BtmDweller

My 50 gallon barrels had rotten olives sitting in them for a couple years. I cleaned them with bleach and rinsed thoroughly. I use bleach to wash filter socks as well. If I remember correctly there may have still been a faint odor when I had first used them. But very faint if at all.

Keep them coming. I think I’m going to grow out a solar flare on a top pillar, snippers bubblegum couple inches lower on a pillar next to it. Not a Milli but picked up a TSA haymaker that I can get to grow up a littler lower and up one side.

That’s cool. I’d be interested to see how that colors up!

Right. Or the illusion transition from colored polyp extension to tip.

Those look sweet. Was thinking something with a different colored tip though.

Do you have a pic of the afterglow don’t recall what that looks like.

That looks like it’ll color nicely as it grows.

I’m thinking of growing a millie trio on three different pillars center of a tank at different heights. I have a solar flare as top pillar, snippers bubble gum, and trying to come up with a third? Anyone have any favorites? Also pics if you have the coral.

As long as little pieces of rubble any gel super glue or reef glue will work on the rubble. If you’re going to wedge it inside you may as well glue it. Preventing from getting dislodged and blown somewhere. Also, correct gluing the body of a mushroom is difficult. It will come off later. But if it’s attached to rubble easy. Also, another trick if you want them to spread faster. Take a razor and slice them in half. Sometimes they’ll grow back together, but doing a few times and you’ll have lots of them. Faster than natural splitting. Assuming ideal conditions, they should be able to take the beating.

Chewy has the 200 gal boxes of reef crystals for $35 if that works. I use the regular IO myself.

chewy recently had a deal on IO purple 200 gal boxes for $36 each and free shipping. Not sure when they will do a deal again.

Could he be eating that much if he has a sunken belly? I’d say lack of diet which led to it. Plus fish bullying chomping the tail down, and preventing to eat? I have a very mean gem tang which decided to go after a lyretail and chomped his tail down in minutes. They were together for four months with moderate aggression dived amongst other tank mates. I’m not a fish expert, but would guess combo of diet from lack of eating and stress. I’ve seen the carbon issue, definitely worth a try.

I just reposted a post in the forum from R2R from BRS on aquascaping mistakes. It’s worth a watch.

you got pink ones, rainbows, and green ones lol. I think the first might be playboy bunny, second might be sonic flare.

That’s an orange and green milli. There are several variants.

Just saw R2R post from BRS that covers aquascaping mistakes. Thought it was worth a view. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/stop-aquascaping-and-watch-this-first-top-23-aquascaping-mistakes-were-all-making.704969/#post-7272956 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Check out some of the BRS videos. They cover this.

Just let me know when you want to bring jugs by. No charge.

Yeah definitely not a good idea.

If you get in a bind could host for a month or so. I’d have to pull a bunch of stuff together. No biggie. But someone else may already be set up. Looks like you may be setup for water. If not that’s easy. I’m in Manassas though.

That first one does look like like a WWC slimeball acro. As it grows it gets a dark orange polyp and white round tips. The thing has green polyps and grows more jagged.

I use it about once a year if I get cyano outbreaks. It does wonder in my tank. I have a large system though. I shut off my skimmer with no additional aeration. However I have a dual sump and attached system external skimmer. So five areas where water is splashing into the tank, perhaps aerating. Never issues with corals or fish.

Elephant slug

Fat and healthy!

I think it is more of a challenge with sand. You need to really watch your feedings. Food particles can get caught and then buried. If you’re really good at keeping lower nutrient water and have no algae growing in your tank then it will look nice and still needs something to stir/clean. If not it will become covered with algae and looks ugly. A lot of people are doing no sand because its easier to blow if the detritus. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk