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Goodbye anemones. Hate to do that to my clown, but my tank simply isn’t big enough for split happy bubbletips. They already killed one acro colony. Totally engulfed it. Had to chisel them off the rocks and give them away. In the future I’ll consider a sand dwelling nem. Maybe if I can find a pretty Malu nem or something. No more bubbletips for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Pulled the tunzes. Roger said if I sent it to him and he could verify the clontroller has no water damage, he would send out a new motor for $90. Haven’t replied yet. I got two Jebaos in the mail today. Nice to have heavy flow again. PE improved tenfold almost instantly. I may order a few more of these and possibly go even bigger Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Just got this one yesterday. Documenting how the color progresses. Part of me likes getting slightly bleached specimens. Partially for the challenge, partially for the surprise of what it’ll turn into. No idea what species it is. I understand it to be a teal colored thick branched stag of some sort. Couple more top downs. Generally happy with color. Growth is leaving a lot to be desired. For how stable my alk is and my nutrient levels I expect a lot faster growth. This one is interesting. Purple and purple can be, and it has grown almost none in 2 years. Barely covered the plug Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Lately I’ve been thinking to myself “where can I find some old school AC tunzes? You know the ones people tout as running without a hiccup for 25 years without a single cleaning or impeller replacement. I’d gladly forego all the modern niceties of programming if it meant they would just work all the time and never fail. I’m the literal antithesis of the whole idea of “I want to stay in the know on every brand new product and device and constantly rotate out the newest of everything and change my “method” every couple months based on some new idea” type reefer. The most valuable gear one can have is the gear you forget about. I truly believe that. I don’t care how neat something is. I want it to work faithfully for a decade or more. With little to no input from me. I don’t want to see it, hear it, touch it, mess with it. Just work. I’m fine with being 4-5 generations back on any particular make or model. Just work please Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I know it man! I’m just waiting on my lights to die ha ha I’ve got some friends that just keep saying over and over “just go big get vortechs man!” But I’m so gun shy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Well this is just perfect. Purchase date 11/2015 Tunze motor just went kaput. Pump is clean. Power supply still lights up. But nothing. Propeller won’t spin. Not on the native controller, nor on apex. I know everyone raves about their customer service (anyone have a contact email? Or phone?), but 2.5 years for a pump of this “caliber” is kind of disappointing. Considering how I still have a couple 1st generation jebaos (missing mounting brackets and magnets) that are still running fine. What a bummer. I’m down to one tunze 6105 so I just cranked it up and am running it at 100% shooting straight across. I’ll have to deal with laminar flow for a week till the replacements arrive. I won’t pay to replace tunzes every 2 years. They’re not cheap enough for that. Have a couple jebao OW-40 on the way. Will likely order a second pair and just rotate them every month or so in order to keep them cleaner. No more on/off either. I feel like that reduces motor life. I know the math is done to death, but 4 jebao ow-40 = one tunze 6105 cost wise. And one MP40 is 5.7x the cost of on jebao ow40. I had an mp40 magnet swell and crumble after a couple years, a sicce impeller burst, and now a tunze motor fail. I clearly am oddly attracting lemons. At any rate. I’m not getting what I pay for. If I have to replace a component every 2 years I’d prefer it cost $70 rather than $300-400 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

What did you just call me!?! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ph reduction test? Did I get the name right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

That makes too much sense. I always wondered how varying light levels, types, locations could provide a constant read. Correct. If you run a test with no vial and leave the lid open, you'll see theres a green diode that flashes for a second at the end of the phos timer or pretty much right when you press the button on the alk checker (those are the two I own, i'd assume its the same for the rest). There is a photoreceptor oppsite the diode and it measures the green light attenuation based on the reaction in the tube and assigns a numerical value to it based on whatever function is programmed. Thus, your test result. Alot more consistent of a read than guessing a titration end point, or a color shift. In a blacked out tube the green light will be the same all the time and the device measures specific wavelengths. It won't be tricked like your own eyes.

