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I have periodically done things of monumental stupidity in my hobby life. Things like this happen in business, in medicine, in science too. When it's your mistake, you own it. In those other things, it gets buried. Don't beat yourself up, in all those venues you learn from it and move on.

Bax stopped by the other day to consult on his old skimmer, thanks Bax! Everything's doing great, I did notice a couple things. One is, I hadn't changed my DI cartridge and the RO water creeped up to 35ppt, so I took care of that. I was worried about phosphate since I'm feeding a lot more mysis...

Saw my first one yesterday here in Rockaway! I recommend the flying-saucer type feeders for easy cleaning. See if you can hunt down some Mexican cigar plants (Cuphea Ignea), the hummers love that one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphea_ignea Easy to grow but I usually have to mailorder it.

My wild and maricultured acros came in looking good. Gave them a super slow acclimation so they wouldn't stress out and get tasty to the Majestic. Fed everybody heavy now I'm watching him like a hawk. Going to start the new acros low in the tank and move them up gradually. The monticulosa is...

I picked up a replacement shrimp goby today from Sea Level Aquarium in Parsippany. That place gets better all the time. I'm not sure what kind of shrimp goby it is, they gave me a kind of generic name,(Elegant Shrimp Goby?) but it worked great. Normally there's a kind of courtship, doesn't...

This was my toughest ever. The fish was $39, I spent $50+ on brine shrimp and blackworms trying to get it to eat! It was certainly mostly eating microfauna for the first couple of weeks, and getting thinner. Richard Ross said to mix the live brine with various frozen items. They try more foods...

Thanks Mike, I'll check it ASAP.

Went away for a week. The big tank was fine, on the biocube tank the return pump got shut off at some point and it got nasty. Both the shrimp gobies died but the pistol shrimps seem to be okay, at least the big tiger pistol is. Going to use the opportunity to switch to agoby less agressive than...

Mercifully the CBB ate lots of frozen Hikari mysis today. I think she's given up and decided to compromise on frozen food.

Copperband ate a bunch of live blackworms, on purpose. That means it won't starve, since I can keep her supplied with blackworms forever.

Eric, they have worked well for me in the past, they seem like a natural food for the CBB. This guy has had live, wriggling blackworms bouncing off his head (!) with zero interest. Last week, I fed a bunch which were eaten with gusto by the other fish, and then a while later he picked up a dead...

Those Rams can be touchy, broke a lot of hearts! I have never tried the garlic thing, it would have to be a live or frozen food, they never eat dry in my experience. But why not?

I've been feeding really heavily to (1) keep the incredibly hungry Majestic angel full, so he doesn't eat any more acros, and (2) to try to get the anorexic copperband to eat. I think my GFO may have become exhausted, the glass is getting dirty on a daily basis. On the plus side all corals...

That special moment when your new fish starts to eat your new coral. Crap. Hopefully the new acro is kind of stressed, that makes them extra-tasty. On the positive side, got the anorexic new copperband to start eating frozen mysis and put on on some weight.

Ordered two wild coral heads from DD, one arrived quite dead, all the flesh floating in the bag. That was the one I really wanted (Monticulosa), the other one was fine (Loripes) it's just a little grey. Also got a large Majestic Angel, came in strong, hiding a little but ate right away.

It's been great to see corals start to grow again and colors return! Some of these are from generous club members (you know who you are!) I think going back to the Ca reactor was the right move. The new skimmer is doing a good job too. FWIW my pH probe had gone very far out of calibration. The...

This is the new fish cave. The key was getting a big piece of shelf rock, which I bought from Ab Fish. It's the most expensive rock I ever bought that wasn't in a ring. The old cave was a PVC box basically, this one is lower and more natural. It's open on all sides for circulation, so it's more...

Sorry to butt into the thread. I had the dino/hair algae nightmare and got a lot of help from Boyd Chemiclean. Expensive but it knocked down the brown stuff and was a big help. Nikki! Ow, your poor finger. Have done that, do not wish to repeat!

Tank is looking almost barren following the disappearance of hair algae. Phosphates measure zero, calcium at 550. I think I need to add some more fish, and maybe feed some more mysis, time for more frags or colonies! It shows you, I was ready to change the GFO, but with phosphates at zero, why...

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