pdxmonkeyboy

some really nice sps colonies for sure. .. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I took a close look then pushed some of the stuffing in there.. problem solved. Like I said, this guy is a tank!! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

ich, brook, velvet... this guy is iron clad!! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

that stuff is the bomb! that is what I use on my mixing and draining stations. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

great find!! yeah that is much cheaper and I am quite certain, the same exact thing. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I thought I would post a review of this product as it is not often carried in stores around town and I have to say that it works really well. aquascape fix (AF) is a plastic polymer that comes in the form of little beads. You put them in hot water and they become pliable. You can then stick rocks together or mount frags. It slowly hardens and shrinks a little when it does. Once hard it is hard! A couple points: 1. unlike epoxy, you don't have a limited time to use it. If it gets too hard just heat the water again. if you change your mind, pry the glob off and reheat it. 2. it doesn't make your skimmer go nuts like epoxy does and it doesn't get soft and crumbly like epoxy either. 3. It is not sticky, I have not found anything that is. So when joining rocks, really push it into the cracks and crevices to make sure it locks in place. It really does well when filling gaps or adding little rocks to fill gaps. 4. when mounting big colonies, super glue can help. roll a ball of AF, put some super glue on it, then rub it on the rock to get the glue to take. Then super glue the end of your frag and push it into the AF. Hold for a couple minutes and wallah' your done. 5. being plastic it seems to grow over with coraline faster than the rock does. all in all it is a pretty great product. I wouldn't use epoxy anymore after using this stuff. It is way less messy and doesn't gumm up the water. I mean, do you really want epoxy particulates being pumped through your fishes gills? I got mine through BRS. I got the bigger container, I think it was $30 or $35. I was able to redo my entire aquascape in my 300 and have a bunch left over. cheers Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I use food grade vinyl tubing from hydroponic stores. it is flexible and usually doesn't kink too much. plus its black so it doesn't grow algae in it. If you go to bloom, tell them you are buying it on the devils lettuce or kilowatt account. we have a wholesale plus 10% account. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

high nitrates and almost zero phosphates is definately the root cause a majority of the time. my nitrates are around 10 and my phos was .02 on the milwaukie meter last week. I started to get some patches of dino but I redid my aquascaping and it hasn't come back yet. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I think you should be fine. I added some clams in a system that young about 2 years ago and I still have them today. I think the time frames deal allot with tank stability and too a larger extent, dealing with inexperience in terms of controlling and dealing with variables. I think that your levels are fine, you can always feed them directly if you want. if you but a big clam you may have to increase your alk and cal dosing just a hair...depending on how big your system volume is. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Thanks for the well wishes. She stepped off the back of my motorcycle on a steep gravel road. She slipped on a big rock, then kept slipping, and slipping... till she ended up in the bottom of a road side ditch. I fully expected her to be laughing..I mean we were both wearing fully armored riding gear, then she was clutching her knee. So now she is in the dreaded "brace".

Make sure you have the apex heartbeat activated. That way you will get a notification if your brain crashes.

sorry I couldn't make it. Dawn (whom some of you know) tore her ACL, LCL, ruptured her meniscus, and hair line fractured her tibia. so yeah, shiny wet things took a back seat. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

here is a tip.... take $5,000 out of your savings account and then pay some stranger for the rights to clean their windows once a week, scrub their toilets, and mop up water that they spill regularly. You can fall in love with their pets and then one day when you go over to scrape and wash the windows they will say "oh yeah, he died". What? How? "no idea he just died". there... same thing as reefing Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

you know, I thought about it this morning. you could achieve the same thing by just putting a rubber grommet around both ends of the pinch side of the clip. Cut a groove on each side of the clip and stretch the o-ring over the clip and slip it into the groove. It would work just like a rubber band. home depot and hardware stores sell tons of o ring sizes. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I am thinking maintenance nightmare. my childhood was spent cleaning the DE filter on my dad's saltwater tank. It is super messy stuff. if you really want to polish your water, get a decent canister filter and stuff it full of polyfill. you can buy a HUGE bag of the stuff at Walmart for $10. for bacteria and ich I think UV is the way to go. just my 2 cents. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

hey Jeremy, what if you didn't print everything out of plastic and used rubber (which wont loose elasticity) for the spring? I was thinking a hinged clip that would stay closed due to a simple rubber bushing squeezed in a hole. Think a standard clothes pin with a rubber rubber grommet in between the handles that you pinch to open it when you want to open the clip you would be squeezing the grommet and deforming it but it would always bounce back into place. I hope this makes sense... Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I'm not convinced it works. perhaps you can come over and demonstrate on the back wall of my tank? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I don't think windows open/closed etc would make that much difference. maybe .2 but not in the area you are seeing. probes typically last a year or so though you got a good one!! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

But I get so much enjoyment from having my DT split up into a 200 gallon white tote and a 40 gallon breeder... at least I don't have to put together the scape in my DT. oh wait, yes I do. Boil the tank... that is a good one. I guess it would be feasible to boil 350 gallons of seawater. Not so sure the sps would agree but that would make a great post on R2R. "I boiled my tank and my sps are white...please help" sharklover expressed interest in foxface. someone replied about the wrasse and never replied back. At this point they have been in copper long enough that they are safe to transfer to an ich free home... Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I would like some of that appleberry if you can find another decent frag. thank you! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I would definately recalibrate and keep using it. Even if the measurement does float around, it is still useful like say your dose goes crazy or something, it will still pick up that swing. Also, clean it lightly with a toothbrush, scum on the glass probe can cause errors in conductivity measurements. usually the sign that you need a new probe is that you cant get it to calibrate. meaning the measurement is too far from the standard that the software will give you an error and not let you calibrate. 1.1 is a pretty big swing, my blue labs would not let me recalibrate that far of a swing.. but maybe apex will. cheers Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

tough call. aquascaping wet rock is a royal PIA. (ask me how I know) lol. sounds like you have it under control. wet newspapers can keep rock wet long enough to prevent dying out of bacteria. my only suggestion would be to check out prodibio biodigest in terms of bacteria in a bottle. I have used them all and I am blown away how well the prodibio works. I have cycled QT tanks in a day with it. good luck on the move!! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I would love to use the tank transfer method but I am currently treating the following for ich: orange clown black clown nine lyretail anthias midas blenny tail spot blenny foxface majestic angel adult Achilles adult blonde naso adult hippo tang small scopas adult sohal flame hawkfish two cardinal fish adult desjardini tang so that is a LOT of transfering.. and a mega amount of saltwater. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

here he is. and wrassy on the left Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

well, he has three more weeks in copper at my place. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk