Learning/rebuilding from my epic fail - Page 120

Ucantwin · 02/22/2018, 01:22 PM

Matt, what does your tank PH run at?

reefmutt · 02/22/2018, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drawman

I'll be following your progress Matt. I'm thinking hard about pulling my rock and treating it with LC in a curing bin. I don't dare experiment with it in my smaller display with my Zebrasoma tang.

Good luck! It's sure frustrating how much these PO4 kits can vary but that's the world we live in with hobby grade kits.

I’ll let you know.. I’ll be through a week of LC dosing this weekend. I’ll do a po4 test and post it..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ucantwin

Matt, what does your tank PH run at?

I don’t really check ph.. I do have a ph pen though. I’ll calibrate and get back to you..
Last time I checked it was in the 8-8.1 range.

Pife · 02/22/2018, 03:16 PM

New page Matt! Please adorn it with beautiful photos. I'd like to see more of your Robin hood acro if you have anymore shots of it! Your latest crop of pictures was stunning. I am excited to see what lower po4 does to your colors.

reefmutt · 02/22/2018, 09:49 PM

Well, Brandon you have a point and it just so happened that one daughter and my wife went to the Habs game tonight and my other daughter got a lift to her hockey practice, so I was twisting in the wind! Got into my underwear and took some pics! No, no.. no underwear.. but I could have, if I wanted to!!
Decided to go big in these shots. I usually use medium quality when posting but what the hey! I went all in!
Again, no editing on these photos at all- right off the camera.
Robin Hood

And from the front..

Here’s the trio: no name red beast, blueberry wine and OP- up close..

From the front:

Further back..

And a wiiiiide shot of the complete centre section of my reef.

Ice fire

Another wide shot of habanero, 24k and the wave

Got a bunch more..

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

reefmutt · 02/22/2018, 09:57 PM

Last batch..
By the way, ph was 8 at about 9pm. Few hours after mh went off. I’ll test again in the morning and tomorrow evening.

Blue monster..

From the front..

Couple mixed shots..
Centre reef:

Leftish side:

Little closer..

Tried to get my blueberry wine mother colony with my fisheye..

This red planet is growing well..

Ok! There you go!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

aikenreefkeeper · 02/23/2018, 05:28 AM

Matt,

I have been following along for a while. Do you ever sell any of your frags? I would be interested after my tank matures a little more.

Thanks,

Dean

reefmutt · 02/23/2018, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aikenreefkeeper

Matt,

I have been following along for a while. Do you ever sell any of your frags? I would be interested after my tank matures a little more.

Thanks,

Dean

Hey Dean, sure I would sell frags but it is illegal to ship corals over the border without cites permits, so I can only sell to Canada.
Cites stands for certificate for the international trade of endangered species. Something like that.. it’s expensive and I don’t think just anybody can apply..

markalot · 02/23/2018, 06:20 AM

Gold medal tank Matt!

So sorry about the hockey team.

Seriously, it's a flat out joy to see pictures of the tank, everything looks fantastic.

glaukos · 02/23/2018, 07:09 AM

Man this thread and the tank is way more worth of totm or any kind of other title

We could make an entire encyclopedia about our hobby from the pics and info included,in this thread. Both the quality of the pics and the state of the tank's inhabitants are top notch

Contains inspiration,motivation,infos,ideas to follow or copy

and all of these come from a great,down to earth and always polite guy

Having guys like you and threads like this is such a privilege bud!!!

Keep it up and i want some royalties,in case the encyclopedia thing happens

kainic · 02/23/2018, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glaukos

Contains inspiration,motivation,infos,ideas to follow or copy

and all of these come from a great,down to earth and always polite guy

Having guys like you and threads like this is such a privilege bud!!!

Soooo true!

Pife · 02/23/2018, 02:10 PM

Holy crap. I need that Robin hood! Is it a local piece? (vs reef raft) Thank you for the pictures /inspiration. I be doing reef stuff this weekend specifically because of your pictures. My wife will be thrilled. I'll have to show her your pictures to make her understand. Great photos.

reefmutt · 02/23/2018, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glaukos

Man this thread and the tank is way more worth of totm or any kind of other title

We could make an entire encyclopedia about our hobby from the pics and info included,in this thread. Both the quality of the pics and the state of the tank's inhabitants are top notch

Contains inspiration,motivation,infos,ideas to follow or copy

and all of these come from a great,down to earth and always polite guy

Having guys like you and threads like this is such a privilege bud!!!

