36 minutes ago, Krux said:

Hopefully when you get the results back everyone can benefit from your findings - specifically how lower livestock impacts the stability of the biome.  Very cool idea!

 

I will be doing one in May now that my tank has mostly stabilized but I have so many variables: fish population swings, a live sand addition, tank dieoff and regrowth, UV and Ozone.  My hope is to get a baseline and find some guidance on how to steer things and then do some monthly or every other month tests to see how the numbers move.

Are your ICP results looking better now?

I am sooooo looking forward to this, as I look at the awesome gonis in my display that I picked up from last year's show. There was a lot of fantastic stuff last year.

Many thanks to Kim ( @Emerald525) for organizing the PNWMAS booth. Let's make a good showing, PNWMASers! We want Steve Tyree to keep bringing this show to Portland every year. Last the year we had a better showing than the Seattle show, so let's keep this trend going.

See you there!

Andy

Got a visit from @steveweast today and he brought me some Jake Adams corals. First one in the photos is the Montipora, Crystal Experiment. It's bright green with a very unique growth pattern. Second in the list is the Hardline Hoeksemai, which is light blue and looks like the Tyree Blue Matrix. Last, but not least is the Immortal Tort. Steve says this one gets really bright blue in high light and in lower light has the green base like you see with this frag. Beautiful corals and they were all personally collected by Jake Adams--Great conversation starters for my reef. Thanks again, Steve!

Hi All,

We have a really fun meeting coming up. We'll be having the May meeting at my house in Corvallis. Send me a PM for my address and to RSVP.

The meeting will be from 1-4 and Eli of Aquabiomics will be presenting on the aquarium microbiome at 230. We'll have food, drinks, and raffles!

Follow this thread, as I will be posting more information about the raffles and the talk as we get closer to the meeting date. One of the raffles will be for corals from my tanks (see below).

In the meantime, don't forget about the NEXT club meeting that will be held at the Tyree Coral Farmers Market on 11-4 on Sunday April 28th at the Airport Holiday Inn Hotel. Hope to see you there!

19 hours ago, islandVib3s said:

Looks absolutely amazing 👏👏👏 curious to which ammonia product are you using?  How much dosage daily? Any weird results with live stock? I was using Dr tims ..if I remember correctly I kept losing my snails so I loaded that tank with hermits. But I was getting nice growth aswell 🤔🤔🤔

Thanks. No weird issues. Here's a link to the stuff on Amazon:

https://a.co/d/cb1kWWs

Mix 20 grams into 500 ml to get your diluted solution.

I am dosing 33 ml per day in my 198 gallon system. I started dosing 10 mls per day and gradually increased.

39 minutes ago, Krux said:

is the top off for photos, or do you walk on the wild side with jumpers these days?

I take the top off for the pics. I have too many wrasses to not a have a top....lol

Here's a long overdue tank update. I've been dosing ammonia to the tank instead of nitrate for a few months and I am getting improved growth! Just gave the tank a good cleaning in prep for an appearance on Reefbum next week (4/23/24)

Welcome to the club! We post monthly meetings and events here:

https://www.pnwmas.org/forums/forum/41-meetings-and-events/

The next event is the Steve Tyree Coral Farmers Market on April 28th

Hope to meet you at a club event sometime.

Sorry to hear that it got so bad, Ryan. The main thing I would do is continue with water changes. I'd worry less about the minor elements and keep moving a decent volume of water through that system to help strip all of the unknown nasties out of it. That Triton detox stuff I recommended depends on large water changes to work, as well.

I would also ditch the UV if at all possible. I wouldn't want there to be a non-zero change of the same issue repeating in the future.

Good luck!

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

6 hours ago, Eatfrenchfries said:

https://reefbuilders.com/2024/03/13/the-microbial-men-discuss-all-things-bacterial-at-reefstock-denver/

 

Featuring our own @Lexinverts 

We would have benefited from having Sharokh on the couch with us!

2 hours ago, Krux said:

I really enjoyed Eli's seminar, hopefully they publish that soon.

Eli's talk was one of the best I saw at Reefstock. He did a great job.

2 minutes ago, Krux said:

I am not sure if Keith will be there (he was talking about it on his stream this week), I was really excited to try to impersonate you in an attempt to volunteer to be on the show again - what a splendid surprise for you that would have been when he emailed to schedule it!

Lol, he emailed yesterday that he won't be there. 

6 minutes ago, Krux said:

Headed to Denver for a few days to attend Reefstock 2024.

I am starting to see product announcements for the show, and wanted to offer to engage with any vendors or take photos of things for anyone who has questions but were not able to make the trip.  I am interested personally in the new Red Sea dosing containers, and plan to try to meet up with the Tropic Marin folks.

Any other requests?

https://reefstock.show/denver/

I request that you do not tell anyone there that you are me. 🤔

I'll be there!

11 hours ago, Bicyclebill said:

Awesome! What a cool behind the scenes tour of the oyster hatchery but even better getting to see your amazing system in the same trip! I'm excited. 

Bill, you need to come on your motorcycle! 🏍️

The vials can get worn out. Lots of scratches on the vials can make readings be too high.

I would not worry about the unit itself though. I have not heard of that going bad.

10 hours ago, shaywood said:

Isn't there an OTC called flatworm exit. Worked for me years ago. 

This is a pre-treatment before using flatworm exit. You add the H202 and then many of the worms float in the water column where you can net them out of the system.

It prevents you from killing as many in the system with flatworm exit because dead worms release a toxin you then have to deal with.

11 hours ago, half-astronaut said:

Just for clarity, that’s with 3% H2O2. 

The stuff from the dollar store, whatever that is.

3 hours ago, Lifer said:

@badxgillen or @Lexinverts, last year at a club meeting you clued me in to using hydrogen peroxide as a pre-treatment to flatworm exit.  Can you (or anyone else) remind me of the recommended H2O2 dosing level?

1 ml per gallon

I would try adding Brightwell Neonitro to raise nitrates.

You might consider trying ATI Essentials Pro or B-ionic for Alk, Ca and Mag. Those products are easier to use in my experience.

Glad you are enjoying the Goni!

27 minutes ago, Krux said:

Keenly interested, though I work in the evening - will see if I can sneak out and see the facility!

Do it!

@islandVib3s who is next on the list who has paid a deposit? Thanks!

Hi All,

Regrettably, our meeting and venue plans for the end of this month (Feb) fell through.

However, we are working on plans for our next meeting to be March 16th. Stay tuned!

Andy