Hello! It’s been way too long since my last post. Things have been a bit crazy. First came the holidays (not to mention my Brother-in-laws birthday which falls between Christmas and New Year), and second is the buying and selling of houses. If you’ve read my bio you may remember my wife and I own a small real estate investment firm (www.apexpropertieskc.com if you’re interested). With the holidays and the current housing market/economy things had been very slow. I glad to report that just after the first of the year things are starting to pick back up.

Anyway, back to things reef related. The tank is doing pretty well. I’ve been fighting some algae so I’m trying a new product called PURA Complete. It’s actually not totally new to me, I’ve used the PURA brand filter pads before and really liked them. This product is the same chemical filtration media used in the pads, but run passively in a mesh bag in my sump. It’s a mix of granulated ferric hydroxide (commonly called GFO or GFH) for phosphate control, some high grade carbon and zeo-sorbent that will remove urine, phenols, coloring agents, odors; even heavy metals like copper, lead, and mercury. I don’t ever have any “detectable” levels of phosphate in my system, but the growth of algae indicates that it’s just “bound-up” in the algae. I’ve used various GFO’s and carbon separately before, but I was pleased with the PURA pads I used in the past so I thought give this “all-in-one” product a try. It’s early days still, but I think the algae is already starting to recede a little.

I’ve been working on a short article for another website called saltwater-aquarium-online-guide.com for a few days now. Hopefully it will be published soon and I can share it you, so check back in a day or two for that.

Until then….

Happy Reefing!