Keep it up and i want some royalties,in case the encyclopedia thing happens

Mike, thank you very much for those very kind words.
When I read this, it totally made my day.
Thank you, my friend!

reefmutt · 02/23/2018, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markalot

Gold medal tank Matt!

So sorry about the hockey team.

Seriously, it's a flat out joy to see pictures of the tank, everything looks fantastic.

Mark!!! Don’t get me started!! Shootouts.... not sure they should have shootouts in a medal round.. but what can you do??
Our boys have also lost the gold.. but what an intense game. The German team is seriously good.
Thanks Mark!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kainic

Soooo true!

Sergi, thank you very much!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pife

Holy crap. I need that Robin hood! Is it a local piece? (vs reef raft) Thank you for the pictures /inspiration. I be doing reef stuff this weekend specifically because of your pictures. My wife will be thrilled. I'll have to show her your pictures to make her understand. Great photos.

Hey Brandon, the Robin Hood came from Fragbox, in Toronto. I’m not sure if it’s a rr piece or not... I could check with Fragbox..
It didn’t look half as good until it really started growing.

reefmutt · 02/25/2018, 01:49 PM

So a little nutrient update and a comment about aefw..

Did n and po4 test yesterday..
After a week of LC dosing and continued potassium nitrate (seachem flourish nitrogen) I have been able to keep n consistent at around 7ppm.
My final Elos test gave me .16 and the Hanna egg gave me .22.. so perhaps a slight reduction in po4- or just margin of error but since both tests showed a very slight reduction, I will continue with same LC dose for at least another week.. just to see if it continues to reduce or stays the same..
I have established a trend with the egg and had consistent results with it compared to my Elos HR test kit so going forward, I am comfortable using it until I get more Elos kits or refills..

As for AEFW, Rakie recently pmed me concerning them and I figured I’d answer his question here instead of pm since I think they are a pretty common occurrence these days and everybody has had some passing experience with them..
My tank has been set up for something like 5 years.. part of the time it was getting a leak repaired, so since the repair- beginning of this thread- around
3 years now, I have only been AEFW free for maybe 6 months-1 year.
So, for at least the past 2 years I have had aefw in the tank.
I also had aefw in my previous tank. In that tank I treated them like the plague. I set up a qt system, removed all sps, dipped inspected, dipped again etc... We all know the brutal routine. At the end, I was aefw free and down about 60% of my corals.. only to have the tank decimated by bobbit worms a year later..
After taking in a tank full of sick and dying acros from a friend’s tank who was tearing down for renos at home, I dipped everything but didn’t manage to keep the aefw away.. I have had aefw ever since. I documented all of this waaaaay back in the many pages of this thread.. somewhere...anyways, I do not fear aefw like I used to..
I think they can be managed.
I think it was Sanjay (amongst others) who have used coral basting to control them.
Several years ago I read Greg Timm’s (oldude) TOTM write up where he said he had added an army of peppermint shrimp to deal with his aefw and never saw them again.
After reading this and other anecdotes about their effectiveness, I have personally watched peppermints eradicate eggs from infected sps colonies and I’m pretty convinced I’ve seen them eat adult aefw as well. The eggs are easy for them to find. Adult worms not as easy, but if they do come across one, they seem to eat them.. there is no doubt in my mind that peppermints can completely control aefw eggs in any exposed area in a reef.. maybe if there is a dead patch that develops in the interior of a large colony and eggs get deposited there, peppermints may have trouble finding them..
I have seen aefw infected acros get signs of infection in my tank and then have the marks go away..
I have also recently had a couple colonies get fatally damaged by them.
At the moment, I have 2 leopard wrasses, a melanurus wrass, 3 springeri damsels, a golden Pygmy angel and a pyramid butterfly who ALL pick at either the bases or bodies of my acros.. I don’t know what they are going after but I hope it is (at least sometimes) flatworms and eggs..
The melanurus recently matured and now eats any and all shrimp in the tank so I am currently peppermint shrimp free which I am not happy about and I have seen a resurgence of aefw.. BUT I still see some corals get infected and then heal up..
I have to catch my melanurus so that I can add peppermints back to the tank.
I firmly believe that peppermint shrimp are the single most effective method of controlling aefw in an sps tank- they also eradicated every last bit of aptasia I once had..
Problem is that peppermints like al sorts of anemones and some lips as well. I am not able to keep any other anemones- not that I would particularly want to as they take up a lot of sps real estate!
I don’t keep scans any more either because the peppermints were eating them.
So, currently I do have aefw and they are doing some damage but not widespread damage.. yet. I certainly need to get peppermints back in the system sooner than later to keep things under control..
I’m not sure if the damsels, wrasses or angel and butterfly are helping or not but I have recently seen one of my corals recover from aefw and I have seen a another coral succumb to them..
If I can’t get the melanurus out soon and if I see the aefw spread, I’ll start blasting the corals with a powerhead to knock the adults off the corals.

