Staybil has a shelf life written on the bottle Goto Omaha's Army Surplus Store in Ft Worth and get one or more of the metal 5 gallon Jerry Cans. It should come with the screw on metal flexible spout. I have one generator up and running with the zero ethanol fuel and 5 full fuel cans ready and waiting. We just got a few inches of rain/sleet. I need to replace the carb on my other generator. I gotta replace the carb on our riding mower two. So here's a carb question since your now a professional. Did you need to make any adjustments to the fuel jets or was it plug and play?? Yeah, during snowmagedon 2021 (Stephenville Texas) the power company cycled our power on for 1 hr and off for 45 minutes for several days. It was enough to keep the house warm and food cold but was going to trash my aquariums so I ran them off the generator until power came on and stayed on. I drain my skimmer into a 1 liter glass bottle. I have the bottle in a tupper ware container with a Neptune fluid sensor. If the sensor gets wet it turns the skimmer off and sends me an email.

Very good video

So that why humblefish grow the beard.... cool guy nonetheless.

The hannah checkers that have longer timers, phosphate and nitrate, need an alarm.

Preparation is key! Just curious, do you think an inverter generator is necessary vs a regular generator?

Buy a Honda as a back up, way more quiet, neighbours will appreciate it. A back up for a back up isn’t over doing it when it comes too your loved ones and pets.

the best light for Acroporas ...led????this is joke????

Don’t waste your money on ethanol free gas. Unless it’s the same price. Treat with startron. I’ve used for over 15 years in all small engines and boat never a problem. Highly recommended.

Melevsreef you got me into keeping saltwater fish well over a decade ago. Imagine my surprise when this popped up on KZbin when I was looking into building a fire pit. I never watched your KZbin just saw your pictures and comments in the forums and I hadn’t seen any of your stuff in years but I will never forget that name. Super cool and nostalgic thanks for the video and everything else.

Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogencarbonate) will absolutely raise the pH of a solution

Marc we need the new anemone tank set up !!! I always like re watching this one though

Part of my regime for getting Dino and GHA was reducing my Red schedule to almost zero.

Oxygen Redox Potential

Sorry for the lack of chats! I was doing tank maintenance while listening 😊

Yes I just picked it up out the mailbox.

Thanks for sharing Mark, appreciate what you do.

Sticking with the randomness of today's stream... I was experiencing some problems with connectivity only on a few smart switches in the fish room, until recently I opened up my 8 yr old router and cleaned dust off of the internal antennas. Bam! Like magic! Connectivity is spot on for everything now.

When is the next one in Chicago

On the lighting topic. How do you know what light to buy? I got a 180 gallon running nicrews now looking to upgrade. But so lost in what light and now many to buy

I got a Nikon Z6III this week with the 24-120 F4...its insane...If I was Reefwithmee, I would shy away from DSLR if I was just getting started. Those mounts are dead, and all the new tech is going into the newer mirrorless mounts.

What happend to all the acropora? You had so many.

would you use the peacemaker for picky eaters like a mandarin?

your tank is gorgeous and so far doing good with Phosphate E, and as you referring your video, I’ve seen people out there using the pool version of lamthium chloride, and then trying to put it in the same bag as the phosphate E made for fish. I’m lucky that the guy at my LFS told me to be very careful with this stuff. Its taking longer than I want but Inwont wanna OD

Blue LEDs are the same I’ve been using blue led bulbs of of Amazon for years They grow coral

Hi sir , how many % of white do you recommend to run on intensity?

Why are the led producers not using the "Emerson effect"?, to much algae growth, or did they just miss this data?

