I am sure it will turnout like everyone else but I wanted to try and see what would happen. I was trying to search to see if anyone ever had it turnout like the pic and there wasn't one single pic of it like the original. The closest one I seen was one from a member here named reefnjunkie but it's not the original one.
LOL, that is too funny!He's hiring!
What do you attribute to getting those blood red colors?BC Aquatic-man. It is becoming one of my favorites.
I honestly have no idea. Might be just a matter becoming settled in the tank. My JF jolt didn't have ANY red in the polyps and I didn't even want to take a pic of it. One day out the blue I noticed the polyps had some red. On the Aquatic-man I wish it wasn't so red and more of the orange you see in Adams pic. Somewhere Adam mentioned his original piece had the red like that and you can see it in his colony pic (top left of his pic) and once it grew out, it got that orange. Even the CB Maleficent I have seen people say theirs is orange. Mine has no orange in it what so ever.
I am starting to believe Fedex is garbage, at least their Memphis hub is. I would say about 25% of the time my frags go through there they get held up. About a month ago I shipped someone some corals and they got held up for FOUR days in Memphis.
Yeah I'm from Wisconsin so they ship it to Memphis from battlecorals which is in Wisconsin and then up to Appleton I don't get it
I used a co2 scrubber in the past but gave up on it because the media was lasting 2-3 days and was costing $30 a month in media. I read the media will last way longer if you connect one side of the scrubber to the skimmer intake and the other to the top of skimmer cap, so it will recirculate the scrubbed air. I was always paranoid to do that because if my skimmer overflows it will just suck up into the media and go into my tank. I finally got tired of low ph (mine was same as yours) and wanted to try the scrubber again but this time I set it up the way I was scared to do. I have my skimmer drain into a bucket in case it overflows so it wont go into the media. If you have an apex and can put a float switch in the skimmer lid to turn off the skimmer. I am using a different media this time and it seems to last about 2 weeks before I have to switch the media. I am not sure if it last longer because of the different media or because I have the scrubber plumbed differently.
That's interesting. I guess I'm curious how this affects the O2 exchange if you're recirculating like that? I guess the skimmer lid is not 100% air tight, so you're still probably pulling in some room air along with the recirculated air.
No the lid is not air tight. In the pic you can see how I have it plumbed. I am running two canisters for the scrubber so when one media runs out I don’t see a drop in ph before I have a chance to change it.
