Damn I was really looking forward to entering this contest but I've been way too busy this year.

Okay so I FINALLY removed the needle valve with two pairs of vice grips. I am freaking in love with vice grips now btw. Anyways, I screwed on a splitter I got from aquacave http://www.aquacave.com/2-Outlet-CO2-Manifold-Gang-Valve-by-JBJ-P1868C38.aspx and when I ran it, it was leaking quite a lot whe...

I have an aquamedic 1000 as well. The problem is that the inlet and outlet openings are just way too small. The inner diameter must be a 1/4 inch. I was doing two bubbles a second and the gas was already building up. I was running a odyssea powerhead rated at 550 gph and it still wasn't enough. With...

greater flow will fix the problem, or you could set up a venturi loop to recycle back the excess gas.

Add some handfuls of crushed coral, increases the kh without all the sodium. I think seachem has a alkaline buffer that isn't phosphate based

Hmm I wonder what type of iron chelator they are using

There is a thread over in pvas with someone experiencing fish deaths after a water change and apparently according to a poster, Fairfax has been flushing out their pipes with chlorine instead of chloramines, so the chlorine levels are much higher than usual. I see you live in DC, so I'm not sure if ...

A number of things, like being too generalized and formulaic, and it doesn't include CO2 as a factor, which tom barr is obsessed with. Also, it defeats the purpose of EI dosing since it assumes all nutrients being equal except for a single limiting one. It was a while back so I don't remember exactl...

I've seen that chart before on plantedtank, apparently everyone there, especially tom barr, hates it

lol, with the names you'd think they're marketing cologne. Boutique fertilizers?