Recent content by Darkxerox

That acrylic clarity ;)

Yeah mine are getting 350+ too, seemed to take it better than my acropora frags coming from halide tanks. But def in favor of your acclimation plan!

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Kinda agree with Eric maybe the PAR levels are a little low for more light heavy SPS? I think @jhuynh had like 10 Radions over his same sized tank lol.

Can you post them here too for people without Facebook? :)

The old guidance on lava rock is that it could potentially leach heavy metals in a tank. Granted this was in the pre ICP testing days, so no idea if that's been proven to be fact lately. Did a quick search and some people said they got iron, vanadium, and nickel from lava sand, but it probably...

They always seemed dumb to me when you can just have porous live rock rubble in your sump, and get the benefit of having more surface area for bacteria.

Torches can be touchy even in the best of conditions. But they do best without direct laminar flow and more turbulent indirect flow (if you watch videos of them in the wild, they don't look like a Rapunzel in a hurricane, more like bad CGI Aquaman hair). You can increase your white lighting...

Love the tank and great tank journal so far! Sorry you lost your tank in the fire, but clearly reefing skills don't also whither away. There's definitely a few other 831 reefers here, hopefully you meet them. Honestly I use my tank journal to track growth and changes, even posting a couple...

Your display tank is going to have ich tomonts still for a good two months plus assuming you removed all fish: https://humble.fish/community/index.php?threads/ich-eradication-vs-ich-management.28/

Robert had an IM50 EXT in stock last time I was at Neptune

Who knows if this price is true, because it's pretty impressive if real: https://www.reefsupplies.ca/products/hydros-maven-auto-water-tester-coming-soon?_pos=62&_sid=b183ceb3f&_ss=r

My left shoulder is still healing so can't really help unfortunately

Love the old school mechanical timers and ranco controller!

Ah dang! I got a piece from ReefBum since we didn't think anyone had it locally. Good to know it's still alive.