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Our phosban buy was made through an industry contact. The club will be running another phosban buy during the coming year. If I'm not mistaken, we still have some phosban from last time for sale still.

Any chance of getting a shot of it taken straight through the glass (lens parallel, not on any angle, to the glass)? Even further away and in focus would be better than blur. I'm trying to look at whether it has fleshy meat to it and places where it "buttons" in or if it has tiny little polyps...

There are generally 2 ways they could go: Catastrophic (you'd see traces of it from the powerhead and/or it would pollute the water) or they hide until they disappear. If your tank didn't turn white or have an ammo spike, there's a good chance it is hiding under a rock. The do this sometimes if...

That's a great marketing strategy.

Can you run a fan over your sump to increase your evap? That should do 2 things... blow the CO2 off of the sump (especially an issue if there is a large gap from the water line in sump to the top of the sump where the gasses can escape) and increase your evaporation. The extra evap will allow...

I would agree with not keeping the sand. The water itself has lots of O2 in it (otherwise the fish wouldn't be able to breathe), so regardless of whether or not it is exposed to air proper, it will be getting exposed to O2, which is what you'd want to avoid. I see no practical way of salvaging...

Stay safe over there, Adam, and we'll see you in May. Thank you for all you do.

I'll take one tonight, Mike. I wish I had a picture of the green and orange caps. The change there is nothing short of amazing. I really didn't think they'd survive. The green cap is a fighter though. I had lost all but a polyp of that. John wanted to throw it away at one point, and it has grown...

Green cap is green again. Orange cap is Orange and purple is looking better than ever. PE is super! The efflo looks great and the stag is recovering color beautifully. Theres one spot that's either new growth or death. LOL. It is back behind a branch, so I can't get a good look at it. Time will...

Sometimes you just can't cut it out and replace it (not enough pipe left to re-glue to). At least that was our situation. Along with being 10:00pm with our tank already going on 3 hours of being down while we replumb into the basement. No way were we waiting til morning for a new fitting...

I did more than my share of this when we were plumbing the basement. We had a leaking fitting and it was in a place where we couldn't cut in a replacement. We had to pull them apart. The smaller fittings were a breeze compared to the 3" pipe though. I used a heat gun. No fumes (it doesn't get...

The next meeting is at his house. We should have a BIG water sample there! ;D

If the "Live Rock" was from an established system (IE my main display tank/system), I would 100% be confident about stuffing a small fish in there right away, as I know that my tank rock is fully cured and ready to carry the load. If it was LFS rock I wouldn't be as confident and would let the...

Glad to hear that it worked for you!

To "glue" rock together you'll either want to use epoxy or some sort of concrete type stuff (Merv bought/used some for his setup, but I don't remember what it was called). The problem with building a big structure is that once you have it built you need to worry about being able to get the...

I think inline is probably more accurate than in a cup, personally. I'd let it run a bit first to be sure that it is freshly made water that you're testing.

Have you thought about an Oceans Motion? That sounds like it would be idea for rotating around from top to bottom like that.

There's a chance it is starting to frag itself, which they do when stressed or if the angle changes too much so that they aren't angled to the light the way they want to be. At least IME, anyway. Mine does this from time to time. Is it still firm to the touch? Did the polyps come back out?

What pump are you planning on using? Looks like a fine setup for a closed loop, as long as you have a manifold where the top 2 come from one (or more) port(s) and the bottom spray bar return comes off of another one (or more) port(s) on the manifold. That way you could adjust the pressure...

So ... do tell. What kind of dogs are they?