Uncommon reefing products

[M Stein]

Plastic cups for defrosting fish food.
Buckets.

 

[Spare time]

whatever's on sale at the asian market for nori

I wish I had a nice seafood market near me

Plastic cups for defrosting fish food.
Buckets.

I always use those medical pee cups lol

 

[Koh23]

Miliput for attaching corals.. works better than any "reef epoxy", for fraction of price.....

 

[elysics]

Extra long carbon fiber tweezers from aliexpress

No rinsing and drying to prevent rust, no washing hands before and after getting wet hands, no breaking corals when dropping the heavy steel version

So much easier to actually do small maintenance tasks

 

[atoll]

Oxydators, Dettol disinfectant for coral dip, toilet cleaning brush for cleaning inside skimmer to name just 3

 

[Aquaman11]

Mini-funnels for adding powdered reagent in Hanna Checkers.

 

[elcapitan1993]

Willow's Reef makes a dry food called Coral Feast that is quite good. AquaChar is a great GAC/biomedium.

Coral feast is great!!! I love that stuff

 

[GARRIGA]

Those are some gorgeous corals!

I personally use some of the Brightwell products, but love using lots of live phytoplankton of as many varieties as possible, as many varieties of live copepods as I can, and live PNS bacteria. I truly believe biological diversity is key to a healthy reef. When I started my reef I added PNS, Microbacter 7 from Brightwell, Stability from Seachem, Biospira from Instant Ocean, and PNS sauce, along with a handful of sand and some rubble from a local's 26 yr old reef tank that was started with all fiji live rock back in the day

I do the same. Bacteria is our friend. Just not sure anyone source has all of them.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

i bet @Obsessed with fish uses some weird stuff, i have used the paul B dosing recipe & have used the randomest no name crap ive found in amazon return stores

 

[NoahLikesFish]

also i took a battery air pump and turned it into a battery operated powerhead

 

[GARRIGA]

use the 27mm vials for testing as they fit perfectly in the mag stirrer BRS sells. Just add a 15mm magnetic stir bar.

 

[GARRIGA]

Consistent 5ml samples in seconds. Goes up to 20ml in 5ml increments. Perfect for Hanna. Consistency what I’m looking for versus being precise.

 

[GARRIGA]

Better known in aquaculture but the hobby used their TDS meters often especially with RODI

 

[Kenneth Wingerter]

Just not sure any one source has all of them.

I think you're correct. The vast majority of reef bacteria (and bacteria in general) have never been cultured in the lab much less produced commercially for the aquarium hobby. Most of the stuff we see other than the usual nitrifiers (traditional cycling products) just contain Bacillus or maybe Lactobacillus; far fewer products contain anything very exotic.

 

[GARRIGA]

Perfect for acclimatizing new arrivals or preparing small batches of salt. Have also used it to transport fish from the LFS

 

[GARRIGA]

Cleans stubborn film algae. Cut in in sections and get more use per package, too

 

[GARRIGA]

DIY simplified and really neat for getting that pipe work to fit

 

[PR_nano]

Bottle brush
Mmei Set of 10 Bottle & Tube...

 

[GARRIGA]

365nm best for seeing the true fluorescence and adding artificial purples. Great as finding green algae too. Lights up red. Coraline is deep purple. Pods look like white dust. Wouldn’t shine it directly at dish’s eye or self.

 

[GARRIGA]

Used for placo and mouth breeders but perhaps an option with clowns and cardinals