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I was listening to the recent reef beef podcast. Rich brought up that a fellow beefer had recommended the rubber maid battery operated scrubber. I am a sucker for gadgets and who knows how many products I have bought that did not work out. I have been battling hair algae and recently saw...

Well, I had a day off and decided to check out High Tide to refresh my clean up crew. I haven’t found my way out there in a loooong time. Bummed i missed the recent talks. The sea horse tank and softie tank is really cool. Lots of cool stuff in both tanks. He mentioned his current qt stock was...

Hello, Alex and I were texting and he brought true yellow corals. Got me thinking of adding something truly yellow to the tank. Looking at SPS, less likely maybe a yellow leather, or maybe one of those NPS yellow corals. Any suggestions or anyone have any frags if something cool? Gerry

Hello, I finally did and ICP analysis on my tank, but honestly not sure what to do with the results. Any thoughts? Gerry https://lab.faunamarin.de/download/analyses/232/232267.pdf

Hello, I recently found some tufts of bryopsis in my tank. This stuff is a pain to remove. Even if I remove it manually, I can't guarantee small bits will not spread. Thinking about just using fluconazole now rather than waiting for it to blow up. Anyone here have any experience with it? G

Hello, Well, after two year of it sitting in the box I finally got around to setting up my Avast auto feeder. While doing some test runs I noticed some of the food floats and won’t get sucked out into the tank. How do you guys sets up your on and off times for the pump to get deal with this? Do...

I will readily admit I am not very tech savvy. When it comes to the Apex if I need to replace a probe do I just unplug the old one and place the new one? I don't have to remove it from the app first and the replace it or anything like that? I just don't want to screw up the device or complicate...

Hello, I am trying to trouble shoot a sudden spike in my Ca. I use a neptune trident along with red sea test kit to compare. While I was out of town I got an alert from the trident my Ca had reached 530, had been hovering around 430. 1. I had just changed the B and C reagents before I left town...

Well, Over the last two weeks I have been doing a deep clean and overhaul of the tank: cleaning out pumps, skimmer, wavemakers, detritus from the sump. Today I decided to clean out the drains and returns along with adding some random flow generators to the outlets. I did not realize how loud my...

Hello, Just another update with a lot more details. I just wanted to share a video some of you may find interesting. The day before we were supposed to leave for a Disney trip in early April, I found my blue throat fairy wrasse hiding during the day. Of course it happens as we are about to leave...

Well, Just before I went out of town I randomly lost one of my gonis. Came home this week and lost another. Today I noticed two more look unhappy and lost a few polyps. Any thoughts? Alk-9.1 Ca-409 Mg-1300 Phos-0.59 Nitrate-6.8 SG-1.025 pH-8.1-8.3 (based on apex). Only thing new was starting...

Hello, Just wanted to send out a big thank you to Eric, MichaelB, and Alexander. I had wanted a 3D printed housing for my Trident. Eric was gracious enough to print one out for JVU and me. Originally the plan was for JVU to pick them up from Eric at the swap. Unfortunately JVU couldn’t go last...

Hello, I am getting back into town today. House sitter called to give me a heads up about an alarm from the tank. It was the auto top off (tunze). Made me realize with all the automation I don’t have an alert for the top off. So I figure for future trips that is the next thing to consider. Wha...

Hello, My QT tank is slowly becoming a bit of a display tank. I feed the fish pretty heavily since one is a Copper Band butterfly that is still learning to eat something other than shrimp. I don't seem him graduating to the display any time soon. So, I thought about adding some sort of hardy...

Hello, I have never fragged a zoa before. Usually I just drop a rock on them. The climb on, and that’s my frag plug. This is one solid rock. Just wondering what the advice would be. These are Jedi mind trick zoa’s.

Hello, Decided to finally try lanthanum dosing for my tank. I wanted to make sure I got the math right. Here we go: Phosphate Rx: per the calculator link Derek_sr posted. To drop my phosphate by 0.1 for a 180g tank it would be essentially 12 drops (I think the calculator said 11.8). Phosphate...

Well, Today was going to be the day. My rhomboid wrasse has been in the 60g display for months (8 or 9 months). I had placed my rhomboid wrasse into the acclimation box this week. No issues noted. Today was going to be his Independence Day! I let him out and was watching the tank while enjoying...

Well, The baby bangai’s finally made it into the smaller display tank. I apologize to those who showed interest. It’s been a struggle to coordinate sales due to time constraints or location, work trips, vacations. Ended up with 12 babies. All eating really well. Need to confirm with my son, but...

So, I will readily admit I am a total noob and not very techy, especially when it comes to the Neptune universe. Is there a way to set alerts for when the Trident results are too high or too low? Thanks Gerry