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I dunno, is he right? If I tell you there's a leprechaun living in the center of the sun, can you prove me wrong? I know from my own personal tank I used to run crazy PAR (800+ for 12+ hours) and had insanely high nutrients - things were great, growing great, beautiful tank. Does that make him...

Chris Meckley is a lunatic IMO. Not saying he is right or wrong about this particular point, but I've never heard such a pompous, self-absorbed, immature, obnoxious reef "personality." I almost always skip podcasts when he's a guest, unless I want to listen to him angrily rant about Metal...

Interesting, that is supposedly what my tank is "missing" according to the AB test. Maybe I will use this as my before/after change for the next microbiome test.

I only did the Microbiome test. Haven't had any signs of fish parasites or nuisance algae in a long time so I wasn't that interested in the TankDNA test.

Lol yeah I gathered that: My question is what the heck is it supposed to do?

I finally sent in an Aquabiomics test. I didn't really expect to get any ACTIONABLE insights but I was super curious, and I will send another in a couple of months. My "diversity" score was very high (94th percentile) which I guess is generally a good thing: However the "Balance" score was...

How much vodka are you dosing and is it working (or do you even know if you aren't testing nutrients)? Also what the heck is PNSB?

I have several brands stockpiled in the garage, last couple boxes have been IO and a box of RC also. I do get some of the brown gunk in my mixing container but have yet to clean it in 2+ years. No powdered or liquid foods. Just the pellets, freeze dried mysis, nori, and frozen seafood slurry.

The alien didn't blow his nose, he busted a nut.

It's really pretty simple, you should be able to do it with your 2x 55g barrels. Mine are 65g but that's all I have. I stick a cheap jebao in the bottom of one to handle the actual mixing. And like Randy and Mike said above, I don't bother heating it unless it's like a cold winter morning...

This is purely a subjective opinion, but I think a big canopy like that looks uglier than the lights. It will also make it a pain to do anything in the tank. It's also going to get soaking wet (humidity) and maybe even attract salt creep. Why not just get a couple hoods for the kessils to...

I have finally succeeded in getting my nitrates down from 75+ to now testing in the 3-10 range. I have been dosing 30ml vodka/day for a good 3 months now, although I'm not sure it's actually doing anything. I think the main factor in the reduction has been a huge amount of water changing, both...

This is just a random MC colony I picked up, don’t remember where. don’t think it’s anything named but it’s nice. My parameters swing and have swung quite a lot and I’ve never lost any acros because of it FWIW. It’s the WWC grafted monti I think, I got it a couple swaps ago and it didn’t do...

Macro dump:

Mailed my Triton ICP test on Wednesday afternoon, just got my result this morning. Pretty fast lately!

The triton HQ reef tank is also absolutely ludicrous: https://reefbuilders.com/2015/04/27/triton-reef-full-portfolio-illustrious-set/#:~:text=D%C3%BCsseldorf%2C%20Germany%20is%20the%20headquarters,from%20the%20ICP%2DMS%20machine.

You ain't wrong, although some companies seem fairly reputable. I like to support two little fishies (this is where I got my bottle of lanthanum) because I like Julian Sprung, he's a reefer and scientist, and I hope he signs my book someday. :) I already got my @CharlesJohns58 signature...

I think some fish - at least rabbitfish and tangs - can display quite a bit of personality. I am pretty confident my rabbitfish is "happy" in some sense. He plays in the flow, makes funny grunting noises when he wants food or attention, blows bubbles, teases and plays with other fish, and is...

They've been added at all different times, sometimes in multiples and sometimes in singles. The PBT was first and people usually say to add these last, but mine has been a gentleman. Maybe I am just very lucky, but my experience with tangs is very different from most of the dogma that's out...

In addition to what @Thales said, I would also add that when you fuck it up lanthanum WILL show up on your ICP test (at least Triton tests lanthanum, not sure about FM). I had a skimmer accident and was dosing lanthanum into a skimmer that wasn't running for a while and lanth immediately popped...