NateDawg

I personally use one ati blue plus and one coral plus with my LEDs and run them for 5 hours in the middle of my photo period. As far as color for viewing your corals, that will be based on what you like but for coral growth and color, I find that the coral plus with the blue plus gives the best growth for me at least.

Also, one thing I've found is that even though, rests will show low to no phosphates, usually the algae is absorbing it before there's time for it to accumulate in the water so a 0 reading could actually be a 25 or 30 without the algae cleaning the water. Do you have a protien skimmer or a refugium? That is one thing that worked for me. Elevating your magnesium levels higher will kill bryopsis (hair algae) off as well. Here's the link to the description. I've done this once and it worked like magic, nothing in the tank was harmed except the algae.    Here's the link: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1113109&perpage=25&pagenumber=1.                                                 You will definitely want a protein skimmer if you go this rout as when all the algae died. The skimmer cup quickly filled with a very green liquid.

And to answer your question, for me personally, restarting the tank would be to much of a hassle and more work than needed. I'm guessing that if you did restart the tank and kept your regular schedule of feed and and maintenance and what not that the hair algae would just come back after a while.

Share the pods!

Will give me an excuse to make a trip up there 😁

17 hours ago, Paratore said:

Got a pic of the larger Utter Chaos? I’m interested.
And here is a pic of the blueberry fields I just took in my tank today. Easily one of my favorite zoas. I believe your colony came from a frag I sold you!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep, that's correct, actually both the utter chaos and the blueberries came from you. Someone bought my largest piece, so the one pictured right now is the largest.

JFK'sCrab Nebula

Blueberry fields

Granny apple smith

11/10/19

Frags up for sale. I have a few of each that I will be posting. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I may be interested in trades depending on what you got to offer. I have bundle options too. 

Buy 1 frag = regular price

Buy two frags = 5% off purchase

Buy three frags = 10% off purchase

Buy 4 frags = 15% off purchase

Buy 5+ frags = 20% off purchase

I am located in Albany, OR but do travel to Portland so I can meet people there if needed. If the frag dies within 7 days from obtaining it, replacement will be given based on the sellers discretion and photo evidence. But if there's any other issues, just message me and we can work things out.

Pink Diamond Zoanthids 3+ polyps - $50 (1 frags left)

Utter Chaos Zoanthids 3+ polyps - $35      (Sold out currently)

Granny Apple Smith Zoa 3+ polyps - $35   (2 frags left) 

Blueberry fields Zoa 20+ polyps - $20        (Sold out currently)

Jk's Crab Nebula 5+ polyps - $20                (Sold out currently)

Pink diamonds

Utter Chaos

48 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said:

Did you cryogenically freeze it so if a cure for velvet is discovered in the future you can bring it back to life?  🤣🤣🤣

I could probably use a few more if we do this group buy

I believe TPA in salem has some last I checked, though I'm not sure if they have the red banded ones, I saw a quite a few white ones a last week. 

As for why I think they are a good snail, they can correct themselves if the fall on there back unlike some other snails that cant get back over sometimes as well as these guys are able to reproduce in a reef tank pretty easily compared to other snail varieties.

I couldn't find a 3d model of the specific wrench, I could only find the site that someone sells them. I wonder if that design is patented or not. I might try to build a model this week for a wrench like that.

Visible for me on android mobile and PC.

Are they purple in white natural light or with blues?

Please add Nathan Howell, thx!!

Also make sure your getting the correct filament type as far as material type. PLA seems to be the easiest and most forgiving but from research and my own 3d printing, I've found that non dye infused ABS is the longest lasting if the part is in saltwater, but is also more difficult to print because of temperature and shrink issues. I'm sure there's others on this forum that have some input. I've definitely printed up many parts for various aquarium equipment to the point that for my personal use on the hobby, it's a necessity.

It kinda looks almost like an ora tricolor acro valida, mine looks very similar and started out all green but when better lights and more growth came about, the purple tips popped up.

1 hour ago, kilmca said:

Great looking tank, Potters angels are one of my favorite fish.  

Thanks! I'm just crossing my fingers that he won't decide to munch on the corals or clam, so far he hasn't seem interested much at all. (Knocks on wood)

Share the Love! Thankyou!!

Shout out to @ThePremiumAquariumfor this beautiful specimen! Added a new potters angelfish to the tank 3 days ago, so far he's not touched anything but the algae on the rocks and does a better job at it than my confused purple tang who doesn't like seaweed or algae....

Sorry for the potato quality photo...

Wanted to revive this thread as it has some cool content in it and want to keep it going!

$500 Efflo

5 minutes ago, juan said:

Ok perfect thanks!! I thought my power heads were blowing up or something!! Haha

Nope, your good to go haha

Just now, juan said:

Doesn’t harm anything?? Lol

Won't harm anything, coral will probably enjoy extra food. You might even end up with some baby trochus snails too. If your really worried about it, just watch parameters and have a 10-30% water change ready.

14 minutes ago, juan said:

I’m so confused?!?!?

58622962967__FD644A8B-9CF1-460C-A2DE-C30E1A40C043.MOV

That's how quite a few marine critters reproduce. By expelling reproductive clouds from both the female and male.

57 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Nice Nate!  Looks like you have quite the zoa collection going there.  Congrats on the move/upsize.

Thanks! Zoas are probably the thing that got me into the hobby in the first place. Oddly enough, the only coral I lost in the move were all my birds nest which I always thought was a more hardy sps.