These are the pics the seller messaged me First is mother colony Second is this specific frag immediately after cutting Here it is literally the second I pulled it out of the bag and plopped it on the frag rack. One month ago today 5/4 And a repeat one month later 6/4 You can see I lost a tiny bit of the base which is ok. It isn’t STN’ing on me or anything and has zero pests. Just had a really rough trip as you can see. Seller was running GHL mitras, all blue and violet for most the day with a little 2 hour pop at 9000k setting in the middle of the day he said to me. I’m running t5 so obviously it’ll look a little different for me. That’s ok. I was smitten with that mother colony though and had to have a piece. I won’t be coming up with a silly name for it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Thanks man! Beats me. It’s a tenuis I know that much. Was a rando from Facebook. The guy named it himself so in my book it’s nameless. The colony had the same kind of green base with purple tips and a little pink here and there. Green/yellow polyps depending on location. Similar to some of the high dollar homewrecker/Walt Disney’s out there but at 1/10 the price. It bleached 100% in transit but is really coming back around. TLDR: its a no namer tenuis Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Couple others cooking on the frag rack that are really coming around. I’ve got a battlebox on the way in one month so these will come off the rack just before that gets here Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I know right? It’s so hard for me to pony up the money for a par meter! It’s not that I can’t afford one it’s just that I seem to want something else more. I need to suck it up and at least get a seneye which I hear reads within about 10% what the apogee 500 series does, which is good enough for me. A difference between 350-400 micromol is negligible to me when it comes to accuracy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

No clue what the par is. I’ve still never par mapped the tank ha ha. At best I’m able to use various coral observations to at least get a ballpark of high medium and low. My red planet has zero green in it. Kung pow turning pink, ect Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Interesting color shift on this montipora over the last month or so. 5/5 - 6/1. Losing a lot of it’s yellow and turning pink. I’ve heard they do this in high par and need much lower light levels to retain that banana yellow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve been paying a bit more attention to water quality as of late after doing a lot of reading. I know it’s obvious that stable parameters are a given but I’ve paid more attention to feeding, waste control, and how they relate to light and alkalinity levels. I’ve been pretty happy with the results thus far. It seems my scape is giving me fits on where to place new stuff. Parts of my scape are too vertical so I’ll have to epoxy bits of rubble here and there almost like a rock wall so I can start clearing some stuff off the frag rack This one is getting prettier and prettier as tome goes by. Still some brown deep on the older branches. But as it ages and the nutrients stay lower it’s getting lots of nice surprising shades. It’s real leggy though despite getting lots of flow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I’ve just always been a fan of the high contrast well trimmed fruit stand look. Solid colors observing the color wheel principle. Two tones are fine and I won’t turn my nose up at most things to be honest. I’m not that much into the name game. Yet. Sean though. I hope everything transitions well. Get that upgrade going. That 25 will run out of room quick ha ha. Of course you have pearl berry. To be honest. Even if a fake looks as good as the original, it’s just as well. Pearl berry isn’t that expensive anymore. Is WWC the real deal or are they faking ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I guess I don’t have a true holy grail but in general I do still prefer the classics. I aim for more of an old school high contrast tank with monochromatic or two tone acros. These acros with every color in the visual spectrum look great as frags under LEDs and macro shots but don’t do as much from across the room know what I mean. I still am jonesing for a true real deal pearl berry colony Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro I’ll add. Once the 150 is set up I intend it to be a 10 year + tank. Therefore once the sniff test starter corals pass, on of the earliest additions I would love to get ahold of is a real deal purple monster. Long term investment

Yeah I can’t wait too ha ha. No telling on when we will be moving though. We were really close and the thought of being so house poor made us rethink it and we are kind of back to the drawing board right now. I think if we will be in this house for another 4-5 years I will set the tank up, it it’ll be 1-2 I’ll just sit on it a while. The real estate market here is too advantageous for sellers right now. And median property taxes are currently among the top 8% among all counties nation wide and they’re only going up. Cost of construction and taxes are outpacing our ability to save basically. This will become easier when the vehicles are paid off and the kids are in school At this point though I’m just trying to beautify my 90 gallon further. Paying much better attention to water quality lately and acquiring better acros. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Yeah I gave up on the Walt Disney. Especially now that he’s in ATX lol. I was moderately excited that a local had one but truth be told the WD isn’t anywhere close to my holy grail acro. It looks real nice under blue LEDs I’ll give you that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I definitely see some variation in yours. I’m just glad to be in the club! Gonna be hard to find more for the price I paid on this one. I won’t give a number but it was only 2 digits Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ha! Oh I’m sure I’ll start nit picking the differences and hunting down a rainbow Phoenix at some point. Maybe settle for an apple berry when I order my battle box Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

The yellow is the Kung pow. I’d have been happy with beach bum, rainbow Phoenix, or any of the other ones that look almost identical is what I really meant. They’re all kind of a yellow base rainbow color. Some a little more peach some more orange on the rim. They look so similar I really don’t think you can go wrong with any. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

And forgive the less than perfect colors. Pic taken about 5 minutes after it came out of the bag from being shipped across country Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Wwc Kung pow. Same species. Close enough on color depending on your lighting. Have a few more new ones on the rack that are recovering from shipping. The monti I am most excited about. A yellow rainbow palawanensis regardless of specific name has been a bucket list coral for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro