Taylorhardy1

Wondering what you all do for fun outside of the aquarium world? I go skiing as much as I possibly can. Growing up I was actually a pretty good freeskier, was sponsored by monster energy, spy optics, and fuel outerwear for a few years. Had an unfortunate bmx accident on my 16th birthday that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. Most all my sponsors dropped me within 2 weeks of leaving the hospital, and by the time I could ski again I was terrified of another tbi and substantially slowed it down. In fact today was supposed to be the first time I was going to go skiing and ride park in over 2 years! Unfortunately got called into work, to seemingly handle a 15 minute rush this morning😤 anyways, I'm also a car guy! I love Audi's more than anything, but the fd rx7 will always have a special place in my heart. I used to own a single turbo car, made 522whp on wastegate pressure! Eventually I scared myself to the point I was convinced that car would kill me, and sold it to another enthusiast back in Utah! I currently own a nogaro b5 s4, built a silver one with my dad in high school and fell in love with the chassis. Ended up parting out that car to buy my nogaro car, and finish the rx7 build. Sometimes the cars I get to work on make my job feel more like a hobby. What do you all do for fun outside of your aquarium?

Green goniopora

Thanks man! I really appreciate it. Hope those frags are doing good for you!

Some more current pictures! Pardon the cyano bloom, it sparked up after I rescaped, but its clearing up fairly quickly!

With taxes coming back any day now, my aquarium has already set out on a mission to spend 100% of my return, plus some. I figure now wouldn't be the worst time to show you all where I'm at. About 6 months ago I had just joined this forum, and I lucked out when this awesome 93 cube, stand and canopy popped up. I immediately jumped on it, drove up later that night and picked it up. Spent about a week after that scraping all of the Coraline free from the acrylic, and then a whole lot of buffing. Wasn't able to get it looking guide as great as I'd hoped, but as long as you're not looking for scratches you hardly noticed them. At this point I was also packing up, and getting ready to move from Albany to Salem. Got 70lbs of dry sand, moved the tank into place and started plumbing it. Instantly I realized the biggest issue with the 93 cube. With only a 30x30 footprint, having a sleek stand, and a nice large sump directly under it is nearly impossible. Spent a lot of time talking with some custom acrylic builders about cube sumps, and other possible options that would allow me to fully utilize my current stand and room limitations. Found its very hard to design an easy access cube sump when you only have one entrance to the stand. In the rush of the move and everything else going on, I decided to just throw my diy 20l sump underneath it until I could figure out a more permanent solution. After a whole lot of creative thinking and problem solving, I realized I was quickly developing a need for a frag tank. Jumped online and found an acrylic builder from Texas who builds awesome custom tanks, and sumps. I told him I wanted a 48x24x12 frag tank, and as large of a sump as possible to put underneath. Something that will be able to handle over 2000gph turnover rate, and hold all the water from a back siphon when/if power is cut. We decided on a 48x18x20 sump. The plans for the sump are essentially a very tight drain chamber, something just large enough to fit 2 filter socks, into a 12x18x11 equipment chamber (for skimmer, heaters, dosing, etc.) flowing into a very large fuge (24x18x10), and into a return chamber just large enough for my return pump. Currently I'm using a radion xr30w g2, and supplementing with 2 24w blue+ t5's. I wasn't quite sure if I was going to like the t5 and led combo, so I made a quick little housing out of wood, mounted them up and WOW. The t5's really really help the coral colors explode, and really mellow out the kind of disco ball shimmer led's can give off. Needless to say, I love them, and plan on going to a 4 bulb hybrid fixture on both tanks as I move forward with the upgrades.

I'm running 2 24w blue+ bulbs with my radion on the sps ab setting on my 93 cube. I run the radion for ten hours total, with about 7 hours at peak, and I run my t5s for 5 hours. The t5s do a really really good job at mellowing out the shimmer from the radions. My corals have never shown as bright of colors, and they're all growing like weeds. I do run a really, really blue spectrum, with my whites only hitting 20% at peak.

