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Hey, you might not be too far off with this idea. When we got the RBTA, the clowns did not go to the anemone. We had to show the clowns pictures of fish in an anemone. So we actually taped one of those electronic picture showing devices to the side of the tank with rotating pictures of...

Calm down young man. Take a deep breath and let it out slowwwwwwwwwly. You have a relatively new tank. If you didn’t get hair algae and cyano, I’d be shocked. It’s expected in new tanks….less than a year old. Forget all the fancy-pants knee-jerk crap you want to do or buy. Hermits and...

Love that open brain….maybe a Trachyphyllia radiate? I like the paint job on the truck….it fits the age of the truck. Don’t know if it’s oxidized paint or just a red-lead primer, but I think it looks good. I also wished my garage looked like that. Other than the truck, the only things I...

All I’m saying, regardless of the instrument you are using, is that you are better off using a calibration standard close to what values you are actually attempting to measure. Your refractometer MIGHT be just fine calibrating with distilled (RO/DI) water. However, if there has been a “shift”...

I believe what Jim posted above is similar to what I use HERE…..a calibration fluid that calibrates your refractometer to 35ppt. You are better off calibrating to the number you are interested in then “zeroing” the refractometer with DI water. It’s more accurate that way. I also find it odd...

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If they are spirorbid worms, which is a good guess, if you look real close, you should see a spiral or twist to the worm.

The pictures looks like the beginning of coralline algae growing on your glass. How old is the tank? I would expect precipitating calc to end up cementing your sand together or, if dosed too high, to fall out of solution like snow. But to see it deposited on the glass, I'd be surprised...

+1 what Hawkeye said….although I don’t know what TOTM means….the only thing that comes to mind is Time of the Month. :eek: That being said, I believe the Koralia 425s you have are “Evolution” powerheads. So they can be hooked up to a timer or controller to have them turn on and off...

The Koralia Evolution powerheads may be controlled by a timer / wavemaker function. I have a Reefkeeper and controlled my Koralias using the wavemaker function. The no-name brand that you have, I’d be surprised if that can be turned on and off repeatedly. You need to check...

This is for real….my wife is into these overpriced holiday figurines.

Our thoughts and prayers are for you, Jen and little Joshua. If there is anything you need, just let us know.

Jim, I also thought you were a “vodka doser.” If so, are you still dosing vodka?

Mine is gone as well! :D

Steve,don’t mean to be Mr. Negative, but just saw THIS over on RC about dried Pukani leaching PO4. Might be worth the read. On a side note, doesn’t Pukani sound like something you’d order in an Italian Restaurant…..”I’ll have the Pukani over linguini with extra parmigiano-reggiano.”

The anemones moved into where the Nuclear Green’s were. When there was one anemone amongst 50 zoas, it wasn’t a problem, but when there were 20 anemones in the same spot as the Green’s, the zoas lost out. I’m actually seeing that some zoas survived, so the colony of Green’s will probably recover.

Did a little housekeeping. I was given a little green anemone a while back where I was told it was a GBTA. It was green and had little bubble ends. It looked like a very small GBTA. It was a very nice looking little anemone that had a mild sting. Within a couple weeks there were two….then...

Wow Phil, thanks for sharing all those photos! I’ve always had interest to visiting that part of the world, but couldn’t take an entire day of travel….that’s the hard part. Can’t believe they eat cuttlefish! But I’m sure there were other delectable items that were more bizarre than that...

It appears to be a palythoa....a common soft coral. Must have been a "hitchhiker" on the rock. Your first coral!