Recent content by Patio

Ah bummer. The super glue should fall off on its own in a couple few days. Glad it can still eat in the meantime.

makes sense! Plus more flow down low, in my case, than my sandy tanks.

Since running bare bottom tanks the last 6ish years I have not observed Cyanobacteria in the tanks. Am I just lucky? Before running bare bottom, each tank had small patches of cyano come and go over the years. Curious to hear about others experiences with BB and cyano.

He may have also mentioned it on The Reefers Network. Dong has been everywhere lately.

Saw this recently on another forum (an unidentified worm seems to be eating my silicone?):

(haven't even smoked yet..) I have wondered if sps know they have a neighbor that wants to kill them before coming up with a plan of attack which could include encrust first build a large army then attack upward vs race to the sun to shade out nearby enemies? Could that also be a factor in...

spitballing (I have never used an auger but hear about moisture)- under the auger cover make a chamber to safely hold a rechargeable desiccant packet. Time to re-up and add food, microwave the moisture back out of the desiccant packet and place back in the chamber with the new food...

I was thinking same as @iani start with all fresh. Otherwise you may learn after burning quickly through the DI resins that new carbon blocks and membranes were needed further up stream from the DI.

Looks like the membranes may be hiding in the back:

Very cool wrasse!

What are the numbers?

Lack of food or something else taking up the same space would be my guesses. My astrina wax and wane in numbers and I wonder if my brittle stars are better at occupying the same space causing astrina numbers to decline. There must be pounds of brittles in my tank.

I am interested in hearing about the research as well!

Such a beautiful fish in whiter lighting.

I will need to check it out. Have not been since new ownership and over a year ish. Dublin is very close to me in Livermore.