Great video. My tank is 48x48x24. Im running two T5 fixtures for a total of 8 T5 bulbs and between the banks of T5 fixtures, I have two 24 inch Reef Breeders Photon V2s. The Light fixtures hang about 13-inches above the water surface. I am getting just shy of 300 PAR 12-inches deep into the tank. I feel like I need to either replace the Photon V2s or add some additional LED strips to bump up the PAR/spectrum. Thoughts?? I have a mixed reef tank with Acros, Euphilia, Zoas, and some nems. Thoughts?? I think I did a pretty good job on the canopy. Its a basic box canopy with 2x2s. I put the light fixtures on stainless steel drawer sliders. When I need to replace the T5 bulbs or clean the fixtures, I just pull the fixture out the side of the canopy.

Gwt rid of the Dino’s in my main display. Also figure out why my 80w t5 Sunpower is not putting out the power it should be

Trying to get rid of pest!

For quite a few years now I have tried to run a bare, glass bottom reef aquarium. After having little to no success (defined by problems with nuisance algae, coral that just doesn't thrive, my amphipods, isopods, and copipods have died off, coralline algae doesn't grow, and soft corals don't thrive either) I've decided to tear down my 75 gallon reef aquarium and plumb it inline with a 50 gallon aquarium gallon. The 75 will be just the rock (not much of "live rock any more) and the 50 will get a layer of sand, some fresh live rock and the few remaining soft corals. The ATI T5 fixture will get moved over to the 60 and we'll see what happens. I'm doing this because I'll be moving in about 24 months and want to move my soft corals into a smaller aquarium. Years ago I used metal halide lights and had awesome success. When they started being phased out I changed over to LEDs and all of my clams color faded then they slowly died. I ran the LEDs on max intensity too. I've now been using T5 lighting with better success but nothing like metal halide lights. So... back to a sand bottom and some fresh live rock to try one last time with the T5s. I still don't have much faith in LED lighting, the price is not justified for getting no results. I still have a lot of heartburn from losing dozens of pieces of hard coral to LED lights so I'm going with a softie tank. Any recommendations or comments on brands and settings that you've had success with would be appreciated. Thank you Melev!

am moving soon I got a 220 fish only tank about 2 inches of sand i feet my old back hurting already. Lol thx yo

Hey! Awesome video! I met you at the NORE presentation in Ohio! Glad to have found your YT channel also.

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Citric acid

I know its been awhile, how many times a day do you feed him please?

How often should the membrane be replaced?

I really liked this stream. I watch every week, but this was special. Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays Marc I’ve been watching your streams for probably 6-7 years. Appreciate all you do.

There is so many golden nuggets of info here: the advice of using plastic bags to transport the sand inside the tank is priceless

Hey man i have a horrific bloom of amphipods and their eating my acan corals. What can i do about this ? I habe a coral tray on my sandbed and when i lifted if up today hundreds of amphipods looking thigs went running towards the rocks. Any thoughts ?

I have to renew my 3 yr sub

She not using a melevs reef coffee mug, shame shame

In my opinion this is the most important thing to aquariums

Just got my first subscription to Coral. What a great publication, it’s the first magazine I’ve read cover to cover.

How can you so relax around Formalin?

10:50 - So many videos use wording which cause confusion on what that volume numbers should be. Chris keep saying in a number of videos that it's double your evaporation rate. NO. It's your evaporation rate for the day within the lights off period. This just ensures that if the daily evaporation amount is required to keep PH sable, it has that upper limit as the total it case dose within a 24h period.

Sometimes I mix my water higher than 35ppt to get the parameters (ca, mg, dkH) I want then lower the salinity with freshwater.

I got a healthy cooperband from drreef, quarantined. Its eating mussles on the half shell, i will freeze zome mysis on to the half shell in the coming days to try to get him onto mysis. Also i put some mastic on the shell too. A good tip to get them eating other food

I like the long term vids with the nuggets. Makes it more interesting to listen to. To just hit the bullet points maybe do shorts. But I like to listens to your long videos like a podcast on the radio when I'm driving. If I need quick answers I will go to the plethora of other 5 to 10 min content creators.😊

from time to time I calibrate my devices according to the result that the "Tropic Marin Hydrometer" gives me in a 5gallons bucket (wc) even the calibration solutions are often wrong. Enough guessing for me :)