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I'd just frag it up as much as you can and skip the antibiotics.

That is what I use and love it. It is in the 300 now.

Yeah, it kind of looks like a pissed off purple duncan too. When pissed, they all look similar.

Circled first looks like a zoa. Second looks like a pissed off hammer or frogspawn. Can't tell until it gets happier.

That's not as crazy as it seems these days. I probably won't do any meaningful water changes on my big system for a while, or ever. There is a big "but" in that I am root cause solving for every reason you would change water in this system.

There is a magic white "black box" that they don't tell you what is in it. I am skeptical.

Wait for your tank to grow in for 2-3 years and those colonies lower on the rock are being shielded from flow. The smaller wavemakers are for pointing at the rock, the big ones are for moving the large volumes of water around the rock. I found you needed both to keep the tank really packed...

Multiple smaller wavemakers isn't going backwards. Do you like having one giant fan in your house, or a distributed hvac system? Same idea, lots of smaller pumps gives more appropriate flow all over the tank. Don't get me started on wire management, that's a whole separate discussion that I...

And soda ash for the alk 2 part gives you a similar ph boost.

"upgrade..." Haha, good luck. Maybe if you post a pic I can try to debug from here.

Or 2 4's and an 8, lol

No experience w/ the torq, but lots of success with the brs reactors of all sizes.

Isn't ESV just 2 part with trace elements? Kind of like the balling method if I understand correctly. My vote is anything 2 part, including ESV. Gives you the ability to tune CA and Alk independently. I'm experimenting with AFR and haven't been going long enough but I wouldn't run a main...

SOW-20 is the biggest. Amazon has the smaller ones. https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/pumps/wave-makers/jebao/?sort=pricedesc

I've always really liked naso tangs but 54" wasn't a big enough tank. I think I can get a juvenile now that there is 72" of swim space. I was never able to keep milipora in my last system but any tabling acro is basically my dream coral after swimming in the Tahitian reefs. The large stylos...

I have a sow-8 on my 40 cube and it is probably the upper end of what you'd want. Maybe get an 8, and one of each smaller ones to see what you like. Good thing is they are available slightly used on amazon and can be returned. I need to get an sow-20 in the mail because it didn't have the...

That's why I ended up with an sps and an lps side of my last reef. Edit, just watched your video. First off, you should feel bad for videoing in portrait. Shame! Second, I would get those bubble tip nems out now before they split more and sting the coral you like. Ask me how I know...17...

Has anyone mentioned flow yet? When there is enough flow, red cyano shouldn't be able to stick. Cyano lives in every tank in in the ocean reefs in low flow areas. Try playing with your flow or adding a powerhead if you think you have your current setup optimized.

I'd tell a new reefer to try to hit 1-10 nitrates and .03-.1 on phosphate. Lower than that risks dinos and means you aren't feeding enough to me. I have never seen anyone with good data showing that high phosphates actually causes a problem.

The people who show up to events are always really nice and welcoming. And most of the people who neg online likely are also really nice in person but doing it from a place of caring about the animals we keep.