Best Purchases

[loui]

What do you think is the best purchases you have made over the last year as far as equipment goes

1. RO Unit with out a doubt money well spent.
2. stupid digital temp indicator, bought this about a week ago and wish I had it from the beginning it makes it so much easier to monitor temperature.
3. just got my new refractometer and yep you guessed it my salinity is off 1.028, which is not bad and I am pretty confident that it has always been the same, but I have always went for 1.025. I have some work ahead of me.

Next purchase will be a light meter.

[Armando]

- Live rock for my show tank - beautiful
- Chiller
- Aquaspacelight

[joeychitwood]

It wasn't in the last year, but I think the best piece of equipment I've ever bought for the reef hobby was a Remora Pro skimmer.

[Wilafur]

a cube tank. :) gottal love the dimensions.

[crab0000]

EuroReef ES8-2 and refractometer.
Steve

[Fizz71]

A turkey baster. What a tool!

..and I have SEVERAL of those digital thermometers. Water temp, hood temp, and soon...fuge return temp.

--Fizz

[shaw]

Microscope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[RudeBoy]

Twinspot Hogfish... great little fish.

[Aquaman]

Books, Books, Trip to MACNA, ;) Sorry folks, for the money macna seems the best investment I can get for my tank, Knowledge!

[RudeBoy]

Oppps... I guess he's not equipment is he... I'd say a thermometer!

[Lunchbucket]

ok, i can't put numbers on these as they are ALL THE BEST but here are a few i COULDN"T/WOULDN"T live w/out

MRC nano ca reactor!
Pacific Coast 1/10hp chiller
400w MH
RR tank!!!!!!!

Lunchbucket

[loui]

yeah
books and my euro reef skimmer very important

[rbaker]

Hands down, my Aquaspace light...

Ryan

[Six]

Superglue
Turkey Baster
Algae Magnet

:) Its the simple things ya overlook that just make life easier

[tjdarla]

My rodi unit and metal halide lights

[petedoc]

my euroreef cs 6-2, and new MH and PC combo hood

[Scotsman]

What do you guys use that turkey baster for?

[DaveJohnson]

Not in the last year, no real purchases for my tanks in the last year, but my best ever purchase:

What do fish, inverts and corals live in? Of course water. So the best purchase I ever made was an RO/DI to give my tanks the best water I could.

Cheers,
Dave Johnson

[giantxtc]

20 ounce pepsi in plastic bottle to make a trap to catch hitchiker crabs on my newest live rock!And,a house with central ac and heat to control my tank temps all year long.:D

[giantxtc]

That is if you can count those as equipment.Sorry!I'm in the process of making a sump too.This will probably be the best new thing for my tank too!

[heedicus]

Euro-Reef 8-1
Refractometer
Red Sea Wavemaker
ACTINIC VHO to go with my saki bulbs

[RonSF]

Aquaspacelight (naturally, since I went from PC lighting to 2 x 250 10K MHs w/actinics, This Changed Everything!)
Refractometer (easy and accurate)

[Fizz71]

Originally posted by Scotsman
What do you guys use that turkey baster for?

Easy target feeding, and to blow sand or detrius off LR.

--Fizz

[Jamesurq]

$5 rubbermaid tub to make a refugium out of. Nitrates dissappear, corals, mandarin and fish in general are happy happy....

That would be the best as a cost to benifit ratio.

Best purchase overall I think would be the MH lighting. The added growth, color and the shimmer.....

[Puffer Daddy]

Baster..of course.
Litermeter III (awesome!)
ARS 6 stage unit!
refractometer
..........................................

still to come...
New tank (LOL) 220gal
neptune system
euro or knockoff
3 hqi pendants

[Tat2dBrownDude]

5 gallon bow
live rock
live sand

Nanos Rock!

[JB NY]

Aquacontroller 2

[xpyder]

Reefanatic auto-top off. Men so much easier for me now. I used to go to the basement to get RO/DI water every single day. Now i just refill my 25 gal plastic container for auto-top off once a week.