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+1 reef flux for bryopsis, just know it'll probably affect any fuge you have too. GHA I found the most successful solution was a foxface. Even if you need to get a little one and swap it eventually.

I have no direct hands on knowledge, but I thought the phone based 3d scanning apps were getting surprisingly good. You might be able to do that part yourself, or at least try it, using someone's existing phone. Some apps use lidar on phones like iPhones. Some apps use the camera alone. Some...

Any suggestions on maximum increase I can do a day? Assume I'm near zero now. I'm planning to just keep dosing slightly more until I get a reading, but could I jump to 5.0 in one day? 1.0? 2.0?

Any experience with the ammonia dosing? The idea intrigues me and scares me. Intuitively it makes sense, since coral eat ammonia and presumably that's the benefit of fish in a system, but seems easy to screw up. Cheap though. This type of approach is probably my default fallback unless someone...

My frag tank I need to dose nitrate to get numbers up. @JVU and others in a similar boat, what are you using as your dosing and why? I'm using a bottle of NeoNitro I have at the moment, but I don't have any particular reason to use that type. Avoiding all the likely other comments: Yes I've...

Does anyone know if there's any special name for clowns that look like this? This specific pic is a black ice clownfish, but that name seems to have all sorts of different variations. Years ago when I was getting back into the hobby, I saw one very similar to this at Neptune ( @robert4025 )...

I use fishing line to hang my lights from my cross bar. There's probably a 3d printable adapter out there that could be used.

Do you want a peninsula or a more standard, against the wall, style? When I think shallow I assume peninsula setup. I'm not really sure why, but maybe because of the extra viewing angles and extra water movement on shallow frag tanks. I think the shallow / frag tanks from IM and waterbox seem...

Fwiw I dose from a 10 gallon static reservoir (basically just a 10 gallon aquarium with a lid). My process: * Wait untill it's getting low * Dump 60g of Kalk in (using 6g per gallon, but it's actually a higher ratio because I don't completely empty the water) * Dump water in from high, so it...

I pulled mine from my frag tank sump today. Way smaller than when I dust put it in there awhile back. Crazy how much growth you all are getting versus me. Not dead, but looks great in the light, but very small. The frag tank has a submerged, high strength, all spectrum light (actually is a...

I have done both successfully. I currently use rigid acrylic because it looks pro, but it's so expensive it's silly. Ascii art: | | flexible tubing (from aliexpress) | | |# #| # # # # rigid tubing (from whatever I have lying around) # # ==# #=== == === bulkhead (from...

I've used these successfully many times. $7 for 5. ZAOJIAO Tube Bulkhead Connector Push Fit Quick Connect for RO Water Reverse Osmosis System (Pack of 5) (1/4" Tube Bulkhead Connector) https://a.co/d/bKWQ7eK

+1 air leak. Is that top black piece ribbed all the way? If so it's probably not air tight into the container. I don't think it's line size. I do DIY VOS water bottles with basically the same setup. I use a piece of cut, rigid, smooth RO tubing out of the top and force the airline onto that...

Monti eating nudi egg info per ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/86accc5c-72ac-4bb5-851f-481983e16113 Do montipora eating nudibranches only lay eggs on or right near montipora? Yes, Montipora-eating nudibranchs generally lay their eggs exclusively on or very close to Montipora corals. These...

Would not be on softies, always possible they hang out on any hard surface. If they would actually put an egg on a surface 2feet away from any monti I have no idea. There's never a 0% chance of anything.

I dip everything I get, especially when I get it from folks in the club. Assume everyone's tank is full of tank STDs, especially given how much people transfer between each other. That being said, I did a pretty strong peroxide dip on them for awhile Friday. That frag tank the cage was...

If you're willing to do some diy, you could try opening it up and see if you can see a circuit board and if anything looks obviously weird. Uploading pics works too.

Neptune. Violet aquariums. Clearwater. All pretty close to that area. Probably in that priority, with significant differences in quality in between some.

Calling out the probably obvious, but just to make sure it's said, changing your insurance (lowering deductible, adding windshield coverage, ...) so that afterwards you can file a claim for existing damage is almost certainly against insurance terms. They can cancel your policy, and at the...

Gave out two yesterday. I have one more cage with a ton of them available, but it's currently in my frag tank which I have fought nudis in. I highly doubt there's nudis in that cage with shrooms, particularly because I gave it a strong peroxide dip yesterday, but always impossible to make any...