Recent content by Dan-sf

FYI I've been using 0.1M hydrochloric acid that I buy on amazon, diluted down 4:1 for many years in my alkatronic. If you want to go even cheaper, just get stronger acid and dilute it down even more. Not worth the trouble for me though. Actually now it seems the reagent they sell is around the...

I'm very interested in this. In my memory the coral was always very red, but then I looked back at the thread where I was selling the frags for $10, and this was my picture of the BC Adam Bomb: So maybe the deep red coloration comes later. At it's peak health the coral was unmistakably deep...

So as luck would have it I think I actually have the photo of when I first got it (2/2/19), and then a colony shot of it when it was nice and healthy (7/28/21). I don't know if I ever got the yellow tips but certainly it had a very deep red coloration. In my tank this coral had a couple of...

It was on auto-pilot for more than a year, but I did have an alkalinity tester running every 8 hours, and it was very easy to detect when anything serious happened that required attention (CO2 ran out, carx ran out of media, etc). Although even in the situations where the CO2 tank ran out, I'd...

My tank had dinos, aiptasia, hair algae, etc, but I'm 100% confident there were no fish pathogens or coral pests, I had very strict QT protocols for everything and had not added any new livestock in years (for example I once threw away like 10 great frags because I detected some black bugs on...

Don't worry, the tank will be back in a couple of years. I thought I could keep it running in between a move of houses but it turned out to be too impractical. Need to just break it all down then rebuild it again. Which is why I'm keeping all the equipment, only the livestock needs to go. I...

I've reached out to @JVU and am coordinating with him. I think the stuff will get spread far and wide.

I've been maintaining my 300G+ aquarium remotely for some time but it's reached the point of no return, and I can't hold it together any more. Here is a thread of some of the corals from better days. But some of what is left is very nice, including a massive SCOP that is at least like 6" across...

Looks good! Maybe I will make a thread about my corals on here. But I don't want to distract from the topic of this thread.

You have decoded my naming scheme.

No worries. Maybe I can find a few stragglers in my old DT at night and start another culture. I'm starting a new system and looking to get ahead of the aiptasia this time. The 4 aiptasia eating filefish in there don't seem very interested in the aiptasias for the moment! I became very good...

Anybody still breeding these?

I built a cabinet on hinges, offset about 1" from the back wall, so you can rotate the cabinet off the wall to access the back, but then put it back into place and it looks like a nice cabinet on the wall. When first installed: Today, after multiple years of tweaks/additions: The only...

I do believe this is happening in my DT, which is absolutely teeming with amphipods. But there are so many variables it is hard to say for sure. And I do expect to find some baby slugs in the tank that contains amphipods (although that remains to be seen), but it is clear already that the...

Update to my own post: In this article I read for research, the author had mentioned that Amphipods are a problem for nudibranch cultures, which I wasn't entirely sure about. I can now corroborate this, but to exactly what degree I'm not sure. In my original tank which had amphipods and many...