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13 hours ago, don_chuwish said:

Will have to plan on this one!

Woo-hoo! Let me know if you want to do any more trades.

On 10/3/2023 at 7:27 PM, Jchavez said:

Yes please! 

I should have some Green and some Red Aquacultured Gonis that I can bring to the 10/29 club meeting at All Things Aquariums. Send me a PM if you are interested.

Updated thread with pictures of Oregon Tort, Jackolantern and favia frags! Save the date!

On 10/6/2023 at 4:14 PM, Reefmafia said:

Does anyone know how this treatment may affect anemones? Ordered some the other day trying to figure out if I should remove my Giganteas before treatment 

I would be surprised if it hurt your anemones. People routinely use Cipro on anemones and this stuff is similar to Cipro.

On 10/5/2023 at 3:01 PM, danlu_gt said:

Great prizes!

This is what happened to my Indo "gold" torch under ReeFi Uno 2.0 Pros for 10 months now.  No need for heavy blue or over saturation photos.

 

Oregon Torts also do very well under Uno 2.0 Pros.  Took a few months to get going, then growth is pretty good.

Funny you mention that, as I am going to bring SIX Oregon Tort frags to raffle off at this meeting. As I am also running ReeFi 2.0s, I think it is safe to say that Oregon torts do very well under Reefis!

Just now, Jchavez said:

Looking for some inexpensive sand bed corals. Please shoot me a message with pictures/pricing. 
 

Thank you. 

You need some gonis!

When: Sunday October 29 1:00 to 4:pm

Where: All Things Aquariums

30299 SW Boones Ferry Rd

Wilsonville, OR 97070

We will have pizza, drinks and Halloween candy! 

Our own Eatfrenchfries will give a presentation on his culturing of Purple Non-Sulfur bacteria and will give all those attending FREE samples of his Purple Non-Sulfur bacteria!

We have an amazing line-up of prizes for the raffles: a ReeFi Uno 2.0, a Bubble Magus Filter Roller (medium), 6 Oregon Tort frags, Phyto and copepods, Jason Fox Jack-o-lantern Leptosersis frags, Pink Vampires, and war favia frags!

Don't Miss Out!

8 hours ago, Pdxreefer said:

I signed up when the original post came out but I no longer see my name on the list. Were notifications sent out? I’ve been checking periodically. Do I need to sign up again? 

We're sorry about that. I can lend you my own par meter if you need one sooner. Send me a pm.

4 minutes ago, Tiny Reef said:

I'm pretty sure my membership is up to date.

As a test I changed my username to a number on the form and it cleared the error. 

Thanks for letting me know. I fixed that field on the form. Can you please try again? Sorry for the hassle. The person who set up the original Google form left the club so we have not been able to edit it, so that is why I am re-doing it.

Thanks!

Andy

Thanks, Kim for running this event and to the rest of the board for stepping up. Many thanks to Jeff for hosting!

11 minutes ago, don_chuwish said:

OK, I'm going to make this my first attended event ever in the hobby. Just did my membership renewal and will be driving up from Roseburg. Looking forward to it! 

Looking forward to seeing you, David!

I'm in!

Too nice to pass this one up! I'm in. PAID.

10 minutes ago, cdp1276 said:

Are these all gone?

7 spots left

In my experience, both vodka and NoPox dosing take down your nitrate rapidly and don't reduce phosphate very much. If you use either of these to reduce your nitrates, make sure that you also use something, like GFO or Lanthanum chloride, to bring your phosphate down as well. Low nitrate and high phosphate can lead to all sorts of problems.

2 hours ago, Saltfishlover said:

It's not close to being fragged but this is what I got. 

I think must be the 'Manilla Spy.'  Cool! Where did you get it?

1 hour ago, obrien.david.j said:

Thanks for the feedback.  Glad to hear you have it, and can check how it's growing out.

Anyone else?

I don't think many people have it. It was never really distributed while Jake was alive. Now ACI aquaculture has it, so it should start to show up at retailers within a year or so.

1 hour ago, Jeff.Tichenor said:

After reading Michael Paletta's article on ReefBuilders for Managing Tissue Necrosis, I decided to up my dosage from the 7.5ml strength (Eli's recommendation for BJD) to something more inline with Paletta's for Arcobacter. I'm now dosing 500mg / 160 gallons (or 50ml).

It may also be worth noting that I have shut off the carbon reactor, UV, and ozone. I am only running fleece roller, skimmer and algae scrubber for filtration during this treatment. 

Be careful, as Paletta had to fight a dino outbreak after using his high dose.

Have you done a water change recently? I would try a large water change and then follow up with a ICP Mass Spec from Oceamo.

If you are doing the cipro treatment, perhaps do this after the last Cipro dose.

To give you a sense of what happens with space, take a look at my aquascape 3 yrs ago, and then today.

I would probably choose B, since your rock is more spread out and you are growing sticks that will reach out and touch each other. Both options look great.

29 minutes ago, svt_guido said:

Where do we find the 1 gal dosing containers seen in the presentation.?.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/space-saver-jug-thin-4-liter-1-05-gallon-bundle.html

18 minutes ago, LavenderTi said:

Great presentation, I was considering the triton system on the tank I'm upgrading to (120 gallon). I was previously using 3-part without trace elements on my nano. This method seems very promising at a lower cost.

I should say that dose the ATI Essentials Pro 2 part, in addition to the Captiv8 products. 

The ATI Essentials stuff is like Triton, but comes in fewer bottles and is cheaper.

You can find the ATI 2 part at prettyucj any of the local shops or online.

@reefrun I uploaded my presentation slides  to this post.

You can download the Captiv8 ICP calculator tool here:

https://www.captiv8aquaculture.com/copy-of-captiv8-home

You can purchase supplements and the $20 trace element pack that I mentioned here:

https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/reef-blueprint-isol8-minor-and-trace-element-pack-100g-captiv8-aquaculture/

You can purchase Oceamo ICP tests here

1) ICP-OES:

https://andremueller.e-junkie.com/product/1758006/Reef-Moonshiner26230393Bs-ICP-OES-Test

2 ICP-MS

https://andremueller.e-junkie.com/product/1758008/Reef-Moonshiner26230393Bs-ICP-MS-Test

As I said at the meeting, you can use any ICP test for the trace element calculator. Travis/Upscales carries the ATI ICP test and other local stores also carry ATI or Triton. Any one of these will work. My own preference is Oceamo because they offer Mass Spec analysis as well as standard ICP.

I'm happy to answer answer questions in this thread. Please tag me so I see it.

Andy

Upscales_presentation.pptx

46 minutes ago, LavenderTi said:

Can we do replies or DM rather than editing the original post? With the previous thread I did not get notified when I was tagged and subsequently missed my slot.

If we didn't edit the original post, the thread would get really long. We can make sure that we also send a PM when we update the list.