That's too bad that you area leaving the hobby. Do you mind if I ask why? What are you doing with your setup and fish? Have you found someone to carry on what you started ?
I have a battery back up that is used for computers that I have one heater attached to and one big air driven sponge. It won't give me 12 hours though, thanks for the link on that pump .
I really like how the pump will cycle one min on one min off in a severe power outage. Last up to 28 hours...
Yeah I have thought about that live rock idea. I use nothing but matrix in one of my fx6. But my nitrates will still climb. I wonder how having them as substrate can change tht? I wonder if the beneficial bacteria is exactly the same strain, the bacteria inside dark canister and the bacterial on...