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https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/for/d/sandy-innovative-marine-25-lagoon/7017601790.html

Pretty good price considering it comes with the stand and upgraded pump plus spin streams. Maybe talk him down to 200-225 for it and get a used AI prime or kessil. 

Is this something I should be worried about or try and move him? He footed himself right on top of some gsp. 
 

I did the opposite of what every forum says and just scrubbed them off, popping them and all. Then did a water change and they never came back, might of just been lucky but popping them didn’t spread them or have them come back. 

Interesting read thank you. Would be cool to see pictures of the tanks corresponding with the colors in the chart. Definitely interested to see group D and C’s tanks 

Going to be up in Vancouver on Sunday, planning on stopping by and checking out the shop!

I'll take the frogspawn and the orange acans

3 hours ago, Trailermann said:

Why is it so difficult to ID nuisance algae?  

No disrespect for you guys, but even on R2R when aquarists post photos, the answers are rarely clear.  When I Google images of dino, cyano, and brown hair algae, none of the results look like my stringy filiments.

 

Because every tank, flow, nutrients, lighting, camera used are different for everyone so the same algae can look ten different ways in ten different tanks. 
 

Looks like cyno, do a blackout for 2-3 days and should clear up. 

Reefer 170 and skimmer both sold

Edited the first post to just the items that are left.  Home all weekend!

Apex has been sold. 
 

Make some offers let’s clear the rest out!

Also looking for a light that would work with a planted tank standard 20g

Adding a Bulk Reef supply Plus 75gph to the list. Probably needs some new filters. $100

RoDI

Triden, Dos, Hannah are all gone

Career and life changes so here we go, everything is broken down, cleaned and in perfect working condition.

I'm in Gresham, Oregon. Will be home today, and all weekend. 971-301-1365

First up is a Reefer 170, white cabinet, Painted the sump white on all sides except the front so it's clean, bright, and easy to see into the sump. Changed out the filter sock for a cup that you can put whatever you want in it, much nicer.  Has a light in the cabinet that when you open the door it turns on. Has a custom made acrylic top with feeding port. Will come with Tank, Stand, Sump, all plumbing, top, Ehhem compact 3000 return pump, and a finnex 300w Titanium heater, and a magnetic algae scrapper. $700 - SOLD

Red Sea RSK 300 Skimmer, works amazing, has veiwing window and new cleaner. $200 - SOLD

MP10QD 2015 Manf. Date, Still works fine. $125

Bulk Reef Supply GFO/Carbon Deluxe reactor, no pump but comes with almost full Carbon and half of GFO container. Just needs a maxijet or something to run it. $30

Pair of Maxspect Gyre XF230's with the controller and extra blades. $225

Clear Water 100 Algae Scrubber $275

Kessil Tuna Blue A80 with goosneck - $75

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Looks like you are not getting enough light. When polyp’s extend like that they are trying to get closer to the light.  

Ever since I left my heater on and cooked my tank I’ve been having an algae issues I just can’t solve. Really never had an algae issue before, or at least one some skimming and gfo can’t fix. It’s not mats of algae or hair algae, just individual string looking stuff all over.

I’ll post some pictures, anyone know what kind this is and what’s the best way to get rid of it, or is it just a waiting period from all the die off I had when I cooked everything?

Used Fritz for a few years, lately the batches have been super inconsistent to the point I ended up switching to Red Sea coral Pro

Thank you everyone this forum is pretty amazing! 

Little update, I just finished pulling out most of the dead I could get off the rocks, did a big water change and all the fish/inverts are looking pretty good so that's a plus. I'm heading to Vegas in the morning until next Thursday so hopefully when I get back everything will have settled down and see what all pulled through coral wise. As of last night I still had 2 sps alive, out of around 30ish... so better than nothing I suppose. 

Ordered a controller for my heater for a backup to keep this from happening again, also when I get back i'll be going through my Apex to look for other redundancies I'm missing. 

And if anyone is interested, I have a lot of this rare white zombie sps for trade, may not get much growth... but it won't die on you either 😄 

15 minutes ago, Manny Tavan said:

what is your heater set at?

 

I set my apex around 77 and my heater around 78

I’m using a finnex titanium heater without a thermostat on it. Just using the apex to control it. Hind sight, bad idea

39 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Oh no!  So sorry to hear this.  Even when you think you have everything covered and failsafes in place things like this can smack you down.  I hope you are able to bounce back quickly but I know it is really rough having to start over.

Yeah I was just starting to like the way it looked too. Crazy a years worth of good growth can be wiped in a few hours time. 

24 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said:

Ouch.  SO sorry to hear this. 😞

This has been one of my biggest worries, and so far I've religiously double-checked everything before walking away from my tank to make sure everything is set to Auto.  As an added failsafe, I have set up my Apex with a few virtual outputs I use for maintenance tasks as master On/Off switches.  This allows me to leave all the critical components set to Auto, and the programming turns them off when I'm doing maintenance.   Unfortunately this won't help for yesterday's mishap, but maybe it can help you and others here prevent future problems.

Let me know if want me to go over your Apex setup to help set up some additional failsafes.

 

I’ve seen a couple people have it setup like that. Guess I need to join that group

23 minutes ago, Lazyreefer said:

[language filter] sorry about that happening that sucks hope you recuperate it fast! This made me think though I measured my tank with my Hanna temp/salinity probe and it reads 77.9 and my apex temp probe reads 79.2 have you ever tested yours with other temp probes and are you fairly sure the temp probe with the apex is completely accurate? Sorry again about your loss! 

It’s within a degree, tested with multiple thermometers. 

Here’s what total destruction looks like in chart form

Had a 4th of July BBQ at the house yesterday, so before everyone got here I did a quick water change/cleaning on the tank then went on with the day. As I was heading to bed last night I looked at the tank and everything looked terrible. Went and grabbed my phone from the bedroom to see if I had any alerts... temp at 93 degrees. 

My apex runs my heater and shuts it off at 79.5 degrees, but after my water change when i turned everything on I set it to "On" instead of "auto"😰. Wouldn't have been a big deal if I had my phone on me last night as I would have revived the alerts when the tank hit 80.

Pretty much a total loss, every stick besides two are gone, and they might not even make it, every LPS melted including my giant octo and torch, not a single acan made it, most of the zoas and ricordias look okayish. And fish look fine but stressed.

I've never crashed a tank before, let alone by me rushing and not paying attention... pretty upsetting had some nice sticks... that are now just sticks 😑

“Trust everything you’re local fish store tells you, especially petco” 😂

Obviously a few exceptions to this

3 hours ago, Brazzy said:

is that the current orbit ic light?

It’s this one. 

https://current-usa.com/product/orbit-marine-led-2-0-lighting-system-18-24/