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Everything is doing awesome! Well, the ricordea came unglued and got lost, but everything else, well, great. Good polyp extension! I agree. Pics soon!

I forgot how fast green slimer grows. Bang Zoom, Baby! Joe The Coral is picking up speed too.

Anybody growing Upscales Microclados? Mine died after one of my power outages. Need a frag! Will pay or can swap Miami Orchid or Duncans.

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I've been getting used to the new skimmer. One thing I discovered is that the Beckett injectors do get clogged easily and when that happens they stop foaming and it cuts the foam way down. It's easy to tell which one is clogged because you cut off its air intake and nothing changes. The good...

The Hikari mysis do seem cleaner, and in my experience the fish don't like them as much! Hikari Jumbo Mysis is particularly a hard sell, it's a little larger than PE bulk mysis and it doesn't get the same feeding response in my tanks. I am trying to rinse all the pack juice out these days since...

Selling off my old reliable ETSS1000 skimmer and pump, $325. This is a huge skimmer, 5' tall which can handle a large tank, say up to 300G. This skimmer is a proven design! The manufacturer, AE Tech, is still in business in NY state. (www.superskimmer.com) The skimmer has extremely sturdy...

I would like to figure out a way to run carbon which is more efficient than what I'm doing (big bag of carbon in the sump) and less bothersome than what I used to do, the TLF reactors, which were a PITA to clean and the carbon clumped up anyway. I wonder if I can just make a simple module out of...

I've had better luck with them than most people, I'm getting ready to get a new one. I agree about the blackworms, I think this time I'm going to build something to keep blackworms alive for a better supply. Another food I've found they can't resist is PE Mysis, although you must feed it...

The big pink-spot goby in the Biocube seemed to have disappeared. I went looking all over for him (where can things hide in a Biocube?) and to my surprise found a very unhappy firefish who had spent 3 weeks living in the overflow! Took a long time recovering, just sat on the gravel, but all...

Unknown because the river of RO water flowed out the front of my garage! One time I knocked a 50G trash can full of water change water over in the den. It killed the Wii and all the remotes to the Xbox. The carpet was somewhat cleaner after I sucked it all up with the shop-vac but a little stiff...

Added a bunch of frags from a club member and old friend. One of the acros is one I originally gave him, Tyree Pink Lemonade, and he kept going, plus a bunch of other great stuff, green slimer, blue tort, bunch of nice stuff, it's really great.

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Replaced the cooling fans in the Oceanic Biocube 29 with replacements from In-Tank. Pretty easy but you need something to grab the plug from the circuit board in the hood, it's like a computer motherboard connector. I used a really tiny pair of pliers. Getting ready to order the wireless hub...

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I have tried to make it as easy as possible in the hobby without going nuts on automation. I have 2 50G Barrels in the garage, the RO goes from the downstairs bathroom through the wall to the barrel where there's a float valve to shut it off. That supplies top-off and the barrel right...

Good luck with your set up. I have a Biocube with pistol shrimp and gobies, I think it's a great choice because they are somewhat tolerant of water conditions. And they are very entertaining! I recommend the media tray from these people as a small upgrade, it's expensive but a quality piece of...

Very heartening to see my reef returning to normal. Since setting up the Ca Reactor again, coral growth has increased, it may be the alk support or the form of calcium in the water. The Miami orchid has new growth tips and the frags I took off are encrusting. Joe the Coral is pretty sad. The...

I love all those butterfly fish! Especially good to see the Caribbean longnose, rarely see those. IME The copperband mostly loves worms. Live blackworms are pretty inexpensive and if you have a little space you can make a rig to keep them living longterm (search RC) though I usually just keep...

What kind of butterfly fish are we talking about here? I don't know any that need to eat pods.