Wally.B · 02/25/2018, 02:04 PM

Great Summary Matt. Helps Lessen the fear of AEFW.

I do have some Aptasia in my Kitchen tank and have been treating the ones I can reach with Aptasia X. Stuff works but they continue to pop up here and there since you can't get them all.

Peppermint Shrimp sounds promising.

sensei · 02/25/2018, 02:21 PM

Thanks Matt for posting Rackies answer here.
it helps us learn!

regards

martinphillip03 · 02/26/2018, 09:11 PM

Matt, talk about coral porn. I would compare your coral shots to Hustler magazine, I would compare Andrews coral shots to a 1950's Playboy.

Marty

Stickboy97 · 02/27/2018, 07:04 PM

Do you have a recent full tank shot, found the last one in like Oct.

Also, do you let your corals just grow around each other & "work it out"? I have several frags that have grown in directions I wasn't expecting and I was going to frag some pieces that are about to touch... but your tank is awesome & it looks like the corals work around each other.

thx

Rakie · 02/28/2018, 01:27 PM

Thanks Matt! Sorry for the late response.. I've been swamped, not even enough time for a water change

sbreefer · 03/01/2018, 02:00 PM

Matt, I love the top down flik. Your acro collection is impressive.

SchnitzelReef · 03/01/2018, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Well, Brandon you have a point and it just so happened that one daughter and my wife went to the Habs game tonight and my other daughter got a lift to her hockey practice, so I was twisting in the wind! Got into my underwear and took some pics! No, no.. no underwear.. but I could have, if I wanted to!!
Decided to go big in these shots. I usually use medium quality when posting but what the hey! I went all in!
Again, no editing on these photos at all- right off the camera.
Robin Hood

And from the front..

Here’s the trio: no name red beast, blueberry wine and OP- up close..

From the front:

Further back..

And a wiiiiide shot of the complete centre section of my reef.

Ice fire

Another wide shot of habanero, 24k and the wave

Got a bunch more..

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amazing pieces!! The growth structure is awesome. Seems like my acros tend to grow really tight, and don’t branch as much.

Are you still running MHs?

bif24701 · 03/01/2018, 11:35 PM

You make it hard to even look at my tank sometimes. Lol. Great pictures

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

FloformAustria · 03/04/2018, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Last batch..
By the way, ph was 8 at about 9pm. Few hours after mh went off. I’ll test again in the morning and tomorrow evening.

Blue monster..

From the front..

Couple mixed shots..
Centre reef:

Leftish side:

Little closer..

Tried to get my blueberry wine mother colony with my fisheye..

This red planet is growing well..

Ok! There you go!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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DiscusHeckel · 03/04/2018, 05:42 AM

Every single coral photo without exception looks terrific, Matt. The red planet, in particular, is stunning. I placed mine in a quite bright position (350+ mmol/m2/sec). As a result, I can see green pigments only in sections of the coral that are not exposed to light. What is it growth rate?

reefmutt · 03/11/2018, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wally.B

Great Summary Matt. Helps Lessen the fear of AEFW.

I do have some Aptasia in my Kitchen tank and have been treating the ones I can reach with Aptasia X. Stuff works but they continue to pop up here and there since you can't get them all.

Peppermint Shrimp sounds promising.

Peppermint shrimp have their place for sure.. just have to be careful about what other corals you have in the tank.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sensei

Thanks Matt for posting Rackies answer here.
it helps us learn!

regards

Hey Jorge, no problem!

Quote:

Originally Posted by martinphillip03

Matt, talk about coral porn. I would compare your coral shots to Hustler magazine, I would compare Andrews coral shots to a 1950's Playboy.

