There's something fishy about this build...

[tbrown]

What percentage of people voting for POTM have no idea what my photo is do you think? 90%?

It still looks cool. At least it's not a Blue Ring Octopus like @TangerineSpeedo

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

It still looks cool. At least it's not a Blue Ring Octopus like @TangerineSpeedo

No... Mine is just a Pacific Two Spot Octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) More friendly less deadly...

 

[JoJosReef]

I thought yours was one of the best honestly. Unfortunately people love cuteness.

Though to be honest I thought the overall best is the Vroliks wrasse and that is doing awfully

Suppose I'd say "fortunately", but yep, mine wasn't first choice at all until my build post poll, where everyone said clown pic. Apparently comparing a toadstool to a taco gets all sorts of cuteness points!

 

[Slocke]

I can’t believe how effective urchins are. Now if it would only attack the turf algae.

 

[Slocke]

Also looks like I’ll be deployed Wednesday for hazardous waste disposal in Florida. Need to make sure the tanks are ready for bare minimum care.

 

[fishguy242]

Put urchin on turf algae, and repeat .
Did you hear about a bio lab burning in GA ?

 

[Slocke]

Put urchin on turf algae, and repeat .
Did you hear about a bio lab burning in GA ?

Yeah
Some of the more senior people in my office were there

 

[Slocke]

Will take this down in an hour



And it's gone! What was it? You'll never know. Could it have been a slippery dick pic?

 

[Slocke]

Put urchin on turf algae, and repeat .
Did you hear about a bio lab burning in GA ?

Maybe put the urchin and a rock in a box

 

[danieyella]

I can’t believe how effective urchins are. Now if it would only attack the turf algae.

mexican turbo snail is what got rid of my patch of red turf in the old 90g I had. It was the ONLY thing that would eat it.

 

[Slocke]

mexican turbo snail is what got rid of my patch of red turf in the old 90g I had. It was the ONLY thing that would eat it.

I have a variety of both Mexican and the even larger zebras. I haven’t seen them touch it. Only thing I’ve seen eat it is my emerald crabs.

 

[danieyella]

I have a variety of both Mexican and the even larger zebras. I haven’t seen them touch it. Only thing I’ve seen eat it is my emerald crabs.

It was only the mexicans for me, nothing else at all. I wonder if the difference is the type of turf algae

 

[Slocke]

It was only the mexicans for me, nothing else at all. I wonder if the difference is the type of turf algae

Maybe, Mexican had always worked great for me up until now.

 

[Slocke]

Not great photos but here are all 11 acropora I have:
The Fox Flame which I lowered in the hope it would open up next to the PC Rainbow

The Shockwave which I think has grown

The big Millie

3 of the battlecorals. Green one is the cyclops but remember the others

The Aquatic man and one dirt cheap LFS one

Other cheap LFS one

Final BC which is super boring looking.

 

[Slocke]

In other news I finally have MgCl so I have been cooking magnesium solutions and considering these two corals have had major surgery they have grown so much and look so happy!

 

[Slocke]

This one has a funny scientific name

Boops boops - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Slocke]

I may have bought a new wrasse…

 

[Slocke]

Coris picta!!

 

[JoJosReef]

Coris picta!!

that's a beautiful fish! Is it going to play nice?

 

[Slocke]

that's a beautiful fish! Is it going to play nice?

It was in my LFS’s wrasse and anthias dominant tank. I’m more worried about the Timor. Hopefully it being in a DT for weeks means it’s well acclimated but we’ll see.

Also stocked up on food, got AB+, and new particulate and carbon block filters. My RODI went through some color changing resin scary fast so hopefully that will help.

I won’t be going to Florida, probably NC at some point… I feel like my office needs to get better at using all it’s resources rather then always only utilizing their most senior people.