murphs_reef 92G - retired, thanks guys

[Murphs_Reef]

1 hour ago, Ratvan said:

So remind me again what are these invasive Zoas? I cannot get the GSP to grow at all in the Mantis Murder Manor but the Xenia is going mental again.

These fellas 

[Murphs_Reef]

Not seen the peppermint shrimp for a fair old while.. he's out and about again! 

[Ratvan]

1 hour ago, Murphych said:

These fellas 

I'd give a little frag of them a go, just thinking of some colour in the Office Tank. Nearly sorted the heat packs for the BTA 

[Murphs_Reef]

Just now, Ratvan said:

I'd give a little frag of them a go, just thinking of some colour in the Office Tank. Nearly sorted the heat packs for the BTA 

I'll save a small rock for you 👍🏼

[ECLS Reefer]

7 hours ago, Ratvan said:

So remind me again what are these invasive Zoas? I cannot get the GSP to grow at all in the Mantis Murder Manor but the Xenia is going mental again.

I agree I can’t get GSP to grow much or even be colored in my big tank, and I thought it was coral for dummies. 

[Murphs_Reef]

5 minutes ago, ECLS Reefer said:

I agree I can’t get GSP to grow much or even be colored in my big tank, and I thought it was coral for dummies. 

Its strange eh! I can't get simple sps to stay alive for more than a month. But softies and Zoas! I can't stop them running away...

[Murphs_Reef]

Just found my lost colony of Kryptonite zoas in a very cold bucket of rock next to the shed! Had to remove q good chunk of them as they where mush 😱 Been there since last weekend!!!

 

Gave the rest of them a check over and glued them up in the DT to see how it goes... 

 

Offending bucket 

Zoas glued up 

[Ratvan]

5 hours ago, ECLS Reefer said:

I agree I can’t get GSP to grow much or even be colored in my big tank, and I thought it was coral for dummies. 

Same here and I have Bubble Tips splitting and Xenia growing like a weed. Even the Kenya Tree is starting to show a bit of size. Might glue it to the Lionfish Lair Blackwall and forget about it

 

3 hours ago, Murphych said:

Just found my lost colony of Kryptonite zoas in a very cold bucket of rock next to the shed! Had to remove q good chunk of them as they where mush 😱 Been there since last weekend!!!

 

Gave the rest of them a check over and glued them up in the DT to see how it goes... 

 

Offending bucket 

Zoas glued up 

I think they will bounce back, the polyps don't look too damaged and looks like a nice clean frag 👌

[Murphs_Reef]

On 3/3/2022 at 8:42 PM, ECLS Reefer said:

Random question since we are talking about heaters and controllers- does adding a chiller with a controller mean you can achieve a single constant tank temp?

Just incase you ever want to follow me on Instagram: @chrismicmurphy

[ECLS Reefer]

23 minutes ago, Murphych said:

Just incase you ever want to follow me on Instagram: @chrismicmurphy

Thanks! Sometimes I miss when people follow me since IG only shows like the most recent 30 notifications and then suggests following people after that, but doesn’t tell you consistently if those suggested follow you or not. Already done!

[Tamberav]

corals can be so resilient that I wonder how we kill them sometimes. I once forgot a monti on my kitchen counter out of water... just sitting there and it lived. Just the edge died back a bit. 

[Murphs_Reef]

6 hours ago, Tamberav said:

corals can be so resilient that I wonder how we kill them sometimes. I once forgot a monti on my kitchen counter out of water... just sitting there and it lived. Just the edge died back a bit. 

Yeah it's crazy.. some people can't seem to keep corals alive in a perfectly good tank with good parameters.. I seem to be able to ice dip them for days and they just chill out for a while.. 🤣

[Snow_Phoenix]

8 hours ago, Tamberav said:

corals can be so resilient that I wonder how we kill them sometimes. I once forgot a monti on my kitchen counter out of water... just sitting there and it lived. Just the edge died back a bit. 

