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Guilty confessions

Geez, where to start. I have enough equipment to start my own LFS: tanks, stands, heaters, powerheads, skimmers, reactors, etc. It's surprisingly hard to give these things up; I have had a love affair with every tank I have ever owned. I don't quarantine as much as I should, especially delicate and picky things like SPS that have high lighting and water parameter demands. Will I really have a quarantine tank with MH, dosing Mg/Alk/Ca with a chaeto 'fuge? Hasn't happened yet. Worse, the motivation is very low, since I have had a few quarantined frags die due to what I am pretty sure is an environment where their needs were not met. On the flip side, I have a zoa rock (from one of our sponsors no less) that's been in quarantine for a month. Last night, I spotted Aptasia and bubble algae on it. Well, there's one win for the QT...
 
OnTheReef said:
Geez, where to start. I have enough equipment to start my own LFS: tanks, stands, heaters, powerheads, skimmers, reactors, etc. It's surprisingly hard to give these things up; I have had a love affair with every tank I have ever owned. I don't quarantine as much as I should, especially delicate and picky things like SPS that have high lighting and water parameter demands. Will I really have a quarantine tank with MH, dosing Mg/Alk/Ca with a chaeto 'fuge? Hasn't happened yet. Worse, the motivation is very low, since I have had a few quarantined frags die due to what I am pretty sure is an environment where their needs were not met. On the flip side, I have a zoa rock (from one of our sponsors no less) that's been in quarantine for a month. Last night, I spotted Aptasia and bubble algae on it. Well, there's one win for the QT...
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Wow, it didn't show itself for month? Who knows where my vermetid snails came from then.
 
I confess to being a liar. Every time I leave my house I lie to myself and say I'm not going to make a quick stop by Diablo corals just to see what's new. Every time I buy a coral I lie to myself and say it's the last one -- I just have to many in one tank. Every time I buy a fish I tell myself that's it -- there's too many in my tank. Every time I fire up my computer I lie to myself and say I'm not going to go research some new gadget that I just have to have.
Hi -- my name is Bruce and I am a liar.
 
I know it's an old thread but... Reefing for the last ~ 15 years and not knowing what vermetid snails were until two weeks ago. Every time someone has mentioned seeing them, I was looking for motile, shelled invertebrates and just assumed I was being dense when I could not see them. I've just broken down both of my reef tanks for other reasons: hair algae outbreak in one and killer dinoflagellates in the other and am now hunting with a magnifier and a utility blade as I bring all my live rock, rubble and frags back into circulation. I presume that physically carving them off the live rock or frag plug is good enough for extermination?
 
I like others that have posted in here, have about 4 miles of cabled in my sump area... I always talk about "cleaning it up" but never have.. my wife asked me the other day when i was going to clean all the wires up in the sump... i told her "today" and i closed the door.. DONE :)

i am hoping one day some magical creature will clean up the sump and label all the cables for me... still waiting
 
Bruce Spiegelman said:
I confess to being a liar. Every time I leave my house I lie to myself and say I'm not going to make a quick stop by Diablo corals just to see what's new. Every time I buy a coral I lie to myself and say it's the last one -- I just have to many in one tank. Every time I buy a fish I tell myself that's it -- there's too many in my tank. Every time I fire up my computer I lie to myself and say I'm not going to go research some new gadget that I just have to have.
Hi -- my name is Bruce and I am a liar.
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That seems to mine as well
 
I have been waiting for Kessil to come out with their singlet version of the AP700 so I can move my old 350W to the quarantine tank before I really use it. Too stubborn to buy a 360W when I know that dang AP350/500(?) is just around the corner!


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Dave B said:
i am hoping one day some magical creature will clean up the sump and label all the cables for me... still waiting
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When that magical creature finally shows up make sure you frag a piece and throw him in a DBTC. Sure there's many more people that could use its help.

Chromis said:
I have been waiting for Kessil to come out with their singlet version of the AP700 so I can move my old 350W to the quarantine tank before I really use it. Too stubborn to buy a 360W when I know that dang AP350/500(?) is just around the corner!


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Ah, that infamous corner. Who knows how many countless items are there. I know I've got a few that are there too.
 
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