thedude

Haha I deleted all of them but I still have these 91 unread ghost messages. Man, I'm popular.

*EDIT

I take that back, I have NEGATIVE 91 messages haha

Andrew,

My PM's are acting real weird. First, it said I had a PM from you and I didn't, then my inbox was 181% full, and now it says I have 91 new messages.

Fragging for the swap!

Seriously though, if you miss this meeting you will regret it.

Shop vac to suck out the crud in the sump.

We use muriatic acid to clean all pumps, skimmers, etc. except for tunze streams (the acid will eat through the brakes).

Basically the same requirements as "cooking" live rock. Powerhead or pump to circulate and oxygenate the water, heater to keep it warm, trashcan full of water to keep it wet.

Robert!

We've missed you on here man, how's the new baby and tank?

I think that in my experience a 6500k bulb grows chaeto better. Best place to check would be www.melevsreef.com

John

What is your temperature doing? Sounds like a pH or temperature swing to me.

John

Yes it's true... Clint's new tank actually exists and is in my possession. Yo Brian, pics?

I'm partial to some of the red calurpa's often sold attached to rocks. Something a little different then your normal fuge inhabitants.

We'd need a picture to know anything conclusive but be sure to feed him/her plenty of greens. A vitamin soak such as Kent's Zoe or H20 Life's V2H can go a long way in healing a sick fish.

John

I'll give you $200 dollars for the crappy car in your garage

Yes I run a LFS so I get all my salt from secret LFS salt mines.

Seriously though, I don't consider Tropic Marin to be a "premium" salt but have been impressed with its batch to batch consistency. I had no problems when I used instant ocean except for low magnesium and my seachem experience was bad. One thing I think puts Tropic Marin above all the rest is their essential element concentration. They put every essential element present in NSW into their salt and I for one, think it helps.

John

We switched our whole operation to Tropic Marin and have had excellent results with it. Very consistent batches, good mix time, and great coral growth.

I personally at home use Tropic Marin Pro Reef as I run a calcium reactor.

HTH,

John

The only thing I can see is to monitor your phosphate. With increased feedings, phosphate goes up.

Berghia

Yes

Elimi-Aptasia or whatever it is that Tropic Marin sells flat out sucks. You have to inject the anemones base with the liquid. Don't know if you've noticed, but they don't like being stabbed with a needle and tend to retract into a spot you can't inject them.

No way that's true.

They have a lifespan way closer to one year in a tank because they are never collected at zero days old.

In my experience, it's more like $170.

If I had to do my first 20L over again, I'd use Tunze 6025 nano streams for powerheads, and T5 lighting.

Halides over my tank and he's just fine. I suck at taking pictures but let's see if Greenmako will share the pictures he took of his.

Yo Brian post your pics haha!

I have to tell you Mark, these fish are WAY hardier than blue spots.

One of the wholesalers walked me through how they get blue spot jawfish... It basically involves a truck (read pickup truck) driving in from Baha, and dropping off some fish.

Stephen,

Awesome! I cannot wait to see what you find out!

John

No, same family as a sixline

Clayton is definitely selling dendros and they're gorgeous. As others have said, much larger sun coral that feeds during the day.

John