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If you have no corals, set your blades to like 1-2% white and nothing else, you're just having them on to look at fish. Otherwise you're growing algae. You'll need to introduce some healthy biomedia since the hypo may have killed off a lot of beneficial things like microcrustaceans or other...

I've used it for years too. Note that you're going to want a really airtight container for the MgCl since it's hygroscopic.

There should be different thickness spacers for whatever glass thickness you have

Yeah you can run the cords along the rim of the tank and it's a lot cleaner, plus it functions as a drip loop to protect the driver. I know you have cats too Michael and probably better to get the cables out of reach!

Which tank did you end up going with Patrick? I kinda like the no background look.

What sort of diet is it on and how big is the tank?

You can't have as many Neptune devices as Rich so I'm sure you're ok (49 was the limit according to the last podcast). Maybe some cables are corroded?

Crazy I haven't seen an isopod on a captive bred clown ever! Heck I've only seen them on fish in books. Are you using a float switch or anything on the RODI containers? I've had my fair share of spills without one.

Can black out the QT tank to kill off any cyano

I think if you had kept it longer it would dwindle even further from what I've seen. @CharlesJohns58 when you kept the Waikiki clownfish tank with the Stichodactyla mertensii, did the team have to keep adding back fish or was the population pretty stable?

Got a picture of the algae?

You'd need to find the wattage and if they're straight pin or square pin if you want to go with the CFL route. Probably not worth the effort and easier to just find a used AI blade, rip out the guts in the hood, then mount it in there like I did on mine.

Doubt it, they generally don't have tissue stretching on the outside of the corallite from what I've seen. This looks like a colonial branching NPS, probably balanophyllia (unless reclassified lately). Jake had an old video on them: https://reefbuilders.com/2009/03/07/balanophyllia-video/

I can help on the Los Altos end

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