Robb in Austin

Maybe you should just take the GFO and biopellets off line altogether.

Not that you haven't had really good results with your old tank, but maybe it's time to go simple. Skim well, feed heavily, frequent WCs.

You're making me nervous. You should setup a small tank for your experiments.

Snail? Or did you get a flounder?

Very nice GB reference Bpb.

Did you do all that with your trusty but bumbling sidekick at your side, dramatic lightning in the background, and top it all off with a sinister laugh?

What's your Bayer dip recipe Ty?

I'd recommend trying it with that lemonade you just picked up. Can't be too careful with new frags. AmIright?!

It's like you are doing all this stuff on purpose in order to toughen your corals up.

I can see it now; "Farmer Ty's Corals. The hardiest coral money can buy! If I can't kill em, neither can you!"

Since this topic comes up from time to time, I figured I'd start a thread about it.

Basic collecting can be done on the beaches and jetty. On the beaches, just grab clumps of sea weed that is floating in the ocean and see what is hiding in there.

On the jetty, go out at night, all the way to the end (it's about a 1/4 mile hike). You'll need head lamps, sturdy shoes (no flip flops) as the rock can be wet and it's uneven, a small to medium fish net (like we use in our tanks), a bucket with an air stone. You should get a SW fishing licence but you can take your chances without. Shine your light down in between the rocks and scoop up what you can. A head lamp with a red light option is a good idea.

Here's a link to a bunch of threads on Port A:

http://tinyurl.com/m5t6oxk

I'm curious why you didn't go local for the BML light.

Baloney!

Yup, that was the one. Shoot Dave, aka Prof, a pm. I think he has one laying around.

M215GTBFAM. I like it.

I think I saw a used Ca reactor at RCA. No idea on the size though.

Mr. SaltwaterTank will be in town soon; piggy back while he's here!

My Clarkii were spawning like clockwork in my 75. Even though they don't have a nem, it looks like they are getting ready to resume activities in the 215.

Sounds somewhat like the typical new tank cycle. I didn't read all the thread, at work, but run carbon and increase water changes. If you can do smaller weekly water changes it would be better than larger bi weekly or monthly ones.

That is nice looking.

Who is this Tom and why is he a fool?!

Or pig.

Ok Brian. Post the one I requested.

Holy cow!

I'd be talking to the post office too.

Great build thread. You've raised the bar on build threads.

Make him bald and goateed.

Tank has been running along just fine. I put a tail spot, fire fish, and goby/prawn combo in a while back. I lost my tail spot and fire fish for no apparent reason over the last 6-8 weeks.

Until today.

Found a gorilla grab when I fed the tank this morning. He must have hitch hiked in and remained very well hidden. I'm just surprised he was in there for this long and never seen him before.