Recent content by L/B Block

It’s more about what @richiev has done above..maybe at some point see if I can tie on apex and Red Sea app but they seem to live happy in their own domains for now

No way I am ceding control of my aquarium systems to AI. Afraid the day “skynet becomes self aware” and it tries to kill me doing basic maintenance. Just saying..

Much appreciated. Perhaps it has "fond" memories of its previous tank. Will take you on that.

I do carbon dose (now) -what are the implications of that?

So after my incident last summer where the avast had dumped an entire container of food, many NEW SPS have not thrived and in fact many times they RTN within a week. Even Pavona! My OG SPS corals that survived seem to be just fine and growing. Some new SPS that have been put in the...

Didn’t feel anything but wondering if my smoke detector did as it was triggered about hour after for no reason-and the skimmer cup was nearly full this morning from being nearly empty.. coincidence-maybe..

What a great experience..

I wasn’t quite awake when I had gotten the email. So it got me for a couple seconds

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The controllers are a serious investment but once you have it locked in- makes such a difference day to day and weekly operations.

I also do a daily water change of 1.4 gal on a 65 gallon which comes out to 10 gal a week or 15%. Overall 60% a month or more like 50% as some new water gets replaced. But i don’t have to match salinity /temp/alk as it’s being done automated over time (2 hours) the main one. I do find the...

I think a much less powerful skimmer would be the ticket for sure - this one seems to need a much more consistent stream of DOC's/organics in a bigger tank to keep it stable.

is this the one you have? https://www.proaquariumstore.com/product/super-reef-octopus-sro-2000int-internal-protein-skimmer/ If so the recommend height is 6-6.5 inch water depth. Also for a heavily stocked tank the min is 150 gal so I am wondering if this just powerful currently for your needs.

What I read was that it wasn't fine, then it was ok, and then it wasn't again. So I concur we are getting at the same opinion of skimmers do what they do -but something changed in that interim-a change in daily feeding time or a change of type of food perhaps?

I really try to automate this as much as much as possible so not to have to rely on the house sitters for the dogs. As mentioned in number 1-definitely #2 I use an avast plank and do have whoever brush the autofeeder 2x a week as it gets gummy. I have an apex and use red sea...