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I was thinking, this may also help prevent ich. At least from the weaker strains. In the long run it would select for the resistant strains of ich, but i suppose that is what copper is for. I wonder if anyone who has done this treatment still sees ich spots in their fish?

fish dont need high intensity, which IMO leaves only spectrum, fancy features and durability. I used to use the marineland fixutres, current strips, even older radions on mine. Cheap chinese ebay 14,000' Kelvin (14k K) are nice. I feel fish prefer dimmer light and colors come out better under a...

Props to the reefer who discovered this fun fact. Just some science: fluconazole (aka diflucan) is a anti-fungal drug used in humans, that inhibits fungal cholesterol synthesis, apparently also degrades bryopsis algae growth by some related mechanism. Bryopsis are complex algae, so its not so...

i was shopping on this site called socalireefs.com, and when I scrolled to the end of the thousands of sponsors (who have great deals) i discovered a forum section. my granpappy told me of these forums when he was a kid. Sadly, the only LFS in my hood (Fumi's Tropical Fish) finally closed down...

Ive done it before with harder carbon, filter pads in the reactor and a final filter sock. Just make full use of the GFO as it is the much more expensive medium. Yeah, medium is singular, media is already plural. Do not use FAKE MEDIA, it will not work on half the people. Hehe. Easy mistake to...

IME the faster grower wins. my polyps grew till everything else was shaded and died. then the polyps stopped at the edges, grew larger and chunks came off that seeded the rest of the tank. reminds me of the dogs in hurricane katrina. all the initial survivors made it to pieces of dry land; lots...

My son won his division in the LA county science fair and almost state. The plates were a small part of his project. I just wanted to introduce him to bacteria and culturing. I did so much mulecular genetics in college then biotech, from original sequences, to insertion, expression, all the...

Thanks, I have been doing pilates

#1 stay in business. dont smoke your own supply, as in hording all the good stuff. everything is for sale. dont use your "store" (garage) to pay for your reefing addiction dont cut deals to cheap old reefers (like me) and homies; dont scare/abuse noobs. dont be a creepy reefing guru (like the...

interesting. I think you must scale up in a liquid medium. there seems to be just too little volume on a 5-10ml plate. plates are usually used for selecting colonies; i think you want a large number of plankton species and lots of each. BTW, I just did this exact thing for my kids science fair...

Carbon here too. Most sustainable way for me is to buy bulk of the cheapest carbon available, setup 3-5 cheap reactors (2 little fishes, most i found at LFSs used from quitters) with their own 200gph pumps at a time, & have them dump into a fine filter sock, then swap them out every 2 months. So...

Last build i had 3x 20 amp lines. 1. Canopy level gfci for lights & very high voltage stuff that can quickly fry you that your reef can live without for a few days of tripped 2. Sump gfci for non essentials- heater 3. Sump non gfci for external return pump & apex

+1 i havent had much luck with flow meters, as there aren't that many available in the sizes typical of aquarium plumbing, and drain flow is inconsistent. drains run slow, then very fast at full siphon, then slow again. so instantaneous flow rates wouldn't tell you much. HTH

when I was blindly in love with reefing, she was a beautiful dream girl on a pedestal: couldn't keep my mind on nothin' else, would've changed my world for 1 good coral if my tank was bad, i couldn't see it, she could do no wrong, turned my back on my best friend if they put her down would've...

Yep, it might be the next trendy superfood. My coworker drank so many kale juicers her liver nearly exploded of iron overload.

Anyone use these reactors to grow ogo? Btw, tangs arent the only ones that love ogo- people are eating a lot of ogo salad!

clickbait only works on me if its a pretty lady or guns. If its guns + pretty lady, ive already clicked it a few times...

There was a lighting page showing what the same tank looked like under different lights. That was useful to me.

"But my question after all the rambling, are there better colors because of the supplementation. I don't see a lot of sharing of photographs of sps or lps." ^ isnt this what you were asking? Or specificlly, was the supplement worth my money? Then why dont you buy a supplement & dose...

Ive used the small & medium ones & they were great. IMO best use was from a high flow sump to bring in new water. Swirls or Oceans Motions were the next best to dump buckets I thought. In a closed loop you would need a strong pump. I used the mod with small tunzes attached and it was a great...