Micah

I have a flipper that was used for a week until I found my lost one. It's brand spanking new other than that and it was used only in a tank that had fish quarantined using the humble fish method (if you're paranoid like me).

 

Absolutely no rust, as I mostly used the plastic blade.

 

Make an offer! Who knows!

 

--Micah

Here's them installed

I used these and they are working great.  Obviously I reinforced above the drywall, but I feel they have a fairly classy look.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GN3BV3Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I can't wait for the reef-pi to be able to read the /cgi-bin/status.json file of an apex in order to link the two together.  Then we can essentially control smart outlets with the apex.

 

I'm looking to create a true refugium with rock/rubble/etc. A copepods haven. I need some good golf ball to football sized chunks. Good real rock is what I'm after. Nothing manufactured or subterranean mined (Florida reef rock).

 

All rock I get will spend a short sabbatical in a dark brute can for a few months to get rid of any fish diseases, and perhaps some special care to remove any bryopsis or anything like that... So, if you have aiptasia coated rocks that you left for dead, I'll take them as long as the bones are good.

 

Hit me up. I'm in Far SW Portland/Tigard.

 

--Micah

Did you ever get this?

You go to hell.  You go to hell and you die.

I have a 12v 1.5a one you're welcome to have.

I'm in the Tigard area.

31 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

I know when I am at therapeutic levels my tangs really grey out. 😞    

I had a yellow and a sailfin in copper for 20 days at 2.5ppm with copper power they looked amazing the whole time.   I run copper+metroplex+kanaplex+furan2 all at the same time.  I think that has something to do with it.  

Another benefit of copper over CP is that I can test for copper to ensure that I am at therapeutic levels. 

Just now, pdxmonkeyboy said:

ask your doctor if chloroquine phosphate is right for you!  Seriously, copper is brutal on fish 😞 

I'll have to do that, at least for the fish that can't tolerate copper at all.   So far, I've had nothing but luck with copper, so I'm reticent to change my ways - especially because the humble.fish folks have some pretty good success.  

2 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

 I mean the aquatic pet trade is basically one big whore house without even a baby wipe around.

Pretty sure I need this on a t-shirt or something.

 

 

In the past, my quarantine method was to wait for things to go wrong and just assume I have ich/live with it.   Ich management.   Starting this new tank, however, I've decided to take it seriously and do the full quarantine/medicating/etc.  The humblefish method.   

Fish: Treated for 7-20~ days on prazi (wrasses/etc need a longer ramp up/down).  Then treated for 14-30 days on therapeutic levels of copper power (again, wrasses/other sensitive fish need more time to acclimate to copper)

Corals/Snails/Rock/Clams/Etc: 76 days in Fishless QTs

Anemones: 16 days in fishless QT

Shrimp/Crabs/Etc: 76 days or 16 days + first full molt

I have a full physically separated fish quarantine consisting of two 20gallon talls with drains to the house waste plumbed in separated from themselves with a partition.   I have a separate 20g cube fishless coral/invert QT as well. 

 

 

If anybody else wanted to set up any quarantine setups, now is the time.   Petco is having their dollar-per-gallon sale at the moment.  Head on in and get yourself a couple 20gallon tanks. I have some HOB's to pay it forward if @Gil&Fin doesn't want them back. 

You should have started that post with "trigger alert". Because most people have a warped view of what quarantine actually means or what "I have ich" means.

Setting up my first large tank (100g total) looking for a ATO. Let me know if you have one you are willing to part with.

There's a JBJ ATO at cuttlefish that I've tested working with one float switch (working on getting a second, but you can buy a replacement one yourself as the emergency one). You can just have that one. Works great
Just needs a pump of your own choice for moving the top off water.

Let me know and I'll alert cuttlefish.

Yes! Boneyard RPM is great. Been drinking a lot of fort George optimist lately. Lower alcohol content, tastes good in warm weather and usually on sale. It's my quarantine beer of choice.

I think I'm gonna need 75's.....those are [language filter] sexy.

Illegal reef keeping is even more exciting than the boring legal kind....

I thought it was legal to collect dry rock/sand in hawaii, but the limits only apply when leaving the island.   I could be wrong, but that's what I remember last.

Sweet.  We can crack a socially distanced brew together.

Dang! That's a good deal! If you've still got it by this weekend, I'll take you up on that trade. I'm also in Tigard.

A little birdy told me that the dollar per gallon sale starts in July. Could be BS, but something to think about.

Looking for something like this: https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-universal-co2-scrubber.html

 

I need two of them and they need to have either 3/8" or 1/2" ports.

 

Looking to make a carbon air filter and co2 scrubber.

 

Let me know, thanks!

If I remember correctly, Micah’s wiring prowess was a full-blown step beyond what most of us think of because of what he does or did as a living. He is who turned me on to that plastic wire raceway stuff with snap on covers !
 
 
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Yeah, that is good stuff. I'm tempted to get a couple lengths of it myself for this wall. I've already painted myself into a corner though, so I may be out of luck without re-arranging.

I think@CuttleFishandCoral has one that works kicking around. Check with him.

Not sure they ever made a 45" model, but his is the 48".