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My tank is 1 today!

If i had the ATI hybrid I would take down my canopy just to show it off.

I would trade anemones with you any time. Yours is pretty sweet. The red algae would drive me crazy but that is why I have 2 urchins.

The Dome is killing me, how could I pass up a yellow Milli?

I changed the link, but the zoomed in version of the Go Pro pics gets blurry. Still have some work to do to figure out the settings.

First pics with Go Pro under water

What is considered an acceptable size for a mermaid, my son has been looking for one? I was thinking about a 440g dropout!

New additions Turbinaria heronensis From Bigsby

Both the torch and hammer I got from AquaSD have both completely melted. This is the first shipped order I have done and I am very disappointed with the result. I think I will just stick to buying from the LFS and other members from now on.

For the SPS people

I may have to admit my reefing addiction, I set a 90 day no live stock purchase goal. Then 40 days sober I go to get some water and find this. AquaDome seems to be dialing in the their Mariculture tank which could be really bad for my condition.

So the temp has continued to rise, I was hoping that once it got to around 82 it would stop but it got up to 83 and was still going up so I picked up a $10 dollar clip on fan, hooked it up to the Apex and put it in the sump. The fan has brought down the temp to 81.5 and is keeping it there for now but I need a better solution. I do not want to go the chiller route and I am currently looking for a better fan. Has anyone tried any of the aquriam fans or should I build something with CPU fans?

Heater is upstream but it has 2 failsafes on it and has been within .2 degrees since I set up the apex. LED is the cheap refugium light that came with the tank, it is set to come on at 11pm and go off at 8am. Also the amps are off on the heater all night

Heater is on the left side of the sump and is controlled by the Apex probe in the right side of the sump. Lights start ramping up at 8am to a max of 33 blue 22 white from 11-4 then ramp back down, then off at 11pm

I'm not sure what's going on with my tank, the heat is going up starting at 78.4 at 5pm and going up to around 80.5 by 6am then starts falling back to 78 by 4 or 5pm. The room temp is 77 to 78 degrees and I only have a very small led light on at night. The heat cycle seems counterintuitive to what I would expect.

Full tank shot

Apex is working so I figured I would make some filter socks that I saw online. Cost about 50 cents each.

Regular wifi is working fine and Fusion has been working fine since I set it up at Christmas (of course I was in town). I used a wifi extender then ran a Cat5 wire to into the APEX and I have not had a problem until I left town. I had my wife do the standard IT thing, turn it off and back on but the signal is not coming back. I am just really pissed that a 99 dollar Kindle has built in wifi, a 100 dollar printer has built in wifi, but a $600 dollar controller doesn't! My tank is on the other side of the house from my router so I would need to run a couple hundred feet of cable to hard wire it and I am not usually handy. I set up a drip of part b (alk has been at 2.5 and ph at 7.8) before I left and planned to monitor the ph and adjust if needed, but I had my wife unplug the aqualifter as I was not sure if I had the failsafe logic and drip set correctly. No big deal but still annoying.

I got the APEX for piece of mind when I travel, but of course, as soon as I go out of town the APEX stops working and just says APEX disconnected! Why in the blank does APEX not build in wifi. Stop being greedy and bult in the blanking wifi. Sorry for the rant but for the price you should not have to buy a seperate piece of equipment to connect it.

Everyone loves this fish!

New anemone green with pink tips and white speckles Mushrooms Stylo and Monti

I just finished moving over my fish and coral from my 29 gallon tank and found a purple banded shrimp I haven't seen in 10 months. Wow that thing can hide!

Just waiting for Sam to let me know when the reinforcements are healed and I am heading that way.

The Westside is recruiting if you know any volunteers, their numbers are a little thin. I added another 20 pound bag of black sand that was a heavier grain and I have been shiphoning out the lighter sand when it makes its way to the top. So far no more sand storms.

SPS side after the crash LPS side