Isaac

i've had paly goo on my hands and im still alive.  am i lucky or immune?  not gonna push my luck.  gloves!

tomorrow morning we shall see...

time to go fishing worming!

just gotta wash em off, find some rubble, and test!

3 hours ago, Vernon Saunders said:

I would be curious to see how well it works.

me too, printing it now!

redid the pull tab... made it flush, easier to print

so i stumbled upon this article....  https://reefbuilders.com/2017/10/02/tt-gadgets-built-an-ingenious-bristleworm-trap/

challenge accepted!

45mins later...

when you chemi-cleaned... did you do a water change before you fired up the skimmer, or just turn the skimmer on and replace saltwater as needed?  the reason i ask... my just turning the skimmer on, its essentially a super-wet skim.  if you agitate the "stuff" while the skimmer is running wet, it might actually take some of it out, even if its not cyano.

I actually think it looks like a diatom bloom.  this can occur on established tanks if your water change it too large of a ratio and/or you nitrogen cycle gets disrupted too much.  I'd monitor your water parameters daily to try and get a better idea of things, back to the basics... ammonia/nitrite/nitrate/phosphate.  if ammonia/nitrate are 0, doublecheck your top off water doesnt have chlorine/chloramines.  assuming its diatoms, you are looking for reasons the cycle would crap out.

for removal, i agree w/ tim, manual as much as possible, CUC for the rest.

whoever 3d printed those needs to adjust their settings.  do you know what material he used? better hope its petg or abs, cuz pla will melt over time in saltwater and release bad stuff.

phosphate 0.26... up from 0.24 (4/3)  ..w/in margin of error
nitrates down to 3-5ish... down from 5ish (4/3)

volume of GHA is down, more lighter "ribbon" algea than typical GHA.
going to add another cube of food next meal prep.

4 minutes ago, FarmerTy said:

Oh wait, I shouldn't have said anything. There is going to be a price on my head now.

The usual, mortimor?

2 minutes ago, FarmerTy said:

 I post about when I go to the bathroom on here.

speaking of which, we need to have a chat...

same diff (fact check line stands regardless).  i think its poorly written... and more than likely it was a paly, not a xenia.  i dont think ive hard of xenia doing this before?

sourced from "SWNS.com", i guess foxnews was the first to parrot it.

http://swnsmediagroup.com/

39 minutes ago, Dogfish said:

Hum xenia have diterpenes. Not sure which ones. So does coffee. Coffee diterpenes, cafestol and kahweol in particular. These molecules are composed of a diterpenic nucleus, heterocyclic furan, and a glycone chain. They are known for their anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties. Being a Fox news story, has me wondering about fact checking.

msnbc linked it first yesterday, why is everything political?

...and they wonder why i hate palys... aside from their invasiveness. 

2 hours ago, Christyef said:

You keep that in the fridge for over a week and Don’t refeeze it? Having already defrosted food would be handy!

its nice.  and the supplements get added daily, as opposed to once a week... works out well.

today's readings:

phosphate 0.24... up from 0.15 (3/18) 
nitrates down to 5-ish ... down from 10-15ish (3/18)

I have doubled food & supplements the last 2 weeks to keep the nitrates up, but it seems the phosphate is not coming out at the same rate!

(from first post w/ bolded edits)

Feeding/Dosing:
-I prepare 8 days worth ahead of time in old 110ml breastmilk bottles
-1 cube of each per bottle: mysis, brine, krill (all bulk from brineshrimpdirect)
-1 extra cube of mysis in 4 bottles, brine in the other 4
-6 8 drops of garlic (per bottle)
-1 2 tiny spoons (reef chili spoon/chemiclean) of each per bottle: polyplab reef roids, BRS reef chili
-10ml of each: kent microvert, kent chromaplex, kent phytoplex, kent zoe
-20ml of each: brightwell zooplantos-L, brightwell zooplanktos-M
-20ml of each: real sea reef energy A & B
-20ml brightwell coral kolor
-10ml brightwell potassium
-40ml 50ml kent Coral accel
-all liquids mixed (240ml) and split evenly between the 8 bottles (30ml), topped off w/ ro/di, put in fridge