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You can put kalk paste on the edge of the monti to stop it from advancing, but will have to reapply periodically

They still had 3 pink streaks at AC today. Well, I grabbed 1, so 2. Be careful with the black Friday pre bagged fire shrimp. Mine is barely alive and not likely to make it through acclimation :( They agreed to replace it, but I really should have looked closer.

Done. No leaks. Miscalculated how much pipe I needed so the 3rd e-drain is capped for now. Capped a spot to add a return manifold also in case I need one in the future. Next up is to start moving corals over and set up a small mixing station in the remaining space.

Haven't seen one in forever. Wish I could find one.

It's having 2 tanks plumbed into 1 sump that makes it a headache. I do think in future builds I'll just go with the 2 drain Herbie style. 3 seems overkill.

This is what plumbing hell looks like.

Most of the water in and testing the pumps/lights. Not ready to overflow to the other system yet but not sure I can wait a few weeks either. I stuck one rock from my sump and one from the bin at Calikid to seed it.

I just stuck a maxijet 1200 in my new tank while the sand settles and I'm surprised how much more powerful it seems than the prop style ones I've been using for so long. The flow is in a jet rather than diffuse but idk, the way they measure the gph for prop pumps seems different. I can see the...

Ok so I did my research on these and it seems the main drawbacks are that they're so damn big, followed by so damn expensive. And you really should mount vertically which sucks space-wise. If you could mount horizontal then running off a gated drain manifold and dump into the return chamber...

Thanks for the offer but I got it already and sf is a trek

Got rock in. Going for 2 towers with space around for fish (and hands). Sand next. Petco is probably rethinking offering free shipping on all orders over $50.

I drip acclimate shrimp since they are so sensitive to salinity.

I'd run 2 pendants (xr15 or a360) and add a 3rd or bars down the line if you find you need them. I bought bars for my frag tank off alibaba from the mfg who makes quanta. Quanta have a fèw more led packed in and a slightly different color array but the Chinese ones were half as costly even with...

Idk you didn't say. If your chaeto in the fuge is not growing well then maybe it's time to change out the light. You can also go even longer photoperiod.

If your chaeto is growing well then the light is probably fine

Alright great! I'll give it a go

Let me know how this works out. I've always skipped uv since there's conflicting info out there if it actually does anything. Seems interesting though!

Planning out my coral placement I'd rather have fewer, large colonies than a little bit of everything. Does it make sense to mount multiple frags of the same thing near eachother to try to entice them to grow together into a big colony? Specifically I have 2 big spongodes frags that I'm...

I have a blue assessor, supposedly. See him about once a week but been that way for 2 years so I guess everything's fine?