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No question about competence, Erin, but messaging, which does not create actionable value for me. Experts in their field are great, and the best ones can deliver content in a professional, concise, and neutral way. I think many of us should reflect on how we communicate here (this includes...

Thank you,yes, purchased a refurbished xp8 last night. Really good deal.

Literally all fresh food is added frozen to the blender, so I did not observe or see the solution becoming warm. Maybe this needs to be added to the recipe for clarity. I am sure any 'food safety officer’ would enjoy seeing us adding frozen seafood into our tanks, of which a lot of it will rot...

Looks like you have been observing them for a while, so please let us know your experience with them when you start using them. Still curious about pricing since, again, I believe the benchmark are the two companies I mentioned. I very much like that Triton is based in the US, but I feel...

I do not decide on who tests my water by who provides a label or not. It is far too important (and expensive) to me. But postage is a major cost factor. So is shipping time. This company is located in Bavaria, Germany, and seems to have a successful coral farm, which seems to add to their...

13-15 USD.

Do you know why not using saltwater but freshwater? I can do it either way but just curious what the issue is with using saltwater? Also, the point on the fish eggs staying whole I have seen debated elsewhere, and some prefer it.

I would keep them for filtration until you have your other corals growing bigger.

I found some last week in one spot on a rock around a frag plug I got many months ago from someone. I took out the frag plug which removed 90% of the polyps, and glued over the other few polyps (not many) on the rock over with a lot of glue. Will see if they come back but I was very shocked...

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I have been feeding a DIY coral feeding (smoothie) mix for the past couple of months, twice a week. The blender I have been using for this was a bit slow and I could not resist the black friday deal for a significantly reduced Vitamix 5200. The recipe is...

Its the largest one he sells: https://octoaquatics.com/product/the-shu/ Its pretty big though and difficult to maneuver without hitting things, specifically if you have a Eurobrace.

Here are the new joiners, just got them from Kenny / @under_water_ninja today: He still has two more pairs if someone is interested.

And I am glad it is sold now :).

And did not see your text - we were ‘off the grid’ for a few hours (hiking) - bad timing, did not expect these sales coming through on Saturday - thanks so much for letting me know though!!!

Saw this post too late :(. XP8 is no longer available…

Thank you very much - the person I am working with from airwaterice.com mentioned this, but it still did not seem to fit from how I measured it. However, when it turned out that a pressure tank is the ONLY way to get decent water flow, I just asked him to send the smallest one (2.2 gallons)...

But I do not think they clean the shells, so I might actually buy them from Paul / @PjFish going forward :). That sounds like some quarantining I would pay for (vs. just keeping the inverts in elevated temp water that inverted reef does).

Sorry, I am lost :). One more attempt to clarify: You wrote this: I responded that I took my (one and only) Aquabiomics test 30 days after my tank was established, and had already a pretty good result, i.e., 90/91 percentile. This made me believe that a strong biome can be established...

Not sure if I follow. When this sample was taken, the tank was brand new, and only setup 30 days before, back at the end of 2023. Sorry, I might have misunderstood you, but just wanted to clarify.

Now that feedback from Eli seems contradicting from what I have seen, and I did not add a ton of things as you did, only from a couple of so places, TBS, then the place in Hawaii, I think. The tank was 30 days old at the time of taking the sample. Post in thread 'Alex’s IM 150 EXT'...