FarmerTy

Oh no! Sorry to hear this bud! Hope everything is okay! This is a great looking system! Worth every penny!

The front two posts are still current. I got so busy that I haven't been able to take the frags to the LFS so I still have everything.

The blue ice zoas?

Only if you use GFO. [emoji12]

Well that's a bummer! Sorry for the loss!

Sorry for the losses Robb! Glad you got all setup in the new place!

I like to look past his troubled, city destroying younger years and focus more on his saving the earth, CG-dominated glory years instead. Everyone deserves a second chance. He even bettered himself and went back to school.

Short Asian guys and godzilla typically don't mix but since you're a doctor and doctors are typically trustworthy, I'll risk it. [emoji41] PM'ed.

Shame on you guys! To a good reefer, that should be the smell of a successful tank! You know what that smells like? Victory over nutrient levels!

On a happier note, after a good 6 months of use, I went in to check the skimmer auto neck cleaner's performance, having not touched it this whole time. Skimmate goop all along the inside of the cup. Hard to tell if it's on the inside center at all. What 6 months of skimmate buildup looks like. Cleaned only the collection cup to see how well the auto cleaner worked. Not bad at all. Besides a couple of streaks, I'd say it's doing it's job well! [emoji106]

Thanks guys. Brian, save that shot for me instead!

Sad morning... I've been too busy to keep as watchful of an eye as I usually do on the tank. During maintenance this morning, I found a dried up pencil wrasse on the right side of the stand. Somehow he made the jump into a tiny 1/4" slot between the side of the tank and the skin of the stand. Top it off with my mandarin looking lethargic the past couple of weeks and dying (no, he didn't starve to death... his stomach wasn't shrunken up). He just seemed like he lost the will to live and stopped hunting for pods and just laid in the sand the last couple of weeks. Very odd behavior. The rest of the fish are fine. Lastly, the awesome little rock beauty angel that was given to me somehow did his best salmon impression and went upstream, over a baffle, and landed in the skimmer pump section. Murphy's law at its best, he ended being the reason why I noticed my skimmer was not producing skimmate as well as usual. He got sucked into the inlet of the pump and clogged it up. 3 fish deaths is a sad way to return to your tank after being so busy.

I'm pretty sure he bought one stalk last week.

Each one of mine is lighting roughly a 24" x 24" section of my tank. There's lower par on the edges of the area but nothing terrible. I'd imagine one would suffice for you. I'm running two T5s on either side of mine eventually put purely for color control. If I chose not to do the T5, it would work just fine as is.

You should sell the tub of xenia to a spa and promote it as a relaxing therapy...float in the tub and let coral tickle their backs...

Yes. Just better success with a piece of the mouth usually. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I can do a purple stylo versus montis test in my tank if you want. I don't know about the other color variants. I only have the rainbow stylo and not looking to burn some in the name of science. [emoji4] Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I'd cut it with a piece of the mouth if possible with a sharp, clean blade. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

My money is on the purple stylo. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I think any of those would work. The ricordea should survive just fine with any of those scenarios. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Water changes will almost fix anything. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Make it happen! I got a piece of Oregon tort waiting for you. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Do you have any pictures of your tank Tracy? It's a side of saltwater I have absolutely no experience with but it's fascinating!

I will probably add T5 down the line but I don't really think it's needed. Color looks great on my corals. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I'm going national... then global! I'm going to be an international reefing superstar and then flameout, retire in my 30s, and be part of those TV specials... what are they doing now? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk