FarmerTy

Good as gold! http://vimeo.com/191328148

I think Peter got it right, ball tip anemones.

Can't tell what the last thing is.

Hydroids in the first picture, feather dusters in the next couple.

Blonde naso keg stand...

So I've been studying these pictures and thinking "why does it look so empty? Something looks off, other than the fact there is a cable and a huge hole on the left where some colonies used to be, and the sand looks empty. What is it??... FISH!"*enlarge picture* There they are! NONE of them are swimming in the open! How weird is that? Otherwise tank looks great! Sent from Sissy's phone I photoshopped fish in the tank so it wouldn't look so weird to you.

So I've been studying these pictures and thinking "why does it look so empty? Something looks off, other than the fact there is a cable and a huge hole on the left where some colonies used to be, and the sand looks empty. What is it??... FISH!"*enlarge picture* There they are! NONE of them are swimming in the open! How weird is that? Otherwise tank looks great! Sent from Sissy's phone Its because I tape a picture of a shark on the front of the camera before I take pics. You can't show off your aquascape when there's a ton of fish swimming around! [emoji4]

Very nice! I bet it looks awesome on your TV. I fragged up the rest of my green alveopora for the MAAST frag swap. They are all currently at RCA if you don't have a nice green and white one yet.

That video quality is excellent! What are you using to record? I'm loving the little goni farm you got going!

Haha, fiber optic cable! [emoji23] That's my trans-Atlantic cable I'm running...I wish I could Photoshop that ugly cable out of the picture... Gives me more motivation to paint the bankground sooner!

Wait... Is that really an open canyon in the middle of my tank? Ignore the cable in the background, I'll hopefully get a chance to paint my background soon!

Bayer dip isn't stressful at all. I'd give it a go just in case. Once you're stable and rocking in the new tank, hit me up and I'll replace the FarmerTy Bluebonnet acro for you sir.

Looks like a sponge to me.

It was afraid of the radioactive blue sand you have on the ground! Nice looking clam!

Nice work! Where's the nano to sit on top of it? You can't build a mini steel stand and not put a nano tank on it! [emoji4]

Hmmm, if all parameters are stable, check for pests? Maybe since everything is on a rack, just dip everything in Bayer just in case?

I hear ya bud. Until I get to a point where I can't get around water changes, I plan to go as long as I can without. So dosing a couple trace elements once in a blue moon to me is less convenient than water changes.

Fully agreed, but I have some idea of what is deficient with my Triton tests. I like the approach of just singling those guys out and seeing what their effects are first before adopting a water change policy. It motivates me more to keep the foundation elements non-fluctuating with no water changes than to allow them to fluctuate to dose trace elements, especially when I have a good idea of which trace element might need replenishment. Say I'm out of iodine in my system... Say freshly made saltwater has 0.06 ppm of iodine in it and my target is 0.06 ppm iodine, that'd require a 100% water change to achieve my desired trace level of iodine! 250 gallons! Or I can just dose iodine at $10/bottle. Same with strontium or boron... 100% water changes if my levels are zero, which they aren't. The point I'm trying to make is only large scale water changes would bring me back to levels for trace elements and the repercussion it might have with the more important foundation elements seems not worth the risk at all for me personally. This is all assuming that it is a trace element and not something biological with the color change on one acro species out of 40+ in my tank. Perhaps ice fires just take longer to adjust to higher nutrient levels. Could just be as simple as that.

For just iodine? Wouldn't it just make sense to dose it?At the end of the day, I'd just remove the ice fires if I couldn't figure out why the blue is so dull now. Its odd, everything else colored up more with the fish back in the tank except the ice fire... It went the opposite direction. Odd but hopefully I'll figure it out.

Meh, its trying to. I think my suppressed iodine level is still to blame but we will see. I'll have to get some more when I get a chance and continue to dose it back up. I dumped what's left of your bottle when I got home and that was it.

Reef night scene

Oh no! Any ammonia creeping in with the new system?

Nah, these maris coming in come straight to us and don't really spend that long at the holding facility as far as I understand.

I just think we can't supply the amount of light and flow these two need. Plus, like you mentioned, you always see them as these gorgeous colored Mari colonies coming in. Retaining that color may be impossibleas almost every Mari I bring in looks nothing like it did when I first got it. So keeping them the gorgeous pink and green or rainbow colored may not really be a possibility out of the ocean. That's funny you say that regarding nothing magical going on. I say that to people all the time. There's no magic to it, despite what some online reefers will tell you. They have no secret formula to having a great tank. Stable parameters and healthy livestock... That's it. Drives me nuts when people claim more than that.

Man, the Aquadome is charging a lot for calcium reactor media these days... [emoji26]