SuncrestReef

@youcallmenny Did you ever manage to repair or replace the hinge?

Public service announcement for all Apex users: If you use an Apex but do not currently have a backup file of your configuration, please create a backup!!! If anything goes wrong with your Apex, you will be glad you have a backup file to restore from. Follow these steps to create a backup: From a desktop or laptop computer, browse to http://apex.local Log in with the local Admin account. This username and password is different from your Fusion account. If you never set it, the default is: Username: Admin Password: 1234 Click the Apex menu, then click Misc Click the Load/Save icon at the top. It looks like a hard disk: Click the Save Configuration button This will download an Apexcfg.bin file to your computer's Downloads folder. You may move this file to a new folder if you like. I typically rename the file to include the date, and that way I can keep multiple copies whenever I make a significant change to my Apex. This allows me to go back to a particular configuration if needed rather than just the latest backup: Apexcfg 2019-06-29.bin Apexcfg 2019-06-03.bin Apexcfg 2019-04-17.bin In addition to the backup file, I also like to save a text version of the system summary as a PDF file. This can be handy if you just want to see what settings or programming you had, without needing to restore the full backup to the Apex. To get to the summary, click the Apex menu and then click Summary. From there you can scroll through the whole config, or click the Print icon at the upper right. On most computers you can choose to Save as PDF from the Print screen. Trust me, you will thank me later if you ever find yourself in the position of needing to restore or repair your Apex config.

Well, you're in the right place...Many of our significant others and family members think we have mental heath conditions with our coral and fish obsessions! 😜

@TaylorW Have you checked your PM's? I'm trying to figure out my schedule for this weekend, so just wondering if you are stopping by for one or more turbo snails.

Admit it, you'd move your Walt Disney to the sump to make room for a Holy Grail torch! 🤣

Very cool experiment. Thanks for writing this up! I started my tank with 60 lbs of dry Pukani rock, and used Dr. Tim's bacteria. I did not acid wash the rock, but did soak it in heated saltwater for 2 months before putting it into the tank. It then took 37 days until I finally measured zero nitrite.

Yes, it's all there!

Or, maybe this will work: Take the HTML code that appears in your post, and paste it in using the "Source" icon on the toolbar:

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Here's Cooper auditioning for a role in Jaws:

HE’S BACK!!!! I left the house for a few hours this afternoon and when I got home he was just swimming around like nothing happened! I have no idea where he was hiding, and he’s never done that in the 8 months I’ve had him. OK, I guess I now know why the police make you wait 24 hours before filing a missing person report... Thank you all for your concern, but this was just a false alarm. 🤭

My kole tang is missing. I just posted a video of him feeding yesterday and he was alive and well. This morning, there's no sign of him in my tank. I have a lid so there's no way he could jump. I have looked in the few caves I know he's hidden in before, and I've dredged the sand where I can get to it. Do tangs ever burrow into the sand like wrasses? The only other possibilities I can imagine are that my BTA ate him (seems unlikely since the tang is about 4"), or that my pistol shrimp pulled him into the burrow (again unlikely due to size difference). Any other ideas? I'm so bummed. 😞

Welcome! Nice looking rock work. All those flat plateaus will provide good placement for SPS. I wish I had done that up front. I'm not far from Aloha, just up the hill on Cooper Mountain.

I see the photos now! Thanks. Wow, looks like I missed a good meeting.

@Chief, @TheClark: When I try to open the image files directly, I get this error code from Amazon: <Error> <Code>NoSuchKey</Code> <Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message> <Key> monthly_2019_06/SAM_3682.JPG.a0f25ff3fee5eacbd0130aa5f4aeb3d2.JPG </Key> <RequestId>D0E9F860579B02EA</RequestId> <HostId> /vTi1OiTjyoEC3uucb82nMQi+GXxScALPziiAMeuB83yW+4c2xs/liLisMC/MIK6CO3uj//dBrk= </HostId> </Error>

My bubbletip anemone has grown to about 12” and the tentacles keep stinging nearby corals. I just added a new rock to create a barrier that will hopefully save the frags. The anemone has been in this location for many months, so hopefully it won’t move. The white rock sticks out like a sore thumb next to all the coralline covered rocks.

@badxgillen For some reason your photos don’t show up on this latest post.

I run continuous water changes (24 hours per day) of 2 gallons per day on my Reefer XL 425 (112 gallons total system), so that's approximately 12% weekly. On the Neptune forums, Zombie did the calculations that shows how little effect dilution causes: "Blending is almost neglegable as long as the remove is upstream of the add. IMO the ease of continuous outweighs the need to use slightly more saltwater. Below assumes a 100 gallon tank. A continuous change of 2 gallon per day that doses every minute will have 86.9% of the original water after 1 week A 2 gallon add then remove each day will have 86.8% of the original water after 1 week. A 14 gallon change 1 day per week will have 86.0% of the original water. As you can see the extra amount of saltwater required for a continuous vs a daily add then remove is extremely minimal and I would gladly spend the extra 2 dollars a month on saltwater to simplify the code and just do continuous. Particularly because there is the added benefit of more consistency in water parameters."

@TaylorW Here's my kole tang having a snack. It's nothing like the violent feeding frenzy of @pdxmonkeyboy's tangs. 🤣

Thanks Sean, and thank you all for voting me in. I’m looking forward to working with this great group of people. 😊

I have tons if you’d like some. Like Taylor said, they multiply quickly. I’m in Beaverton.

I have a small powerhead in my sump skimmer chamber aimed right at my dosing tubes which are about 4” apart from each other. This disperses it right away with no precipitation. I chose this over the return chamber because that’s where I have my Apex probes and I don’t want the 2-part to cause my pH probe to spike.

But I love over thinking! But seriously, the Neptune DOS automatically divides the dose amount and spreads it out evenly over the time period you choose. For example, if you specified 20 ml over 24 hours, it will do 0.2 ml every 14.4 minutes. If you tried to force it to dose every hour, you’d need to manually create 24 separate intervals, which would be a pain. Even worse, when you decide to change the amount you’d need to edit all 24 dose intervals.

I eat a lot of sushi. That's the one time I try not to think about my tank. 😬

By the way, let me know if you need any tips on setting up the auto water change. I've been running mine for over a year now and love it!