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Finally shutting down your 72 nano tanks and consolidating to two or three 300 gallon tanks.

Livermore at Coast Fire Equipment. "We do fill C02 cylinders, cost of a 5# $31 and 10# $39 plus tax." That sounds ridiculously cheap. Even cheaper than I was paying 5 years ago. Are you sure they weren't smoking some of their plants when they charged you?

This is the way. From the picture of your foam, it looks like your water line in the neck is probably too high not allowing for larger bubbles to form. Lots of small bubbles = wet skim. Also, keep in mind that a super clean neck will hamper larger bubble formation. A little biofilm is better...

It did seem to kill a good amount of it, but didn't kill it off forever as it did come back. I may have benefitted from an extra cycle of treatment. Not sure why I didn't do it. Others have seen it go away.

A number of people, myself included, have used 4x (or more) the dosage for bryopsis to attack bubble algae without ill effects.

Many have done comparisons between all the ICP companies and not surprisingly, results are usually different amongst all the various companies. Here's one such example: https://reefbuilders.com/2023/07/12/the-reef-builders-big-icp-test-review-by-sanjay-joshi/ If you're going to rely on ICP for...

I haven't acclimated a coral in years. No drip acclimation, no light acclimation. All coral goes straight into a QT tank after a dip in Melafix and potassium chloride for at least a week (if not more) and gets around 150-200 par, then after some magic in QT it just goes through another Melafix...

150 Gallon Tank (Day 106) Some eye candy for you all. June 28, 2025 - POTO Flamethrower. Growing, but seems to have lost a little bit of color. May 28, 2025 Jun 28, 2025 - RRC Rainbow Splice continues to encrust after moving it onto a rock from the frag plug. June 1, 2025 June 28, 2025...

If anyone is curious about my tank parameters, I just sent some in on Sat to Triton for most of my tanks. I usually don't send in samples very often. I usually just dip my finger in the tank and hold it up to the wind. ;) 150 Gallon Tank https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/icp-oes/246489...

My recent experience, I sent in samples to Triton last Saturday (6/28) and got results back Wednesday (7/2) afternoon.

DC Power Pigtail make sure you have the correct size and gauge wire https://a.co/d/cdyApw7 https://a.co/d/hHnFB7q

I've never understood the hate for Mobius. I do deeply dislike that it requires you to be close to your system (MXM solves this for newer products on Apex), but besides that, the software has never caused me issue and has worked quite well for me. Can it be better? Yes, but it's not awful by any...

If your goal was to reclaim space by removing the internal overflows, going closed loop will remove some of that benefit. Plus if you don't like the look of pipes in your display, you'll have to have a rock scape or other decorative features to hide the plumbing in the tank.

Thanks everyone!

40 breeders are 50% off at Petco right now.

This is the way. Use both for fail safe reasons. While not likely, if siphon break hole gets clogged, it can siphon. Here's my ATO line.

I'm up in Castro Valley.

Thanks! Maybe next event? Never know, but if it is a horrida, a lot of them that were being sold were just purple/grey with white polyps.

I'm terrible at identifying acro species, but it might be an acropora horrida. I used to see horrida at LFSes more often, but not so much anymore. If anyone has an extra frag they like to share, I'll like a piece.

For me, it's really isn't about time. There's too many variables to consider. Between pests, swinging parameters from not so good husbandry, equipment failures, bacteria, etc, I'm good if I see it's growing, encrusting and gaining color. Then keeping it alive is possible. Yeah, it could be more...