Recent content by derek_SR

Has your wife ever watched a fish starve to death? It takes a few weeks.

This mf still shows up in different spots in my tank after abusing it and killing it over and over for the last 3 years. Pure reef cancer.

Looks like you started your tank about a month ago, and it's small. If you add a dragonette now it will die. Please don't do that! Work on managing stable salinity, predictable/small temp swings, and get your easy fish and CUC in a happy place. Add some basic corals along the way. In a year or...

I can guarantee you that a dragonette does not give a shit if your nitrates are 5, or 20, or 120. I would be way more concerned about having a large, mature tank that is well stocked with pods. IMO there isn't much difference between 8 and 20 as far as the rest of your tanks habitants are...

This was my conclusion when doing the research on the topic, and is the most informed why I've heard to think about it. TY

a bunch of begonias, the Manaus is blooming: a couple different ming aralias: some hoyas: my ikea greenhouse, upper left is a hoya carnosa compacta. inside i've got a florida musa, another alocasia, some caudex plants, monstera BMF, monstera obliqua peru, queen anthurium, and some...

I have really been upping my houseplant game lately. Ever since @Kensington Reefer gave me an Alocasia and coleus, I’ve been adding to my indoor garden big time. Now I’ve got a greenhouse cabinet, a begonia and Hoya collection, and a ton of propagations going. Some aroids on moss poles too. If...

You will get a LOT of different opinions about salt, many are in this thread. Some folks are almost religious about it, and I'm not saying they are wrong. Only sharing my own experience. I have used TM, FM, IO, IO:RC, AF, Fritz, both Red Sea. I have at least 4 of these in my garage right now. I...

I have not cleaned my mixing container ever (2.5 years). What problems are you having with the brown stuff? It's harmless based on what i've read and heard on podcasts. It's an anti-caking agent - which prevents the salt from turning into bricks. I also have some AF salt sitting around, and...

I often do exactly this, yes :): https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/dbtc-pif-trades-for-2-23-frag-swap.37643/ https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/last-minute-trades-for-swap-walt-disney-cali-tort-fireworks-pearlberry-hawkins-etc.38585/ I haven't got much traction on this...

We do this sort of thing at the holiday social event - basically like a super ultra single piece swap. It was fun last year!

This is a good idea, except we'll do it at the beginning of the swap and call it the "Ultra" round. :)

No lid gang checking in, haven't lost a fish yet! I do have a 6" eurobrace though...

This suggestion came up in the BOD convo as well - but we don't have any plans to start banning corals that aren't super toxic or invasive (what's currently banned). I am sure folks bringing the montis and shrooms are mostly newer reefers OR just people using the swap as an easy mechanism for...