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Nice! We use to be able to find fluke that size right in the Raritan Bay....we called them door mats. Now you're lucky to catch anything, and they have to be a minimum size to keep (which is a good thing).
Didn't win anything in the raffles.....didn't buy anything....had a great time....and here's the best part, used my Reef-A-Palooza shirt to get an additional 10 percent off the already 40 percent at ACC for a new fish. :dance:
Also, for the first timers, parking is free and located under the convention center. You enter to the left of the center, between the center and hotel.
This is a guess, but maybe your water is too clean. Corals do need a little phosphate and nitrate to grow and look good. What are your nitrate and phosphate numbers running these "sponges?"
What I did was extremely mild compared to @Paul B . He goes out into Long Island Sound (along the shoreline) and collects muck, pods, beer bottles and goombah's in cement shoes to add to his tank.
Well I pulled a @Paul B today. I was up at our waterfront and saw that the waters were very choppy, with a fair amount of green and red algae on the beach (must be a storm at sea). I picked up one of the smaller pieces of red and brought it back to the house. Here it is in the refugium...
Holy crap!!! When I saw you recommended a diaphragm pump, I'm thinking, "That's not going to work." I just looked up that pump......and it states that it will pump up to 130 feet high! I'm impressed. HERE's the link. Good stuff Joe.
The frictional head loss through 1/2 inch tubing is pretty high. Might be better off using 3/4 or 1 inch rigid, at least up to when gravity will start to take it "down hill."
I have never been convinced that acid washing rock does anything more than give you less rock. I would surmise that any phosphate that is removed quickly finds another site to attach to on the remaining rock. If anything, you are making a phosphate soup that simply re-attaches to the remaining...
Worst Sump In the World!!!
My sump is an embarrassment. It is totally loaded with hair algae and calupra that I added a while back, and now can't get rid of, not to mention the aptasia and bubble algae. It also has a deep sand bed, and I think that is the root of my problem, with it...
Wow, great meeting. I came home to family members in my back yard, so I'm a little late responding. Great food....love the sausage and peppers....and great conversation. Mark (and wife), thank you very much for your hospitality.....great job. I've just had the opportunity to clean up the...
@art13 has already said it, the poor guy is starving. I also agree that they are harder to keep than people think. I'd pick up a clam and freeze it and then shave off thin pieces and try feeding that.