Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

Crabby48 · Dec 25, 2019

S.Pepper said:
I can't wait until I go to a automated system. It'll be a while

I may have to buy one of these. I'm getting tired of looking thru a refractor. What is the report on these? Are they fairly accurate?

love mine. It is the best test equipment I seen

Why-Me said:
I've had it 14 hrs and I love it LOL
Checked salinity in my brute can, office tank and living room tank within 2 minutes.
They all match my refractometer readings.
There are some threads on R2R about these, they tend to be as accurate as the green milwaukee that is twice the price.
One drawback is calibration solution which users recommend calibrating once a month.
It comes calibrated and with extra 4 packs of fluid so you're good to go out of the box for 5 months.
The solution is $1.05 per packet or $26 for a 25 pack.

The green Milwaukee isn’t very accurate.002 in either direction. Hanna is way more accurate and more consistent. I haven’t calibrated mine except when I accidentally hit cal. It’s been over 2 months with no cal and clean in very bad tap water when I remember but it didn’t effect readings until weekend it was .001 off. I would say it is pretty forgiving

MrWheelock · Dec 25, 2019

TheShrimpNibbler · Dec 25, 2019

Why-Me said:
@JoshH
Look what I got last night

I got one too!

anon9896 · Dec 25, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Green Christmas!!!

SashimiTurtle · Dec 25, 2019

Holy cow this is incredibly smooth whiskey... and from what my brother in law was telling me, incredibly rare. And yes, it's better with a little water.

najer · Dec 26, 2019

Happy hungover bloated and sulky day world, the grubby puddle and me are fine!

crusso1993 · Dec 26, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Holy cow this is incredibly smooth whiskey... and from what my brother in law was telling me, incredibly rare. And yes, it's better with a little water.

Good stuff!

You're the third person I know that got a bottle for Christmas.

najer · Dec 26, 2019

I have had a thought, nps!

Would it be possible for there to be a new coral section, "Nps, the dark side" or something? A lot of people have them, sun corals, gorgs etc but a section would be great as posts are scattered and harder to find! ... asking for a friend! ;)

www.reef2reef.com

SashimiTurtle · Dec 26, 2019

Hahaha

SashimiTurtle · Dec 26, 2019

crusso1993 said:
Good stuff!

You're the third person I know that got a bottle for Christmas.

It's my brother in law's bottle. I just got to have a glass last night.

Yes, good stuff indeed.

12gallonsofhex · Dec 26, 2019

I am so lost again with my favorite thread. I hope that all the Katrinarinos had a great holiday. While I loved seeing all of the families, and sharing my daughters first Christmas, my favorite part was this painting my sister made for my wife and I. She continues to surprise me with her talent.

Why-Me · Dec 26, 2019

12gallonsofhex said:
I am so lost again with my favorite thread. I hope that all the Katrinarinos had a great holiday. While I loved seeing all of the families, and sharing my daughters first Christmas, my favorite part was this painting my sister made for my wife and I. She continues to surprise me with her talent.

She's truly talented
Amazing painting, I'd spend some good coin framing it.

12gallonsofhex · Dec 26, 2019

Why-Me said:
She's truly talented
Amazing painting, I'd spend some good coin framing it.

We will be. She paints on hardwood furniture grade plywood for some of the more detailed stuff. The last painting she did for me I mounted on top of an undersized frame so that people could see that it was a painting and not a picture. This one I will take to the local framing house and get it done proffesionally.

crusso1993 · Dec 26, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
It's my brother in law's bottle. I just got to have a glass last night.

Yes, good stuff indeed.

I hope you used a 32 oz tumbler!

12gallonsofhex · Dec 26, 2019

dantimdad said:
Mrs. Claus has forbade me to work today.

Good for her! Gotta take a day to relax, even if its from your dream.

12gallonsofhex · Dec 26, 2019

JoshH said:
About two months ago (Or about 600 pages ago lol!) We had a brief conversation about our dream tanks. Katrina had expressed her dreams of a 93 Gallon Cube tank and how it would probably never come to be. So, a few (Well, more than a few) of us decided to make that dream a reality and Order her a Custom 93 Gallon Cube from Miracles Aquariums.

That is so awesome! Lpoking forward to that build thread!

Magellan · Dec 26, 2019

My urchin left me a Christmas present this morning. Not sure I wanted it...

sfin52 · Dec 26, 2019

Can

Magellan said:
My urchin left me a Christmas present this morning. Not sure I wanted it...

Looks to be a very clean tank

Magellan · Dec 26, 2019

sfin52 said:
Looks to be a very clean tank

Thank you! @Robin Haselden shared a link recently that I think explains why. I dose live Phyto Feast every day in a very small dose, which is not exactly doing what I thought it was (coral food!). Apparently that is out competing my algae and preventing it from growing. There’s actually more algae now than there has been in a couple of months, but I think it’s because of how old my bottle is (the phytos aren’t alive anymore). Cant come up with any other explanation, I don’t have a skimmer or a fuge, and would expect the 14k MH to grow quite a bit of algae. My coralline barely even grows at all.

12gallonsofhex · Dec 26, 2019

I just put the Jeboa cp25 crossflow on my 20 long and holy cow! Its turned all the way down and making beautiful, tank wide water movement. I think I will be able to run it as my only pump!