I agree about the resiliency bit. I vaguely remember accidently leaving my tiny favites frag in a container with dishwashing liquid (diluted) for ~2 days when I TTMed my pico to my current nano (basically forgot I stacked a few of the small frags in my HOB for safekeeping during the transfer, then washed the HOB out and missed transferring out one frag). 🤦‍♀️

 

Hunted everywhere for the frag, found it incredibly pissed and retracted due to the unwanted bath-soaking, but it actually made a full recovery and bounced back in my nano. 👍

 

 

[brandon429]

So far I’ve been able to filter out three people with simple invasions from doing a rip clean by showing them your five minute read 🙂 this is a compliment btw 

 

they realize the degree of personal resolve it would take to rinse sand into total compliance, and selecting to remain invaded is far preferable to running a half rinse job. Excellent. 1/100 offers will be as resolved as you are, and when the minority resolved to win post their rip cleans there won’t be any excuses or clouding, just perfectly clean home reefs. 

 

owning a perpetually-uninvaded nano reef takes zero skill, it’s all will to copy ten steps. The skill comes into prevention, so we aren’t rip cleaning weekly 

 

There’s literally not any excuse to have a wrecked tank where all viewers are disappointed, that condition can be fixed in three hours by any nano reef owner. 

 

for decades we’ve been trained to make excuses for complete sustained invasion: it’s the uglies. It’s going to pass, cleaning is destabilizing etc

 

its all untrue, we waste animals and time/money to months and years of invasion by simply allowing invasions that could be otherwise stopped

 

 

[Murphs_Reef]

Not the best picture but the kryptonite is opening haha! Ice cold corals!! 

 

[Murphs_Reef]

New just in! Mind Tricks zoas 

[Murphs_Reef]

This mussel keeps some pretty good company, 

[Murphs_Reef]

Note to self.. next time you remove a load of rock your not going to put back in the tank.. check for snails.. 10% of my stock is a stinking mess 😱

[Murphs_Reef]

 PARAMETERS 

Temp (DD Controller): 25.3 °C
NO3 (Salifert): 5 .0 ppm
PO4 (Hanna): 0.04 ppm
SG (TMC): 1.026
Alk (Salifert): 8.9 dKH
Ca (Salifert): 450 ppm
Mg (Salifert): 1430 ppm

[Ratvan]

2 hours ago, Murphych said:

 PARAMETERS 

Temp (DD Controller): 25.3 °C
NO3 (Salifert): 5 .0 ppm
PO4 (Hanna): 0.04 ppm
SG (TMC): 1.026
Alk (Salifert): 8.9 dKH
Ca (Salifert): 450 ppm
Mg (Salifert): 1430 ppm

How are you liking the new DD Temperature controller? 

[Murphs_Reef]

26 minutes ago, Ratvan said:

How are you liking the new DD Temperature controller? 

Yes mate very good. I have a desk fan with clip to sit over the sump for the summer to go on the cooler socket as well 👍🏼

[Ratvan]

1 minute ago, Murphych said:

Yes mate very good. I have a desk fan with clip to sit over the sump for the summer to go on the cooler socket as well 👍🏼

Nice i am looking at picking up a computer cooling fan to use in the feeding hatch of the fluval and link it to my Nicrew Temp Controller for the summer and see if that affects things 

[Murphs_Reef]

Built a wee box for my cabinet to tidy cables up a bit more. The plastic wrap matches the tank cabinet pretty well

 

Controller backboard template

Front face

Wrapped

 

Finished (for now as I might want to put my doser in there)

 

 

[Murphs_Reef]

Did a bit of a swap at the LFS today, a few rocks if zoas for this lovely Gorgonian. I'm getting a bit of a collection now. 

[Pjanssen]

5 hours ago, Murphych said:

Built a wee box for my cabinet to tidy cables up a bit more. The plastic wrap matches the tank cabinet pretty well

 

Controller backboard template

Front face

Wrapped

 

Finished (for now as I might want to put my doser in there)

 

 

Did you build a little stand next to the tank?