Recent content by The Gooch

Whoever uses KZ flatworm stop, be aware that contains copper. It will slowly raise your copper level and cause color fading in certain acros, especially tenuis. I find Goni to be particularly sensitive to the increase in copper as well and will close up. Dosing only 1/2 the recommended dosage my...

Typhoon 3 is still great. You might need to Change filter blocks or membrane. These don’t vary much from company to company. Extras like pressure gauges, pressure pump, and in line tds meters can be added after. If you have a very large system you can add on a 3 stage di resin kit from brs.

With a tds of 18 on your rodi you could potentially have other high trace besides copper in toxic levels such as zinc, tin, iron etc. Get metasorb and run asap. It’s the most effective. If you really want to know the levels you will need an MS ICP test. You really need to pay close attention to...

Thank you for the good words :smile_new:. Very much appreciated. I’m glad that you left happy. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow NJ reefers!

Looks like your rock was loaded with organics. Was this dry rock previously used in an old tank? With phosphate of 4ppm I would start dripping lanthanum into a 5 micron sock. An iv bag from Amazon and a few ml of tropic Marin’s lanthanum product (or another product) would be good. Lanthanum is...

Jeabo dct return pumps. Extremely dependable, great price.

Nice growth!!

I hate antibiotic slime removers. IME they reset the biome of your reef and you’ll just get the slime again. A lot of people that I known swear by the topic Marin cyo control. Supposedly it adds the bacteria that out competes the cyano. Besides this, if your nitrates are running near 0, raising...

Yours if you want it. Coordinating with first buyer is too difficult.

Colony is pending

Lol thanks. I would have been early :)

Perfectly healthy and growing colony. 8” or larger. Hard to measure. Pickup or I can meet at north Jersey coral show on Sunday. Just keep in mind if I transport in a bucket it could be a little dinged up. Must pay in advance to reserve it.

Looks great!

Yup. I’ll private message you

Looks good to me. PH will climb the highest during the photoperiod. You don’t have anything to be concerned about. You should buy a bunch of packs of ph solution and calibrate your probe regularly (float in tank water to match temp). Probes usually fail after a year or 2 IME. Once in a while...