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Thanks! I am really excited to see the Merlin's Staff grow, it's pretty small right now.

Thanks Ty - the anemone seems happy to me so I am pleased!

Thanks Scott. I agree we should do that!

Thanks!

It's been a long time since a photo update. Here's a few I took today Wet Thumbs Tropical Punch Mille, WWC Red Polyp Clathrata, and WWC Black Widow Sold to me at Macna as Event Horizon Mille (I'm not 100% convinced) Back: Pretty in Pink, Walt Disney, RR Rainbow Blossom Front: Merlin's Staff, Orange Passion RMF Flavor Parade Pink Cadillac (from @olaggie01) JF Party Crasher Cyphastrea, F2M Holy Grail Micro, Rainbow Acan Pikachu! UC Strawberry Shortcake, RMF Diablo Mille, CB Malieficent (off to the left is GB Full Spectrum, and in the bottom left is CC Bahama Mama Mille) RMF Red Devil Nasuta Vivid Rainbow Delight Couple of torches Just some nice pieces RR Shazaam and TGC Northern Crush BC Aquaticman Reef Ready Grape Juice CSB Anemone CC Sleepy Hollows and JF Fruity Pebbles

That always happens so fast, doesn't it !!!

@mFrame

Nice collection

I'm using 5 radion G3 Pro on my tank, no diffusers. The tank is 6x2x2. I like them a lot, but they are definitely pricey. I think if you used the new diffusers the hotspot problem is not so pronounced. I'm using the difusers on 3 g3 pros over my 4x2 frag tank and the coverage measures pretty evenly on my par meter.

I owned one of the basic SBReef lights for a while. I used it for a frag tank. It seemed to be made well enough. I tried to contact them for some support (wanted to buy a hanging kit), and they never responded. Overall it seemed fine, but I did not feel it put out as much PAR as one would expect. I believe it was a 165 watt box so maybe I was just expecting too much from it.

Reaally sad I have to miss this one

Everything look pretty happy in the photos

I want to say some kind of anemone but I've never seen a white one that small

As far as I know, the only way to be 100% sure is with a microscope.

LoL. I actually googled acid reflux mille when I first saw this, but there were no hits ...

I did the siphoning weekly. All told it took about a month and 2-3 long sessions. I was siphoning with the rigid tubing like you use on the RODI units. So really getting down in the rocks and pulling up stuff but it took a long time in my 180. I also found that if I turned off all the pumps and blew the dinos off the sand and rocks they would start to clump up and float to the top of the water where I could skim them off the surface with a solo cup. Phyto helps feed pods, so my goal is to promote populations of lots of things that compete with the dinos for nutrient consumption, including pods and corals.

I'm willing to bet it's dinos. I believe I got those in both my tanks due to (1) lack of biodiversity, (2) starting with dry rock, and (3) nutrients too low. I e;liminated it in both my tanks. It's hard to say what specifically addresed it, but I did all these things (1) added pods, (2) started dosing phyto, (3) manual removal of the dinos by siphoning them directly off rocks etc coupled with water changes, (4) dosing up my levels of nitrates and phosphates, and/or adding fish & increasing feeding. Good luck!

Nice to meet you! Tanks look great There are a few people with College Station ties on here so hopefully they will speak up ...

Your tank looks great, I wish I could keep my sand that nice!

Hello neighbor to the North!

I'm hoping to go!

Great setup you have there. Given that you have a 375 some of those corals must be HUGE!

Ah, well I still have that drilled 40 breeder just waiting for a new home But seriously, corals growing into each other is the kind of problem I prefer over most other problems in this hobby!

Thank you! Haven't heard from you in a while. How's your tank doing?

Hilarious!