Bighoho

I don't think you should be overly concerned.  Someone mentioned increasing flow in that area?   Have you also tried just cleaning the substrate as part of your water change?    I do agree with the macroalgae add, our turbo snails decimated what was in our fuge a few weeks or so after we had spike in nitrates and P04.     

@danlu_gt Is this going to be posted on your site 10/9?    

On 9/25/2020 at 7:51 PM, bler said:

Yeah it's a really hard thing to do, I've been trying to play music with friends virtually that live far away and I really have not found a good solution that's even remotely easy to setup.

You might look into a chat only (or some sort of dual) option, I think the lag is mostly trying to sync video which must be tied to the chat. But sadly that looses a lot of the experience..

I'll be gone for a week but when I get back I'll see if I can research some options too 😁

I wonder if Zoom or another conferencing tool would work?  Just couldn’t exceed 300 people (has a live sale hit that mark yet?) Could lock the meeting to show only your video feed and the chat is in real-time.  It can also be recorded for repost to YouTube later... the chat history might be an issue though I’d have to research that a bit.  People can be sent invites via email or FB post for security.  Just some thoughts... 

On 9/25/2020 at 7:36 PM, CuttleFishandCoral said:

I guess kai figured out a way to let people see what we see. Its always a work in progress. We have to go by what we see.

Jorge was working so hard last time. Almost need to have three people typing. 

I’ll come down for the next live sale and help type in names .  @Manini and I would be happy to make a trip down to see you guys!  

11 hours ago, CuttleFishandCoral said:

I have some dragon breath algae for u. 

I’ll snag it when I’m in the store today!!! Woot! 

What is known as a... 

Hello all!

My good reefing friend has started a YouTube channel called "King Tide Corals"!  His channel covers all manners of reefing, from equipment, to livestock and our awesome community!  As part of his growing community he's decided to giveaway a Waterbox 10 Gallon cube.     

Quick message from his post: 

Excited to announce that once the page hits 1K followers on Instagram I'm going to be doing a pretty awesome giveaway!

The prize is...*drumroll*... A WATERBOX CUBE 1O GALLON!

Help get the page to 1K and lets get this giveaway going!

https://www.instagram.com/kingtidecorals/?hl=en

I hope this post is okay here... 

I'm kicking myself for not seeing this sooner!  @goldenbasketreef Amazing looking corals sad I missed out on the sale!  

Would it be possible to pick this up on Friday 9/25?

Do you have a pic of the Neptune bounce? 

Can we start another one of these grow outs?  I feel like I’m missing out on the action.

1 minute ago, Bighoho said:

I’m in for the buy

I’m in for the buy

Build thread updates:

Parameters this week:
Nitrates: 5
Phosphate: .5
Alk: 7.3
Mag: 1280
Calcium: 400
Salty: 1.025

What's new?!?

We sadly lost two fish in the past month and it's been little bit of a heartbreak. First our Hawaiian cleaner (Density for you Back to the Future folks), our Midas Blenny (Frank)... both wouldn't eat regularly and which lead to their eventual starvation. We tried everything, even isolation . We partially think it was due to us going away for two weekends... makes trying to find a good tank sitter for our next longer vaca.

So the good news the tank has been looking pretty good considering our parameters dropping or spiking in certain areas.

 

We finally got some SPS on the left rock!!!

Euphyllia:

 

The euphyllia garden is taking off, whatever we're feeding (RS Reef Energy, benepets) is really working. We've had to move everyone else out (except for the leathers, soon to happen though)

Mushrooms:

 

 

 

Mushroom garden is bouncing around! The new OG gets it's own little glass apartment because it's special. The electus produced it's first baby... I don't know how long it had been hiding under the rock, it's about the size of a nickel.
The New Stuff:
With every new vacation though there is always a stop at the local fish stores here are some of the new additions either coming out of QT, in QT or resting in the tank:

 

Interstellar mushroom and the "I refuse to anchor myself" Jawbreaker. If anyone has advice on getting mushrooms to stay put I'm all ears I've tried everything except glue. All my normal methods haven't worked.
 

 

Our meaty Mr. Wellsophyllia who has to stay caged due to our pecking Valentini puffer "Seachicken"
 

 

 Loved this mushroom the moment I saw it... not sure of the name but the colors had me at hello. If you have an ID please comment below.
 

 

Our fake invader pectinia posing menacingly from it's perch. I've been spot feeding it daily and it's getting bigger... OH MY!

What's hanging out in QT?:

 

 

 

 

 

Derasa clam getting ready to suck some of the Nitrates our of the DT.

Deal of the week!

 

The final one is a mushroom rock we found at a LFS for 50% off for $60. I couldn't believe someone hadn't snagged it and then I realized that it was in a tank with red flatworms and vermited snails. Decided that wasn't a deal breaker... got it home, flatworm exited and coralRX'd the crap out of the rock, it's been a few weeks now and it's fully recovered. We have about 30 fuzzy mushrooms on there, this rock will probably never make it to the DT so I'm looking at fragging the the mushrooms onto other rocks. @LRT and @ReeferBlaine ones going to each of you, when I know I got all the pests and if you have the space.

Last but not least l finally got a fighting conch!!! Then I realized I probably need to glue everything down in the tank 

 

Upcoming:
My first frags with the new Grphyon bandsaw!
Fish decisions.. .what replaces the Hawaiian cleaner and the midas blenny?
Did the clam really lower nitrates?

Thanks for reading and following along! Till the next update 

PS future mushroom rock... should I break it?

 

Note I'm wanting to buy it not free 99 it

Hi All, 

I'm on the hunt for clean macroalgae any red type is preferable, I plan on being in the Portland area on Friday 9/25 I can meet you at Cuttlefish or somewhere close. 

Thanks in advance!  

Fantastic sale!  Best one yet!  Excited to get the new pieces in the tank!   

1 hour ago, TheClark said:

This is on youtube?  When / where do we get the URL, facebook?

 

Here is a link to their youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKJGdrlyW6EDjVI53eKUeg

25 minutes ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

Yeah.. because everyone knows that spending your saturday evening mashing the refresh button in an attempt to buy corals is straight baller lifestyle. 

A little different format for this live sale  and it doesn't cost you 10hrs of your day like on R2R lol

Filling out nicely!!!

Oh boy!  Always with the amazing looking corals!!! 

Oh no you guys are making it easier for me to get things shipped to Washington (0_0)!  Excited for the sale!  

Congrats @Bubblesamazing looking clam!!!

On 9/11/2020 at 12:33 PM, LadAShark said:

Yeah no worries. The eggs were laid at least a week and a half ago; based on what I have read I could expect to visibly see young nudis as soon as in 2 weeks, but only time will tell.

In the meanwhile you should be fine with regards to aiptasia for a while. It takes them a long while to start showing when the contamination isn’t huge. Considering how voracious these guys are for aiptasia I’d imagine if you added any now they would quite simply starve.

I’ll let you know when I have some visible nudi young. Hopefully that will be soon.

I'm keeping an eye out for them, probably to soon to find any visible ones.  So many hidden angles in the tank it's hard to tell.