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00W's AIO Smorgasbord

Aquarium Profile and Equipment

What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
Mixed Reef
Total Water Volume
115
When did you start this tank?
Jun 16, 2015
What is your aquarium made of?
Glass
Aquarium Length (inches)
48
Aquarium Width (inches)
18
Aquarium Height (inches)
24
Aquarium Overflow/Drain
Drain Style (durso, herbie, etc)
Aquarium Sump
YES
Sump Water Volume
20
Aquarium Stand
Wood
Aquarium Controller
NO
Protein Skimmer
NO
Protein Skimmer Make and Model
Lifereef vs3-24
Aquarium Reactors
  1. None
Return Pump
Eheim compaction 3000
What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
  1. Powerhead
  2. Wavemaker
Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
Jebao OW 20 x2, OW10, Jebao 1300, 2 sicce small WaveMaker.
Aquarium Lighting
  1. T5 Fluorescent
  2. Natural Sunlight
Lighting Equipment List
Odyssea T5 HO fixture
Lighting PAR and Goals
Low
Dosing Equipment Detail
None
Auto Top Off or ATO
NO
Aquarium Heating and Cooling
  1. I am using a heater or heaters
Water Temperature
77
Heating and Cooling Equipment Detail
Eheim 300w with ink bird controller

Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters

pH Level
8.3
Specific Gravity
1.027
Nitrate or NO3
19
Phosphate or PO4
1.12
Calcium
440
Alkalinity
7
Magnesium
1300
Salt Brand
Red sea blue bucket
Trace Element Dosing
Kent essential elements

Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration

Substrate
Bare Bottom (BB)
Substrate Level
No Substrate
Live Rock
75
Live Rock Type
Unknown
Nutrient Export
  1. Protein Skimmer
  2. Filter Sock
Water Changes
YES
Water Change Details
10% every Monday

Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)

Fish List
  1. Angelfish
  2. Clownfish
  3. Surgeonfish Tang
  4. Other Predatory
Total Fish
4
Coral List
  1. Zoanthids
  2. Soft Coral
  3. Mushroom Coral
  4. Other
Total Corals
6
Invert List
  1. Anemone
  2. Snails
  3. None
Total Inverts
0
Livestock Detail
Have a trigger which is not listed.
Livestock Quarantine
  1. No Quarantine

Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)

Fish Feeding Frequency
Multiple Daily Feedings
Coral Feeding Frequency
Do Not Feed Coral Directly
Fish and Coral Feeding
  1. Flake
  2. Pellet
  3. Frozen
  4. Algae Strips
  5. Other
Auto Feeder
NO

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What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
Patience

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I've eaten bear and ostrich. Bear is an interesting flavor and also depends highly upon what it has been feeding on for how it'll taste.
Bear liver is amazing. I havent tried any other part.
 

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Could any of you guys make something like this to hold my ATO hose in my tanks? It need to be wider so it will fit over the rims. I need at least 3 of them but a couple of extras would be nice as eventually I would like to get atos for all my tanks.
 

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Ok I'm going to need a box of those shipped to me please... ROFL

If they don't exist where you're located it's time to make some dough (pun intended) and get people hooked 🤑
 

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Wait who has photo number 3? It is a cool fish though.
Cool fish, yes. Highly edited picture, yes.

For example, here's what I see when I look at my Scoly - as true to colors and brightness as I can get with my camera:
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Here's the same picture if I wanted you to think it's more amazing:
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It definitely brings out all the colors better with higher saturation and higher contrast but my Burning Banana (top right) and my Dragon Soul favia colors are nowhere near what you see. I run heavy blues so my sand is blueish. The mouth of the Scoly is bright orange, just like the top picture. The red streaks, however, are more pink than orange or red as in either of these pictures.

The more contrast and saturation I add also, the grainier the pictures get - zoom in on the winning photo and look at how grainy that Yellow Tang is...

Too much color, too much noise, not a great picture, just a good subject of the picture.
 

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If I had some of the heathens on my side I would stand a chance lol
You have almost all of them. And the Cheesemakers and Smorgasbord and likely Cronies.
 

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If they don't exist where you're located it's time to make some dough (pun intended) and get people hooked 🤑
I think they use to have strawberry filled ones at a small grocery store in town they were delicious!
 

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I've eaten bear and ostrich. Bear is an interesting flavor and also depends highly upon what it has been feeding on for how it'll taste.
I’ve never eaten an ostrich but I have drank a beer! I wait, I miss read your post, disregard.
 

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Anyone have experience with Cabbage leather? First time owning one but It's got me stumped. I thought they open flat for the most part but my coral looks like it's reaching for the light. Polyps are definitely open, it's on the rock mid of the tank receiving right around 100 to 120 PAR. I can't imagine a cabbage leather wanting more than that.

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Anyone have experience with Cabbage leather? First time owning one but It's got me stumped. I thought they open flat for the most part but my coral looks like it's reaching for the light. Polyps are definitely open, it's on the rock mid of the tank receiving right around 100 to 120 PAR. I can't imagine a cabbage leather wanting more than that.

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Not have any experience with leathers at all. Sorry.
 

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I've eaten bear and ostrich. Bear is an interesting flavor and also depends highly upon what it has been feeding on for how it'll taste.
I've heard that. Someone gave us some bear meat once. My wife made a pretty good stew out of it.
 

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I've heard that. Someone gave us some bear meat once. My wife made a pretty good stew out of it.
Bear will either taste like garbage if it lives near town and eats out of trash cans, sweet if it eats lots of berries and nuts in the forest, or more spicy if it's more of a scavenger and eats more dead animal carcasses.

In other news, I hear monkeys taste like humans.
 

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Happy Paczki Day! (Pronounced “poonchki”)

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I had these the day before Ash Wednesday every year growing up but never knew their names, just Polish donuts. Delicious.
 

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Bear will either taste like garbage if it lives near town and eats out of trash cans, sweet if it eats lots of berries and nuts in the forest, or more spicy if it's more of a scavenger and eats more dead animal carcasses.

In other news, I hear monkeys taste like humans.

I just want to know who told you monkeys taste like humans.... I have a lot of questions.

erik kramer vine GIF
 

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