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It seems this hobby never gets easy does it?
Talk to Darren, he did the same thing with lighting as you are contemplating, added back in some halides with the leds. The good news is that halide equipment is pretty cheap right now since everyone sold their stuff to go LED. You can also look at...
Big thanks to Mark for setting the tour up. Both Nikki and I came away very impressed with the whole operation over there at Jenks. They really are doing a lot with not a ton of space and no outside funding. To be working with and breeding several endangered species is pretty impressive...
Just to confirm we are going to have food and drink back at our house after. Nothing too formal, probably will pickup burgers and dogs sort of thing right after the tour and anyone who wants to come back is more than welcome. Not going to go too late, just like a 2-3 hours of hanging out. We...
They had these at MACNA, and I will be upgrading. The pumps were configured a little differently but the controller was much nicer which makes a big difference.
There are some people who run their skimmers on timers to combat the fact that they are pretty indiscriminate with what they pull out of the water Obviously doing that, you would have to be very diligent on testing to make sure you did not develop a nutrient problem.
Temp spikes are always a bugger and SPS are the first to feel it. Just watch your salinity over the next couple weeks, adding a fan will increase evaporation rates which can lead to more top off and lower salinity.
Yes, we moved her up after a few weeks and she is doing really well up there. We had to take the flavagottus anthia out of the 30g but he is doing really well in the frag tank so all is well. We have two other fish in the sump/fuge right now that will probably be moved soon.