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The first time someone on ReefCentral related this feeding regimen to me, I had the same reaction. Since I’ve been doing all these tasks for years now, they seriously only take 1-2 minutes each. Spread throughout the day, it doesn’t amount to much at all. For comparison, running a minimal set of...

I forgot to mention earlier, I target nitrates of 0.2 ppm. If it drops near 0, I skim less and harvest chaeto; if it’s too high I skim wet and let the chaeto grow. If nitrates get above 2.0, then I turn on a reactor with beads. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Eugene I fatten my fish up on the weekends, feeding 3-4x a day. First feedback of the day is Nori. I make tiny cuts in the edge a sheet, then cross-cut tiny bits into the tank. Everyone has been trained to eat their veggies and my fish develop amazing color eating nori daily. Next feeding is...

And a shout-out to @tygunn for selling me this really nice tank and @coral4me for the really cool rockwork, which was already encrusted with many colors of corraline algae, tunicates and sponges.

Clockwise from the top, the photobomber Lyretail Anthias, Two ORA Pink-Tipped Birdsnest colonies from @Chromis (originally from last year's swap!), Neon Toadstool from this year's swap, Hollywood Stunner from @Chromis, Two Pink BTA siblings from a split about two years ago, they've stayed...

At the top is a Rainbow Anemone (thank you BAR Raffle) and at the bottom is a rescue from Aquatic Collection. It's a little bleached, but it crawled all the way down there from the top of the pillar, so I think it's going to be fine. For $25, I decided that it was worth trying to rehabilitate it.

Eco-Tech Marine Vortech MP10 with one of @grizfyrfyter's anemone guards. And my Sunrise Dottyback about to savage my high-fin goby who hasn't yet figured out there are a dozen caves under the rocks right behind him.

Finally decided to spring for a Kessil H-380 grow lamp. Wow does chaeto love this light. I started with two baseball-size clumps and the chaeto compartment is now half full of macroalgae.

The heart of the sump. This is the first Reef Octopus I have owned and I must say I am impressed. Coral-Vue 150-INT. The sump is a Trigger Crystal 43 and the skimmer would not fit into the central compartment as shipped, so I remanufactured a plastic slip-barb 90 elbow. The skimmer has to run 1...

Simplest plumbing job I've ever done! Though the return line is about to become a 3-way manifold for a chiller and various water conditioners.

This build thread is a bit backwards I guess; here’s the rebooted tank with all the critters and corals from my IM 30L and DSA 60 cube, plus a few new things picked up at Aquatic Collection today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, that's correct, only the big pieces go in the tank. I feed only about 1/3 of a cube at one time. I keep the partial cubes in a daily pillbox in the freezer.

After some Googling, I think this is a species of medusa worm. Reefcentral posters say they are related to sea cucumbers and come with the same dangers. Not going in my tank.

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Label in the tub says $120. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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So the longer I am in this hobby, the more I have realized how important proper particle size is for feeding what you want to grow and what you want to starve. Frozen foods in general offer a myriad of particle sizes; the "juice" from frozen foods is perfect for algae, diatoms, dinoflagellates...

Has anyone here repaired a DC return pump? One of mine seized up and I ordered a replacement rotor for it. The rotor arrived today, but the pump does not spin. The power supply brick is putting out a solid 24V, the controller lights up normally. What's the mostly likely failure at this point?

At the Seattle club I belonged to, we made a group order directly from Vietnam, but Idk if there would be sufficient interest here?

Neptune had a couple beautiful large ones last weekend (6-8"), but they are in the $250 tank. :eek: There was a 4-6" mid last week in the $150 tank, but I didn't see it when I walked through last.