Recent content by TheRealMadMax

I love LMNT although I find if I am really sweating in a hard work out my mouth gets super dry. For those now I stick with water and then have an LMNT mixed with water afterwards. They also make a canned carbonated version which is pretty good as well.

If you end up having to open and replace stuff a lot you might want to swap the housing. Everything is super easy to get to.

That was really fun! Great to put names to faces and get to answer real questions instead of the usual “did you paint that rock yourself? It is so colorful” ;) Thank you so much to the organizers!!!

I have been fighting high nitrates and phosphates. Being able to see the daily trend lines has been really helpful. Too frequent water changes causes other problems. Here are a few plots from this past month. Using these we have tried to correlate to other activities with the tank.

Yeah Memorial Day weekend is a busy one. Have a blast!!

Here is the build thread for my two tanks. Definitely been a wild journey with the ups and downs of dialing in a new system. https://bareefers.org/forum/threads/therealmadmax-monster-tank-build.31172/

Blenny are definitely jumpers. I lost two in my open top 180 before deciding that was not the fish for that tank.

We can sing you happy birthday!

Somewhere around there. A 180 and 480 ish display tanks, sump is pretty big too as well as a 50 gallon grow out tank.

One issue I ran into when deploying large WC to deal with high phosphate levels was nutrient deficiency. A lot of my feeding is automated so when doing a number of WC events all the coral started to suffer.

Welcome to da club! I love all the softies in your tank! Those I absolutely struggle with. SPS do amazing in my tank, but LPS I’m drawn to like a moth to flame …

I’m down. In Los Gatos. Maybe Robert can come too as he loves to have BAReefers critique his work

With those fish I wouldn’t worry about any of them jumping. I have a bunch of similar ones in an open top rimless tank without any issues. As others pointed out getting glass or acrylic lids to cut down on evaporation is something you might look at but I wouldn’t worry about those fish.

I thought they were plants? ...... Says just about everyone who comes and checks out my tank for the first time :)

Glitterbomb is still super pricy. I got a small frag about a year ago that has turned into a nice sized colony. Looks amazing in the flow!