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I love those, especially with the white sauce, but they make me burp garlic all day!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my faithful readers, both of you. Hah ha, if you feel like you need to read this thread, yer gonna suffer right along with me. The ETSS skimmer was leaking pretty bad, so I went to reseal the seams from the outside with Weldon. The first thing I found was that the...

When I took the skimmer out to get the bioballs out, it seems I caused the seam on the TOP of the skimmer to give way, so water started to run out of that seam, which will be way harder to fix. Couple gallons of water on the floor of the garage. I put a 10 Lb dumbbell on top of the box and that...

You gotta agree, he's pretty freakin' glib. Not jumpin' on no sofas, though.

Ah can't hold her together captain! I had a dream last night where an Octopus holding a flag that said "5000" climbed out of a volcano, and you were there, and you were there, and L. Ron Hubbard was there for some reason. What could it all mean?

Took apart the ETSS-1000 skimmer to clean the bioballs, and the collection cup fell apart. Cheap piece of crap! What is it, only 12 or 15 years old? They don't make quality products anymore. I did a quick repair with Weldon, but that leaked right away, as soon as there was any skimmate in the...

There was some kind of water quality issue in my tank at some point, and the green slimer stopped growing. The weird thing is that it's growing again, but there's this thinner, miscolored section on the branch, like when the rings in a tree show a bad year! I wonder if it's when mu calcium...

Hi Eric, Things are mostly going okay. Recently the slimer stopped growing, which is weird. I need to do comprehensive water tests this week. Everything else is doing well, especially the pink lemonade. Probably should have stayed away from the flame angels, too. Having good luck regrowing my...

I changed the GFO reactor, and acro growth seemed to pick up a lot. Pink lemonade is taking off in particular. I will need to find a new home for one of my Duncan colonies, it's crowding the A. Nana colony. Somewhat regretting the flame angels. They nip at acro polyps enough that daytime polyp...

Just a cautionary tale: As I've said before, don't leave a hose dangling in a barrel of water. Siphon started on its own and dumped 50G of freshly-made saltwater onto the garage floor. When I bought my new wet-dry vac at HD, I dropped an extra $30 for a pump that screws into the drain and pumps...

The Flame Angels seem to have paired up and are swimming together. Almost too much to hope for! Plus the Rainford goby came out of hiding and staked out a territory, very entertaining little guy.

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I bought the smallest size hoping that I got two girls and they would eventually make a pair. They seem very happy, swimming around separately and picking at the rocks, so far they have mostly avoided each other but they have each picked a side of the tank One of them has a broken stripe on his...

...only took 7 years! I got them from LiveAquaria. I was hoping for Trapezia, but I got the little pocillopora crab ones the usually have. No matter, they moved right into the coral heads. All the fish are out and feeding now, except for the Rainford goby, I think those guys are kind of...

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1 orchid dottyback 1 medium emperor angel 1 purple tang 1 Kole tang 1 large foxface 2 elderly royal grammas 1 large majestic angel 1 copperband butterfly 10 blue chromis 1 yellow longnose 'fly 1 rainford goby 2 Flame Angels I lost one of the pair of dottybacks somehow and the usual couple of...

Added today: Red Serpent Star Yellow Longnose Butterfly (Hawaii) Two Small Flame Angels (Christmas Island) (It's an experiment) Rainford Goby (Impulse purchase) 5 Tiny Blue Chromis (Restarting the school) 2 Acro Crabs (corals need commensals!) 5 Scarlet Hermits (been a while since there were any...

It occurs to me that as my tank fills with corals: 1) I am going to need to account for increased Ca demand, probably buy or build a second chamber for my Ca reactor. 2) I will Need to address flow issues, adding back my 4th Vortech and maybe replacing the other end with another MP60W or other...

So the next thing in my trip "backwards in time" is to modify my old Kalk reactor to be more dependable. I stopped using it when I went to two-part and honestly it was a great feature even if it sometimes gave me trouble. I'm going to ditch the magnetic stirrer in favor of apowerhead plumbed...

Hah ha, I'm trying to get these done during lunch!