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How reasonable?

Possibly just sump. Can I get a shot of it without something in front of it so I can see the baffles please

Currently I am not leasing anything, but I shared a 5000 sq ft creative work/photography studio space with several other photographers for a couple years in Downtown Portland.

Good lookin out, I am familiar with NoPox, but was reffering to the other bacteria suggested earlier in the thread. IMHO I think vodka works great, and while we might have the obsession to find something that is 1 or 2% better always as reefers, when it comes to food for bacteria, I am not so picky. I don't even buy them good vodka I think the misconception with carbon dosing is that it is a quick fix. It can take many months to really dial a tank in. IME it does work, but it does take quite a bit of time for it to be effective.

Awesome! The shovel one was great too!

I'm glad they are going the right way for you. I have a very different idea for you knowing your system. Do you want to try and borrow a smaller skimmer? Your skimmer is so big and your tank so small LOL! Seriously isn't that thing rated for like 10x your tank volume. Sometimes to big is to big. More flow is always good in my book as well as you know, never enough. It could be that the increased movement is helping to push the water through the rocks and into the anaerobic bacteria's path... If you end up going the ATS route stop by, I got parts for you and room to clear in my garage. I was gonna build one so I picked up a bunch of stuff for it. Never did. Usually bottled bacteria is not going to help with nitrate. It is specially designed for nitrite for cycling tanks. The bacteria that converts nitrate is anaerobic and wouldn't be to happy in a bottle I would guess. JMO on that, no research as to the specific strains they use but... pretty good guess I think. Could be wrong.

That looks pretty awesome actually. Rent in PDX is high. When my lease went to renew back in October our new owner tripled it and then added a grand on top of it. I am sure you will be able to lease it. Those creative spaces look very interesting though. Please keep in touch when you get close to having them ready.

Would you sell the sump seperate? Dimensions?

Thanks man, that is because your awesome! Thanks again for watching my system while I was out.

He looks like his Mother Happy to help out man. Glad it is doing well for you.

Maverick Welding Supply in Oregon City. They are right off Exit 10 on the 205 over by Home Depot. Small locally owned shop. They always take great care of me.

Now that is a great addition to our clubs leadership. Thanks for stepping up Andy. It will definitely be a good thing for the club

Most worms are fairly harmless depending on what your keeping. If you can get a picture of the worm it will confirm. Usually posts about scary worms are just bristleworms which are fine in a tank with probably well over 95% of what most people in the hobby keep as a pet. Got a pic?

Nice to see ya around!

I would trade for some sps frags depending on what your looking for. I am in OC too, up by the College.

Have you ever tried pro biotics in your cultures? I have a friend Dan who is doing so for his seahorse farm and he is having amazing luck with the species he is working with. I hear that, my main hold back when I was breeding was the size of my kitchen and my girlfriend now wife, thinking we should be able to cook in it. Been there done that LOL. I feel your pain. Myco was not often found. Very rare if I recall, I can only think of a handful of times. Where as erectus cultured out vibrio 60% of the time, Reidi was 70%, the other species were to small of a sample size for a determination. Some of the animals actually grew out 2 or 3 strains of vibrio. Of all of the samples vibrio was cultures in 71% of cases with 29% of the samples showing no growth. Specimens were taken by a pathologists who used salt supplementation in a Microscan Walkaway 40 at 35C for identification for species of vibrio for all o f the plates with distinct bacterial colony growth. What led us to the idea of a non symptomatic carrier state were that only a third or so of the specimens that cultured positive actually died or showed signs/symptoms of vibrio. We had a hypothesis before based on a large number of hobbyists experiencing death of one or both seahorses after the introduction of a seahorse from a different source or a seahorse of a different species.

Cover over and pick up an anenome. I have 3 in a critter keeper in my qt tank and the one in my display just split to 4. So... I have a few extra. We'll replace the one ya lost there Bud, no biggie.

I worked on theories behind the mixing species of Syngnathidaes for several years on the commercial side of the hobby. I had the help of a board certified pathologist, and all the equipment that came with it. He was able to perform necropsies on hundreds of animals and culture out many specific species of the bacteria. We also performed tests on those bacteria and how they performed under certain conditions. I am kicking myself that I never thought to explore the food source, but our research did not show a difference in WC or CB specimens. Our train of thought was that the Syngnathidaes were asymptomatic carriers of the bacteria and at increased temperatures certain strains became more virulent. For us 73F was a magic number. At 74F the bacteria would change its structure and become much more aggressive. Any previous immunity was no longer applicable to the change in structure. I am really curious about those bacteria being present in the food source and still being problematic at the lower temperatures of a temperate system. As for the automatic feeder tests, I tried feeding at very small doses for non photosynthetic corals. My goal was to keep a constant supply of food for them to eat. My Nitrates were taken care of with carbon dosing and a taxifloria refugium. I am a huge fan of carbon dosing since I came onto it about 10 years ago. I have tried sugar and vinegar but I find Vokda to work the best. A peristaltic pump in small doses works much better for me than 1 large dose a day. On my reef tank now I am dosing 1mL ever 3 hours. So about an ounce a week, and it is working great. When I was doing the auto feeding of live phyto and dry food I was using 2 sugar packets a day. My system for the non photosynthetic tank was 1g of display for every 3 gallons of refugium. Small sump with a protein skimmer rated for the system size. I was having very promising results but had to tear it down after some severe medical problems. I think about trying a non photo tank again about 4-5 times a week. Still have that fridge... the problem now is sourcing the specimens. Side Note- I am really happy you are participating here. There are not a lot of people with your experience that still frequent forums. Thank you.

I have a setup similiar to this I have used. Basically a dorm fridge with an inline dosing pump. Worked alright for feeding phyto and powdered foods, but I never expanded it into rots or pods I was culturing. I agree on rotifers, IME they are to dirty of an animal. I am curious if you have been able to culture specific species of vibrio from your rotifer and artemia cultures and what those strains have been?

I've done that. It happens. I ended up going with a larger bulkhead. Good Luck!

Homie, I'd get that in writing. Ask the dude, "I just want to make sure if my tank seam fails that my xxx dollars worth of live coral is covered under my policy". It's not the weirdest thing ever but it sounds strange, they cover pets or they don't usually. So if you said they would cover the fish and the coral, it would make sense, but Coral and no fish.... if that were me (the licensed insurance agent) I would want that in writing. Email is fine. Save it. It could be 100% right on, my company even has policies where they cover pets injuries in a car accident, but covering one living thing and not another.... Sounds different to me.

Livestock can be insured, but are not typically covered under a homeowner or renters policy. Commercial policies or a Farm policy can include endorsements for Livestock in the state of Oregon. I do not know about Washington for sure, I am not licensed there.

I think I am the only licensed insurance agent in the group so let me see if I understand correctly. State Farm is saying that if you have an unintentional failure of your aquarium i.e. seal break, or overflow, that the liability portion of your policy would not cover damages to the property you are renting, but they would accept the liability to damage to other units caused by the failure? AND the policy would cover your tank/equipment that caused the problem. Does the policy list a specific exclusion for water filled furniture? I'd be happy to take a look at what your looking at and see if one of our policies would work for you. Feel free to PM me your number or email and we can look.