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+1 when I started dosing Bionic my reef started to take off. Or I thought it was, until I began using zeovit adds (no reactor). Then it really began gaining steam.

Must be the wrong kind of plastic

I have watched videos and read a ton on it, but how exactly do you frag zoas, minus gloves, eye protection and breathing mask? My bambams are multiplying like crazy and I will def have to some fragging in the near future.

At least my Duncans do. I fed my them some turkey from whole foods today (carved from a bird not lunch meat, very fresh no preservatives) and they loved it! Usually I feed cyclopeeze mixed with sustainable aquatics pellets 3xs a week. All in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

Nanobox mono. I run one on my 10 gallon and its phenomenal.

Darn I wish I knew about this yesterday I was in Fairfax all day!

+100000

Def +1, awesome build. I'm going to have to get help from Neto when I build my controller!

Bad memories of that movie! Classic though...

Still liking the jarduino? I'm using a StormX and love it. But now I'm thinking about building a jarduino to control everything else lol...

Richard your corals are topnotch I bought a duncan from you at the meeting a few weeks back and it has sprouted two heads already. One is doubling in size every day!

Absolutely

Not talking about the chaeto. Read the post. The chaeto was dying bc I put the octo in tank, and it spilled out into the tank. Octo was sucking up the nutrients. Regardless the chaeto had like zilch effect on n and p, except for hoarding it all in the plant itself and not showing up even with hanna checkers. Mostly overfeeding but I compensate with skimming, rowaphos & carbon in a reactor, and frequent PWCs. Tank is doing great.

This is all from just my reading about the subject, but it seems a lot of people just run the 24hour cycle with the chaeto. Every tank is different though. When I ran chaeto I did reverse photoperiod and it did OK,. If I was to do again I would try out the 24h photoperiod since it would just be easier to leave the light on all the time. My 2c.

It is growing like wildfire. I'll have to split and sell a chunk of it soon. With this type of macro in the onion bag I have little spill out too. When I was running chaeto in the HOB it would just get everywhere in the tank, even with a screen I made from the original media basket. I ended up having to always put filter pad on the output, and change every day or two so detritus would not accumulate.

Purchased my first lot from him at the meeting last weekend. Great live stock, high quality stuff at a great price!

I shortened it about an inch and now it just pulls out the nastiest gunk. My skimmate is black. DIY FTW!

+1 to this I started with chaeto on my HOB fuge, got sick of tumbling and trimming. When i slacked like this the chaeto started dying, flowing in the tank, etc. Then I figured out, after researching, that chaeto for a smaller tank in an ac70 sized fuge is like using a match against the sun in a firefight. You need a large space like a sump refugium to properly do the chaeto nutrient export method. It needs to grown and then be trimmed to successfully export the n & p, if it is not then it starts to die and you will end up with more n & p then you had in the first place! So I ditched the chaeto and now just run small DIY reactors (rowaphos & zeovit carbon) in the AC70 with a lot of success. In conjunction with a DIY skimmer, I have all the nutrient export I need outside of PWC's. I also keep some blue macro algae in a onion bag in the tank, it performs some of the duties the chaeto did before.

Love exotic reef creations!

Following this, I have a similar idea for my AC70 on my 10g.

Sorry to hear, hopefully it all works out.

Yup that is the plan. Surgery begins this weekend!

I just got this from Dave at Nanobox He sells hanging kits you could get away with two Duos I bet. I have a Mono. It is pretty sweet, came with a Storm X controller. The entire tank instantly looked better, and I had a kessil ocean blue 150 that Quantum Reefs lent me before I received the new one. That is last night right after I set up.

I can put it in a little container with tank water to perform the surgery. Thanks for the advice!

Here is a clearer pic. You can see the tubes. Also I've noticed my sexy shrimp likes to munch on them which is good. But it also loves to munch on my birds nest which is bad :(