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23 hours ago, Gil&Fin said:

Okay, okay.  I may have taken a few liberties with photoshop.  I was trying to mimic Brad's sale threads, but I should know better than to try to imitate a master photoshopper like Brad.

Here is my real entry for this month.

It’s Lightroom thank you- you must be referring to the green carpet nem I’m passing off as Red  

I try emulate CornBred  now that guy 

True Jedi Master at the art of deception 

That frag is doing very well (this is my serious side) it looks very happy and healthy.....You’ll want to remember these days to reflect back on, you will know them as “the good ol days”

4 minutes ago, LadAShark said:

Beautiful, with the trade off being it’s a devourer of worl— err everything potentially. Glws, truly a centerpiece, but would likely need something built around it.

If a fish touched/hit this thing I’m sure it would be over- It amazes me how they seem to know to stay away all the while swimming closer than I’d like to see.

Heres to hoping the super glue works so I can keep it-

Quick people...... the clocks ticking, I may end up not needing to sell it but for now it’s on the block

1 hour ago, Jorge said:

It looks hungry!🍔

Probably was in the first pic that was day 1. Since then it’s had a couple cleaner shrimp I think and a nice sized orange skunk clown-

Noteworthy - don’t force a clown into a carpet nem to host, let it happen naturally 😖

This thing is like fly paper- I may be able to keep it, I’ll know in about 72 hours- trying something new (I super glued its foot to the bottom of the tank 

19 hours ago, Higher Thinking said:

I got five on it.

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745.00 more and you got a deal

1 hour ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

wow gorgeous

 

it wants to live in your new tank

1 hour ago, Danik said:

Why is the sand out of focus on first picture?

its not really in the tank, I super imposed the nem into the tank.- Or more believable is it was my phones poor editing software

Are you wanting to purchase my sand?

1 hour ago, albertareef said:

Because it's coming for you?  It does make it look sort of strange - like it's suspended.  The power of focal depth in action I guess.

Beautiful specimen!

Probably an editing snafu 

We can set up the installment plan 375 equal payments

1 hour ago, Gil&Fin said:

It's about that time again! I know I'm a little early, but I'm just so excited about the amazing growth I am seeing!

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You actually have a great amount of new growth, even if you use the magic eraser. I understand that your acros usually die so actual growth may be tough to discern given your level , but its there, trust. 

Nice!

This beauty has been captive kept for about 9 months so the risk for shipping death has passed as well as it not getting established in a closed environment- In other words, the gamble has been taken care of by someone else 😉

I thought it would be a good addition but it just won’t find a place it likes (and I like) but when your tank (my tank) is 90 percent or more Acropora I was delusional thinking it would work

750.00 

this is a show piece and is hard to get rid of with all the risk involved when initially trying to acquire one but I’m a stick head

I can break out the DSLR if needed/requested I just had this pic on my cell

On 6/25/2020 at 10:46 PM, albertareef said:

This is interesting. Have you always run your DT at those numbers?  Just curious since you probably have had the most impressive colonies I have seen on the forum. I know there are other SPS masters out there as well but I’ve seen the evidence in your case 😁

Sorry for the delay, I'm just not that active on any forums anymore-It'll change but not for awhile 

Ive not ran those numbers in the past- The past was an ULNS with undetectable levels in both PO4 and NO3 but I was also throwing a lot of "food" in for my acros and the KH was around 8.2

Since the reboot I run my KH closer to 11-11.5 and have to keep PO4 and NO3 higher or else I'll burn the tips on all my acros.

HTH

PO4 and NO3 are dosed daily to maintain

.16-.25 PO4

4-6 NO3

both food grade purchased off of Amazon 

http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm

did you buy or build this?

Great job on the build ( Im a little behind here)

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On 6/18/2020 at 10:49 AM, Micah said:

Oh!  And I got my Apex mounted... Again, ignore the horrible wire mess... I don't want to spend the time tidying it up until everything is working exactly as planned.  I have a call today with Neptune Systems to diagnose my LINK A/B ports on my energy bar.  They arrived DOA, so, hoping for a quick RMA.

