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Don't worry, he's got a 13 gallon nano for it to move into.

Who is Claude? The cleaner shrimp in Finding Nemo is Jacques, and he would not approve either. I still can't get over that basketball of hammer coral. Edit: I have been alerted it is much larger than a basketball.

I would just stop cleaning the sand and let the starfish eat its fill, I am sure your sand bed is fine. Feed a little heavy for two weeks to get the sand dirty again and everything will be a okay.

Try flushing rodi through the intake and out each of the reagent tubes and outlet, with them removed from the reagents. You do this by depressing two of the solenoids with your fingers and you push a syringe of rodi through the intake tube.

But none of them are "floor mounted" :cool: Also not at this size/scale. But I get the limited options for placement at this size.

Sounds like we need a video tour posted here.

I am kind of surprised we haven't seen this yet as a sold product. Add a few magnets and boom, beautiful rack at any height. (Patent pending?)

I don't have the most experience here, but what little I do says spend the money up front on the good material. I.e. get the thick stuff. Since you have this laid down already, I would try all the hacks there are before giving up on it.

Try running through the Neptune debug online and seeing if there is an obvious failure point, ie is one reagent not filling properly, or what's going on there. I bought a second hand Trident to mess around with and for spare parts in case the main one goes down.

Got the new silicone tube in the mail and did a more complete refurb replacing all the tubing that was old and stiff from the unit being in the desert. Time to plug it in and see if I can get it to work again. I'm getting good at talking these apart. Maybe I tell Neptune to send me units to...

I used to do a zoa fragging workshop at my house for anyone who wanted to come over and make their own frag. Real reason is I wanted them to do the work and take the frag home, while sharing the knowledge about how to frag zoas safely. You could bring the whole rock to a fragging workshop next...

Hair algae, herbivores are the solution. Remove what you can manually and let the herbivores to the rest. Add another urchin and some turbo snails would be my thought.

It's a reference to my other thread about killing my test sps pieces. The tank is mostly great.

I'll stop killing stuff eventually... probably

I think its is the mature rock no matter how much because that seems to be the deciding factor on immediate success or not for many people, and that contains the multitude of bacteria and small organisms/eggs of those, sponges and others. My new tank was prohibitively large to do all old rock...

This thread is talking about my new tank specifically, but also in general that most people find success after 12-18 months into a tank, myself included with my old system. I tend to agree with Derek, that I have somewhat more knowledge and skills than your average reefer (maybe not average bar...

During the photoshoots on my old system, we played a lot with the light spectrum in the kessil app to help it turn out nice.

I've got 3" of crushed coral in the tank again, and credit some of the success of the last system to having massive ammounts of biological filtration. I used the same strategy here, so here's to hoping it all ends up the same! I do see tons of pods, but as we discussed above it sounds like...

Great points all so far. On my shopping list now is: Foundation (nowhere to be found on brs or swa, I'll keep looking), sponges (all over the cleaning aisle of Albertsons), "unknown complexity", a "shitload" of coral, and patience. Who wants to place bets on when I stop killing "easy corals"...

I was wondering this recently. My 300 has all dosing set and a huge water volume, so no major swings. On my old tank, I found that once the tank hit 12 months, and really when it hit 18 months, coral growth took off. Does anyone know the mechanism as to why things like Seriatopora...