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They look accurate to me. It’s easy to add a calibration factor to make them all match a reference thermometer or just so that they all match each other, which is basically as good for as little variance as there is.

Just speaking for myself, it wouldn’t be one or the other, it would be both. Not much overlap in what I get out of BAR vs what I’d hope to get out of the app. Anyone here using it? Care to share thoughts? I imagine the hot-takes that influencers give after a couple min would be less informative...

I saw this was promoted by Hilary from saltwateraquarium with a video interviewing one of the devs, and reminded me of it again. Now that we are a few months later I wonder if anyone has any additional experience with it? I also noticed they added a 12-month plan for $25, which is more...

Glad to hear it

Yes sorry I didn’t mention up front that it’ll be 1 cut in-tank (per session) then fragging up out of tank. And will use iodine for the frags.

I actually really like it. More than other much more expensive coral I have. Just too big of a crown at the moment.

Hey all. I have this huge bright green toadstool leather coral that has grown great but is getting too large. Pushing and shading other corals too much. I need to trim and frag it. I’m not particularly worried about the actual trimming and fragging, planning to use sharp stainless steel...

To reduce the chance of free lanthanum escaping into the tank, you want to dose very slowly over long periods of time, so hand dosing is probably impractical IMO. The sock or skimmate both collect the La only after it reacts with PO4. Unreacted lanthanum goes right through. So dosing more than...

I know at least 1 home based seller uses the bottoms of plastic cups like drink cups, deli cups, or yogurt cups as the molds for making cement frag discs. Any reason that wouldn’t work for the aragonite concrete approach?

Thank you for explaining!

I have precise calipers and various plug/disc sizes. If you need some more measurements I’m happy to supply them. Just let me know.

Regarding why I like them better- The ceramic ones are hard to cut and modify, like the hard artificial rock that is popular now but I don’t like. The agrocrete (concrete made from aragonite) ones are still hard, but are more like live rock in that you cut, chip, mod as needed. Like for example...

@timmeh Any thoughts on my question about making agrocrete plugs/disks? That would get me interested. I don’t particularly like ceramic ones, though I acknowledge they are very popular and easier to make maybe.

I use this method for every cleaning. I use the Red Sea 225 micron plastic (not felt) filter socks doubled up. Clamp the socks on the wall of the sump. Clamp 1/2 tubing into the socks. Siphon to filter for as long as I want or until the sock fills up. The plastic mesh is a lot easier to clean...

Siphon them out asap. Err on side of wasting sand to get more out quickly. Multiple large volume water changes. Treat it like an emergency. Dumping in too much food does way more harm than just rises in N and P, absolutely can crash the tank as it rots.

Yeah I’ve bought the exact same before and like it for the same reason. And this one is a nice gel vs others that are too thin for our use.

Amazon Prime “Day” is today through Friday. Curious if anyone has found any screaming deals on reefing stuff yet? People have mentioned that some 3rd party sellers just jack the price up and then make a “discount” for Prime Day. You can check what the normal price and previous price lows on the...

For what it’s worth, the Triton results on their website are much more useful than the pdf export that is linked above. It shows normal ranges and where your value is on that range more intuitively. It also gives specific suggestions.

Fluconazole (ReefFlux) for sure. Some people have results with lower doses but everyone has results with the recommended dose (20 mg/gal), so just use that since it’s a small QT tank anyway. You may want to do 2 full treatments back to back. Also since you have it isolated, get off what you can...

I got a lawnmower blenny and a 1-spot foxface :)