Recent content by Darkxerox

Yeah it definitely helps when I use night sight when taking actinic photos with an orange lens. Full spectrum the regular settings seem to work well.

I was watching one of Than's videos and he said sometimes we actually are in a situation where there isn't much light (in comparison to daylight outside) and you can often benefit from using night settings on your camera depending on how blue you keep things. This works for corals of course but...

You're the copperband whisperer, Michael might need to get in contact with you to get one that's eating.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/selective-breeding-coral-bleaching-ningaloo-reef/105389888 Pretty interesting research!

Message @Kensington Reefer he might have one he's cooking up to eat regular foods

My yellow wrasse had zero interest in bristleworms. Copperbands however seemed to love to murder them.

The main reef tank looked like an LFS sale tank though lol. The acanthos even were sitting on PVC.

Had some free time in Sydney at the tail end of our honeymoon and visited the aquarium. The large fish exhibits were pretty huge and lots of the fish we keep were a good 2x larger: Dugong:

Whew! This tank journal has been a roller coaster.

Any photos?

Just a heads up, the shop link from the main page is broken, works from the hamburger menu though. I figure most people will be shipping out here to the Bay Area, might want to include your DOA policy. Otherwise seems to work pretty smooth on mobile!

Ah I thought that was a Queen/Tuka anthia cause of the nose shape! What are you feeding? If that's mysis I'm amazed it learned how to eat things that big. Really cool.

That Sailfin looks like a jerk lol. How are the longnose and the copperband getting along? I figure they can't fight much if the tangs are going after them haha. Do you keep any clams in there? Tank is really coming along now! What's your current fish stocking list? There's so much variety in...

Yeah it's varied for me. I've pulled off 10+year stuff from rocks like the breakdown I did recently. But I've had other stuff turn back into goo like this one from a swap: Different lots or expired batches, who knows.

Your report looked fine, even after hitting the tank with oxolinic acid, it's actually the rhodobacteraceae band not the pink one and you had a fair amount. The thing I'd like to see if it can replace Michael's vodka dosing and some lanth. But that would require a fair amount of testing lol.