FarmerTy

He looks fine in the video. Have you observed him eating since you got him? Leopards are weird, sometimes better off to let them dive into the sand and take care of themselves, especially when there are no obvious signs of health issues, such as a bacterial infection or external parasites.

Yes yes, bring your gold and blank looks to my frag tank JasReef. [emoji12] You already got me a couple of times, I'm not falling for that again.(Do you take cash?) Just look at the pretty corals and the bright lights... Stop fighting it.Yes to cash but gold is preferred. Paypal and credit card accepted as well. [emoji4]

Yes yes, bring your gold and blank looks to my frag tank JasReef. [emoji12]

Hello all, I'm looking for some 10 micron filter socks. If you have any, I'm happy to buy them off you. If you don't want to sell them but have them sitting around, I'd love to borrow them and will return with a free frag in about a couple weeks. MUST BE 10 MICRON... not any filter sock will do. Otherwise, if anybody can think of a local place in town that sells 10 micron fabric, let me know! I'm looking to dose lanthanum chloride in the frag tank to clear out phosphates from the phosphate saturated rock I used in the sump. Thanks all!

I prefer fish sauce... but for my corals... http://www.austinreefclub.com/index.php?/topic/36178-Guide-to-Dipping-Acros I've been out of the game for LPS/zoas but I used to use hydrogen peroxide/RO bath for zoas.

What do you look for in the corals you are thinking about purchasing? If they have palytoxin or not. Just health of the corals. Honestly, for SPS, fresh cut is fine with me as long as the specimen itself looks healthy. I immediately break them off their plugs anyways and remount them on fresh ones when I get home. For zoas/LPS, I would look for healed frags. What do you bring to carry them? Small bag cooler What questions do you ask the seller? Lighting, flow, water parameters, etc. What do you do when you get home? Bomb those frags until they are radioactive! I dip the heck out of all the frags. Trust no one! Like mentioned before, bring cash, ask for deals if buying multiple frags, bring a white LED flashlight if you don't run an overly blue tank as everyone's setup will be starkly actinic heavy... except for that one oddball that runs more white light.

Anemone - 1, FarmerTy - 0

Yikes! I'm still surprised I've never been stung by one for having accidentally touched them for a very long time now. Good thing you know someone in the medical field. Hope it heals quickly.

I would just order the same exact pump for replacement. Eheims have modular parts and if you knew what was broken, you may be able to just order the pieces to repair it yourself instead of having to order a brand new pump.

Fairy wrasse hitman services?

It's war Dan! I hope it gets chopped into pieces so I can mail one piece at a time back to Woods in the mail.

Anemone was calling me out. Said he owned the tank and owned me too. We're doing this buddy... FarmerTy doesn't take insults like that and just lays down. Who you calling spineless now? Your mother/clone is spineless, that's who!

That makes you #4 backup sir. [emoji15]

Cleaner wrasse pending.

Selling off a cleaner wrasse and an Elegant wrasse. Both will be finished with tank transfer method this Wednesday and will be free of ich. These are both fully QT'ed fish that are eating well. For a cleaner wrasse, it's like finding a unicorn, as they don't adjust to prepared foods well. [emoji4] Cleaner wrasse - 3", $20 -pending Eats frozen, small pellets, and nori. It is aggressive towards fairy wrasses and killed mine, but before that has been living peacefully in my tank for the past year with 15+ other fishes that it never bothered. It's always swimming around cleaning its fish friends. Internet picture: Elegant wrasse - 3.5", $40 Eats frozen and generally very active and smart fish. It is the smallest of the coris wrasses and generally considered reef safe compared to the other coris wrasses. Internet picture: My picture:

Wasn't terrible, it increased the alk 0.5 dKh overnight which its currently at the level I want to keep it at so hopefully I can find that equilibrium point now to keep it steady.Hope your pH adventure goes smoothly.

Does the recirculating pump work? Can you be more detailed with where the broken PVC is and supply pictures? I rehabbed a similar CaRX before, it's pretty straightforward if you are handy.

Abort, abort! Mine went back to the previous pH overnight with 3x the media as before! Ahhhh!

Yeah, this is always the scary moment for me... I just refilled my reactor media so its holding like 3x the media now than it was this morning. I increased my pH but always scared I'm going to nuke the tank with too much alk. [emoji15]

Nevermind, I didn't catch that you were going to slow down the effluent speed anyways. [emoji4]

Haha, nice! I just recalibrated my probes today as well. Great minds man! [emoji13] Main probe drifted 0.1 and the CaRX probe drifted 0.05 in about 6 months. Not terrible. For your CO2 consumption, to keep the same level of supply to match your uptake in your tank Dan, you'll need to reprogram your new pH operating range on your Apex. The only difference is your probe reading, your actual pH needs to stay the same or else you'll start producing less supplementation and your alk will drop. If you want to actually consume less CO2, you can always slow down your effluent flow and lower your pH so that you are producing a much more concentrated effluent. That's what I did when I switched from my old CaRX to the newer one and I run a lot less bubbles/sec now.

I laid out a rug just for them. [emoji12]

Fish directly from a diver are about the healthiest fish I've ever seen. Fat and happy in the ocean and in your tank in a few days. Free bump for the great stock!

Got the frag tank cleaned up for the MAAST swap this weekend! Now to fill it up a bit more through the week.