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I'm having the worst luck getting healthy copperbands. Trying everything - live blackworms, clams, no go. So I'm reaching out to see if anyone has one that would be willing to sell to me. Name your price! Drop me a message!

I think I got the same tank! 96 x 30 x 24 Planet from RCA. I ended up scrapping the Tideline overflow and replacing with an Exotic Marine.

Long shot I know. Looking for 1 or 2 of them.

Unfortunately not, surprisingly.

Looked everywhere, nowhere local. Figured it was worth a shot on ARC.

caravanshaka does I believe.

I owned a Biocube years ago and ended up swapping out the stock lights with a set from Nanobox. I think it was called the Retro (?). I haven't read this whole thread so apologies if this option was already mentioned.

Cool, will PM you.

Reef safe.

I've had him for about a year. No issues. No aggression, healthy eater. I am just lowering my bioload and pulling a couple fish. I'm located in SW Austin. $30. I'll also consider a trade if you have a sleeper goby.

Anyone selling any torches? Post some pics!

I appreciate it! I actually have two new po4 kits here. Both read 1.2. I’m slowly bringing it down now. Would phosphate reading that high cause rtn in acros?

Same page. I ordered a Salifert test. 1.2ppm. Went back to my old Hanna. 0.015 ppm.

I was at Ty’s house a couple days ago. If he told me his secret to his ridiculous tank was throwing dirty gym socks into it, I’d be at the gym getting a membership right now

ICP results arrived. Everything green except this. 1.2 mg/l phosphate. And this is after quite a substantial amount of water changes. I’ve been testing po4 with a Hanna and never got a single reading over 0.03. Bad reagent. Im thinking maybe my new rock on the right has been leeching phosphate. I’ve never in my life seen phosphate this high before and I am assuming it could cause some death.

This is a big fear for me right now. I've checked and re-checked -- what if I missed something? I added a poly filter which are supposed to change color if metals are present. After a few days, no color. I sent out an ICP test today so I'll know more in a week or so.

Two weeks ago I was in total agreement with you. I thought for sure that was the answer. But I feed heavy and have a huge bioload. I removed my filter socks, removed my algae scrubber, and removed the marinepure blocks, and went back to needing to clean glass daily. Hair algae is starting to pop up. Brand new tester frags are still dying.

Sorry to hear that, what a bummer. When starting up my 'new' system, I got an instant cycle because all of my old very established live rock and live stock was moved over. I assumed that all the maturity of my old system would carry over to this new system, despite one rock being new as well as new sand. Maybe that isn't the case. I've ruled everything else out. I've done enough water changes to basically cycle out all old water over the course of a couple months. So despite moving all my old live rock over, maybe a tank upgrade with new sand and one large new dead dry rock is enough to sort of reset the tank's life. In which case maybe this 'new' system is too young for acropora. I'm getting algae blooms now, hair algae, cyano, and what looks like dinos as of two days ago -- algae blooms I'd associate with a new tank, blooms that were taken care of years ago in my old tank prior to moving everything over. It feels like a new tank starting from square 1. Maybe this could account for acroporas dying. Even now, throwing cheap acros in, they perish. Softies are LPS are 100% healthy and happy. At this point I ruled everything else out. Now I wait for this new era of uglies to dissipate then I'll try again. I did borrow a UV sterilizer from a buddy. I'm waiiting for a mj1200 to arrive in the mail today and I'll hook it up. I'm not anticipating anything amazing happening but at this point it couldn't hurt.

The setup was easy, it took me maybe 20 minutes. Yea, you need a reservoir or a drain nearby. I'm using an old BRS gallon container I had lying around.

That’s correct jolt, although I don’t have much data to graph yet.

Trident arrived today. So far so good. It is quiet. Easy setup.

I was able to snag one, it’ll be here in a couple days. I agree about 4x minimum testing, what is that? For cal and mag no less. But if the reported reagent prices are accurate then it’ll amount to less than what I’m paying at the moment for daily alk and weekly cal/mag manual testing.

All the generosity in this thread is humbling. I appreciate it, you guys. But no worries -- the alk is stable, I've been keeping a close eye on it (manually)

Thanks, guys. I’m not even mad anymore. Just curious. I’m slowly going through variable by variable. No stray voltage. Lights are fine. RODI still outputting 0 tds. Nutrients are good. No bad hardware leeching metals. What’s left? Bad batch of salt? Bad batch of ATI Essentials? Those are the last two things I can think of. I’m slowly swapping out my water with Fritz salt as I’ve had great success with it prior to this new tank. All in all I’ve lost around 40 acros ranging in size from frag to colony. I’m bracing for more losses. Weirdly all softies and LPS are vibrant and healthy and happy. Who knows. My wife has been a rockstar. Her stance is, well you love buying corals and now you get to buy more. Keeper.

No temp swings. 78.5 to 79, controlled by two heaters/Apex. Interestingly, my tank is no longer clean. My nitrates are up, as are phosphate. And I tossed in a healthy 'tester' acro frag two weeks ago, long after any spikes or drops associated with MP blocks. This tester frag has received nothing but stability. Two weeks later and death at the tips. So whatever horrible **** is happening isn't from the MP blocks or drops in nutrients. Back to square 1. I've been thinking long and hard as to what could possibly be causing this. So much money, gone. I bought a huge batch of Tropic Marin Pro when starting this tank - I've still been working my way through it. And I remember the very first time I mixed it, Alk registered as 6.0. I thought this was odd, having to adjust alk/cal/mag up when making new batches. Now I'm wondering if I received a bad batch of Tropic Marin, if that could cause what is happening here.