pdxmonkeyboy

Moving things from another tank can and will get you ich.  I Qt'd all my big fish, got ich, pulled them ALL out (nightmare), went fallow for 68 days, put them back int he tank.   Ich showed up again 3 days later. 

I don't sweat ich that much, but velvet can wipe a tank out in short order. 

so this is tomorrow no?  PM me your addy.  I will hit up Brian for his cups.

should be fine there.  if that is an aussie gold, just leave it alone.  They are pretty finicky.  

So I have been thinking about building a long zoa lagoon tank.  Like 6 x 2 x16".  I always wanted a tank that was covered head to toe with zoas.  Just zoas.. you have seen photos of how incredible this can look.  The thing is, I have not purchased zoas in a long time.  There are kind of weird.. one month they are $50 a head and a month later they are $10 a head.   I mean, the grow like crazy and are hard to kill.. so it seems like I might be able to get the hook up from a few members.  Maybe collect a bunch of zoas and then 6 months later, distribute zoas that the original givers don't have?  

This would be a great example of the "classic" reef keeper state of mind... just share.  Share what you have and sell things for a bargain because what comes around goes around.  This is the type of mindset that ruled before $150 1" frags and $600 torches were common.   

Or I could trade some SPS for a pack of zoas?   

Thoughts?  

Sold.

Have you ever thought.."hey, i want to grow hair alage!"  Or maybe you want to find out for yourself how fast aptasia spread.  Or perhaps you just thought... you know i would like to bring a beautiful fish from another part of the world into my living room and watch it die.  

Well, that time is now!  Up for grabs is a red sea reefer 170.  It works absolutely fine and does not leak!  The glass has scratches on it.  How many scratches you say? Well. As many as a wife who didny really pay attention while cleaning it would put in it. 

As you know, red sea stands for quality.  Mostly because they are made in china by children.  I am not sure if they have suicide nets around the factory like phone manufacturing facilities but i can check if you want. 

It comes with the following:

Tank,stand  refugium, return pump, heater, and grime.  The stand is made of THE highest quality particle board.  This is not ordinary saw dust and glue, this is coated in plasitc. It also comes with most of the plumbing.  The plumbing is actually really great because it is aerospace plastic; meaning its the thinist, lightest, mosy brittle plastic money can buy. 

It needs: 

New door hinges 

A new return stand pipe because, well because i am stronger than aerospace materials. 

Would I put this in my bachelor pad with blue LED backlighting in hopes of finally scoring that woman of my dreams?  No.  But for a QT system it would work really really well. 

Since it is $100 and new ones are upwards of $1,000.  I expect any interested party to offer me less than i am asking.  If you could haggle over like 30 text messages and then not show up when you say you would, that would be ideal. 

Thank you 

Of course...the weekend i go camping 😞 😞 

can anyone share the proper dosage?  

I would run it for about ten minutes in either vinegar or citric acid solution.   Plastic does not have a charge that would attract copper ions.  Furthermore, copper in saltwater is bound to organic ligands which makes removal even more difficult.  When you think of activated carbon and its purification properties, it is actually the millions...billions? of tiny poors that molecular attraction pulls substances into and "fills" them.   Plastic, glass, nor silicone do not have such properties. 

Anywho..  your good. 

Last time it happened to me tech report told me to take two shots of tequila, then smash the unit with a hammer, then take two more shots.  I felt better about the whole thing afterwards but the next day, it was still broke.  So I might have screwed up the order of operations. 

Could he log on and do a factory reset from the dashboard?  Or will the reboot loop stop that? 

Comnect it directly to your pc and use a web browser yo connect directly to it. 192.168.1. Something.  Google it. 

My factory reset button doesnt work either. 

28 minutes ago, ocboat said:

I've sourced a 250w select-a-watt ballast but I am still looking for just the right pendant style reflector to go with it.  Thanks for everyone's suggestions so far and those that are answering my PMs.  I just wish I would have held on to all my older MH equipment that I have used over the years.

Well, what is the size of the area you are lighting?   I have tried several several "aquarium" reflectors.  Some were pretty good.. some.. like the Hamilton cayman sun.. I was like "where the hell is the light going"  certainly not down.    The reefbrite hood looks pretty solid and ..Reefbrites.   You could also go ebay cheee-I-nah  T% and halide hood.  T5 and MH are kind of the best of both worlds.   

Hold on a second people.   What material in your pump is going to actually hold copper?   That is like the aquarium myth that silicone will hold copper.  

I can help out. I can also stop by brians and get the suction cups.... although i am soo god [language filter] shredded you could probably just put the tank on my back, eat pizza, and watch me carry it into the house. 

I got one.  $40?  

I can be there..  what KIND of pizza though. ..

2 hours ago, obrien.david.j said:

Congratulations!    It's a nice looking tank and stand.

Normal doorways are not 36" wide, which this setup requires.  Does your location have an extra wide access, or have you figured out how to make one?

My 2 cents..and trust me, I have more MH ballast and refector experience than anyone on this forum than anyone.  I would go with lad a sharks refectors and kshacks selecta watt.  Running a 250 at about 300 watts produces ideal light. 

You can pm me and i can talk bulb colors if you want. 

If you want DA BALLER' MH setup, like out of this world good.. try to find a used geisman spectra. 

10 hours ago, SantaMonica said:

The biomass of bacteria is more that the amount of all other life combined. It's the largest biomass on the earth. Best way to learn is to get a marine biology book for college students; I used to have the title of the one I like but can't find it now. Most books are good however.

Wait... are you mike lindell? 

10 hours ago, SantaMonica said:

The biomass of bacteria is more that the amount of all other life combined. It's the largest biomass on the earth. Best way to learn is to get a marine biology book for college students; I used to have the title of the one I like but can't find it now. Most books are good however.

Ummmm. Not true at all, not even close to being true.  Another way to learn these things is get a masters degree in biology.  While single cell organisms and bacteria rule the ocean... terrestrial biomass crushes that by a long shot. 

I think you might want to re-read that book or look at the data again. People often look at data and draw the wrong conclusion.  

Example: playing basketball makes you tall....

On 11/12/2021 at 10:50 AM, SantaMonica said:

UV certainly does kill life in the water column. This adds nutrients to the water, which sometimes shows up as extra (attached) nuisance algae growth.

 I think a single pellet of dry food has more nutrients then all the dead bacteria combined.  Do you have literature that talks about nutrient amounts of bacteria, protozoans, etc.  I mean.. they are microscopic! 

you want a carbon kdf filter to break apart the ammonia/ chlorine bond.  But that upstream of your DI cartridge. 

I was coming home on sunday and my generator was in exercise mode.  It turns on and runs for 10 minutes every sunday. 

It is kind of cool. It's like "I got you bro".  

would be awesome.. till it breaks, now you can't test anything.....