Recent content by Patio

These guys are from Kenny at High Tide Aquatics. The bigger from a couple/few years ago and the smaller last Sunday.

These urchins really helped out with my hair algae when the tank was new. It was crazy to see their tracks through the fields.

Picked up a nice little clown from Kenny at High Tide yesterday. The larger black and white clown was also from Kenny around the time he opened up shop. They paired quickly without any issues.

last weekend I had something in the tank getting frisky, I assume. I caught the milky water and skimmer bubbling over but did not see who or what it came from. usually a couple of times a year but I never seem to catch it while it is happening and haven't a clue who the culprit is.

Nice handy work. I wish I had more guts to tinker with stuff... I wonder why the engineers chose not to use thermal paste or tape in their design? You think to save on costs?

@tribbitt Nice surface skimmer intake box upgrade!

Just one drop revitalized the entire tank. It even trained my dog how to roll over and fetch. Thank you Kenny and Team Beef!

Slow going but going. Finally covered the plug. 9/22/25 1/11/26

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...