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Tank at 3 months post reset. I bought some SPS during Black Friday. Most things are still small frags which I hope will grow out over time. I spent 4 hours yesterday tweaking the aquascape. Most of the scape is stacked rather than glued together so it is easy to rearrange. During the...

When your auto feed triggers, how many seconds does it take for your fish to eat all of the food. If you set it dispense only the amount the fish eat in 30 a 60 seconds that will help ensure there is very limited waste. You can do that kind of feeding a few times a day but you may want to try...

Why do you think the Copperband was able to survive 1-2 years then die? I have also heard before that many can get a Copperband to live for 1 year then they pass away. It seems like people attribute it to eating issues but I am not sure.

You have convinced me to not throw out my bottle of CG. I used to have a lighted refugium. Taking it offline was one of the best decisions I made.

Agreed with @derek_SR that an old filter floss sitting in the sump is unlikely to materially increase nutrients. If you are trying to reduce phosphate you should take a close look at nutrient import and export. What do you feed and what do you use for export? One thing which helped me bring...

Thanks for the video. For me it was like watching an alternate reality. In my tank the Yellow Tang is the boss and sliced the Convict a few times early on. Thankfully the Convict healed just fine and the Yellow Tang hasn’t sliced the Convict for a while now . . .

I recently got a Copperband (had to quarantine and train it myself since this was before Kenny’s shipment). It is now my favorite fish in the tank. It always greats me when I walk up to the tank and likes to follow my hand around when I do maintenance since it is on the lookout for critters...

One of the best things I did was convert my lighted refugium to a cryptic sump. My nutrients are low (0.05 phosphate and <1ppm nitrate if I don’t dose) and when I had a lighted refugium it didn’t stop algae from growing in the display tank. I first tried to grow ulva but was too successful...

Looking good!

@thephoreefer How do you attach the mushrooms to your rubble/frag plug? Last time / first time I tried attaching OG Bounce to rubble I tried superglue and they just shed and disconnected. I ended up trying to put the frags into a mushroom box filled with rubble but I suppose flow in my tank...

I had one of my Ecotech MP40s malfunction shortly after purchase and after one call they sent a replacement no issues.

Here is what the Aquaforest Biosand looks like. It is most white with some specs in various shades of brown.

Yes own thing that is interesting is MR sells their 20kg salt in the form of two 10kg bags in one box. I believe this is the same form factor as Two Little Fishes salt so I assume they are using a common supplier. For now I am only planning to test out the MR 4-part dosing system. There are...

Yeah, there is a very long thread on Reef2Reef on fenben usage to eliminate BSP. It seems like the pharma pill version ground up and dosed to the tank is very potent. The fish flakes version is almost certainly less potent but it seems to be able to eliminate BSP at least temporarily. It is...

Did you have issues using the product they supplied?

I For ModernReef I believe tests will be shipped to their warehouse in Florida which will then aggregate samples and ship to Germany. This is a similar setup to the other ICP labs running out of the EU. Agreed Modern Reef has developed a solid reputation in a short period of time. I have...

It is unclear whether the ICPs from Modern Reef include shipping. A poster on Reef2Reef says it does but I couldn’t find that in the description anywhere. For FaunaMarine ICP, that also does not include shipping. You don’t have to go to the post office though: you can either 1) print a label...

This is an ICP-OES test. Not the same as the ICP tests which include analysis run on a mass spec.

Injst The ATI ICP-MS test is $64.95. I know that for a fact since I just bought a set of three tests last week! https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/ati-icp-ms-premium-water-analysis-ati.html?queryID=66c2f115e25d91914e22ce68c6f3fe2f&objectID=19742&indexName=brs_prod_m2_default_products

Modern Reef will launch in the US soon. They just activated their storefront and it looks like they will sell the cheapest ICP OES-MS on the market. I wish they posted this last week since I purchased a set of ICP tests last week for around triple the price! https://www.modernreefusa.com/shop/