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I inherited about 20 Fish Aquarium magazines and two books (tha marine aquarium and the manual of marine invertebrates) from a friend’s friend. Those are free for supporting member. Pick up in south SJ

Yes it is. I will put back on DBTC.

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Coral Killing Skills: 20 - expert (finding various ways to kill) My Xenia and its companion aiptasia last in my old/new tanks for 10+ yrs -- success?

I am in need of 2 x XR30 G5 light shade in black. The file is here - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4982443 I would like to check here first before buying it from Etsy -...

You should consider the following if you have not done them yet: siphon the mass on sand, turkey blaster to blow off on rock + let them settle on sand + siphon again. Those help me to get rid of 80-90% of them. Balance NP 100:1 + Microbacter 7 clean the rest for me. Last resort is chemical Red...

My Xmas wrasse has its belly getting bigger/fatter than usual (almost double) - is it ok? It’s still active, swimming and eating normally

Yes 100% this and all the above. I found out the hard fact that keeping my hand out-of-water the sensitive corals have a much better chance to survive and thrive than I put my hand in to play around with flow/placement/rearrangement.

It’s great to meet you and @tribbitt this morning. I have had a bad record of keeping macro algae. They all melted. That’s why I grew xenia in the sump in previous tank. I hope this time will turn around

Cook your dead rocks with skim waste and old waters from water change +pump and heater for 2 weeks. I made a mistake by rushing and putting in new rockscapes built from old rocks and is currently dealing with algae outbreak

Thanks for your input. I will try lanthanum again + macro algae in sump to get 0.1 phosphate - still debating ammonia vs. nitrate dosing for 2-5 ppm nitrate

@Darkxerox - I will look into it. I think it’s ammonium bicarbonate (not carbonate) Two weeks without light, flow, heater, fan… they look tedious but man they are standing strong. I wish my torches and acros as half strong as them

Some rants on the hump day. In previous system and current one, I always have to deal with 0 nitrate (dosing neonitro to keep it at 2-5ppm) and 0.2 - 0.6 phosphate. I dosed Phosphate-E (lanthanum chloride) to bring phosphate down to 0.1 but it comes back up to the range after a few days so I...

Impressive list - looks like your angels are really angels to leave your corals alone. How is the A8SE light so far vs. smatfarm? Any problem with the app?

Can you take another picture under 100% white and no blue? Does it have thick short base? - look like bryopsis to me

Still not sure whether it’s bacterial infection or not. It seems “happier” on the sand bed after the dips, no curly tentacles now Will closely observe couple more days and update.

As precaution, I dipped it in CoralRX (~6mins), Revive (~6mins) and placed it on sand bed far from other torches.

Bottom half of this 2-3 head torch have had curly tentacles since yesterday. Is it early sign of infection?

Pick up in South San Jose for supporting member. It still has some old water, black sand and xenia + “bad” critters like asterinas, bristle worms,..