pdxmonkeyboy

2 liter bottle? 

If you have a big tank i have a seine you can borrow.

Here is the appropriate approach for all chromis.  When you see them in the store and you think "oh, I like those" 

Walk out of store and drive home. 

Bottle trap.  Cut top off plastic bottle. Place food and a rock in the bottle. Flip top upside down and slide into the bottle.  Put in tank. 

Drink a beer and wait. 

I buy them from Jeff Bezos.  He delivers them to my door. 

I have a similar model but mine has adjustable height legs.   

Basically, I am better than everyone else.   

Ok, not better, but 8" taller.  LOL 

yeah ecotech.  I always wanted to spend top dollar on something that breaks two years later. 😆

Put me down for $20 at 3-1 odds on that clown fish.

So I decided to finally tackle some nuisance algae in my system.  So I started dosing virbant and also did a mega dose of fluconozole to get rid of bryopsis.  As per the fluconazole directions, I took my carbon offline, turned of the ozone, and turned of my 110watt UV unit.  Somewhat predictably, 5 days later I had cyano bacteria in my frag tank.  Interesting not a lick in the display, but only in the frag tank but I have a lot of big dudes in the display so I guess it is not that surprising. 

Anywho..  I took my gyre and blew the cyano off my frag collection.  Of course, it was all back the next day.  Turned on the UV and the ozone and blew it off again.  It came back, but only about 20% of the original amount.  Blew it off again and now there is hardly anything around.  

I realize there are a couple different ways to tackle cyano.. mostly adding bacteria but I have to say that I am super happy that Jeff convinced me to put a honking UV light in my system.  Kind of pleasant to think about the cyano entering the UV alive and then coming out dead as a door nail.  

On 11/1/2021 at 3:12 PM, islandVib3s said:

Yea it definitely worked great for me, it does stay in the system awhile so the refugium will be vacant for awhile lol I've tried a month later and it just melted.

thanks for the tip!! 

Vibrant is da bomb.  I recently got tired of looking at bryopsis and a small amount of bubble algae and did a dose of fluconozole and started dosing vibrant.  I guess putting the chaeto online is going to have to wait for a bit.

well if it doesn't turn out you can always make a bundt cake with it. 

cake.jfif

23 hours ago, wayboi said:

i use aptaisa x and it killed everyone i used it on 

Interesting.. do you have a 600 gallon display and two 50 gallon frag tanks?  

so.. yeah.

Depends on what your "laminate" is made of.  Vinyl and PVC should be fine. 

You should know that waterproof for click floors means.. water won't destroy them.  Water will pass through them though.

What did you glue the seams with? 

brah'

Hey gang, wondering if anyone has a line on fluconazole.   and wait.. before you say "dude, just buy reefluxfrom BRS"  I have to treat 750 gallons.. so that I would need like 8 bottles of that costing like $120. 

Pill from would be like $50 but you need a prescription. 

yo.. put me down for 10

My FIRST saltwater tank was around 1986 that my father and I had. It was a 75 gallon glass tank that had all the really nice gear....  an airstone driven underwater filter and a magnum diatomaceous earth canister filter.  I can't remember what lights, but I believe it was t5.  I remember my mom had a Sh#$%$t fit when my dad spent $20 on a clown fish.  The maintenance was a major PIA but I loved going to the fish store.  

https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/for/d/damascus-saltwater-aquarium-waterbox/7390748226.html

6k now.  I was ready to pay 9k, but I am not going to pay 6. 

Lmao.. i love when police estimate the value of narcotics.  This would be worth 6 million dollars... in 1995.

Actually looked like a legit and very well setup operation.  Apex? Lol, no.  It is quite a bit more complicated than that.  Anyways.. anyone with half a brain knows you don't grow weed in washington county. 

My trident alk and cal readings are always a bit lower.  I was having some weird readings and it went away when I cleaned the vial.  I also made sure the drain and input lines are the same length.. they were not when I initially set it up. 

Congrats you two. As per standard contest rules, i nominated you so i get a frag eventually. Lol 

Yeah, I think is you were delivering tanks on the regular than building a stout wood platform that bolts to the cart and makes thing more stable would be well worth it.   Or jsut buy acrylic tanks, three guys carried that 10' acrylic tank we just delivered. 

They are a couple hundred at harbor freight..  might be worthwhile investment. 

The club should buy one....

Let me know if i can borrow for a couple days. 

PS.  Old school "return it, and return it in the same or better condition or replace it" guy here. 

I absolutely ducking hate people that borrow and dont return. 

I have some of this !#^%$@#^$ in my tank.  I have tried scraping, covering in glue, lasering, and hurling insults at it.   I am going to cover it with alk paste this weekend.  Removing it will likely cause fragments to float free... then you will have a new patch to deal with.