The Garden -- Rakies shallow SPS cube

[Rakie]

Hahaha budget smudget when you can sell a couple corals and pay for a tank haha come on!

I'm trying to grow them, I frag all my acros into puddles D: lol

 

[leahfiish]

I got an arch shaped west mariculture rack and I really like it!

 

[Fishfinder]

Did that ReefHD finish off the bubble algae? I may need to get some for my bubble problem

 

[Rakie]

Did that ReefHD finish off the bubble algae? I may need to get some for my bubble problem

Not yet it takes over a month and cyano took over when bubble started dying. So now it's still dying but I have skimmed, and will need to dose again.

 

[Fishfinder]

Gotcha, thanks.

 

[ihavecrabs]

Have you swapped over completely to the Calcium reactor yet? I just started ATI essentials and read your entire thread when I saw you post on an ATI essentials thread about it.

Any reasons you switched (or are switching) away from it?

 

[Rakie]

Have you swapped over completely to the Calcium reactor yet? I just started ATI essentials and read your entire thread when I saw you post on an ATI essentials thread about it.

Any reasons you switched (or are switching) away from it?

Not yet. I'm so busy I have time for nothing.

As far as calcium reactors... Nothing beats a calcium reactor, in fact, nothing even comes close. It's a non stop 24/7 dose and keeps things stable in a way a doser just can't. Julian Sprung doses every 10 minutes, and he attributes that to improved growth and color.. Why you would set up 3 medical grade dialysis machines rather than just get a calcium reactor is beyond me.

Additionally -- You're melting coral skeleton, so you're giving every trace element corals need, except for what the flesh is made of. So it's a pretty complete dosing method.

Triton, ATI Essentials, ESV... They've been playing catch up to Calcium Reactors all this time, and they still aren't there yet.

 

[Rakie]

Been busy! No updates in a bit, no pics either. Had a bone graft put in because corn nuts took revenge on a tooth. Haven't done too much lately.

 

[bubbaque]

Oh no! That doesn't sound too fun.

 

[WallyB]

Been busy! No updates in a bit, no pics either. Had a bone graft put in because corn nuts took revenge on a tooth. Haven't done too much lately.

Sorry to hear about the Tooth problem. I hate going to dentists.

But I took my kids today, and their dentist has a bulletin board that they change each month or so.
Just funnies, and stuff....Always a theme, like Thanksgiving/Halloween this time.

Took this photo of a good one.

I got a chuckle out of it.

 

[Katrina71]

I just laughed so hard. You broke your tooth on corn nuts?

 

[Rakie]

Lol well I liked it Wally!

And yes, corn nuts. I've been told by my dentist sometimes the stars align and he's had patients with great teeth hit a piece of raw rice and that's it.

So having your gums stitched together sucks fyi lol..

 

[drawman]

Lol well I liked it Wally!

And yes, corn nuts. I've been told by my dentist sometimes the stars align and he's had patients with great teeth hit a piece of raw rice and that's it.

So having your gums stitched together sucks fyi lol..

Well he did a good job on the suture and membrane lol.

 

[Rakie]

Well he did a good job on the suture and membrane lol.

I actually have a pretty great dentist! It took a few bad ones to find a good one though... Including a botched root canal that ended with him diagnosing an infection from said botched root canal as "all in my head"... Yeah, he was wrong af.

ANYWAYS

So the dose of ReefFlux HD at 2x dose has effectively killed off at least half of the bubble algae that grew onto the new rockwork. Some cyano has grown over the dying Bubble Algae, I keep joking that the cyano is eating it.. Not sure that's actually happening but now I'm starting to wonder lol. I will probably need a follow up dose to take it out completely, either at 2x or 4x dose. Hard to say.

Everything is growing well, and looking good.

Things still on my ToDo list...

- I could use a second radion
- I could use that new structure still
- I need to catch Cody that Anthias -- He spends most the day fighting his reflection, starting to bust his lip open
- Using "Coral Essentials" Aminos... The only amino I've ever used and loved. Going to pickup another item or two from them in the near future
- Should be getting a bunch more corals soon
- Need to get rid of bunch of corals
- Need a frag tank upgrade
- Found my $400 mushroom that floated away one day, lil jerk...
- Need a co2 bottle to get my CaRx up and running

I'll take some pictures sometime soon, it's been awhile!

 

[WallyB]

- I need to catch Cody that Anthias -- He spends most the day fighting his reflection, starting to bust his lip open

That is kind of funny.

 

[Rakie]

That is kind of funny.

Yeah he's pretty aggressive... Whenever I turn on my projector the light makes his reflection obvious. After seeing it once he sees himself all day long

 

[WallyB]

Yeah he's pretty aggressive... Whenever I turn on my projector the light makes his reflection obvious. After seeing it once he sees himself all day long

hmmm.
Maybe it the Violence on Fox News your are watching on the projector that's making him Bang his face on the glass.
Put on some Baby Blue movies.....that might calm him down.

....on 2nd thought, maybe Not.....he might start doing the same to your other fish

 

[Rakie]

No Fox news here, the projector is only for dignified things like shooting games and game of thrones lol

 

[GoVols]

No Fox news here, the projector is only for dignified things like shooting games and game of thrones lol

Rakie,
Got to agree with a Cal Reactor.

How's your gums healing?

 

[Rakie]

Rakie,
Got to agree with a Cal Reactor.

How's your gums healing?

You just like the Cal reactor 'cause it's a Geo lol!

And the gums are very slow to heal. It will be like a few more weeks before I can even lift something without the pressure causing my gums to explode blood everywhere. It would have been a cool trick for halloween in retrospect lol