TatorTaco Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 On 2/25/2021 at 12:52 PM, Tigahboy said: No side hustle. I have been throwing extra trimmings into this grow-out tank though. I'd would love to buy some from you and give a macro tank a shot. LMK. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 8 hours ago, TatorTaco said: I'd would love to buy some from you and give a macro tank a shot. LMK. I haven't started shipping yet (just been doing local trades/sales). If that changes, I'll let you know. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 Posted this in my other thread, but also wrote an article about macroalgae tanks (and featured on the cover) for the latest issue of Reef Hobbyist Magazine! Digital copy is here. Also, moved some gorgonians out of this tank and swapped with some sargassum. Also trimmed back and removed quite a bit of the red macroalgae b/c it was just getting crazy. But now the blue hypnea growth is just exploding. It's interesting how things can change quite a bit in a macroalgae tank with each trim and growth spurt. 5 Quote Link to comment
Sharbuckle Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Saw that on Instagram. Congratulations very cool write up. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 20 minutes ago, Sharbuckle said: Saw that on Instagram. Congratulations very cool write up. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
ａｗａｋｅｄॢ Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Amazing~😱 n Congrats! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1 Quote Link to comment
JR! Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 thats great news man, well done! 👍 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 Thanks, all! A few recent shots of this tank. 6 2 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Just absolutely amazing !!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Reefkid88 said: Just absolutely amazing !!! Thank you! Quote Link to comment
TatorTaco Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 How do you keep the macro clean from collect detritus? 1 Quote Link to comment
aclman88 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 16 hours ago, TatorTaco said: How do you keep the macro clean from collect detritus? Oooo good question. I am curious to know this as well. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 22 hours ago, TatorTaco said: How do you keep the macro clean from collect detritus? Good ol' fashioned blast and siphon out during my weekly water changes. 1 Quote Link to comment
TatorTaco Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Tigahboy said: Good ol' fashioned blast and siphon out during my weekly water changes. Like, you take your siphon hose and just kinda....wiggle it around the macro? I hate that I'm socially inept and don't have a local reefer to show me how some of these things work sometimes. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, TatorTaco said: Like, you take your siphon hose and just kinda....wiggle it around the macro? I hate that I'm socially inept and don't have a local reefer to show me how some of these things work sometimes. Well I use a turkey baster to blast off detritus off the macro first, so it's floating around and then I siphon out around the macro (instead of ever touching the macro with my siphon hose). Hope that makes sense. Quote Link to comment
TatorTaco Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 17 minutes ago, Tigahboy said: Well I use a turkey baster to blast off detritus off the macro first, so it's floating around and then I siphon out around the macro (instead of ever touching the macro with my siphon hose). Hope that makes sense. Makes perfect sense! I'm battling flatworms and that's the same technique I tried to get the suckers off my rockwork - blast and siphon! 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
sam_the_reefer Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 This tank is my inspiration for my macro tank and I know it's now overrun with Ochtodes 🙂 but, will red macroalgae do well even without dosing? Also are Sargassum easy to keep? Anything I should watch out for? 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 8/30/2021 at 6:34 AM, xellos88 said: This tank is my inspiration for my macro tank and I know it's now overrun with Ochtodes 🙂 but, will red macroalgae do well even without dosing? Also are Sargassum easy to keep? Anything I should watch out for? I've actually added back in more reds and now reds are fighting back the blue hypnea. If you have sufficient nutrients in your tank with feeding and such, maybe you can do without dosing. Sargassum is not easy. I've never been able to keep them alive long-term. Sorry this is a very late reply. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 A recent shot of this tank. Still up and running. 🙂 6 Quote Link to comment
kekke1082 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 6 minutes ago, Tigahboy said: A recent shot of this tank. Still up and running. 🙂 If that's hypnea in the front I can't wait for mine to take off like that! I started with a tiny clump that completely fell apart but I left all the bits and pieces in the tank now I have a good little bit firmly attached to the rock where I originally tried to tie them too 2 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 1 minute ago, kekke1082 said: If that's hypnea in the front I can't wait for mine to take off like that! I started with a tiny clump that completely fell apart but I left all the bits and pieces in the tank now I have a good little bit firmly attached to the rock where I originally tried to tie them too Yup. Hypnea. It actually covered almost all of this tank at one point and I was able to trade in a bunch of it to an LFS for store credit. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 A few other macroalgae tanks I'm currently running: IM 30L UNS 60S ] UNS 5N Just started a bowl as well. 7 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I feel like I need to say, "Welcome back". It has been a while. Your tanks are so pretty. Always such an inspiration. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
kekke1082 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Tigahboy said: A few other macroalgae tanks I'm currently running: IM 30L UNS 60S ] UNS 5N Just started a bowl as well. I saw that bowl of yours! It's going to be gorgeous wants it's done. 1 Quote Link to comment
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