Marty

Marty! I never knew you were such a late century soft porn connoisseur! Good to know.. so, you find my photos a little more.. shall we say, raunchy.. I LIKE it!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stickboy97

Do you have a recent full tank shot, found the last one in like Oct.

Also, do you let your corals just grow around each other & "work it out"? I have several frags that have grown in directions I wasn't expecting and I was going to frag some pieces that are about to touch... but your tank is awesome & it looks like the corals work around each other.

thx

Hey Stick, I will let decently grown out colonies meet.. often, very little happens. The corals stop at that point and grow elsewhere. Sometimes, a very aggressive coral will indict serious damage to another.. it that happens, I’ll clip them back a bit.. it happens with the red coral I have right up top centre, growing into my OP. It’s a serious tough coral and kills anything it touched for about a half inche around contact.
Smaller colonies or frags I try to give them a chance to develop into something before I let them grow into each other..
I will post. Full tank shot.. I guess I haven’t done it in a while..

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbreefer

Matt, I love the top down flik. Your acro collection is impressive.

Thanks! Appreciate the comment.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SchnitzelReef

Amazing pieces!! The growth structure is awesome. Seems like my acros tend to grow really tight, and don’t branch as much.

Are you still running MHs?

Hey Schnitz, yes.. we’ll sort of.. I have 150w Ushio blues that I run for about 5 hours a day- mid day. This on top of 6 t5s and 4 AI Prime led units.
My colonies definitely don’t grow as thickly as yours do.. I assume you have more flow..

Quote:

Originally Posted by bif24701

You make it hard to even look at my tank sometimes. Lol. Great pictures

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks bif! Patience!

Quote:

Originally Posted by FloformAustria

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Thanks Flo. You are off to a great start! Won’t be long till I’m saying the same about your corals

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiscusHeckel

Every single coral photo without exception looks terrific, Matt. The red planet, in particular, is stunning. I placed mine in a quite bright position (350+ mmol/m2/sec). As a result, I can see green pigments only in sections of the coral that are not exposed to light. What is it growth rate?

Hey Bulent, thank you very much!
I find that when red planet gets going, it is an above average grower.
I have a piece up quite high and another lower down. Definitely the lower one has a bit more green but I’m not sure it grows any slower...
Ok. Gonna post this and hopefully get back with an update..

02/22/2018, 03:16 PM	#2978
Pife Registered Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 7,408	New page Matt! Please adorn it with beautiful photos. I'd like to see more of your Robin hood acro if you have anymore shots of it! Your latest crop of pictures was stunning. I am excited to see what lower po4 does to your colors. __________________ Brandon I'm not saying let's get rid of all the stupid people.* I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out. Current Tank Info: 150g DT plumbed to an 80g frag tank and 220g sump in the basement. ~6-MP40s ~ 12 ATI powered t5s ~ Reefbrites and Radions supplementing ~ Custom GEO Skimmer ~ GEO CA Reactor 6x24~ Iwaki 70 Return ~ Last edited by Pife; 02/23/2018 at 02:04 PM.

02/22/2018, 09:49 PM	#2979
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Well, Brandon you have a point and it just so happened that one daughter and my wife went to the Habs game tonight and my other daughter got a lift to her hockey practice, so I was twisting in the wind! Got into my underwear and took some pics! No, no.. no underwear.. but I could have, if I wanted to!! Decided to go big in these shots. I usually use medium quality when posting but what the hey! I went all in! Again, no editing on these photos at all- right off the camera. Robin Hood And from the front.. Here’s the trio: no name red beast, blueberry wine and OP- up close.. From the front: Further back.. And a wiiiiide shot of the complete centre section of my reef. Ice fire Another wide shot of habanero, 24k and the wave Got a bunch more.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

02/22/2018, 09:57 PM	#2980
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Last batch.. By the way, ph was 8 at about 9pm. Few hours after mh went off. I’ll test again in the morning and tomorrow evening. Blue monster.. From the front.. Couple mixed shots.. Centre reef: Leftish side: Little closer.. Tried to get my blueberry wine mother colony with my fisheye.. This red planet is growing well.. Ok! There you go! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

