is very clean while both of ours has different stuff growing on and in it. Also in my case the sandbed... but I am going to get rid of it and add a couple more Tunzes while I'm at it along with 400 watt lights... I already removed the RDSB out of the sump... so my sump is now absolutely bare... I wasn't a BB fan... (Well I LOVE bare bottoms really!), but after seeing Brad's Porites encrust and a Monti filling in another big area that you can't see in the pics, I figured his isn't BB anyways!
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135G Mixed Reef. Bullet 2, 25 gal refugium, 2 X250W MH + 4X 96W PC\'s, DIY Calcium Reactor, Coralife 1/6 HP Chiller, Phosban, Tunze, 2 closed loops & SQWD\'s, Seios, Coralife 4 stage RO/DI & a bunch of other expensive gadgets... I may never retire, but I'm gonnahavahelluvanaquarium!
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08-15-2006, 06:16 PM
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