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Nvm,you answered in your thread.

What did exactly happen Brian? Seam just busted open from a bad weld?

Ah, yea then solder away!

For some reason I assumed a Red Sea 250 meant 250g. Lol welp.

I hope TPA employees don't see this.

My first fish purchase was 3 chromis and 3 firefish. Dead by morning. I threw a little bit of a fit at them. They understood. I had no idea how utterly violent our tanks are. Then I bought a ruby red with the credit. Dumb plan.

I've come a long ways. Haha.

Same thing you did. Tech m. I'm at 140g total volume. I am not even close to burning the bottle.

Sorry to preempt your question, but I assume that was your destination.

Have to say I'm confused and curious why yours was so stubborn. I have read mag gets exponentially more difficult to raise the higher above 1400 it gets.

See? The magical chromis number. :p

Dead things in my tank get left for the CUC. I'm heartless that way and my system is established enough that I just kind of chuckle at the thought of parameter spikes from a single dead fish.

My leftovers from feeding the fish and coral leave more excess than even my biggest fish dying possibly could.

Besides, everyone likes (to watch) a free meal. >

Let us know how it goes!

I'm not sure that this sexist pig will be there. Sounds like a lot of fun though. It's great that you girls are putting this together. Thank you!

Dude, come! You and my wife make it three. Bring on the vets!

No. In fact, I've had mine over 1600 for the last two weeks to clear out some briopsis. Alk and cal have not budged and everything is happy! 1400 is still my bare minimum. Low mag is a huuuge problem.

I won that fight so the mag is slowly coming back down.

You guys aren't kidding. At the very least make sure they run copper in the system you're buying from or use your own quarantine.

It's kind of like STD's but for your tank. Play safe.

Edit: most of my fish have come from Garrett. He knows what's up.

That's kind of my point, friend. Mag is what stabilizes them. Raising it won't cause any damage and definitely shouldn't be causing any more fluctuations. Quite the opposite.

I keep mag at 1440. Any lower and alk/cal have gotten wonky. That said my alk stays at 10 and calcium at 450. Not sure if your slightly lower levels would change things but maybe raise your mag over 1400.

Lex is right. Salifert is good. I personally use Red Sea and have no complaints.

How's your calcium?

Just splice the wires back together with twist caps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist-on_wire_connector

No solder needed. The most complicated part is stripping a tiny bit of sheath from the end of each wire to twist together and cap.

Sorry about the fish. Chromis have a tendency to die while adjusting to a new tank, in my experience. That and every tank has a magical chromis number that their school will allow. This is purely anecdotal but I've tried adding a few here and here but they always diminish themselves to two fish and then they're stable.

Weird fish.

Alcohol. Almost four years sober!

I'm fine being around it and have no complaints about others use of it. I just have a problem.

Congrats man, you deserve that one!  Now, how do I get a frag of the pink ones?

Whooooo!!! Amazing! I love that purple stylo! (I hope it's a stylo...)  Also the sporadic Sunny D's spread out in there.  Those are my favorite paly.

Edit.

I've got two 55-gallon containers and a pick up truck. I can head up your way anytime. Just say the word.

 

I can't help with lifting anything though because I'm a girl and Jorge said it just wouldn't be right. ​

No I think he said you were only allowed to lift a vacuum. Haha. XD kidding.

I use reef roids/chili/frenzy plus phyto and fuel and zooplankton. Acro power, marine snow etc. I should have said that. I really want to slim down my product line.

I use filter socks and a 150sss on 140 gallon system. I run a carbon reactor and a bag of phosguard all the time. I have a huge biofilter via macro and rock. My sump is very effective.

I'm relatively new to reefing and through my first year I've had a lot of failure. Turns out it was my LEDs being waaaaaay too bright.

I started heavily target feeding a while back because it was the only way to get anything to live, let alone grow. My lights are fixed and the tank is exploding but I'm concerned my DSB is turning into a time bomb regardless of my very robust CUC.

Easiest answer would be to cut back, and I have. Easy enough. Then I started reading and there's a lot of people that don't target feed at all.

I'm still broadcast feeding liquid and powdered food plus a few krill for the larger LPS and pellets and frozen for the fish.

With all that said I'd like your input guys and gals. I know food can help heal damaged coral and promotes faster growth in things like duncans and sun coral etc. I'm not looking to go low nutrient but I believe that all things in moderation is a key to success so I'd like to meet in the middle. I do not have and have not been having algae problems. Well, other than a tiny bit of briopsis popping up but that was dealt with very quickly.

Let's hear your coral feeding regiment.

So, what'd you do to your leg? Why did the seam bust?

Where are you? I have neither barrels nor storage, but if you need a strong back or a truck, let me know.

Sympathies on the leg and the tank.