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Soooo stretched! I hope it splits soon though! Its getting huge!

Alright, this one is more exciting.

For fun...

Man, those queens look way better in your tank than mine!

Thanks bud. You mean the green and red coral? Its a war coral.

Video of the new additions when I first added them.

I was told the same thing from the Dallas folks. That's good to hear that you are verifying it. Thanks Juiceman.

Yes, it is cheaper and best used in removing phosphate in bulk. It can scrub phosphate down to a lower range but you will usually need GFO to get the lower end. It is potentially toxic to fish which is why it's application in a separate tank like yours is ideal for treatment.While you can directly apply it to the curing tank and remove the participate it creates with water changes, I feel it best to drip in a 10 micron or smaller filter sock to catch the precipitate ensuring none make it to your reef tank. By the time you order lanthanum chloride and the filter sock though, it may start becoming cheaper to just run GFO if you have it, especially if this is a one-time application of it as it is dispensed by drops and you'll have a whole bottle of it leftover. If you just want to run lathanum chloride without the sock and just rinse your rock really well afterwards, you can order the lanthanum chloride online. I bought the commercial version but I think there's a cheaper version. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CMQZZJ6/ref=sxts1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480863191&sr=1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65 Also, some have been using "phosfree" from local pool supply stores. I haven't used that so I would research just in case.

Welcome back sir!

Just a thought, but perhaps run a temporary GFO reactor or lanthanum chloride to reduce phosphate quickly in the curing tank? It'll save you a bit of money on salt as from my prior experience, you'll need to do a lot of 100% water changes before all the phosphate leaches out of the rocks.

May want to look into fluke tablets to kill clove polyps. I've never done it but heard generally pretty safe. For your minimal scape, I'd recommend adding the ceramic blocks in the sump to help with filtering capacity, just give them a really good rinse before using as they are known to leach aluminum, which isn't a big deal as my concentration was 8x recommended value and nothing was ticked in my tank. Ditch the wavebox, most pumps can make a nice standing wave without that giant box in the tank anymore. Not sure if you researched prices for the Philips light but the prices are astronomical last I looked. I'm happy with my $160 Ocean Revives.

Borrowed a tripod... http://vimeo.com/194116747

Man, the store was packed! Great holiday sale Jake and crew and I appreciate all my goodies I got at generously discounted prices.

I know the feeling! I love mine too!

I'm coming! Don't drink all my beer and take all the fishes that I want!

Better?

Maybe I'll just follow your route and just sell the tank and fish and start up a Pico. You might be living the dream Peter and I'm just torturing myself! Oh man, you've got that right! I'm about to turn my tank into an Nerite Snail hatchery. Buy one, get one, CUC coming soon!Brittle star farm?

Wuh? I guess I'll work on my photography skills.

My wife said you're not allowed over anymore. Too much reef nerd energy all in one place.Better?

Just bought them. Thought I needed some smaller fish in there and something that occupies the sandbed.

Maybe I'll just follow your route and just sell the tank and fish and start up a Pico. You might be living the dream Peter and I'm just torturing myself!

Palmers Blue Mille looking pretty good last night.

Caught him with my fish trap that I stole back from Gigem. Unless its a totally ich free tank or very minimal fish population in a large tank, I'd recommend not. Interestingly, I found one in my overflow the very next day. I had to suck him out with a giant fish feeder as no net could reach back there. Every day I look at them and wonder if this is the day my emperor decides to just suck one up and eat it. They are so tiny and he is so massive!

So, lots of small updates that I hadn't gotten a chance to post about. Got my 3 purple queen anthias from Gig'em, the QT extraordinaire. They are all eating and have been added to the tank. I also had a wonderful gift from a client that bought me a flame wrasse as a thank you gift. When I went to pick it up, I saw this gorgeous blue star leopard wrasse and picked that up as well. The exquisite wrasse decided to try to mate with all the purple queens and was banished. He did look amazing when flashing all the brilliant colors though. The Achilles tang experiment may be over soon. No matter what size UV sterilizer, having as many fish as I do is not going to work with keeping an Achilles as the ich gets worst every day. I caught him out and will treat him for ich for the next person who wants to try to run ich free. The powder blue may be shortly behind but he's handling it better than the Achilles so I'll keep him for now. Oh, and these guys came out of nowhere as well. [emoji6]

Those are some great shots!