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3 hours ago, 5*Chris said:

😫 Hate dinos, glad I was able to get through mine fairly quick. Back to battling GHA and cyano💪🏽. Your tank looks awesome still

thanks, still not quite out of the woods yet over here.  

2 hours ago, Dirté Sanchez said:

What’s new? It’s a literal FOREST of sticks 😳

😄 thanks, it's a growing forest.  new item is not corals tho.

1 minute ago, billygoat said:

I see frags... on frags on frags on frags. Is it the clam? But the clam's been in there awhile, hasn't it? 🤔

 

It's not that turban snail, is it? 😂

clam is old, it's grown quite a bit lately too!  not snails, lol.

 

I swap my gyre 1K out for a gyre 2K (only half of one anyway), thought the bright orange rotor would give it away.  but then again, i'm a gear junkie...    

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8 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

thanks, still not quite out of the woods yet over here.  

😄 thanks, it's a growing forest.  new item is not corals tho.

clam is old, it's grown quite a bit lately too!  not snails, lol.

 

I swap my gyre 1K out for a gyre 2K (only half of one anyway), thought the bright orange rotor would give it away.  but then again, i'm a gear junkie...    

I have a 1k and a 2k on my big tank. They work pretty well and I like the tandem setting so they can shove water back and forth 

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19 hours ago, Dirté Sanchez said:

I have a 1k and a 2k on my big tank. They work pretty well and I like the tandem setting so they can shove water back and forth 

I’ll need to chat with you some, once I got the new 2K controller hooked up to both units. 
 

some weird feeding pics this morning, turn all pumps off to target feed these lps. 

big scoly doing well

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little scoly is forming a new mouth; there’s some hope. This one only get a nice concentrated squirt of reef roid. 

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Gold torch takes forever to eat

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And here’s the blue light, less contorted pic of the two scoly. 
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1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

I’ll need to chat with you some, once I got the new 2K controller hooked up to both units. 
 

some weird feeding pics this morning, turn all pumps off to target feed these lps. 

big scoly doing well

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little scoly is forming a new mouth; there’s some hope. This one only get a nice concentrated squirt of reef roid. 

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Gold torch takes forever to eat

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I felt like setting it up was a little murky but once I somehow stumbled onto the right thing they work beautifully

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20 hours ago, mitten_reef said:

thanks, still not quite out of the woods yet over here.  

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Are you running UV? I feel like that might have done the most for me. I didn't even do a blackout or turn off my skimmer. I just added the UV, blew off 🤦🏽‍♂️ the rocks and corals any chance I could, and used a python detailing syphon to clean the sandbed, but just syphoned the water directly into my filter floss in the sump. I feel like I got off easy because of how bad it was, but ended up being a quick battle. 

 

How's the flow on 2k with just 1 side? I really wanted a gyre, but didn't plan ahead when I drilled my tank and built the support for my light. I don't have room in the center for a pump. I just got the Nero 3 yesterday, I was hoping it would fit...nope. 

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On 10/1/2020 at 12:01 PM, 5*Chris said:

Are you running UV? I feel like that might have done the most for me. I didn't even do a blackout or turn off my skimmer. I just added the UV, blew off 🤦🏽‍♂️ the rocks and corals any chance I could, and used a python detailing syphon to clean the sandbed, but just syphoned the water directly into my filter floss in the sump. I feel like I got off easy because of how bad it was, but ended up being a quick battle. 

 

How's the flow on 2k with just 1 side? I really wanted a gyre, but didn't plan ahead when I drilled my tank and built the support for my light. I don't have room in the center for a pump. I just got the Nero 3 yesterday, I was hoping it would fit...nope. 

The flow from the 2K is great! I get the full tank moving @20%!!!  even when I’m using only just one rotor. 
 

I’ve been told to try UV, but haven’t felt like i needed one quite yet (aka lazy). dino perked back up last week a little bit, I think I brought my light back on to full power too soon, went back to 50% the last 3-4 days and it’s subsiding again. This time I’ll stay at 50% for the rest of this week.

I’ve been rather fascinated by how these fleshy LPS eat. 
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the little guy can now take mysis and small chunks of LRS into his newly formed mouth - even better sign. 
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the suns are recovering from being neglected.  Most likely will be back to feeding them heavily to avoid low nutrients issue in the future. 

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Found a damaged gold torch tentacle floating around while feeding the other night, seemed like a good experiment to feed it to the scoly, we shall see if the gold color can be transferred via ingestion. 
 

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also, seeing algae on the frag rack/plugs has never been more exciting when you’re trying to beat dino. 😅

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2 hours ago, Matteo said:

Mitten_reef IM30L Frag Tank 😂😘

not that funny - there may be more fragging happening in the future due to the impending move...😭.  We'll see.  I haven't put much thought into the tank move yet, until we passed the inspection stage. 

For those who hadn't followed the WB thread (the build that had zero progress), as I mentioned there, we're in the process of buying a new home.  I'd love to hear thoughts/ideas on how you'd move a fairly mature sps tank.   

 

 

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1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

not that funny - there may be more fragging happening in the future due to the impending move...😭.  We'll see.  I haven't put much thought into the tank move yet, until we passed the inspection stage. 

For those who hadn't followed the WB thread (the build that had zero progress), as I mentioned there, we're in the process of buying a new home.  I'd love to hear thoughts/ideas on how you'd move a fairly mature sps tank.   

 

 

Fork lift it as is... 

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6 hours ago, Pjanssen said:

purple acro photo bomb? It's still a decent pic!

 

5 hours ago, Dirté Sanchez said:

That’s called a tease

Thanks ladies. I guess that was a bit of a side joke since I was posting that pic at the same time @Cannedfish drops his masterpiece on Instagram (@blen_reef). 

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32 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

 

Thanks ladies. I guess that was a bit of a side joke since I was posting that pic at the same time @Cannedfish drops his masterpiece on Instagram (@blen_reef). 

I know how you feel, completely. He has a masterful ability to make people feel inadequate. Even with his 1950s chair fabric.

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If things continue to go this direction, might pull out the real camera to do some photos this wknd. 
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had alk scare toward the end of last wk. due to reduced lighting to combat dino, the corals alk uptake slowed way down, alk shot up to 12.  So far I lost one and a half corals that I didn’t mind losing 😅. Still waiting to see a jumbo frag of the second one (which started RTN today) will survive. So here’s hoping those will be the end of it. 

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