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I just saw my 2 male and one female rock flower anemone do the nasty. I've never had them before. To those who have, does this happen often and is it ever successful for you?

57 minutes ago, CuttleFishandCoral said:

The USB is for leds 

Oh, OK, I'll pick it up tomorrow. 

On 9/26/2020 at 7:26 AM, CuttleFishandCoral said:

I have the USB par meter ready to go at the shop. 

Is the USB the non-led meter?

No rush, just getting in line. 

Alright, I have two but there's some other pvc attached. They're pretty ugly, but yours if you want them. 

I think so, I'll check when I get home tonight. 

🙋🏼‍♂️I'd like to get in line for the par meter. 

Haha, language filter for w t f? THAT'S PRE-FILTERED. 

Well aside from a couple rescue corals I don't really have any algae issues, but I only have a pair of juvenile clownfish and a few inverts in a 70 gallon. I'm extra paranoid about feeding, but I did pull some dry rock out of storage to 'scape the tank. I'm not a huge fish guy anyway so I'm taking my time on that front. I'll have to get a mandarin soon, my copepod population is off the charts 🥰. I love watching those little guys. 
 

I'm also going to admit I never, I guess, properly cycled a tank-like, months in the dark, [language filter]? I always got live rock (usually from Fl or Haiti (dating myself, I know) and live sand and sweated through a brief flare up of cyano or diatoms or whatever. This time around I bought a stocked biocube (that was 🤢 and I had to ditch the sand and most of the rock) then had to move it to my current tank. This Duncan is one of those corals I found under a cyano mat in the biocube and the hair algae is tenacious. 
 

I also though maybe the iodine dip first to build up a slime coat on the coral then that can react to the h2o2. Sounds like it doesn't take too long to kill the algae. 
 

Micah's spot treatment is probably the way I'll go, just use a micro pipette with full strength peroxide.  

I should clarify this is just for the hair algae, otherwise it's doing great. 

I've got a rescue Duncan that has some good-sized red hair algae growing on it. I've been reading about a peroxide dip to treat it, but nothing specific to Duncans. I assume a weaker, 5-10:1 mix would be safer and less stressful. I'm curious if anyone has experience with this method. 

Hey @TheClark, do you run a refugium opposite your dt light cycle? 

I'll take a cup or two, just getting the sump and refugium going. 

Time to hardwire my internet. Last time there were 25 'solds' in the comments before the video said what it was. 

Do you ever come down to Portland? I'm interested in the macro and shrooms... the mushroom coral also looks good. 😂🤣

You gotta close that loop, son, tighten up your game...
 

[sorry, I've been watching that Hulu Wu-Tang series]

I think he meant out of the skimmer cup, though. 

Yay!

1 minute ago, TheClark said:

And all the reagent!  At 24 test a day, they go fast!

 

I'm down to pitch in a bottle or two. For science. 
 

Actually this should be done side by side with a clean frag tank. Take out any non-biological activity that could be going on with the rocks and coralline growth. More for hard data than developing a best practice with a typical tank. 

This experiment  needs a control group, who's gonna buy an apex and trident and put it on an empty tank? 🤣 

2 minutes ago, TheClark said:

I do find this all super interesting, and the discussion too.  When new data emerges we tend to learn.

Seti@home, yes!  I can run it on my 486DX2!

 

 

Did I show my age?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll take 'em... but what lights are you preferring?

5 hours ago, EMeyer said:

I should clarify that the study I cited was from a lagoon at Heron Island on the GBR, where there is limited exchange with the open ocean during part of the day. So these effects are probably different here than in the open ocean. Still, its a typical coral habitat so I figured it was a relevant number to add to the discussion. 

I'm often struck by the fact that on real reefs, most of the parameters we try to keep stable in our aquariums, are not stable at all. Temperature, light, pO2, pCO2, pH, alkalinity. The only cycle we ever try to mimic is light. The others, we (the reefkeeping community) try to maintain at stable levels, in some cases levels that aren't near the average. 

Excellent point, but at least we have actual data, thanks for that.  I wouldn't be surprised if new patterns emerge out of the Apex data, too. Each species is going to be optimized for their particular environment and we're trying to force them all together for our convenience. There's going to be metabolic variations between species and the overall tank metabolism depending on the mix of corals. Obviously mixed vs sps  dominant is a huge difference. I guess the key is recognizing the rhythms of your particular tank. 

What a f'n interesting hobby. 
 

Does anyone know what schools are the big coral research facilities? Might be able to get a PowerPoint on the subject. On the flip side, all this collected Neptune data should get crunched a la Seti@home. 

What does your pH log look like?