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I use regular IO. When I was new I used Reef Crystals. I had thought it left a residue in the mixing container so I quit it. Now thinking about going back to RC. Because of the extra stuffs in it

Great answer origami. The green slimer is pretty hardy and very common. I would strongly recommend it. The thick tall branches are very stately.

welcome!

Lol this is what happens when I drink too much wine and start posting ^^^^^^^^^ way off topic tangent

Wasnt at the last meeting and have never dosed peroxide in my life :( Just a little advice with SPS. Look at them the wrong way and they die it happens to the best of us. Buy a bunch, bio diversity. See which ones work for you then which ones don’t. After that just stick with what works. Any time I change something losses happen. Probably never seen or heard of this advice before from anyone but me But I feel “number chasing is the best” most people claim Their system is oh so special and their system is so neat that they don’t need to do much but I have found the opposite, the more work I put in the more “better” results I get. Keeping SPS is like steering a large ship. Plan ahead and things will be great. Be reactive to symptoms and it’s too late

I would pay for healthy fish. Especiallly if it is someone that truely cares about the specimine and it’s life. But unfortunately selling fish is a business and it doesn’t make financial sense to do the job right.

Mojano can be very pretty. I don’t like that it has two heads. my anemone don’t do that. Even my small ones.

Welcome to borrow mine but I can’t help move with having small kids. The bed is only 6.5 and it’s got a cap on it

Here is a pic of the small pods. Are the large ones not pictured amphipods and these small ones Copepods? Feel free to post a pic of each if you have a sweet macro. These little guys are usually most densely populated in the corners of the tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I could see how mandarin would starve to death easy or could get damaged in shipping or bullied easy. Mine eats pods non stop and I supplement it with frozen. My previous tanks had only had the large fast pods but this one has some really tiny ones everywhere!! In my 65g the wrasse keeps the small ones at bay. I can only see them in places the wrasse can’t reach like behind a coral or behind the anemone basket. But this tank nothing seems to eat them but the mandarin so they are alll over the place. I want to buy it a mate since it didn’t even put a dent in population. Trying to keep this pic heavy so here we go! My yellow millipora is finally worth photographing! I was new to hobby when I had bought it. Killed all but two polyps. Now 3 years later this lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just from scrubbing?. Usually to get the whole house sick the poison has to get airisolized

I hate to be so speculative but how do we know these pods they sell will actually reproduce in small tanks? How do we know a red or black bug didn’t tag along? I had read somewhere that there are hundreds of species. The best thing I would think is siphon some out of a felllow hobbiest tank. Also try to find a hobbiest that can siphon out mysid those guys are really cool. I need some!

He’s eating like a pig and I am now regretting the stupid post. Was yours a maroon clown? Won’t buy them again. But I did like watching it host anemone. True love. but hated my fingers and attacked also. Drew blood once

I was really surprised when I saw my small clownfish come shooting out the end of my siphon tube into the water change bucket. I bought some red legs to acclimate and am doing a water change. He seems ok. I’ll keep you guys updated. Let me know if this has happened to you Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Have you tried the large Mexican Turbo snails? They have ate everything in their path for me.

The last time I opened the freezer at ricks there was 1” of frosted ice encompassing everything so I couldn’t tell what was in stock and what wasn’t. Rick restocks the LRS but he pays old fashion with check so it takes awhile.

Target Mandarin. Newest addition to the family traded for SPS at LFS. I noticed about 78 copepods per square inch on my glass (barely exaggerating). So I figured I would be able to keep this guy. He will not touch flake, pellets or frozen despite the other fish trying to train him. Luckily he’s gained weight/grown since buying 4 months ago and has not even put a dent in pod population yay! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Beautiful piece! Should have bought an extra as my clowns host mine and slow the growth down lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I haven’t added fish for a few years so I forget and gave them away. I ended up buying two because they were so in accurate. I remember thinking What the heck when dipping a stick in some powder it seemed like I would get different amounts of powder every time.

the rock and sand are absorbing it. The QT is suppose to be bare bottom and just have plastic pipes in it for cover for fish. The problem with this is people set them up in a rush and they aren’t cycled. So ammonia spikes and kill fish.

I’ll tell everyone about my CBB. I have one. I have to feed FROZEN 3 times per day to keep weight on it. Won’t touch or look at flake or any of the pellet brands. 3 x frozen is a minimum. It’s still not as fat as they come in from the wild but it looks good enough and is 2 years old now. They are fragile and don’t ship well. Very finicky eaters. My CBB didn’t ever touch aiptasia until around 6 months. Very timid my tangs kept bullying mine to the corner stressing it out for the first few months (which doesn’t help it learn the captive diet). They pick at food slowly the tangs have all food inhaled by the time it gets two half bites in. The advantage of the pep shrimp is one can live in the overflow and clean that up. A couple in the sump. The downside I have seen is that they don’t live much more than 3 months. I have not seen pep shrimp eat my coral but have heard a few isolated cases. I wonder if they were just cleaning up dying or very sick coral

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Pep shrimp

Solar is a great long term investment. Everything is covered for 20 years from roof leaks to inverters. At this rate I’ll be paid off lonnnng before the warranty ends. (And if electric charges rise, even quicker) Let me know if you are interested in talking to someone and I can put you in for a discount. (It’s the only way to get a discount) I did not buy the battery sorry if I derail this. The picture is over the life of the system it’s a couple weeks shy of my 1 year annerversary. Couple of honest opinions: 1)not recommended if you will move in less than 10 years. 2)a southish facing roof helps pay them off a lot quicker 3) the lease option is great if you don’t have money down but they take a good percentage of power production. 4) my roof wasn’t big enough to cover my usage (because of the fish tank

Can you get a picture of the other panel? It could just be that edge busted up.