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I had considered using my bucket head (NOTE: Every one of us should have a bucket head!) I tried to siphon it out into a bucket that is outside and down the steps with my daughters help. It mostly worked, but in the end, I actually used a turkey baster to suck out the detritus and squirt it into...

My overflows just dump straight into the sump. I'm wondering if using filter socks might actually help me out. It would require some reconfiguration of the plumbing, but I'm willing to do that if there is value to the filter socks. As background, after all my fish died, I went and removed the...

Thanks guys. I think I’ll give it a try then! v

I went from a 58 to a 180 and I can grow a lot more aiptasia and algae!

I have a 180. A 44 gallon brute garbage can is still just a 24% water change. It takes one bag of IO salt per water change. I have two 44 gallon brutes. I fill one up next to the tank. Dump in one bag of salt, which gives me 1.026ish. The i siphon out 44 gallons into another brute. I use a mag5...

I take a plastic yogurt cup and cut down one side of it, so it sort of looks like an arm chair. Then while holding the uncut part as a handle, I use it to scrape the scum off the neck. The scum falls into the cup instead of back into the water.

Did you snails/crabs, etc starve after the treament? I have a lot of bryopsis, and have been picking it out and doing water changes. I have a (too small) cleaning crew. I also have enough "Reef Flux" flucono(whateve) to treat the tank, but I don't want to kill off the inverts and honestly, I'd...

ok thanks! After the holidays I may contact you. Or check out the lfs. I wish mine would breed!

I've found that trochus snails (and astrea snails) are the kings of eating that horrible green stuff in my tank. But I don't have enough. If I add astreas most are clumsy and will die (from falling and landing on sand) until only a few smart ones (like one out of 5) are left but banded trochus...

THose (evaporation, bacteria) seem an even better reason to NOT heat the water!

Hi! Fellow San Mateoan here! V

Is growing bryopsis considered aquaponics? V

Hi! Welcome! v

I'm interested to see what it looks like now post flucon treatment! I just bought some, but I'm not going to use it until I've tried some things to get my phosphates and nitrates under control (or it'll just come back). V

The fish poops was in the sump. I had placed some LR in there and a chunk of chaeto. After the fish died, I added an ATS, but needed the space in the sump so I pulled the rock out and .... ew?! what is this I'm feeling? It was just literally mud at the bottom of the sump. I guess the LR...

This is likely as well. But the most obvious thing is the unplugged skimmer. I think maybe that and the high nitrates from overfeeding and undercleaning made the situation worse that it should have been. I'm in agreement with folks who say that the water should not have "gone bad" for the fish...

I have heaters both in the sump and in the displays. You're right about the DO probe! Whoa! MUCH cheaper to just add a maxijet or something near the surface of the tank! My main tank had lots of very large fish. I know for certain it was due to the return pump failing. I know this because upon...

Test failure scenarios. What happens if your skimmer fails? Your return pump? Power outage? Have backups to make sure that single point failures don't kill your tank! For me, what stung me twice was (I think) air exchange. In one case a return pump and there was not enough surface water...

I'm always interested to know who takes the BTAs home? Anyone here? As for the stuff I got, my daughter picked things she thought were neat, that included a pipe organ, a candy cane and a finger leather... I picked up some zoas. All "easy" stuff while my algae and aiptasia DT is being dealt...

Thank you to Coral Reefer and Tim (and others) for making this happen and allowing us all to safely swap frags! I had a great time, my daughter thanks you for letting her participate! (with her Harry Potter book in hand)! Thanks to Euod and DSWong01 for donating some frags to cover my while my...