Bicyclebill

I’ve got a corona LED light. Super popular name right now. But the PAR output is insane compared to what my radions were

The beauty is that the problem is temporary. Believe me, I’ve sat at my sump for an hour or so (several times) emptying my skimmer cup into a bucket until it finally calms down. Make up a 5gal bucket of new water to replace as the process goes on. Good times! 

My guess is that there was residue of some sort in the new sump. Did you wash it out first? Maybe throw a small bag of carbon in there until it works itself out 

Holy cow! Those are ALL full blown colonies! You’re killing me smalls...

Dang, that's nearly big enough to tie into my local municipality with...but great deal! I wish I had the room for it.

Where you at? 

1 hour ago, Manny Tavan said:

Everyone is using more than one drain?

Are you telling me I can tee my Durso into a single drain line? 

27 minutes ago, Manny Tavan said:

I have a clarisea. Never tried the klir. Honestly it’s just a motor and a float valve. Would be hard to mess that up 

How is everyone running these roll filters with single inputs when we've all got 2 or 3 drain lines?

Do you know what just dawned on me? The similarities between the coral growing industry and marijuana growing industry. They both seem to have a thing for coming up with names like Walt Disney, pineapple Cush, OG, for something that already exists by a proper name. But they’ve figured out a way to cultivate/fine tune that common product in a way that makes it unique from the others. This came to me as I was looking at my tank and realizing I don’t remember/know most of the base SPS names anymore other than the fancier names growers have given them. 

It's weird, I'm not having brown jelly on this one. I did lose one a few months back to brown jelly. This one it's as though the animal is expelling itself out of the skeleton. Reminds me of when I've used a scalpel to cut out mushrooms from rocks and they're still just barely hanging on. I need to figure out a better solution to this iPhone 11 camera because it sucks for taking pictures under aquarium lighting.

I’ve wanted one of those pumps forever. PM sent

4 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said:

The video started out at 80x magnification, then I switched to 200x around the 30 second mark, and finally 800x around 1:30 into the video.

Is that a coaster, a small notepad, or a small book of puns?

So should I dip, or is it likely bacterial infection that causes these to go downhill like this?

18 hours ago, Manny Tavan said:

This was a lot of work

Great looking stand. We use similar extrusions at work to build modular fan walls, and based on that experience I recommend using gussets at the bottom that match the top. 

Beast mode!!!

If you can, I think that’s the better solution anyway!

Aha, maybe that’s why I have one left. Must have had another pack to dose three myself. They come in a two pack, so you’re welcome to this one to avoid buying too many

On 2/23/2021 at 5:35 PM, Manny Tavan said:

This weird thing is happening. Everytime I drill a hole and place a frag plug in it...I can see a $100 leaving my wallet...

I can see about $5000 worth of holes for frags!

I’ve got milbemax, which I found to be the allowable equivalent when I looked into it. I’ve got (1) pill, sized for dogs greater than 5kg. Well, that all sounds really weird. I used one from the two pack way back when, and it did the trick as I recall. You can have it if you want, but you’ll have to do the research for application

The original coral bandsaw is still the only one that works like a bandsaw. The dremel hobby tool John showed does a back and forth sawing action, which will tear up anything you’re  cutting. Bandsaws are a single direction cutting tool. Nothing else comes close

My $0.02 is to not use any old rock that has the hair algae on it. I was in your same boat with my 90G before upgrading to my 150G over the summer. I bought a bunch of clean rock and started over with only a couple pieces of my old rock. I also did the new tank snake oil quick starter stuff, but make sure not to do that if you're using live sand. Knock on wood, my system is running clean as a whistle and actually a little too low on nutrients now at times. 

I have to tell you I’m really beginning to wish for simpler products. Say a Radion with a hard wired on/off switch and a couple rheostat dials for color and intensity.  That is definitely something I miss about my old Kessils. 

How about now? For battery backup, might as well make it lithium ion instead of those dreaded lead acid batteries that these come with. 

Number 3 for me I believe. 

That sucks. I’ve been there before many years ago, but lucked out this time with no power outage. I think I’m going to buy a small generator just to have around just in case for any reason.