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Started to remove rock structure today. Fish are like, "WHAT THE HELL DID WE EVER DO TO YOU???" I will need someone who can feed some frozen food every day to take my little anthias group. They are in good shape except for one F who has a bad eye.

Fish List: Large Navarchus. Large Clarkii Clown with 2 GBTs Pair Flame Angels Kole Tang, Medium Powder Blue Tang Medium Purple Tang Medium Harlequin Tusk Banggai Cardinal Copperband Large Emperator with HLLE (Probably gonna euthanize him, he's hideous...) Squampi Anthias Group, 3 F, 1.5 M...

Thanks Mike!

Thanks all, I appreciate the support as I get this underway.

Eric-- That is a great idea. I can break off the largest sections of the pink lem and red planet and hand them off to you. That would be fine. There's some Sunset monti too, seems hard to kill.

BOB-- That is a terrific offer and I would like to take you up on it! I don't know if everybody will fit in the 90, but maybe some of my faves (Navarchus/3 Tangs/Harlequin Tusk/Foxface). I will be in touch.

I have to find homes for some really nice fish. The red planet and pink lemonade colonies will have to go as well.

Well, It's been about ten years with the big reef and I think it's time to take a break. Haven't been able to get new coral to grow in quite a while, and not enjoying the maintenance. Shut it down, spend some time re-plumbing the system and making some modifications. Start over in the Fall...

Thanks for opening your home (and reef) to us, Herb! It was a great time!

See you there!

See you there!

Two of the raffle frags RTNd, one in the bag and the other overnight. Boo. Everything else is fine. Pics when I get a chance, prepping for tomorrow`s colonoscopy right now. Yuck.

Got a bunch of cool frags at the swap. Bought six from the dependable Dr. Mac, one from SM Cooler, then WON a bunch of frags from Sunny in the raffle. WOOT. Acclimating them carefully before placement this time.

Thanks everybody for putting on a great frag swap with two excellent speakers. I even won something in the raffle for once! Is there any list of the frags Sunny had in his donated bundle?

I just have it on 24/7, cuz lazy. It's honestly pretty dinky compared to my system. But macro is growing . The thing I did that fixed the pH issue was I dumped a whole bunch of new pickling lime into the kalk reactor. What I forgot, and remembered, is that it's not just the pH of the effluent...

I have had the pH dip below 8 at night a couple of times, in spite of my kalk stirrer in line with my topoff. Therefore, I set up a tank of still kalkwasser solution and I am going to use an Aqualifter to dose the tank if the pH is below 8.1, until it reaches 8.2, controlled by the Apex. I don't...

Algae wads are definitely growing in the macroalgae reactor. A lot of oxygen bubbles too, I guess that's good. Some people said to route the Ca reactor effluent thru the macroalgae reactor, as it can use the excess CO2. May try that at some point.

Couple stupid things. My new frags are not all doing well, some have lost color and damn if I can figure out why. Also some tip death showing, usually has to do with alk, gonna test today. Yesterday I made the unhappy discovery that I can blow the fuse on my fish tank circuit. Putting...

Macroalgae reactor completed and online. It is kind of small for my system, if it grows cheato I will make a much bigger one out of clear PVC I have. I got my 1000W heater under Apex control at last. You have to use an accessory called a Socket Expansion they dont make anymore. I had one left...

Started construction on a macroalgae reactor. I wrapped warm white LED lightstrip around an old Phosban 150 reactor. Surprisingly easy. I just need to add a couple mor baffles to the interior to space the algae out and it will be ready to go. Those lightstrips are super cheap on ebay right now...