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@ashburn2k Be careful of your back. I forgot my age and got carried away with a shovel this spring, my back made me pay. Sounds like a cool project.

I like the red algae stand in the back. You’re mixing fathead anthias and lyretails? How is that going? I’m finding my male fathead is actually pretty aggressive at getting food around other fish but the smaller (females?) are a little more shy. Looks like you have one dude though?

When you quarantine do a careful hypo salinity at 12ppt so they can have more energy to heal (less energy they have to spend on keeping osmotic balance) - one of my fathead anthias apparently had a swim bladder issue initially and I think doing this helped her survive. I echo @H2OPlayar feed...

If one of those parameters is way off you should return or throw away that bucket, this happened to me with Seachem Reef Salt (Mg was low, and then turned out potassium was only 300ppm too). They discontinued that brand shortly after.

I ended up buying the Reef Nutrition stuff I needed at Neptunes, I was able to check they had it in stock on their site before I drove over. Thanks anyway @IOnceWasLegend I wanted to try the live tigger pods and arctipods for my fathead anthias so they can get more red pigment, my oldest one...

@IOnceWasLegend PM’d you to also use your referral code. Does anyone have coupons for Reef Nutrition online orders? Shipping is a litttle expensive for the live stuff.

They look like small whitish bumps near the acro tips, and just the normal little barnacle feather-hand going in and out.

I think those are my top cleaners that last too. Since trochus live a few years but also breed and replace themselves. Love my Kole tang, but also any random small bristletooth tangs like tominis and two-spot tangs work too. I love emerald crabs and Seahares but they don’t last. Peppermint...

If it was isolated to one rack of new frags it probably wasn’t your water.

Amazing photos! Thank you for sharing these. We’re headed back to the Monterrey Bay aquarium tomorrow, excited to see some of the local sea life again.

Even the effects of tap water on my garden has to be amended by an acidifying agent like sulfur, otherwise the soil becomes too alkaline and the plants can’t get the nutrients they need.

The tissue just gradually looks less healthy and thinner and then sloughs off kind of from everywhere, like the acro just kind of “gives up the ghost” and the whole thing just dies at once. I see this most often with wild acros, acros from hobbyists that have pests (and maybe also have been in...

One down! Large colony died, not STN or anything just gave out - didn’t have the energy left to maintain its tissues and they just fell off. The second colony that I fragged into three pieces is still alive. The large colony had the most barnacles - something I didn’t know to look for and will...

Tank update - everything pretty normal, Vivian’s confetti and arc fireworks had to be cut back so the frag rack had to come out. Tony’s Cookie Monster hoek is growing, and BC Bubblebath still hasn’t grown a single branch.

How’s everybody’s Speciosa frags? My 4 look like they’re struggling (not the best polyp extension) but hanging in there. Most of the barnacles seem to have already died despite putting Reef Nutrition (dead not live) phyto in there. Does it make a difference to those worms if you give them dead...

When you grow out your maroons, before the most aggressive ones kill the meek ones (as Kimmy hinted at), can you pull some meek ones aside for me? Is it possible to breed the meanness out of them?

Before anyone gets any ideas might be good to explain why no one does that anymore?

I mean it’s possible using FWE without any flatworms will mess up your corals also, because nobody knows what’s in it, and they may not have very good quality control - since they don’t even disclose any ingredients there is certainly no guarantee how much of anything is in there.

@JVU I’m following along because I’ve had the same issue cutting ORA stellar stylo. Curious if you’re also dosing strontium but I think this super toughness is a species trait because a few of my acros have this “titanium” like skeleton but not all. I’ve also tried two sizes of bone cutters &...

It can kill all your sps within 2 weeks of use. Happened to me. I don’t think it was planaria toxin related. I just will never know why that happened because they don’t list ingredients. You could go to a vet and buy the right thing to dose in the right amount or research the chemicals you need...