Manny Tavan

Jeff knows how many red sea buckets I’ve bought over the last 12 months but I’m going to try to scale down slowly on the water changes since they don’t seem as necessary anymore

I started with one cup and after a month I bumped that up to two cups. my phos has not changed. It stays at 0.05 im not using it to remove phosphate

So I decided to share this story because I still can’t quite figure it out so my reef is a 190g system that I set up April 2019. Most have seen it but don’t know the issues I have had with it. Everything was going for the first 6 months and then one day the acros/montis started slowly dying. I couldn’t figure out why. The only thing I could do to make things better was frequent water changes. For the last year I have been doing 40gallon water changes weekly and if I didn’t do that the acros started dying (tips and base would lose tissue). I tried every thing else and nothing else would help. I changed the food I would feed, I removed the two blocks of marine pure in the sump because my icp showed high aluminum. I dosed all kinds of aminos and trace elements. I switched 2 part to a calcium reactor. I replaced all the heaters, I replaced the skimmer pump, I replaced the return pump, I changed the type of filter roll paper in my clarisea, I changed the brand of nori I was feeding. I tried five different brands of carbon. I changed all my rodi filter/media, I lowered my phosphate using lanthanum chloride. I gave away half of my acropora frags particularly the ones that were always struggling. Anyway I was going to tear down my reef because I thought maybe it was the caribsea rocks or the starboard I have on the bottom. I was obsessing about it. I was getting tired of doing water changes. Some corals were doing extremely well like the torches. The anemone was growing really well. But something wasn’t right and it just didn’t feel good. Then one day I found this YouTube video from coraleuphoria.com he said his sps were looking bad after he took off his rowaphos offline because his phosphate was 0. Then after a couple months when he decided to run rowaphos despite 0 phosphate his sps did better. So I went to Amazon right away and ordered 1000ml of rowaphos and a phosban reactor three days later I received my order and hooked it up. Literally overnight my acros were showing polyp extension like I’ve never seen before. Over a week they all colored up. My JF altered ego frag was grey for a year and in the last month has colored up. My acros are growing at the base like crazy. I am still doing water changes weekly cause I’m paranoid but I probably don’t need to do that anymore my phos didn’t change. It’s still 0.05 but rowaphos is removing something from the water, I just don’t know what it is or where it comes from...

$5.99 seems fair...

Wow that’s a good deal

Last time I checked my nitrate was 5 (I randomly dose nitrate when I remember) and phos was 0.05 (I randomly dose lanthenum chloride)

This view from the side...the mountain of sps...is exactly what I had in mind two years ago when I was in the planning stages of this tank. Can’t believe I got there...

Who needs a tv when you have a tank like that...

Can I get a frag of hepatitis while you’re at it. Thanks!

As usual I like to rename my corals. This one is called Manny’s Dry-Heave

Newest addition to the tank

Everything they have listed as “orange” looks pink to me so I made an appointment with an ophthalmologist

I guess you don’t know that my super hero power is that I can kill wall hammers just by looking at them...true story

That’s genius. We could charge $20/wake up call

It sold quick

I know from personal experience that grape monti is unkillable...the whole rock goes in the garbage

I use the floor or the wall. Works best for hard skeleton corals

Gold and yellow is so 2020... i am looking for orange euphylias (torch, hammer, frogspawn, octopawn) Let me know what you got...pretty please...

All frags are sold I’ll cut more in a few months cause my half colony is still pretty big

I’m curious. Do you use rowaphos or gfo?

And aiptasia

Xenia lol

Testing waters...I see what you did there...

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/here-it-is-fenbendazole-use-against-hydroids.214950/