MarcosD
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Glad to hear you like it. I have two waiting to setup for both my tanks. Needed to order the sense/drive cable extensions and finally got them in but have been lazy to setup
Alex’s IM 150 EXT
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Alexander1312
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Same here - maybe I should thank RedSea that their ATO sucked so much that I was ultimately forced to do it. Next will be my frag tank where I replace the supper annoying (although reliable) Tunze ATO (old version).
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Alexander1312
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I got these two green beautiful plating montis from Andy / @ReyDeFarts and Derek / @derek_SR - currently parked in the nano tank but I am planning to move them soon to the IM 150. Thank you so much for them!
Since I want to mount them vertically plating away from the rock I came up with this brilliant idea to glue two small pieces of frag plates so that I can easily glue them to the rock while keeping the coral horizontal to the substrate. My hope is that once they grow over these plates this construction will not look as ugly anymore haha
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Since I want to mount them vertically plating away from the rock I came up with this brilliant idea to glue two small pieces of frag plates so that I can easily glue them to the rock while keeping the coral horizontal to the substrate. My hope is that once they grow over these plates this construction will not look as ugly anymore haha
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Alexander1312
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Cannot wait for my return flight as I am buying too many things here (Germany), and suitcases are already maxed out (still one more week to go). Looks like this will be the first time in years I will have to ship things back.
I have been looking at this pump for quite a while as a future replacement of my gyres, or at least the two vertical gyres I am using, potentially keeping the two below the water surface.
I got now a great deal for one pump in a store I had not been to before and thought I would try it out. If it works out I will buy another one for the other side. I do not think they can be properly positioned below the water surface, but I will still try this too.
I still think that gyres produce superior flow, but the cleaning is not fun, and every time I do I worry about breaking something - I bought a couple of new impellers for the XF350 while here since they cannot be purchased anywhere in the US from what I know.
These pumps seem to not need a lot of cleaning, apparently only every 6 months or less, and their flow seems massive. Will report back once I had a chance to try it out.
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I saw this video today when it was pushed out by Marine and Reef. Looks like this pump is 8 years old (!). Surprised nobody mentioned this or knew.
The interesting comment in this video was that it can connect to a Hydros controller while I thought this was not possible.
I asked the Hydros Facebook group and it looks like it can connect to the 0-10V quad cable and the Wave Engine. I did not know it had a cover on the top of the controller for the pump that, with the correct adapter cable from Hydros, would connect to the quad cable and then to the Wave Engine for custom flow.
If all of this works out, this could be a serious (vertical) gyre killer, and possibly could be mounted below the water surface (will try that).
Hydros Pump Adapter Cable - TUNZE 0-10V Pump Adapter
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Alexander1312
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Since you mentioned this, the situation deteriorated and they started fighting and the candy cane seems to win. So I will need to cut this candy cane too (cut the other one and gave several frags away recently), but have no space to put all the frags
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Candy cane is always a good seller to new folks, bring a bunch to @under_water_ninja !
Alexander1312
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I am planning to move this LCH Hybrid Blue Zing colony which grew over the past 9 months from a small frag and is now getting close to various sorrounding corals.
While I have collected various corals over the past several months and kept them in the frag tank, I am far behind my administration and recording of their names etc. I want to move the above coral and replace with it with a nice smaller frag, but I do not know which one deserves the primespot haha. Also, the frag tanks nutrients are all over the place because I struggle with the overpowered skimmer which is terrible to adjust (Nyos 120), so I am not sure how their actual colors would like it if this is better dialed in - including trace elements.
Below are some options, and happy to hear thoughts on which one you would replace this with? And if you happen to have their names?
While I have collected various corals over the past several months and kept them in the frag tank, I am far behind my administration and recording of their names etc. I want to move the above coral and replace with it with a nice smaller frag, but I do not know which one deserves the primespot haha. Also, the frag tanks nutrients are all over the place because I struggle with the overpowered skimmer which is terrible to adjust (Nyos 120), so I am not sure how their actual colors would like it if this is better dialed in - including trace elements.
Below are some options, and happy to hear thoughts on which one you would replace this with? And if you happen to have their names
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Alexander1312
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So this (big) guy has only shown itself recently. I assume I should get it out ASAP?
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After more than a month in Kenny’s / @under_water_ninja care, I picked up the Yellow Tang. Thanks so much again for doing this, Kenny! It will be on me now to maintain his healthy levels and after a few days, it is not clear if I will be successful, as eating in my tank continues to be a challenge. I am expanding the feeding at the moment which will be a separate post.
I also picked up a springeri damsel from Kenny to further attempt to manage my flatworm population. As expected, both Blotched Anthias made sure he would stay in the corner, far away from any flatworm population.
The yellow tang never likes to be filmed and the damsel had no choice. They also had no say in the music choice or the editing done on this little video.
I also picked up a springeri damsel from Kenny to further attempt to manage my flatworm population. As expected, both Blotched Anthias made sure he would stay in the corner, far away from any flatworm population.
The yellow tang never likes to be filmed and the damsel had no choice. They also had no say in the music choice or the editing done on this little video.
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He loves mysis! He was eating mysis like a champ for me, chasing it all over the tank! After the initial 5 days of not eating, any foods I put in, mysis was his first choice. He got pellets, flakes, mysis, spirulina brine and occasional nori. Good luck buddy, he’s nice and fat again
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Yes, there is something or someone she does not like in my tank. The trigger and borb anthias pair dominate the feeding, then the fox face and the white tail. Clowns always get leftovers and royal gramma and the new joiner / springeri damsel find ways to eat despite being bullied. No one demonstrates aggression against the yellow tang, and he is right in the middle of the feeding but does only look at the food and moves away. Same with the nori. Seaweed pellets seems the only thing she is partially interested in.
Update: Looks like he loves (!) Seaweed Extreme Pellets (Hikari) - this is great news. This was also the only thing he ate yesterday and today we tried it again and he kept eating this.
We normally feed a mix of varioys types of food - frozen: LRS, Rods (various blends), PE Mysis. Dry - a large number of various types various sizes of TDO, Seaweed Extreme, Reef Jerky, Fauna Soft pellets and others.
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