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For others reference, DBTC version of mine at least: https://barcode.bareefers.org/bc/frag/1873 Rhodactis indosinensis is I think the formal name, from when I set that one up awhile ago. Definitely grow well in certain conditions. Easy to grow. Look cool. Especially when paired up with a...

Free to anyone who asks. Pickup in Redwood City. If you are interested and then do not pick up, you go on my permanent no freebies list, but beyond that no requirements. I also can give a free mushroom cage as long as you give a bit of rubble of some sort. Exact quantities I'll figure out...

There's been some threads about livestock choice in this forum, but I'd look around for the ones about fish that have jobs in the tank. There's a lot of really cool fish out there, but it's also really really cool to not have to do maintenance on your tank because your livestock does it for you...

I'd consider going easy on the reef roids and heavier on the normal food. Eg instead of 1/3rd a cube a day go a cube a day (or more), fed over multiple times, and don't rinse the food (dump everything in, including the small pieces and dirty water). At some point, probably a small point(?)...

New 3D Printed Frag Tile Optimizes Coral Larval Settlement Interesting. Particularly that they're just using 3d printed filament as the frag plug. I've been considering going that way myself, since I could print frag plugs and frag racks that fit together perfectly, but haven't yet. This seems...

I'm a fan of those. I'm not sure if the came indirectly from the ones I gave out to people (the cage in one of your pics looks like one I gave out), but either way I have a bunch of those and I haven't seen them bounce. They get huge and grow fast in the right conditions though. Yours might be...

There's debates about how much to feed, but fwiw a single cube across all those tanks and one small piece of seaweed a day seems far down the very light end of the spectrum. I'm not sure where I currently am on that spectrum, but I'd likely be feeding that much to just one of your tanks...

I have saltwater reservoirs and ATOs in my garage and also my bikes and tools. +1 everything gets rusted to shit. Definitely be careful with anything that's your livelihood.

Looks like it's going to be great! My opinion on the light stand is I think it's more important to have additional bracing holding it straight vertical than wide legs. If you can attach the vertical section to the wall, or have an extension with a support against the tank, I think that helps a...

How'd you wire up the float? I'm about to do a diy ATO using some electronics. My plan is use a float as the backup sensor, wired inline to the pump. I'm curious if you did the same. Regarding the stirring, any concerns about that increasing the likelihood of getting Kalk slurry up towards...

What's your flow like? I've acclimated a bunch to approximately full salinity, and whenever I've put them in a high flow reef tank they seem to die in a day. I like the idea though and would love to be able to use them as a cleanup crew plus pest checker.

That bracket looks great!

+1 for standard sizes I'd check out the LFS. For custom things, going through the LFS doesn't seem to change much, but standard styles/sizes it seems like the perfect use-case for a local shop. Neptune tends to have a selection of tanks in shop, and High Tide can also order things (I bought a...

This is useful data. Given the salinity is slightly lower than folks tend to run, and saltwater is going to be very consistent with its parameters, it seems if people wanted higher alk then putting a bit of your favorite high-dKh salt in would be the easiest way to boost numbers. Eg toss a cup...

Remember saltwater and rock and ... is very heavy. If you wouldn't put hundreds of pounds of other stuff in your vehicle, don't put that much water and such in. Be prepared for everything going wrong. Car breakdown, traffic, needing to leave things in the vehicle for awhile, ... Have more...

Yes. I'll upload it to maker world. What size do you need? Width and height particularly. It's embedded in a giant fusion 360 file I have with all my aquarium thing. I can easily export a copy of various sizes, but distributing the raw original is more difficult.

I've had no real issues. Do have a bit of sand out of it, but the wrasses seem happy and most of the sand is still in place. I will try and remember to take an updated shot of it.

Let me know how it goes. I've definitely not tried this. It was made up on the fly. It seems pretty straightforward though. If I was doing it, thinking it over more, I would start the extract, let it run a bit, start the fill, let the extract run a bit after the fill finishes. Making that...

Black bar issue seems :shrug:, not a huge deal, and assuming it was implicit or explicit in the communications I can see them saying that's not on them and your call. Bowing already is on them. They screwed up. Fine'ish because they are learning, but faulty product and I'd expect them to fix...

I imagine you could always pull Kalk from the avast with a peristaltic pump if you really wanted to. You'd have to somehow match flow rates going in with what you take out, but you could do that in a hacky way too. 1. Put the line that's extracting Kalk water near the top, so that it's always...