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FYI, Aqua SD regularly sells a frag of this coral (Toxic Pie Chalice) for $20 or less. Currently it's up for $30.

6 inch's away from the water is a very shallow canopy to mount a light in. I would suggest raise the canopy, if I remember correctly, most good LED lights suggest a mounting height of 12"-16". BRS has some good videos on this.

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I think that would affect Nitrates more than phosphates. I've done a few "black out" treatments for hair algae recently and each time it shoots up my Nitrates as the algae dies.

Be careful when pruning zoa's, especially green and brown ones. I've heard those are the types that tend to release palytoxin into the air. Don't want any trips to the ER, especially right now.

Reef Roids seems to be pure phosphates. I'd just start adding some of that regularly.

I've added T5's to multiple hoods. I agree the reflector makes a difference, but not enough for me to spend a bunch more for a fancy one. I've purchased at least 6 or so sets of these from Amazon, Vivosun has always been good for me.

I have a backup pump set up for this purpose. Just make sure you add a line in your apex code to turn off the backup pump it runs too long. Both Neptunes optical sensors and float switches can get stuck in either the on or off position.

Yes, I don't think you can/would want to plumb them into the same line. Don't be afraid to drill the tank tho, it's a lot easier/safer than you would think.

Then I definitely suggest dual (2) return pumps. All pumps will die, get clogged, etc, so having a 2nd one always running will be the most reliable. This has saved my tank numerous times over the years.

IMO, RSR are over-rated. I'd go SCA for 200 gal and below, Crystal Dynamics for 200+.

I would suspect their idea is that this department will increase enrollment which will intern allow them to increase funding in other areas. I know if this was offered when I was beginning college I would have 100% gone to SFSU.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/neptune-apex-programming-tutorials-part-1.610367/ https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/neptune-apex-programming-tutorials-part-3-automatic-top-off-kit-atk.618106/ This set of articles helped me understand what you can do with your Apex. First article is intro...

Thanks for the offer, thought you were done with it. I'll probably just pick up one for myself, I have a few tanks that it can move between for a while.

I was planning on buying one soon, do you want to sell it? Honestly I am not sure how long I need it so if you need it back in the future, that could work.

looks pretty healthy to me, some green slimers have blue tips.

If you want to go real cheap, this is the dosing pump I use for my "Refrigerated dosing pump system". I've been using it over a year with no issues. The pump is small enough that is fits in the fridge, and if it breaks, $20 to replace. Also is a picture of the fridge I used for the setup...

Get some suction cups, they really help a lot, I think the club has some you can borrow. 2 strongish guys should be able to lift a 120 gallon using the suction cups.

Surprisingly, all of the corals we left in the tank that I blacked out for 5 days look fine, no issues at all.

If you can come grab the frags I'm donating to the swap on Sunday, I'll give you a big chunk of spongodes.