Recent content by andyman

i've got a peel 3d scanner. where you located?

Don't want to be the spoiler but how does insurance work for something like this? Or theft? Hate to say it most people are pretty honest. But there is that 1 percent someone will fake an injury or pocket something.

stupid sun fish!! My kids wasted 1hour of my fishing time at the farallon island because they saw a school of baby sun fish at the surface and wanted to catch one ( we didn't have a net because they broke it trying to catch a sun fish.) Atleast it was entertaining watching them try to use a...

I have the F5 on my acrylic tank. My tank is approx 18mm or little under 3/4". It works pretty well but sometimes I wish I got the F6. I can scrub my tank with one hand using this. I believe my tank was similiar to yours where it got so bad that I couldn't see thru it anymore. I started...

Be sure to reduce the light intensity for a few weeks to let the corals recover. I noticed that made a huge difference for me.

You can have a frag of anything in my tank. I think I got a WD but its pretty small still. merlin staff, vivid confetti if yours decline, and a few other corals I have no names for. I think a pearl berr? , bonsai, etc.

One of the symptoms I noticed when I started loosing corals (not all at once btw) was that as the corals get weak from infection, the ones closer to the light STN first. They seem to hang on for dear life when they are at the bottom of the tank or shaded. Unfortunately I didn't realize this...

I saw a rebalance of bacterial colony to move more toward what a healthy tank should be. The score on AB site for me is. diversity before: 312 (72). (below 170 is yellow. red is below 120) after: 355 (82) balance: 0.26 (41) (0.20 is the start of the danger zone). above 0.20 is green. scale...

When this happened to me I tried everything. I had the typical old tank syndrome and I had no clue what was killing my corals and fish (tanks atleast 10yrs old). what I tried: I was originally on T5 and went to AI Vegas when they first came out. Things were fine for a while. but as I...

australia strippie will solve your aiptasia problem. how big is your tank? these fishes are easy to keep, they eat pellets once the aiptasias are gone. Berghias may die off before they eat all the aiptasia. Wrasses can eat berghias if you have them. And berghias can have issues in sps tank...

fill your tank with live rock from someone elses tank and you can skip the ugly phase. But you may get unwanted pest too like aptasia and asterinas.

you sure can. You know where i live! please PM me with a specific time and I'll have it moved to my garage for pickup.

I have 2 free tanks. They were used as sumps and probably best to be used as sumps. Its your standard sized tanks. You can try buffing it out if you want to use it as a display tank. Anyway free to whoever wants it. Located in San Francisco between the cow palace and balboa bart station...

I prefer not doing water changes and simply topping off. I run ICP test to measure trace elements and I add back required trace elements. I find that no matter which salt you use, you'll deplete some trace elements that water change won't be enough to cover. And to top it off, water changes...

Another suggestion to help against ppl gaming the system. Why don't you make a zoa bonus round / zoa ulta instead. That way you provide a zoa ultra, you get a zoa ultra in return. I feel zoa's are way way easier to propogate.