That is simply amazing, Paul ! A reef with an UG filter maintaining low nitrate for 40 years ! What other filtration equipment do you have on your tank ? Do you have a skimmer or particulate filter ?
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Are you sure you never wandered into my LFS Paul. We have one shop here that's poor for stock and what they do have is overpriced. I go now and again but am.not always sure why, I guess to see if it's improved but it never does. I drive many times the distance to find a good LFS and it's always worth the drive.I had to take my wife somewhere today and it was near a LFS so I went in. Total waste of time. All he had was a bunch of Bangai cardinals. I bought two small ones just because i was there but I don't know why he even opened.
He didn't even have a hermit crab, not that I want one.
I tested the salinity in the water that they were in and I could have drank it as it was almost fresh water. My swing arm hydrometer didn't even float a little.
But I threw the fish in after about 15 minutes and they were eating in 20 minutes.
We call that bread and butter fish here. Same old same old same old stuff.I never go to an LFS on purpose. I am always someplace and if there is one near by, I will go in. This one is terrible but I don't care about parasites and all that, I just want a selection of something besides goldfish and tangs.
No one carries anything interesting any more, it's the same old stuff.
What brand are the lights? Reason asking is Reef Spectrum has a Sbox Retrofit Upgrade PCB Board for ~ $70.00.One of my 3 reef lights failed. This is the second time in two years I had to replace one of these things. I really wish some of them could be made in America as they don't last very long even though LED lights are supposed to last for like 200 years or so. I am lucky to get a year out of them and I don't even run them full brilliance.
I took it apart and shorted out some LEDs to at least get most of them to light temporally but it is time consuming and a pain to do.
Out of my last two fixtures that failed, I used parts from both of them to at least get some light.
I ordered another one and should get it next week.
I would rather pay double and get something that will last. But no one makes a good one.
That is absolutely incredible
Thats because you live in a colder climate so yours stay fresher.
A 40 year old reef....What is?