My lil reef

Mrx7899 · Feb 24, 2020

I heard they're having manufacturing issues. Who knows what that means hopefully it comes back.

hfx987 · Feb 24, 2020

just stunning

dwest · Feb 24, 2020

Rick.45cal said:
Hey sorry I’ve been preoccupied so I’m late to reply!
1. I love the avast auto neck cleaner, it’s been very helpful. I stopped using a skimmate locker though after I had an accident. The neck cleaner has been a real jewel though.
2. I love the powermodule and wouldn’t swap it for anything

Hey Rick, I started reading backward (that’s how I do things

) through your thread to learn more about how you do things. I came across this post about the skimmate locker. I use mine when I travel. What was the accident with yours?

Leadfooted · Feb 24, 2020

Rick.45cal said:
So I broke down and ordered 40Kg of the little Reborn media since it was all that I could find, I paid a small fortune for it, but it should mean I don’t have to worry about calcium and alkalinity for the next 5 years or so. Now I’m going to have to apologize to my UPS driver again!

I've always admired your display, perhaps my favorite reef tank. Amazing work with this Chalice and best of luck with the new studio.

SeaDweller · Feb 24, 2020

Rick.45cal said:
So I broke down and ordered 40Kg of the little Reborn media since it was all that I could find, I paid a small fortune for it, but it should mean I don’t have to worry about calcium and alkalinity for the next 5 years or so. Now I’m going to have to apologize to my UPS driver again!

what would you have used in lieu of it? I ordered a 40# box not too long ago, and then recently heard about the "shortage", and sure enough, no one has it anymore. I wouldn't know what to substitute for it since I like it so much. Someone said LFS can get super coarse crushed coral substrate that could work, but I don't know where to find something like that online.

CoralWealth · Feb 24, 2020

noone wants to use ARM?

SeaDweller · Feb 24, 2020

Demmelition4 said:
noone wants to use ARM?

do you? How is it?

CoralWealth · Feb 24, 2020

Just had to order some because reborn is out. I’ve read a lot of places it’s not as good because it takes a lot lower ph to melt it to get the high alk to come out

Rick.45cal · Feb 24, 2020

Mrx7899 said:
I heard they're having manufacturing issues. Who knows what that means hopefully it comes back.

That’s one I’ve heard as well!

hfx987 said:
just stunning

Thank you so much!

dwest said:
Hey Rick, I started reading backward (that’s how I do things ) through your thread to learn more about how you do things. I came across this post about the skimmate locker. I use mine when I travel. What was the accident with yours?

Mine was a combination of my fault and the sensor slipping out of the rubber gasket in the lid so when the skimmer overflowed it just filled the 5 gallon bucket of skimmate with tank water and it started filling the stand. Fortunately I caught it before any serious problems happened and I probably only lost about 10 gallons of tank water. (a shop vac is a fantastic way to suck 5 gallons of water out of your stand real quick.). After all that I decided I’d rather just empty my skimmer cup and not worry about that ever happening again.

Leadfooted said:
I've always admired your display, perhaps my favorite reef tank. Amazing work with this Chalice and best of luck with the new studio.

Thank you, that made my day!

SeaDweller said:
what would you have used in lieu of it? I ordered a 40# box not too long ago, and then recently heard about the "shortage", and sure enough, no one has it anymore. I wouldn't know what to substitute for it since I like it so much. Someone said LFS can get super coarse crushed coral substrate that could work, but I don't know where to find something like that online.

I’m not sure what I would have tried. Probably would have ordered some of the brightwell aquatics media to check it out, or just ordered ARM, or ran aragonite sand. I’m not sure.

Demmelition4 said:
noone wants to use ARM?

So the reason why I personally wanted to avoid switching media to ARM is because I have just refilled my reactor with 22lbs of reborn, and have a few pounds left over. At a certain point I’m going to have to top off the reactor, and if I want to use ARM and have it actually contribute the pH will have to be much lower than I currently run the reactor, which means I’d have to dump out what’s left of the reborn and replace it all with ARM since the melting points are so different. (I’m trying my best to avoid that as long as possible). If I was going to use ARM I’d save myself a headache and use it exclusively. Hope this helps explain my thoughts.

Rick.45cal · Feb 26, 2020

Well the 88lbs of little Reborn showed up so I guess I am set for the foreseeable future. Next time I top off the reactor I am going to replace the ARM in my secondary reactor (which hasn’t dissolved at all over the last year) with this too.