Sfin's Dream.

sfin52 · Feb 5, 2023

Solar wrasse no where to be seen. Hope it is just taking its time.

Fishy888 · Feb 8, 2023

sfin52 said:
2018 was exciting.

Beat dinoflagellates. Score one for the good guys.

Started adding a ton of leathers.

aftermath of dino. I over shot the po4 plus the rocks absorbed a lot of po4 as well. Loads of gha. That was exciting.

The leathers I added in 2018 was a freebie green devils hand
Cabbage leather
Score another freebie Devils hand attached to the cabbage
Devils hand.
And the mother load serched for it for two years a matalic green toadstool
Toadstool leather with white poylps

Broke my fluval 406 canister. Upgraded to a fluval fx4
Also up graded lights to a fluval 4.0. Currently running both 1.0 and 4.0

2021/22 was my dino year. Not pretty at all. It took until June of 2022 for my dinos to go away but not until they killed off a couple or corals.

Fishy888 · Feb 8, 2023

Fishy888 said:
2021/22 was my dino year. Not pretty at all. It took until June of 2022 for my dinos to go away but not until they killed off a couple or corals.

It all worked out though. I have a decent amount of coral and fish now. Oh and the dinos are now extinct.

sfin52 · Feb 8, 2023

Fishy888 said:
It all worked out though. I have a decent amount of coral and fish now. Oh and the dinos are now extinct.

Extinct. Nope they are still there but in harmony with the tank. We create the environment for them to bloom.

zooxanthellae is a type of dinoflagellates. If you use medication or chemical to try to kill dinos you could kill so zooxanthellae in the coral.

sfin52 · Feb 8, 2023

There's still hope for the Solon wrasse. It was eating the scrapings from the glass. That was nice to see.

Fishy888 · Feb 8, 2023

sfin52 said:
Extinct. Nope they are still there but in harmony with the tank. We create the environment for them to bloom.

zooxanthellae is a type of dinoflagellates. If you use medication or chemical to try to kill dinos you could kill so zooxanthellae in the coral.

I know it but it sounded like a good excuse for a dad joke lol. If nothing else there are cysts that could come back if my nutes hit 0 again.

I’ve used LaCl to drop my phosphates from 1 ppm (Salifert, 1 is as high as it measures so it was likely 1+). I had plenty of counsel here (on R2R) while I was dosing however.

I know what the root causes were of my phosphates though so I don’t have to rely on dosing LaCl (or any other chemical) constantly. I just dosed barely enough tonight to bring phosphates down 0.04 ppm. That’s the first dose in several months and it’ll be the last for several more. I am using this like one might use GFO. That’ll put me back below 0.1 ppm for the next few months at the rate I’m feeding.

sfin52 · Feb 13, 2023

Large nepthea colony came home last night. Slowly bringing the exiled corals home

sfin52 · Feb 13, 2023

sfin52 · Feb 15, 2023

A customer gave this to me today. It made my day

They kept it for me after they emptied it. Love the bars I service.

rmorris_14 · Feb 15, 2023

sfin52 said:
A customer gave this to me today. It made my day

They kept it for me after they emptied it. Love the bars I service.

That's really nice of them. I mean I would have preferred to empty it myself but hey.... still cool.

sfin52 · Feb 15, 2023

rmorris_14 said:
That's really nice of them. I mean I would have preferred to empty it myself but hey.... still cool.

You and @Lost in the Sauce

Lost in the Sauce · Feb 15, 2023

sfin52 said:
You and @Lost in the Sauce

Tequila is the fastest was to get me from having a good time, to Asleep!

Sean Clark · Feb 15, 2023

Me too. I like to practice.

crusso1993 · Feb 16, 2023

@Fish Styx - this is someone else's build thread. Or are you one of the types that thinks their own build thread is the only one that matters and doesn't follow anyone else. Hhhmmmmmm?