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New challenges are definitely fun too! The successful SPS keepers like you all seem to need a complete restart every 3-4 years it seems like.

Saw your post about moving away from SPS. Have you considered a calcium reactor to ease up maintenance and dosing? We saw with the other Dan's tank that you can keep an SPS tank going with pretty much an ATO and a CaRx for a very long time.

Got a Dr appt then, mid week is rough

I wanted to at first but we want a tiny bit of copper and other traces right? There's no perfect way of knowing unfortunately.

Here's a video too:

First update of the year, some ups and downs. My original three anthias died one by one after becoming all I could explain as catatonic. No bullying, in fact the others actively tried to encourage them to come out and swim, but they stopped eating. Treating one with prazi and hypo did nothing...

Peroxide seems to be slowing it, corals and clams seem fine at the week two dosing level. @MichaelB like I said in the earlier post, fluc and Chemiclean didn't do much of anything. Don't waste your money unless you're trying to specifically target bryopsis and red cyano. Try that marineland...

Welcome! There's a few other members in the Monterey Bay area. Hopefully you can meet them and join us at some of our events.

If you can pull it off (I did and it was fine).

Third for ReeFi uno 2s. They can cover 24x24 which is mostly your tank footprint. The Kessil 360XE is also a great light for that footprint and will give the best shimmer if you like that. Nicrews are great budget options, but their power supplies burn out fairly quickly.

Here's some background on the Pratt Institute's project: https://www.coralmagazine.com/2017/10/31/when-i-say-aiptasia-you-say-pest-at-pratt-we-say-pet-instead

It's the one @Thales and Ben recommend on Reef Beef. Honestly it's HEAVY, which leads me to believe why it's so expensive and doesn't drift like the cheapo ones (there's no dinky screw, it's a huge ring). I haven't had to adjust it at all since I bought it over a year ago. I still use the TM...

Using my Veegee refractometer

Salinity was 35 ppt

20 gallons is pretty easy, if you joined the club as a supporting member and introduced yourself, most likely someone here would volunteer to help.

Whoever gets it will need one of these: https://www.theaquariumsolution.com/product/8111/225

Yeah wasn't too keen on the both being off on the Ca reading (my new Salifert kit read 400 ppm that morning), but as far as trace metals go, both tests were close enough in the "present" vs. "depleted" or "wildly high due to overdose/failed magnet" areas that I'd be concerned about since I...

Most people can barely read a regular bar graph, let alone understand standard error, or accuracy vs. precision, so I can see why they leave it out. Technically I should have done at least N=3 for each test, but a) I'm lazy and b) I only had one of the free TM kits. I would have liked to see...

Germany vs. CA