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I made a few changes to the tank today. Since I added the bio pellet reactor a few months ago, my nitrates have come down, but my phosphates, started climbing. I tried aluminum oxide based media, which I had success with in the past, but it was not helping. So I took the carbon out of the brs...

I think is coming around. I think I’ll leave it on the bottom, and see how it does for a while. The pistol shrimp, doesn’t dig in that area, so I don’t think anything will bother it there. It has been there a few days, and nothing has.

It is a beauty when open. It is a super nice green. I remember how impressive it was in the store when I bought it. It was looking even better in my tank for a while.

The toadstool is shedding again, but this time I can see a few specs of polyp color. That’s a good sign. It has been in a never ending cycle of shedding, scabbing over, and shedding again.

Yea. I can’t see those celebrities paying a whole lot of attention to tank, besides just casually viewing them. Even if a maintenance guycomes a few days a week, there only so much they can do. The way they do it, defies what I have learned about real world saltwater fish keeping. I have...

Great. You’ll love it. I used an old $15.00 pump made for an outdoor bird feeder fountain for over 2 years on my first nano tank. It still worked fine when I took it down to upgrade. It was used for a while in the actual bird feeding prior as well.

Yes.! I really like that one.

That’s all I can do. The other softies in the tank look good, as well as lps and my single sps.

Last effort, I’ll try it on the bottom, low light area. It’s definitely loosing some mass now. I have low nitrates of 1 ppm, that I’m trying to bring up a little. I just removed some more pellets from my bio pellet reactor. The rest of my parameters are pretty good. This coral used to do fine in...

I have. 40, with a 20 l sump. Total system volume after rock, about 50. I wouldn’t agonize over it as long as your in the ballpark. The power heads will create the majority of the flow in the dt. Your turnover rate can vary greatly. With a slower turnover rate, the water has more exposure time...

Since there mostly fish only, and fake corala/no inverts. I guess they can medicate the tanks. The enormously wealthy clients, can probably pay someone to come in on a daily basis to deal with all the problems/ replace dead fish. Its certainly not the right way to do it.

I have a Jebo a 4000 return pump. It is set on 3 out of 10, so there’s plenty of power in reserve. I have not noticed any degradation so far, but if it ever starts to fail I would buy a new one in a second. In fact, I’d probably downgrade to a 3000, which would be sufficient. I think when I get...

The green star polyp has about 20% of the back wall covered. I’ll just let it cover the whole back eventually. This was my first coral, and still one of my favorites.

I just figured make it simple, and have the leds ramp up to a certain point, and just have the t5 on for the peak 4 hour mid day period. The lamps should last a long time with that short daily usage. The additional lighting should the photosynthetic animals a good boost. I intend to do this...

I will call PayPal on Monday and see if I can straighten out the issue, so I can participate in the buy. The ricordias I currently have, are doing very well, so I have a good chance of success with these as well. The problem is I set up a paypal account about 15 or so years ago. It won’t let...

Yea. I find the concept of t5 hybrid very interesting as well. I been doing a lot of thinking about them lately.

I can’t join. I guess you have to set up a paypal account. I am not able to do that.

Ok. You twisted my Arm. I’ll go upgrade my account.

Oh. I see. Thanks I’ll look into that.

How often do we do group buys, and how come I never heard of them. I’ve been a club member for years? Is there any special place these group buys are posted? That mushroom is amazing. I would have probably wanted to get in on that buy.