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Couldn't tell you what the bottle recommends, I adjusted my dosing based on ICP results until it was more or less dialed in. That came to around 12ml/daily in my 225g tank, IIRC. Edit - bottle says 5ml (one capful) per 20 gallons of tank water twice a week. So the bottle recommendation for me...

Not sure what feeder you have, but on mine (the plank) 6 minutes is a very long time indeed for pellets - they come out of there quickly. Are your fish consuming them all?

I think most people probably just underfeed. Not necessarily in quantity but in frequency - they need to eat often, like anthias. I feed a LOT, many many times per day. Mine is a voracious eater and still VERY slow to put on weight, and will quickly drop weight if I get lazy with feeding. Many...

It's also super cheap!

I don't grow chaeto at all (never had much luck) but I was dosing CG for a while for my corals, and have to say it was pretty successful. I do monthly ICPs and the trace element make up of CG was nearly perfect for my tank, just have to watch the iron levels. It immediately turned colors around...

I owned the original MasterTronic. Too many reagents to manage, too many moving parts, too much to calibrate. You also can't really trust the Mg tests anyway, and I don't need to test nitrate/phosphate that often. Now that it includes Alk, it might be a compelling purchase for new tanks to keep...

Why would a piece of filter floss sitting in your sump for a long time cause elevated nutrients? I don’t think that’s right. Obviously it’s not doing you much good filtering anything, but it’s not adding nutrients to your tank either. Probably growing a bunch of funk and looks really ugly, but...

Totally, here's mine: Picked it up from Kenny about a year ago. Eats frozen and freeze-dried mysis from the auto feeder, keeps the tank aiptasia free, and gets along well with all the other fish. And I didn't kill a ton of them in the process!

@under_water_ninja the longnose i picked up last weekend is eating now and seems to be doing pretty well so far. For everyone constantly struggling with aiptasia, i would highly recommend picking up one of the CBBs from Kenny.

It's such a nice, calm, relieved vibe in the tank after you pull out a real chaotic asshole of a fish. I feel even the fish are like "bro...thanks for that, guy was a DICKhead"

"at least 125 gallons" lol

This is the way, coral growth is exponential

The egg crate trick is so useful, new reefers should take note. I did this several times (before my tank was too grown in) to separate and catch problem fish or acclimate.

Thanks for the kind words, I've got my share of problems too though! Just spent several months coloring up my Bill Murray back to a nice red and it RTNed (from the bottom?) earlier this week. It's always been such a healthy, easy, fast grower. Very strange. Also the huge red digi colony is...

Top left is a Walt Disney, still healing from some frags I made. Top right is ARC Master Yoda . Bottom left is strawberry shortcake. Bottom right is Merlin's staff.

Did a big water change (don't do this very often with AWC, but am coming out of an oxo treatment) so tried to get some top down shots with the water level low. Had to turn off the T5s to minimize the glare so the pics turned out a little dark: Also took some macro shots, also unfortunately...

Ah yeah I forget you’re in an apartment. If it was me I would just go with fewer tanks. But I have STS, the opposite of what most of y’all got :)

Yeah his color is now much better than at the dentist office too. He’s a real asshole but everyone has settled in at this point.

The magic of the mirror! There's a mirror taped to the right side of the glass in this video. You can see all the assholes totally obsessed with it, and the new fish is completely alone and peaceful on the other side. (sorry about the background noise, we are potty training our 2 year old :) )...