Recent content by derek_SR

The egg crate trick is so useful, new reefers should take note. I did this several times (before my tank was too grown in) to separate and catch problem fish or acclimate.

Thanks for the kind words, I've got my share of problems too though! Just spent several months coloring up my Bill Murray back to a nice red and it RTNed (from the bottom?) earlier this week. It's always been such a healthy, easy, fast grower. Very strange. Also the huge red digi colony is...

Top left is a Walt Disney, still healing from some frags I made. Top right is ARC Master Yoda . Bottom left is strawberry shortcake. Bottom right is Merlin's staff.

Did a big water change (don't do this very often with AWC, but am coming out of an oxo treatment) so tried to get some top down shots with the water level low. Had to turn off the T5s to minimize the glare so the pics turned out a little dark: Also took some macro shots, also unfortunately...

Ah yeah I forget you’re in an apartment. If it was me I would just go with fewer tanks. But I have STS, the opposite of what most of y’all got :)

Yeah his color is now much better than at the dentist office too. He’s a real asshole but everyone has settled in at this point.

The magic of the mirror! There's a mirror taped to the right side of the glass in this video. You can see all the assholes totally obsessed with it, and the new fish is completely alone and peaceful on the other side. (sorry about the background noise, we are potty training our 2 year old :) )...

Sounds pretty sketchy - you may want to have an electrician take a look. If the breakers are 15amp circuits it would be a pretty easy upgrade to 20amp to open up some capacity without needing to do a ton of work. But if there's room in your panel you could just add an entirely new circuit as...

Herbivores don’t really “remove” it though - they poop it back into the system. This approach makes sense but only if you are manually pulling all of the algae growth out of the tank, otherwise the nutrients don’t actually go anywhere right? Not really any different than a refugium or scrubber...

How are your corals suffering? What are you seeing?

Nice growth!

Well shit! Maybe they just don’t like my tank that much. Or maybe I’ve got something eating them.

Here's a pic of what I got - left of the oregon tort. Definitely some kind of small polyp but doesn't look as big or have as long tentacles as the "blue clove polyps" I've seen. They also haven't really been an issue - been in my tank for a while. Definitely slowly growing over rocks but not...

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