I used to feed mine 1 piece of frozen a week, but then 2 little anemones seemingly sprouted out of the base, then all split out and now I've got 2 small rbtas and 2 bigger ones. I've learned mine seem to grow just as fast, without splitting as much when I don't feed.

It's quite unfortunate, I was really hoping to make this one. But I've got a close friend in a tough position, who's car just broke down, so I'm gonna get her car back on the road, and let her borrow my car today. Hope to make it to the next one!

Unfortunately due to transportation issues, I won't be able to make it to this meeting. My apologies to anyone I worked out swapping frags with. I will reachout and pm those of you who I worked out deals with and find a way to meetup another time and place.

Is the green acro available?

My red sea kit asks for 10ml of water, then you titrate with 1ml, put 0.4 straight in, then drip and mix till pink. Mine is an older test kit, but it's always read the same as my brand new Hanna checkers so I still trust it.

If I were in your position, I'd dose and do waterchanges until everything was where I wanted it, then keep it stable from there.

Could be numerous things. Do you dose in a high flow section?

Hey everyone, I had planned on buying a nice new bashsea biofuge sump and other equipment upgrades once my taxes come back, but my current DIY 20l sump is falling apart to the point where it's seemingly causing more issues than anything else at this point. I have various sps and lps frags to trade. I've got teal tenius frags, ora tricolor valida frags, green and purple monti cap frags, a lobo, acans, etc. I just really need to get a bigger, and slightly more functional sump to get me through the rest of this month. Let me know what you've got! Thanks everyone.

With your alk being that low you're probably gonna have a really tough time getting it back to where it's supposed to be and keeping it stable just by adding alk supplements. I use io reef crystals, and every batch I've had mixes with stupendously high alk (12-14dkh). Ive learned atleast with my tank I would have to add over 100mls of alk in a day and it might bump the number up .5. I can get about .5 increase just by a 5g water change with io rc. For some perspective, I use 22mls of alk/ day on my 100g sps dominant system just to keep it stable.

How many were used on the 30x30?

I totally forgot about that! I'll get some frags curing and ready for you!

In comparison to everything I've used to date the ecotech radions are by far the best fixtures. Easiest setup, theyll grow anything, and they give a great shimmer without too much discoball effect. For me, my xr30 has essentially been a set and forget fixture. I wipe them off with a microfiber while they're off once a week, but it's been running the exact same setting for 8 months now.

I do know that Garrett had been putting a lot of wild colonies into his 300dt, then he got black bugs. As far as I know that was the only system contaminated. However that does worry me a bit considering most coral dips won't kill em.. In the last few months the only corals I've actually seen pests on before and after dips were pieces I had gotten from upscales. They just had what appeared to be a few different egg clusters on the frag plugs, all of which were thrown out pretty quickly.

The thing is he's selling corals under auction format so it gets really messy when you try to have people bidding on a half dozen corals on one thread and things tend to just get jumbled. I think instead of giving gb a sub forum, it would be better to just add a new forum under classifieds just for auctions.

I have a frag plug with some green blue spotted discos on it that you can have. I've also got a cool speckled chalice, green an pink mouthed favia, 2 teal tenius frags, and a some red pavona. Also have some green cap frags, as well as some Idaho grape chunks to trade!

I'm only doing this manually for a little while longer. I just ordered a dosing unit haha.

I still have a pretty young tank so I'm barely on my second bottles of each. They're about $20 each so it's definitely more expensive, but I feel it's consistent and easier to use so I prefer it. Thrive offers all 3 parts, but I was given the aquavitro bottles sealed and new so I figured I'd use em.

You got it! I'll shoot you a text.

Hey everyone! Got some more corals to let go of! 1: green favia with pink mouths-$10 2: green speckled purple chalice-$15 3: red pavona-$10 4- Miyagi tort- sold. 5- mystery stag- sold.