02/23/2018, 06:20 AM	#2983
markalot ... Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Florence, KY Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 3	Gold medal tank Matt! So sorry about the hockey team. Seriously, it's a flat out joy to see pictures of the tank, everything looks fantastic. __________________ -- Mark 150G (72x18x27) \| 35G sump \| SRO-XP2000INT Skimmer \| ATI SunPower T5 / NanoBox LED hybrid 60" x 4 + 8 NanoBox v3.1 arrays

02/23/2018, 07:09 AM	#2984
glaukos Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,106	Man this thread and the tank is way more worth of totm or any kind of other title We could make an entire encyclopedia about our hobby from the pics and info included,in this thread. Both the quality of the pics and the state of the tank's inhabitants are top notch Contains inspiration,motivation,infos,ideas to follow or copy and all of these come from a great,down to earth and always polite guy Having guys like you and threads like this is such a privilege bud!!! Keep it up and i want some royalties,in case the encyclopedia thing happens __________________ Mike Just doing my hobby and having great fun with it....no room/need for drama:) the only way to win with a toxic person, is not to play

02/22/2018, 01:22 PM	#2976
Ucantwin Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: some where Posts: 559	Matt, what does your tank PH run at?

02/23/2018, 05:28 AM	#2981
aikenreefkeeper Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Tucson AZ Posts: 121	Matt, I have been following along for a while. Do you ever sell any of your frags? I would be interested after my tank matures a little more. Thanks, Dean

02/23/2018, 02:10 PM	#2986
Pife Registered Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 7,408	Holy crap. I need that Robin hood! Is it a local piece? (vs reef raft) Thank you for the pictures /inspiration. I be doing reef stuff this weekend specifically because of your pictures. My wife will be thrilled. I'll have to show her your pictures to make her understand. Great photos. __________________ Brandon I'm not saying let's get rid of all the stupid people.* I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out. Current Tank Info: 150g DT plumbed to an 80g frag tank and 220g sump in the basement. ~6-MP40s ~ 12 ATI powered t5s ~ Reefbrites and Radions supplementing ~ Custom GEO Skimmer ~ GEO CA Reactor 6x24~ Iwaki 70 Return ~

02/25/2018, 01:49 PM	#2989
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	So a little nutrient update and a comment about aefw.. Did n and po4 test yesterday.. After a week of LC dosing and continued potassium nitrate (seachem flourish nitrogen) I have been able to keep n consistent at around 7ppm. My final Elos test gave me .16 and the Hanna egg gave me .22.. so perhaps a slight reduction in po4- or just margin of error but since both tests showed a very slight reduction, I will continue with same LC dose for at least another week.. just to see if it continues to reduce or stays the same.. I have established a trend with the egg and had consistent results with it compared to my Elos HR test kit so going forward, I am comfortable using it until I get more Elos kits or refills.. As for AEFW, Rakie recently pmed me concerning them and I figured I’d answer his question here instead of pm since I think they are a pretty common occurrence these days and everybody has had some passing experience with them.. My tank has been set up for something like 5 years.. part of the time it was getting a leak repaired, so since the repair- beginning of this thread- around 3 years now, I have only been AEFW free for maybe 6 months-1 year. So, for at least the past 2 years I have had aefw in the tank. I also had aefw in my previous tank. In that tank I treated them like the plague. I set up a qt system, removed all sps, dipped inspected, dipped again etc... We all know the brutal routine. At the end, I was aefw free and down about 60% of my corals.. only to have the tank decimated by bobbit worms a year later.. After taking in a tank full of sick and dying acros from a friend’s tank who was tearing down for renos at home, I dipped everything but didn’t manage to keep the aefw away.. I have had aefw ever since. I documented all of this waaaaay back in the many pages of this thread.. somewhere...anyways, I do not fear aefw like I used to.. I think they can be managed. I think it was Sanjay (amongst others) who have used coral basting to control them. Several years ago I read Greg Timm’s (oldude) TOTM write up where he said he had added an army of peppermint shrimp to deal with his aefw and never saw them again. After reading this and other anecdotes about their effectiveness, I have personally watched peppermints eradicate eggs from infected sps colonies and I’m pretty convinced I’ve seen them eat adult aefw as well. The eggs are easy for them to find. Adult worms not as easy, but if they do come across one, they seem to eat them.. there is no doubt in my mind that peppermints can completely control aefw eggs in any exposed area in a reef.. maybe if there is a dead patch that develops in the interior of a large colony and eggs get deposited there, peppermints may have trouble finding them.. I have seen aefw infected acros get signs of infection in my tank and then have the marks go away.. I have also recently had a couple colonies get fatally damaged by them. At the moment, I have 2 leopard wrasses, a melanurus wrass, 3 springeri damsels, a golden Pygmy angel and a pyramid butterfly who ALL pick at either the bases or bodies of my acros.. I don’t know what they are going after but I hope it is (at least sometimes) flatworms and eggs.. The melanurus recently matured and now eats any and all shrimp in the tank so I am currently peppermint shrimp free which I am not happy about and I have seen a resurgence of aefw.. BUT I still see some corals get infected and then heal up.. I have to catch my melanurus so that I can add peppermints back to the tank. I firmly believe that peppermint shrimp are the single most effective method of controlling aefw in an sps tank- they also eradicated every last bit of aptasia I once had.. Problem is that peppermints like al sorts of anemones and some lips as well. I am not able to keep any other anemones- not that I would particularly want to as they take up a lot of sps real estate! I don’t keep scans any more either because the peppermints were eating them. So, currently I do have aefw and they are doing some damage but not widespread damage.. yet. I certainly need to get peppermints back in the system sooner than later to keep things under control.. I’m not sure if the damsels, wrasses or angel and butterfly are helping or not but I have recently seen one of my corals recover from aefw and I have seen a another coral succumb to them.. If I can’t get the melanurus out soon and if I see the aefw spread, I’ll start blasting the corals with a powerhead to knock the adults off the corals. __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

