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I almost sprang the extra $$ for a legit microscope with a stand, sample holder, stage, etc. Yours looks pretty good for a toy microscope. If it is dinos, I would think I would see dense groups of cells, like in your picture? It seems like the brown slimy stuff in the first pic doesn't have...

Since I don't have any fish/inverts, I haven't been feeding the tank. I was dosing N/P, but very recently switched to feeding some leftover LRS juice prepared for my other tank. I'm hoping this helps. I'll try to scrub/siphon it off. I should stop being so lazy, it's only 3g haha. Thanks for...

June Update I ordered a cheap $20 handheld microscope from Amazon to try to ID the snotty stuff in the tank (dinos?): I didn't have high hopes for image quality, given the price. I grabbed some snotty tank water and sandwiched it between two 1mm glass coverslips using a pipette. Below are...

I currently have a few planted tanks running. This 5g nano is my favorite right now. Home to a colony of neocaridina shrimp and a group of pygmy cories:

Interesting… I’ll buy or borrow a microscope to take a few pictures. Thanks!

I'm still doing it and having fun.

The appeal to me is the ability to easily remove the frag plug (for dipping, fragging, moving to different location). Aesthetically, maybe not the best. Drilling holes in live rock is perhaps a better option.

Yep, I'll be there. Thanks!

No need if you're not happy with the product. Let me know if you find a better solution.

Are you able to remove those frag plugs from those conical shaped ceramic pieces glued to the rock? I gotta try this.

Interesting... I'll have to play with the night setting on my phone. Maybe it will improve my sub-par reef photography.

A polarizer should remove the reflection (like this one Amazon Link). Only drawback is you lose half of the light but I'm guessing it's not really a problem considering how we light our tanks...

A while back, my Kamoer doser started leaking and dumped kalk all over my controller cabinet (yay). The tubing inside the head unit had ruptured and started to leak. This may have actually been my fault, because when I replaced the tubing last time, the OD seemed slightly larger than the old...

May Updates: The 3 hermit crabs all died (RIP). Maybe there wasn't enough food for them. Some stuff is surviving rather than thriving (purple favia, toadstool, candy cane). Still experimenting with N and P dosing. Trying fewer water changes while riding out the dino (?) wave. Tank pics:

The controller cabinet came out really well. I might have to steal this for my next build.

I’ll have to try this!

Haha, I’ve definitely done it with FW. I learned my lesson and only use this now:

Anyone ever tried LMNT? I’d imagine the taste is pretty similar to NSW. Fortunately, I’ve never accidentally siphoned water into my mouth to know for sure.

I had a Millepora do the same thing... about a week before the tank tour. All my other sps are growing and healthy. Couldn't figure out why it gave up, but the timing was funny.

Oh no, not the D-word :p. Hopefully I can manage if it's indeed dinos.