Kingtriton92

Ocilarous. I'm down there fairly often for work.

@TheClark That's awesome.

Is anybody 3d printing their own aquarium components? I recently ordered my first printer and am curious what cool reef related projects others have done. I'm planning a PC cooling fan housing/ mount, corner frag racks, copepod safe house and if I can get my hands on some filter grade graphine, a prototype for a freshwater protein skimmer. What have you made or dream about making?

I've been doing the same for photos with my D700 but video on my m50, gh5 and bmpcc all look off, even after heavy post editing. I've noticed a lot of YouTubers mention using filters or gels but never which ones. Your photos are beautiful btw. Your making me want to invest in a macro lens.

One enclosure is exo terra 24x12x12 and the other is exo terra 36x12x12

Good to know. I've been looking at both as well as dslr filters. I'll go ice cap for phone. Any experience with filters on dslr's?

I have two beautiful bioactive leopard gecko setups. One with a lone female and the other is a mated pair. Male is albino and female is lemon. I also have Madagascar giant day geckos, white line geckos, crested geckos, mourning geckos, golden day geckos, crested geckos and poison dart frogs. All in large show vivariums. Really looking to shut down my reptile room and more than willing to trade.

I've got a little clown I'd trade for a chalice frag. If I can catch him...

I'm using an AI prime on my 20 and sps are doing great.

Did you get the polyp labs filter?

Super cool. I was looking at trochus snail eggs under my microscope and was blown away to see what appears to be fully formed snails cruising around inside the egg.

Looks like my kind of room.

Open on the holiday?

When would be a good time?

I'd love to take you up on that.

I've got three or four that appear to be doing the same thing. No babies as of yet but now I'm hopeful. BTW your color seems to really pop, do you target feed?

@Optimusprime3605 Ryan

After a fairly long hiatus from the hobby I decided to dive back in after jealously gazing upon my brother's beautiful Redsea reefer 250. I ended up getting a Redsea Max Nano as it was the perfect size for my office nook. I picked up about 20 lbs of dry rock and 20 lbs of carib sea live sand, added water and cycled for several weeks. In the area below the protein skimmer I added miracle mud, seachem matrix and a golf ball size chunk of cheato. I cut away the vinyl behind this chamber and mounted a modified fluval plant light and my refugium was off and running (opposite my normal light cycle). I added a cobalt heater and DIY back mounted PC fan and an inkbird temperature controller to control the heat and cooling. I went with the Hydor Ti ATO system with a 2.5 gallon reservoir, a Tom's aqualifer pump and mounted the sensors in the return pump section to avoid water height fluctuations due to my wave maker. For said wavemaker I decided on the Jabao RW4 which at half speed gives me plenty of water movement. Its Chinese but for me its getting the job done. For filtration I'm running 200 micron filter socks, chemipure blue, purigen, carbon and some polyfibre. After the cycle finished I started doing five gallon water changes once a week and set my skimmer up for a fairly dry skim. I'm using a single AI Prime HD light with a slightly modified version of one of their "featured " programs. For livestock I started with a large amount of multiple species of pods from reef nutrition and algae barn. I started them in my fuge and waited until I was seeing them on the glass and sand to add fish and coral. For inverts I added an emerald crab, four blue leg hermits, three trochus snails a sea lettuce nudibranch and a narcissus snail. For fish I have a starry blenny, a green clown goby, a mandarin and an ocilarous clown. Ultimately I'd like to transition to much smaller fish to create a sense of scale but that is proving difficult. For corals I am focusing primarily on soft and LPS. Currently I have a beautiful island of metallic green star polyp, a neon green paliathoa colony, a torch, some green finger leathers, a pulsing xenia, four different ricordia and a bunch of zoa's. Currently my zoas are utter chaos, rastas, sunny D's and a handful of genaric reds, greens and orange combo rocks. My next step will be to introduce some rock flower anemones to my sand bed. I've also added a few bottles of purple and pink helix and am finally seeing growth on the back wall. Not much left but to sit back and watch it grow in.

@The ReefBox Looking forward to coming in to pick up some rock flowers to cover all that unsightly sand in my tank.

Householdofpayne it's the Max nano. 20 gallon AIO.

I'd love to take that little guy off your hands.

Hello from Amboy Washington. I've been reefing since the early 90's with a few prolonged breaks and forays into fresh water systems. Recently I picked up a Redsea Max nano and thoroughly re-infected myself with the bug. Looking forward to attending some meetings/ swaps and getting to know the local community. Cheers,

Does anyone culture mysis in their refugium? I'm obsessed with micro fauna and have seeded three bottles of reef nutrition tiger pods and two big mixed species jars from algae barn. I thought I was good until I saw a YouTube video about adding mysis to the refugium. I'm intrigued and want to get some but most of the online suppliers seem to be UK based. Anyone know of a local source or have some you'd like to sell?

Has anyone had any success with redspot cardinals? I have a redsea max nano softie/ LPS tank and want to find a tiny schooling fish to stock it. I'm really looking for the saltwater version of neon tetras but despite seeing tiny schooling fish on all my dive trips, they seem to be non-existent in the hobby. The redspot cardinals seem to be the closest thing to what I want but I've heard they are difficult to care for. Thoughts?