FarmerTy

I'm still alive... I swear! 🤗

Your daily morning dose of coral pics! [emoji3526]

That's great to hear! Slow and steady wins the race with reef tanks!

More pics! I'm so backlogged with posting!

Photo dump!

Haha, thanks bud! How's the tank doing?

Video I tried to do entirely on my phone.

Picture perfect sir! 😂🤣😂

Thanks bud! I don't do systematic waters changes but when I need to replace water, I just use coralife sea salt. I buy a big box from RCA during their Friday sales every once in awhile.

Alright... Now that it's super easy to upload via tapatalk... Photo dump time!

You're not allowed to do that. I bought you a beer... It initiates the always like me protocol. [emoji41]

Picture dump before the weekend!

Thank you! I did the same when I started out as well! I wish you great successes with your tank!

[emoji12]Thanks a bunch bud! Thanks! Got one of these from Caravanshaka that seems to be helping. [emoji2957]

Thanks guys! It's nice to be appreciated in any capacity for something you pour your heart into. Thanks for the good feels! [emoji3059]

So this happened.... https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-of-the-month-june-2019-farmerty.615678/#post-6182098

I get the night terrors everytime John says he's going on a trip. But yeah, terrible bud. I'm sorry about your fish.

If anybody missed the subtle jab, Tim is talking about me as a person that likes to present himself as a person of science (not that my degree in Ocean and Coastal Resources or my 10 years of being an actual scientist plays any part in that maybe being somewhat factual)... If you're going to dig your heels in Tim, at least call me by name sir. This is also the second time I have seen you utter the same gripe about a person of science and not taking the time to read and refute. I've already told you last year via PM that I don't have the luxury of free time that you do. I have a wife and kid and both our families live in town... So curling up with the newest reef research is not at the top of my priority list as I'm happy just to have time to feed my fish before I go wash bottles or do laundry. It is not out of lack of desire to read is the issue... It is the time constraint so I do the best I can. Honestly, you're the only reason I don't spend time on ARC anymore. I'm got tired of having a successful acropora dominated tank and trying to share advice that worked for me to achieve that tank get thrown back in my face by someone that just regurgitates articles they read and has never produced a beautiful acro-dominated tank that I've ever seen. I've seen your tank at your house... Stags (the easiest of acros) with burnt tips and STN at the base with glass so dirty I could hardly see them... And I've seen your body of work with your clients in person and on video. None of what I have seen I would consider maintained or created by a person I would consider an acro expert. Where's the Hawkins echinata you were going to grow in a tap water topoff system of yours? I saw 3 pictures of it and then it was never mentioned again. The disappointing part is you've seen my tank in person and was even amazed at how I was able to achieve the colors I do from the acros. I don't understand how you can refute the level of success I've had with them and my experience with them that you've seen with your own eyes. That my advice may actually may be helpful to those trying to achieve the same type of tank. I'm not running a softie tank here... So my advice is geared towards those trying to achieve the same style of tank that I run with full acros. That's fine if you don't agree with that for your type of tanks... But my advice was never geared for that type of system so I don't understand where you have a leg to stand on to counter my advice when I've never seen you run an acro-dominant tank? I don't sit around and tell people how to run tap water ATO tanks with no skimmers... I have no leg to stand on with those type of systems. I don't really appreciate the back handed jabs at me... Even when I had left the forum already. I don't know if my absence is why you were bolstered to do it again but just please stop and move on. You are behaving like you still have a chip on your shoulder. I'm not even around anymore. Regarding low phosphates... I keep mine at 0.03 ppm. This is what 0.03 ppm of phosphates looks like in my tank. I don't consider my corals starved and unhealthy. I'm not entrenched in old reefer dogma... I run that based on my experience with color and health in correlation with phosphate levels in my tank and found that the lower end pulls better colors for me and keeps my tank more stable while increasing growth. There are going to be anomalies with any rule but I stick with what I've seen in my own acro dominated systems the last 7 years I've been running them. If you're running a softie tank... Don't keep it that low... But that's not who I am trying to advise these days. They'd be better off listening to someone else's advice for those type of tanks. I haven't run one in 7 years so I'm a bad resource. I've said my peace. Feel free to say whatever you need to say to get it off your chest and let's just move on. I'd rather be spending time with my kid then thinking about this stuff... That's why I left in the first place Tim.

That's what I did. It'll help suppress tank wide epidemics of it. May not ever rid you of it but will make occurrences less of an issue. That and not keep fish that have little resistence to it... Like Achilles,powder blues, etc.

Personally consider ich free to not mix well with normal standards of reefing. Unless you plan to QT every frag, fish, and CUC 76 days... It'll eventually revert to having ich in it. Not a question of if... But when. Just my 2 cents bud.

Leave it alone bud. You'll end up losing a couple fish in the process and your corals will pay a bit with them gone from the tank. And remember, last time it didn't even work for you and you got ich back in the tank again.

You finally got your naso! I bet Holly is ecstatic! Tank looks great bud!

Looking great!

Its the one for the Apex. I'll let others try it out... I'm happy with my Alkatronic. The cost of reagent and mandatory service every 18-24 months (where you ship it in) has this guy turning the other direction from the Trident. Really, monitoring alk is the only thing important to me. Calcium tracks closely with alk usually and Mg I dose once every quarter at best so I really don't need to know either of the other two daily like I do alk. Just my 2 cents. Someone buy it and test it out for me and let me know though. I'm always curious. [emoji16]

Winner winner Jolt! Thanks! It was a long day so I didn't have the energy to look it up. [emoji53]