02/25/2018, 02:04 PM	#2990
Wally.B Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Toronto GTA,Canada Posts: 1,763	Great Summary Matt. Helps Lessen the fear of AEFW. I do have some Aptasia in my Kitchen tank and have been treating the ones I can reach with Aptasia X. Stuff works but they continue to pop up here and there since you can't get them all. Peppermint Shrimp sounds promising.

02/25/2018, 02:21 PM	#2991
sensei Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 613	Thanks Matt for posting Rackies answer here. it helps us learn! regards __________________ 470g DT SPS dominated (600g system) - five 400W MH, BK 250 & BK300 SM Skimmer 150g mixed reef - XR15w Pro, 90 g Coral quarantine - XR15w Pro, 150g FOWLR tank, 20g TTM Fish Qt

02/26/2018, 09:11 PM	#2992
martinphillip03 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Posts: 1,300	Matt, talk about coral porn. I would compare your coral shots to Hustler magazine, I would compare Andrews coral shots to a 1950's Playboy. Marty

02/27/2018, 07:04 PM	#2993
Stickboy97 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Conroe, TX Posts: 647	Do you have a recent full tank shot, found the last one in like Oct. Also, do you let your corals just grow around each other & "work it out"? I have several frags that have grown in directions I wasn't expecting and I was going to frag some pieces that are about to touch... but your tank is awesome & it looks like the corals work around each other. thx __________________ DSA 105g Neo Pro

02/28/2018, 01:27 PM	#2994
Rakie In Memoriam Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 3,059	Thanks Matt! Sorry for the late response.. I've been swamped, not even enough time for a water change

03/01/2018, 02:00 PM	#2995
sbreefer Afflicted Reefer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Steamboat Colorado Posts: 490	Matt, I love the top down flik. Your acro collection is impressive. __________________ mixed bare bottom reef Current Tank Info: SPS dominated 300g

03/01/2018, 11:35 PM	#2997
bif24701 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Florida, FWB Posts: 3,389	You make it hard to even look at my tank sometimes. Lol. Great pictures Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ 180 Mixed Reef SRO-5000 Skimmer Neptune APEX Gold Kessil AP700/ MP60+6105 Kalk+2 part/ Cheato Fuge Current Tank Info: 180 SPS Dominant

03/04/2018, 05:42 AM	#2999
DiscusHeckel Acropora Gardener Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 2,780	Every single coral photo without exception looks terrific, Matt. The red planet, in particular, is stunning. I placed mine in a quite bright position (350+ mmol/m2/sec). As a result, I can see green pigments only in sections of the coral that are not exposed to light. What is it growth rate? __________________ Featured Tank OCT 2016 \| "Reef Hobbyist Magazine" TOTM OCT 2016 \| "Ultimate Reef", UK FB \| "/troutsReefTank/" 65G SPS Reef- ATI 8 X 39W PM; TM [Bacto-Balance A-; Reef Actif; Nitribiotic; Iodine]