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I run the bars, not the full Atlantik. The bars are very well made and can be had in custom spectrums. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I’m definitely onboard for one of the alk monitors. Likely Trident, but Alkatronic is a proven solution at this point.

3 big AEFW flew off just a few seconds into Melafix. So much more pleasant to use than Bayer. I’ll be dipping for weeks.

Yeah but that isn’t enough. I’m going to start pulling and get one Melafix dip in before we leave tomorrow. Apparently it’s more effective than Bayer for AEFW. Sad pic:

3 months in, and I’ve dealt with cotton candy algae, dinos, and today what do I see? AEFW bite marks on my BC Rainbows in Spain acro. Gimme a break! Of course it happens the day before a week long vacation and after I glued a few down. I’ve only bought acros from 3 sources so far. My coral QT isn’t running yet so now it’s in the display.

Winding down on my dino and red algae outbreak. You can see some dying dinos left on the overflow. What's also strange is the rock in the back. It was almost completely unaffected by the outbreak: DSC00334 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Same area after it cleared up DSC00581 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Left side DSC00575 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Center DSC00578 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Meleagris leopard wrasse DSC00589 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Red goniopora from Supreme Reefs DSC00605 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Coral Beauty DSC00607 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Pintail (Isosceles) fairy wrasse DSC00615 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00788 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Red fin lawnmower blenny DSC00670 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Bones, the clownfish DSC00678 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Resplendent anthias and some frags DSC00884 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Resplendent anthias, notice the color change on fins DSC00724 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Blemished 8 line flasher wrasse DSC00931 by Warren Wang, on Flickr Rhomboidalis fairy wrasse DSC00736 by Warren Wang, on Flickr

I’d use a slip fit and glue it in place. If you want the ability to switch to using the bulk head again, you can glue a stub with a Union and cap the other side, so that when you want to use it, you can just replace half the Union

Nice! When are you fragging for me? [emoji14]

3 month video update. I'll try to post new pics soon. Fish are uncooperative photo subjects...

A very small and quiet piezo based air pump connected to a wooden air stone which sits under my return pump. Air pump. It’s the quietest one I could find! Wooden air stone What it results in when on

Well, I haven't posted updates for a while because I got hit first by cotton candy algae, like a massive crazy outbreak while I was on a work trip (of course). Then came ostreopsis dinos while the algae was dying off. The dinos came on strong, and very suddenly. I've finally beat them back. This is what I did: Dosing Vibrant once a week Dosing Fritz Monster 460, Tim's Eco Balance, or Tim's Refresh every day that Vibrant wasn't dosed Changing UV flow rate to 400 GPH for my 50W High Output Pentair Adding turbo snails to clean up the dying red algae Increased skimmer to 40W on my Bubble King Double Cone 200 Dosing potassium nitrate to keep at least 1ppm of nitrates Micro bubbles 10 minutes/hour + 6 hours continuous overnight Changing return flow nozzles I think that last 2 really helped a lot. I noticed after I added the micro bubbles that a fair amount of the bubbles would go straight from the returns, get pushed by the pumps and into the overflow. This meant to me that a lot of the return water was also going straight into the overflow, so I changed the pattern significantly, which also boosted my return flow rate to about 4x display capacity. Just a few days later, they are all gone. Almost overnight. Really, it's quite amazing.

I have a Bubble King 200 that I got on sale during MACNA. Worth it to me. It’s really good at pulling junk, breaks down easily, and doesn’t make noise/vibration. I highly recommend a DC pump if noise and vibration are a concern.

It looks like it has AEFW bites all over it. All those little round whitish marks.

Clearview lid from Artfully Acrylic DSC00271 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00271 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00271 by Warren Wang, on Flickr

I got the eBay stuff from mr_frags_llc, and it worked on an active ich outbreak. Pretty much all the powdered stuff comes from the same place in China.

First 4K video https://youtu.be/LRL7fr4EUz4

Sadly no, they really are not very cooperative photo subjects. 6 of them tend to hang out together behind a rock. The 7th lost an eye due to an injury. She wedged herself into a hole in QT when I tried to get them all out. Like she was seriously stuck! A few days later, her eye swelled up to grotesque proportions, and finally popped. She'll live as long as she keeps eating. It seems I always end up with a 1 eyed fish.

A few fishy pics DSC00177 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00182 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00212 by Warren Wang, on Flickr And my current favorite (group of) fish, my 7 resplendent anthias: DSC00247 by Warren Wang, on Flickr

I’m finally going to get the calcium reactor going this weekend. Til now I’ve been dosing by hand as needed. Not too much is using up the big 3 since I have no corals or appreciable coralline. Slightly nervous since I’ve never used one before. I’ve always used dosing pumps til now. Good thing is that there are only fish in the tank and I’ll have lots of safe guards on CO2 release.

Biopellets take a while to kick in, but if you get a recirculating BP reactor, like the old Reef Dynamics, it’s low maintenance and really safe. Things seem to have shifted away from this method lately. I have my old Reef Dynamics reactor packed away for now. Warren

It took hours to get this picture. He is super shy and is really tiny.

This little fishy messed up my QT cycle for the invert tank. Not sure what I'll do now. He's too small to put anywhere else. Honestly, I'm surprised the filter hasn't sucked him up. He must have come in as an egg on the macro algae. The 2nd pic is a strange looking isopod. It doesn't have the big eyes that the parasitic types are known for. Either way, he's gone. The last one, someone on R2R said it looked like something from the Idotea genus.

I think perhaps I need to start a build thread for my very strange invert QT tank. I’m getting all sorts of strangeness in here. I practically screamed What this morning when I looked in and saw a little fish staring back at me!!! It’s too little for me to tell what kind of fish it is. I’ve had some other strange creatures in here too. This thing looks like a pill bug that mated with the moth from Silence of the Lambs: There’s this strange centipede like isopod [MEDIA=youtube]aVpIHN4ldfA[/MEDIA]

I had to reinforce my floors. My office, where the tank is, is over a crawl space. We added 2x12 LVL sistered against the existing joist, which the tank ran parallel to, and also reinforced the beam, which holds up the joists, with 2x12 LVL. I also sistered some 2x8 to the rest of the joists, even though it was overkill. There is no bounce now unless you really try to make it bounce.