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  1. FinalPhaze987

    Featured We’re Live! Welcome to the New & Improved BAR Forums

    Loving this new look! Thanks for your hard work in getting this done @yosemiteclimber !
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    BAR and all things social media

    Let's be real... We are a niche subset of a niche hobby and limited geographically for the most part. We need all the serious, respectful Bay Area reefers we can get. To put that into perspective, on high tides you tube channel you can find the cocktails and coral talks featuring Jillian...
  3. FinalPhaze987

    BAR and all things social media

    If we dont evolve we will be left behind and no different from landlines and TV guides. If there was social media and digital resources we have now available back then, I would have saved so much damn money avoiding mistakes. BAR has died down significantly from what it was in the early...
  4. FinalPhaze987

    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    Hopefully i can keep this rolling! I ran a modified version of Tom's korallin with the blues turned up, now running the factory settings to whiten things up. I ran SPS Plakative+ on my gen 1s and got great results as well
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    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    A couple weeks with the new lights and everything has been going smooth. I changed the spectrum up a bit and reverted to a more 14Kish daylight, as the bluer program started to look like windex. Intensity is sitting around 65% and I'm slowly ramping up my nutrients. Things started to pale in...
  6. FinalPhaze987

    Am I destroying my "tank is quarantined" stance if I add this clown?

    The price you paid for all quarantined fish in your display would be in vein if you added it. I'd play it safe. Peace of mind is everything to me at this point, so if it were me, I wouldnt risk it. Hell, I put my clean up crew through a 30 day QT..huge PITA, but I can sleep well knowing Ive...
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    Andrew's Red Sea Reefer 250

    At that price you're still under the cost of one radion with no mounting hardware. Think of dealing with the ad as a cost savings of >$1000
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    Alex’s IM 150 EXT

    Works great for avocados and meds..haha
  9. FinalPhaze987

    Reefing and AI (Apex debugging)

    This is so dope. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
  10. FinalPhaze987

    Alex’s IM 150 EXT

    I have a mortar and pestal you're welcome to borrow if needed. LMK
  11. FinalPhaze987

    Tank Parameters all over the place

    Not entirely true, as there are those that run the moonshiners program and still perform waterchanges. The essence of it is stability, hence why there are daily doses of certain elements that are depleted quickly. I send in an ICP for each batch of salt I stock up on and do the corrective doses...
  12. FinalPhaze987

    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    Between the two of them my apex reads 146w at the plug. Both are at the peak of the photo period and running at 51% intensity in the ATI app. Being under driven hopefully equates to running cooler. Last night, out of curiosity, i cranked them as high as 95% and got a reading of 890 in the front...
  13. FinalPhaze987

    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    My daughter's spring break came to a close and dropped her off to the airport. Put the baby to sleep by 9pm and finally had an opportunity to work on the tank. Pulling out the old set up was a PITA. Wire management is nice till you gotta change out equipment. I hung the new stratons and fired...
  14. FinalPhaze987

    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    Im running a Geo AR618. It does a pretty good job at keeping levels low, but left unmonitored, can bottom out NO3. Depending on my PO4 levels at that time, I'd dose NO3 or cut the lighting schedule to keep both from bottoming out. I try to shoot for a 5-10 range for NO3 and 0.06-0.12 PO4. WC...
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    Axel’s IM 30L

    Looking good. I like your choice of warm colors for your zoas. It's a nice contrast to all the blue and green usually seen.
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    L/F leads on a possible frag swap location?

    At first, luckily she married a really nice guy that can tolerate it. Lol
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    Patrick's 81G - the last dance

    Got to work on prepping the lights for install. Still in the works. Although I could probably get these up tonight, I dont think I have the patience to spend an additional hour tuning them and running all the wiring. Pretty excited to see the spread on these things. Compared to the Straton...
  18. FinalPhaze987

    L/F leads on a possible frag swap location?

    Your little sister is so much cooler than mine. She's a psychiatrist that tells me I'm OCD & crazy when I talk about our hobby.
  19. FinalPhaze987

    sudden Low PH due to skimmer shutting off

    Plumbing my skimmer with outside air was the best thing I've done for ph hands down. Ive noticed a similar improvement to your numbers when working properly, but have also noticed similar drops in pH when shutting it down due to high co2 in my household. Sorry your pump went down. Ive got a...
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    Paul Wall has a pretty decent FOWLR

    It would be crazy if his fish has grillz..haha
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