Archive for February, 2008

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

MySQL trickery

A few weeks ago I came across a problem with MySQL and Mediawiki that nobody on the internet seemed to be able to solve. I was able to figure it out and posted a little article on what I did. I have a number of other unique tricks up my sleeve i’ll post when I […]

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Overgrowth

Over time, my little 3 gallon pico tank became overgrown. The Ritola Green was seriously taking up ALL of the space in the tank. I trimmed back about half of the growth in the tank and filled up 2 dixie cups worth of clippings. Revealing the substrate revealed an interesting suprise, there was film of […]

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

Measuring Calcium

So, for the first time ever with my reef tank, I have measured some of the chemical parameters. I was at a local LFS and they had a Reef testing kits by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals that tests the following:

Calcium
Phosphates
Nitrite
KH

So I tested each of them and ended up with the following paramaters:

Calcium: 400ppm
dKH: 9
Phosphates: 0
Nitrites: 0

I wanted […]

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