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Way to go! My black ice is hosting zoas. might be time to shack it up with a BTA for a day...

To color BTAs: Food, mega crazy PAR 600-1K, I'm sitting at about 700-800 on mine. For food I feed tiny pellets soaked for 20 mins (fish, krill, shrimp all work great. Cyclopeez dipped shrimp would be fun to try) You want something that the nems can digest. the more the surface area the better. Light, I run a ratio of "4 pure actinic, 4 Blue Special, and 1 warm white" 6 hours a day, drop to 2 actinic/2 blue special for 2 hour in the AM and PM. To Bubble BTAs up: High lighting does it every time, they will want to shade the oral disk. All of my BTA's bubble up, even the ones that had spindly tentacles for as long as I can remember. Usually takes a month or so. If it is a mature nem (8"+), high lighting will usually force them to split so you'll want to increase lighting slowly. If you are feeding them regularly, they will be less inclined to wander around during light increases.

Will be interesting to see what you decide on!

That's a nice looking Lobo!!

This is a non occupied space. I design HVAC controls for a living. He asked about a high limit and that is what I use on data centers, loading docks, etc... Indeed, the ideal occupied space humidity is 30-40%. No one in the valley acheives this on a regular basis, even in their home.

Keep it below 70-80% and you won't have condensation issues. You can always bust out a pyschrometric chart if you have single pane windows and know what temperature they are at night to figure out how low you need to be. Otherwise, if the space/stuff/piping in the area is all the same temperature, you're fine at 80%. I measure space/outside air humidity with sensors. I have a hang on the wall one and some other stuff.

Mine is in time out, AKA, in a basket with some of the nems. Didn't quite think that one through... Good luck on the re-homing!

LFS works well for me. My GSP pays for my salt each month.

I've been disappointed with the multichips. Their efficiency has been pretty low compaired to the rest of the latest offerings (70-80% versus 90-95%). I'm pretty sure this has to do with thermal transfer from chip to chip currently. When the housing design standard changes hopefully this won't be as big of an issue.

Sustainable Aquatics confirmed yesterday that their Long Fin Clowns are slated for a 3rd quarter 2015 release. I know everyone has strong opinions on these but they could end up being a pretty significant captive bred option for nano's. Personally, I think anything that takes the pressure off wild caught fish in this hobby is a good thing.

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The ships were a joke, I kind of like them though... I'll bring you some.

Or, snack size!

Sounds good!

Yeah, they are titanic frag plugs. Got some Han Solo in Carbonite ones in there too, haha

Here's a better pic of the gold that's shifting. Seperated it from the others last night. Color is washed out bad, took it this morning with just the 440/470's on.

Perfect timing since Bret is throwing a bash!! Those guys have awesome stuff!!

Bend, Oregon If you are ever in the area, hit me up! otherwise, I travel to Portland pretty often.

Dang! If I wasn't busy moving my office this weekend I'd be there!! Sounds like a good time!

Do you cover your tanks? I have all my stuff set up in the garage as well, covers are a must. My space humidity sits at 30%, same as the house with very little air exchange. I let the sump breathe though. No de-humidification used.

In the center of the picture below, sandwhiched between a Rainbow Inferno and a pink is a BTA that picked up pink, orange, and red pigments (vertical striping) from the others around it. Started off with a yellow/gold color a couple months back. Sunburst to the left is so bright the color looks white, haha! While keeping the different colors together is fun, I've found you need to be careful when introducing a nem with a color pattern you'd like to retain. If the nem is faded, they sometimes receive pigments from others... Not sure why/how... I suspect it has something to do with the excess pigments floating in the water as the nems deflate. I've seen them leave a trail of color when moving around.

A few of the biggest zoa collectors in Oregon chimed in and all I hear is crickets...

Charles, Price diff between the two is only a buck or two. The dimmable meanwells "fail to power", with a loss of dimming signal, they run at 100% (no PWM) so they would fit your needs, and you could use them for dimming later down the road...