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We ship out of Eugene and offer local pickup (meet at UPS) as an option Orchard Reef Lexinverts has awesome corals though, definitely look him up!

Yes, the new edit (2 min ago) shows up.

Bug in the moderation software perhaps. The forum does not show any evidence the post was ever edited, at least not to the original author of the post. We can continue that discussion outside the thread. I leave this note here to explain that we are seeing literally different things when we view this thread.

My post was edited and text deleted without any acknowledgement or discussion. I'm just gonna say that out loud and leave it there. And here people are still talking about this as if it was a standalone act that would be voted up or down in the Senate based on the merits and what their constituents want. But I guess when you refuse to acknowledge politics you end up drawing the wrong conclusions. [quote]The house passed the America Competes Act and within it they added the Lacey Act.[/quote]

Two key issues. 1. The law would require federal agents to positively identify all species. Professional biologists with decades of training working in well funded labs can't meet this bar. But agents with at best TSA-level intelligence and training are going to somehow do it? 2. The law makes absolutely no exceptions for farmed or captive raised animals. It would quite literally end the aquarium industry.

Remember that the pH on a natural reef fluctuates from about 7.8 to about 8.1 daily. I'd focus more on alk. Keep Alk between 7-8, and unless your home has unusually high CO2 pH should stay in a reasonable range.

Yeah, I'm skeptical that it makes any difference in nutrients. These things are tiny, the total biomass of water microbes is not very large. Completely changes the microbial community and completely eliminates the most abundant group of Bacteria. But I doubt it affects the nutrients much.

This matches my experience with Chromis. Such pretty fish for a couple days.

I refer to this for practical advice on most diseases in the hobby, Uronema included https://humble.fish/uronema/ Uronema has shown up in tanks with UV running. Maybe it helped, I don't know, but it doesnt seem to be a surefire way to remove it from the tank.

Uronema is so widespread in the hobby. 10-20% of tanks of tanks we've tested have it. Wholesaler tanks are so infested with Uronema that even the rocks taken from those tanks have it, let alone the fish. (Again, this is based on DNA testing) Personally I've moved to using only peroxide and observational QT. Peroxide bath, then into observational QT with low dose of peroxide, then another peroxide bath after theyve been in QT a month or so. I've seen some good evidence that tanks infested with Uronema can be cleared using an in tank peroxide treatment. But whats really needed is still missing. We need a few cases where we first confirm the fish has Uronema (by testing rather than visually), then treat it, then confirm that the Uronema is gone (again by testing). This kind of experiment is on my list but hasnt happened yet.

bump, still looking While looking, I always check craigslist. craigslist prices are HILARIOUS lately In what other hobby do people sell used equipment for more than retail on a regular basis?

hmm not sure what to think about that. On the one hand, there is so much shadiness and outright dishonesty at the current wholesalers, I can't cry too much if they get replaced. On the other hand, a conglomerate-owned wholesaler may be less likely to sell to small business, and may actually promote some of the current kinds of shadiness (restricting access)

I see no reason to wait it out at that stage - water change and you're ready to go. Whats the reasoning for waiting it out I wonder? If you have ammonia oxidization and nitrite oxidation you're set (in terms of keeping fish happy). If you'd like to be extra sure you can always add another spike of ammonia - got to 1, then make sure the ammonia and nitrite spikes go away within 24 hours.

Dosing vinegar may remove ammonia but would compete with nitrification, not promote it. The bacteria promoted by carbon dosing are different ones than the bacteria (and Archaea) that conduct nitrification. Since your ammonia is already nice and low (I like to cycle with 0.5 - 1) I'd just leave it.

Thanks! But actually these will be going underneath my existing tables so no need for a stand. I finally got a source for some live sand so I'm setting up yet another set of tanks... and the space under my coral growout tables was the only space left available.