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Happy Veterans Day to any the vets here on CR! Thank you for your service and sacrifice.

For those of you who use filter socks, how long do you keep them until you dispose of them? What’s your criteria for throwing them out? Age? How clean or not clean you can get them after washing? Do you not throw them out and use them for years? Let me know what you all do!

So ComEd is planning a power shut down next week for a couple hours. I’ve never dealt with a battery backup before. What do you guys suggest? I’m looking for something plug and play so that I can run my return pump and one powerhead during the shut down.. If you have one I can borrow I’d be...

If your planning on staying in during today’s snowfall, what are your plans with your reef? I think I’ll do a water change and either change out more rock or clean the sump. What ever I decide I’ll check and clean up my cables and outlets. After reading the fire post I’m now thinking about...

I have been noticing some strange scoly flesh growth. Under the body of the scoly where the flesh meets the substrate there is an area of flesh that is growing down the side of the substrate further than the rest of the body. Has any one noticed this growth with their scoly. Do you know what...

Today for lunch I went out to an Asian restaurant in the River North area and ordered a ramen soup, delicious, after receiving my bowl of ramen I got a huge piece of seaweed. Now I don’t like seaweed as much as my yellow tang so I was contemplating bringing it home and giving it to...

Are you guys aware of any LFS that are open today?

Hey everyone, so I have baeen a member for some time now but haven't really been too involved with posting about my tank. I wanted to take a look back at my tank and use this as a learning lesson for myself and other reefers who can possibly learn from both my success and failures. The 57 is...

Hello I just recently purchased a Hanna Checker and not so used to how it works yet. While waiting for the three minute timer to finish I started moving frags in my tank. By the time I finished the timer stopped and the unit shut off. Is there any way t review what the previous reading was or...

Hey everyone, new here to Chicago Reefs! I have been in the reefing hobby for three years now. Currently have a 29 gallon. but I am in the process of setting up a 57 gallon system. I have been lurking around a couple different forums for a while now. Once the new build is further along I will...