Manny Tavan

After two and half year of only buying from LFS I though I would try a live sale and experience what the fuss was all about. I participated in the TCK coral live sale on reef2reef and after winning a couple of $5 acropora frags I was hooked. It did a lot of damage to my wallet but it was fun. Then the waiting started. I selected a ship date that was 2 weeks out. The corals were shipped last night from New York and arrived this morning i was worried about a few things. Dead corals? Color isn’t representative because of photoshop? Pests? Anyway I went through my normal process of cleaning the frags, inspecting, dipping, mounting on new frags. Now I’m waiting for corals to open up. in the process I did find one vermitid, couple startfish, one bubble algae and possibly something that could have been aiptasia under a plug but I can’t confirm i was pleasantly surprised about how well things were packed. Corals were Tripp’s bagged and there was a lot of water. Acroporas has polyp extension in the bag and the torches were open.

If you get rid of the hot tub, pool table and bar you could probably fit a 1000 gallon tank instead...just saying

I think it jumped into the frag tank. And now it’s hiding in there

Overflow?

I remember looking at it during the last sale and it reminded me of mind that would always jump out. Did you look on top of the lights?

Maybe it's your toxic personality that awarded you the rank of zoanthid lol and your profile doesn't say you are a supporting member so pay up!

I did 2mg/gallon when I treated mine. So far so good. I thought that if any DNA remained it would come back so I nuked it with a double dose of fabendazole right off the bat. Like bacteria what you don't want is to develop a resistance. What most likely happened is that brown polyp you have now is resistant to it

looks like that blue clove polyp is trapped and can't spread out 😃

looks like it's time to upgrade to a bigger tank

You’re right. The controller has a solenoid that lets co2 in (from the controller to the reactor) based on the status of the float switch. I meant that the supply of co2 from the regulator to the solenoid is left open

metering co2 is how deltec and dastaco are set up as well skip to 12:00 for an explanation

I have both a Red Sea and a waterbox currently. I like the waterbox more. Plumbing is so much better. I love the all glass overflow

I believe the Co2 supply is constant using a regulator. There is a float valve that detects when there isn't enough CO2 in the mix. the pH is not monitored at all. The only thing that gets adjusted is the number of seconds when the effluent gets added to the tank. 2 seconds every 200 seconds is the starting amount and you go up from there. From what I've read the DKH of the effluent is 50-60.

That is a pretty lobo mine isn’t as crazy but it’s huge

Poletti jawbreakers first sale Momma (NFS) has a ton of reds and even greens. It came from golden basket reef (you can see it in the top left corner and circled in red) 18 month old Babies (Circled in yellow) have some nice red streaks but no green yet. They are all grown up and about 2-2.5” in diameter when fully open $250 obo each also willing to trade (gold torch or OG bounce)

I am thinking about making the plunge into the calcium reactor world. I am leaning towards a automated system like the deltec twin-tec vs Dastaco vs Aquarium ENG ACR The ACR seems to have the simplest design and is the least expensive option. It's also made in the USA. Is there anyone local using one of the ACR? https://www.aquariumeng.com/products/calcium-reactors/6-stacked-auto-ca-reactor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1QOpmFxt0

I wouldn’t reef without an apex. I agree that the apex el is all you need. I have both and the orp/salinity proves aren’t needed

Share the pods

Right when I have no more room in the tank...

Seahorse has an Achilles. Looks healthy. There is also a powder blue that apparently eats cyano

Some people have been able to use tuxedo urchins for bcp control

As you can tell all the lps are fine. It would kill gsp and Xenia however

Day 3 - looks like it’s all dead everything else is alive