Recent content by RandyC

This is complete no proof of evidence and internet fodder ;) , but I actually stopped feeding frozen foods a long while ago because vibrio (and most other bacteria) cannot be killed by freezing. So regardless of freezing or having a "cleaner environment" for processing fish, if there is any bad...

That Goni looks familiar! Nice job growing that sucker out!

https://www.aquarium-design.com/reef/uvlighting.html

Aren't you on vacation? Which means no one is poisoning your house/tank with CO2? ;)

I meant co2 scrubber. Not specific to carx.

Aquatic Collection got some pitho crabs in today so I picked some up this morning to add more to the tanks. Here's one of them in QT already munching on some bubble algae covered rocks I threw in there.

I don't use kalk. I tried once, but it didn't seem to make much of a difference for me, but I don't have much evaporation, so I wasn't able to comfortably put more kalk-laced top off water in the tank. I think you can mitigate the pH decrease other ways. A secondary reactor will help. You can...

This is not metal halide as much as the marketing claims. Visibly it may produce a visible color like metal halide to our eyes, but it is missing quite a bit of UV-A compared to what metal halides produced. Does it matter? Maybe, maybe not. Photosynthesis can, in general, take advantage of UV-A...

I just ordered this to give it a try. https://a.co/d/1zJX8x1

I usually always have chaeto available. PM to arrange a pick up time.

I have a Vectra M2 pump...will that help? :p

There should be. Two people have requested and there are (were) five bags. I always have some extra chaeto though between all the tanks.

Castro Valley

I have five bags sitting outside. Two are claimed. Let me know if you want one.

Have a two gallon bucket of chaeto. If you want some, let me know by today, otherwise it's going to the compost.