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_IGP5143 by rworegon, on Flickr

Upper jaw is starting to hook. It's a boy.

Aqua serene here in Eugene has a terrific chili coral right now. The shipper sent it by mistake. Bright pink. I thought they were hard to keep though. I would try chalice our acans. Does look like a nice spot for Sun polyps though.

I've got a tenius I could frag if anyone has some sticks to trade.

I agree, nice, but me thinks its a him.

This is a very nice build. I've seen it in person. Scuba Steve is very handy with building stuff.

+1 on the pvc. I add a bowl of sand for wrasses. I did break the rules in mine. A added a couple of rocks that will never see the display. . It gives the fish something to pick at. If I need to medicate I just put them in a bucket with a spare Powerhead and heater till the medication is complete.

Yep, my qt is a 10 gal. I've qt'd tangs, copperband, wrasses, even puffers.

Whatever you decide on, do yourself a favor and quarantine. Get it used to eating prepared foods without competition and destressed from shipment. This will go a long way towards a healthy fish.

Looking good. The snowflake and Valentini are doing great.

Glad you're back. Pictures are always good.

I use the Red Sea Nitrate kit as well as the Mag and Cal kits. I believe these are all part of the Foundations kit. I go until the color is a constant deep blue. If I remember right with the Mag test the color will change but if you wait a few seconds it will start to fade. Add a drop at a time till the color stays consistent.

Every tank will have different dosing needs. Saying its a 90 gal mixed reef does not give us enough information. Your needs will vary even as your reef grows and matures. First you need to determine the amount your system is using on a daily or weekly basis. Test the big three parameters, Alk, Cal, and Mag. Leave it alone for a week and test again. Note the drop in results. Divide this by seven and that will give you your daily dosing requirements. Bulk Reef Supply has a reef Calculator on their site that you can plug in the numbers and it will give you amounts in ml. Be careful though, Brightwell might have some different numbers based on their products. Check out their website or printed materials and see if they have a similar formula.

I got this Leopard Wrasse from Rudy a couple of weeks ago. He's been in quarantine learning to eat frozen and acllimating to aquarium life. I tink he's getting pretty lazy about burrying himself at bedtime. 20140910_194730 by rworegon, on Flickr

Just to chime in here, I think another great thing for the tanks for teachers program would be to watch and document the nitrogen cycle. It would teach chemistry and patience and at the same time get them used to watching chemical reactions by using test kits. Show them how to be precise with test tubes and reagents.

I have used dentist picks to break them of and Stan the worm inside.

I personally don't like them. They can multiply rather quickly, and irritate corals when they build their little tubes next to them. My copperband butterfly eats them.

_IGP5143 by rworegon, on Flickr

Great pic of the kiddo's.

To all the drama on the forum lately: _IGP5342 by rworegon, on Flickr

I never noticed the zooming issue. Seems to do fine on my Samsung S5.

You need to either upload them to the forum site or us an oIff-site housing site like photobucket or Flickr. I prefer Flickr because it's free of annoying ads and they give you a gig of free storage, plus it stores full res photos. Then you copy the bbc code and paste it in your post.

BTW, when do i get my membership privileges back?

Sorry that people lost perspective on what is important in life. After all this is a fish forum not the library of all knowledge of man up to this moment. As someone who has worked in IT off an on since the early '80's, yea when backups were completed on magnetic tape drives that you had to thread like the old reel to reels, I can only say WOW. To not have any kind of backup or disaster recovery plan just seems weird. But like I said, this is not life saving or threatening stuff. People really need to get over themselves and get on with things. Thanks for what you did save. People could have handled themselves better, ALL of them , but lets move on and get back to the reason we're all here.