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Very dashing.

I've never seen a hermit do damage to an anemone, but it wouldn't hurt.

In my pico tank, I have a hermit that crawls into my rose bubble and takes any sort of food. I had to feed the crab before I feed the 'nem, so I brought it home to a larger tank. Now it crawls into my rock flower and I still have to feed the crab before the 'nem.

Just have to be aware of what they are doing. We all got to eat.

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The cheapest way is to just make your own solutions. Calcium will precipitate with any carbonates, so they usually don't sell them as an all in one. Just as Higher Thinking pointed out.

Bulk reef supply also sells mix your own calcium and alkalinity solutions. I've only heard good results.

Otherwise, just go to any petstore and look for a calcium dosing solution that only has Calcium Chloride. That should do the job too.

I once did a 20% water change and realized after dumping the old water out that I had only purchased enough water for a 10% change! Of course the store was closed by the time I realized. I ended up running the sump really low and using some dishes and stuff to displace water so there was enough to run for the night.

 

I now keep RO/DI water and salt mix on hand and never dump the old water until the tank is filled and running.

I've done this plenty of times.

I moved it from a high flow, high light area to a low flow, low light area and they all got much bigger in size. Got 16 polyps so far.

I´ve also heard that if you grind up the shrimp shells fine enough, it will substitute for adding gelatin. It isn´t always fun to shuck 30-40 shrimp, unless they are for food.

That's crazy.

You could always try adding a supplement to current foods.

I have made my own food, but never to enhance color. Usually it was because fish food is a lot cheaper if you make it.

Frag swap as always and great food!   

Are we planning to do a frag tank? It would be great to see one, but I know they are a lot of work.

Welcome.

Sirena,

Happy Birthday!!! I hope you make today an amazing day and I appreciate everything you've ever done for the club.

Thank you.

-Miles

P.s. Have fun at MACNA!

This is a colony of Acropora humilis that I grew out from a wild collected frag from The Premium Aquarium in Salem. The thing has branches as thick as my thumb and has morphed into a nice day-glo green with purple highlights. I call it the "Giant Green Slimer." That is a large Florida Fighting Conch next to it for scale.

 

Hulk Angry.

I got a package at Bob Moore.

There are varying degrees of filters and usually doubles of each. I kept them in my wallet for when I needed them. You have to make sure the filter is flat against the phone or the focus will be off, but I think for the price you can't beat them. We have all been at a LFS or a friends house and want to take a picture, but the glare is just horrible.

This was a Sekura pic I took with my cellphone camera with the filter (granted the camera on my phone is two years old).

You can still see some glare, but it removed about 90% of it.

I was talking with my roommate about his new freshwater aquarium and the nitrogen cycle. I pointed out that plants consume nitrates as a nutrient source.

The conversation continued to predator tanks and how many predator tanks produce a lot of nitrates because of the huge mass of food being fed. I know nitrates can be a problem when feeding sharks. So, why don't you see plants in a shark tank to help with the problem? I honestly have no clue and would love to hear some reasons why.

I can't think of a single saltwater predator tank that had plants. It's kind of funny. Maybe because that is not their natural environment? Maybe mass amounts of water changes compensate? I have no idea.

Those AC adapters look to be for smaller LEDs being 6 and 12 volt output. As far as the 54 watt bulbs those would tend to be 48 inch T5-HO lights and at 18 inch depth and 4 54 watt bulbs you would be sitting pretty decent in the lighting department.

After looking at it, he's right. They probably are 54 watts.

Yea, those ac/DC adaptors are not for fluorescent lights. Watts=Voltage*Current. 6V one is only 0.9watts max and 12V one is 2.4watta max.

 

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Beat me to it. Hehe.

Watts = Volts x Amps.

Output: 6V, 150mA

To start off, sump vs refugium is kind of a grey area. Sump is usually a container of water that your tank overflows into, while a refugium is just a place that tends to have macro-algae and a light. Sometimes refugiums are in sumps, sometimes they are completely separate.

I think it is personal preference whether you keep the biostones in there. I don't have any. I recently set one up in my sump and I just removed the filter sock from the overflow and let the copepods do their thing. It took about 2-3 weeks before I could spot a consistent amount of copepods down there. Also, I never shut my protein skimmer off because it is after the refugium zone.

Pictures would greatly help. Maybe send us a picture of what you are working with and we can give you some advice.

You really are good at photoshop.

What's the name?

Fred, congratulations on becoming a father.

I totally missed that post by Innovative Marine. Congratulations.

You never cease to amaze me.

Happy Birthday Bret. Make it a good one.

Who also forgot to get their porthole at the meeting?

Nature's gems.