 

Looking good Micah! FWIW I dont even see the wires- I guess I just miss the finer details, but it looks perfectly fine from here

Heres my early DIY days when I had 1/3rd the wires I do now- I at least did a drip loop (right into that power strip)

Dont judge on the gas can that doubles as the collection container-re-purposing at its best

Upscales Micro in the 2nd to last pic or maybe reef ready grape juice?

I always liked both those pieces- looking good!

All gone.

Thanks

21 hours ago, markvo said:

Thanks Bill. It's good to know we no longer have chloramines in our source water. I won't buy any more expensive chloramine filters.

Im not so sure I would stop using the chloramine filters, whats the chance they switch water sources if there is a problem  (as Portland has in the past) and you wont know until its to late.

Portland has some of the brightest and wisest decision makers/leaders  

On 6/16/2020 at 10:20 AM, Gil&Fin said:

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thats just creepy looking

On 6/16/2020 at 3:57 AM, TaylorW said:

Do you have Cerith snails? They look like Cerith snail eggs, I have some Dwarf Cerith snails breeding in one of my tanks and the eggs look like that. There's no predators in that tank so those little suckers are everywhere, constantly pulling out dozens from the filter socks. BTW, anyone want some snails lol

 

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I do have cerith snails- I did get paranoid tho and pulled the plug on that tank, its been drained and is dry until the one above it is full of sticks then Ill bring it back on line.

Thanks for the reply

You know I’m kidding, I didn’t agree with it anyway.

Nice tank, and I like the RNJ Rockwork you emulated, very nice indeed

sold

Hope you learned a lesson

Not like any hydroids a I’ve seen or my friend Google has seen either

Closest I found was Nassarius but I have none of them in that tank. The tank hasn’t had anything really in it other than some Trochus I moved in from my QT.

Trochus eggs would be my guess since my Trochus breed/spawn faster than most rabbits. I’m sure that’s what they “were”

Ive had enough surprises for a decade or so and since the tank wasn’t holding anything I just siphoned out the water and it’s back off line. 

Probably paranoid (absolutely paranoid die to past experiences) since I have no pest and really nothing “unwanted”............

That I know of 😳

It'll forever be a mystery 

9 hours ago, Lazyreefer said:

Don’t be like me and be an absolute idiot and set your primes onto your ottoman while setting them up at all... just don’t do it this was easily less then 30 seconds on and just melted it🤦🏻‍♂️

To late did that a few years ago with my Hydras- luck had it there was a comforter on the sofa so just 3 perfect burn holes 

I only noticed when I smelt something burning-

I know that feeling

It’s been a great fish until today when I took a liking to a milli I have.

I know it will also eat zoas (never seen a regal that doesn’t tho)  other than that it’s been kept with the following and zero issues;

clams,  acans, lobos, trachys, florida rics, bounce shrooms, torches, hammers duncans, frog/octospawn, montis- I think that covers what I know it’s been exposed too.

Eats LRS like pig been captive for about 4-5 months I believe 

No signs of, nor any issues with the fish other than the acro incident.

With much regret it must find a new home 

I’ll cut right to it so if there is any interest no one needs to ask if I’d take less 

250.00 (for a regal eating frozen trust that’s a solid deal)

TIA for looking

 I just found the screws so it’s complete 

1 light left

3 minutes ago, Raj said:

I am also interested in both the light, if the sale falls through. 

Do the light come with mounts ?

I may have the eye screws that screw into the top, I have to look since I made aluminum frames they sat so I didn’t use them 

1 light is sold

I have 2 Radion G4 XR30 pros excellent condition 18 months old
525.00 each or combined for 1000.00 

Act fast before the R2R peeps steal these like the Reefbrites