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If anyone can help with this guy.... What is he? Maybe I'll name him Billy... billy the bivalve...

Gulf live rock.

It had some corals on it too buy don't look like they made it. One still has a bit of color though.
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Peanut worm. Reef safe. It's actually what is in the bottom of walking dendros.
 

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The more I look at the SBB grab it coral from a few sales ago, the more I like it lol. Bright yellow and red. Moved it to its 'permanent' home. Hoping it may encrust the bottom rock completely lol. It's been getting some nice PE in the evenings also.

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So I had to run some errands and was going by the lfs so I dropped off my water to sanity check it for me just so somebody else would check it other than myself. And OMG I have some phosphates.

I haven't been dosing anything the last 4 or 5 days either. I also took the water sample about 20 minutes after I had fed. So I wonder if I am just having phosphates but I'm just using it in consumption and maybe when I was dosing it was raising them too much.

Mg was lower than I expected but that's no problem. I'll bring it up a little bit. But the really neat thing is they had a long tentacle plate coral on display that I had never seen this thing was probably a foot in diameter and had probably 12-in tentacles. I was like do you have any of these for sale and they have one that is about 3 in in diameter currently that's a long tentacle. I'll be going back to get it tomorrow I think.

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Keep in mind, that 0.02 is within the margin of error on most test kits.
 

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Keep in mind, that 0.02 is within the margin of error on most test kits.

Ok good to know also, I know they used the Hanna Phos ULR checker on it. I don't know the ranges of it, have to look it up. But was going to buy one this weekend. I figure that's the best I can do to be as accurate as possible, right? or is there a better one?
 

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What?! I just received a galaxia frag as a freebie. I hope they dont need that moch room!
Mine doesn't have much in the way of sweepers. Some do, some don't.
 

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@Rennurdoar I'm dosing 5-10 ml a day to stay at 0.05 in a 125 as well. I probably need to up that since I've added more Acros and it seems to be dropping faster.

I started feeding one more time per day and doing benepets again also. So that may have helped it too. I'm just glad everything is looking good again. Moved the torches and frogspawn to their permanent home also on the rocks tonight. Will post pictures once they get back expanded. They didn't like me taking them off the plugs lol.
 

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Ok good to know also, I know they used the Hanna Phos ULR checker on it. I don't know the ranges of it, have to look it up. But was going to buy one this weekend. I figure that's the best I can do to be as accurate as possible, right? or is there a better one?
That's what I use. You can get the ulr phosphorus and do the conversion to phosphate or get the ulr phosphate..I have the ulr phosphate
 

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That's what I use. You can get the ulr phosphorus and do the conversion to phosphate or get the ulr phosphate..I have the ulr phosphate
That's the one that they used and recommended I get also. I'll probably get the nitrate one also. I'm saving up a little to get the trident. After I get my ATO going.
 

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Ok good to know also, I know they used the Hanna Phos ULR checker on it. I don't know the ranges of it, have to look it up. But was going to buy one this weekend. I figure that's the best I can do to be as accurate as possible, right? or is there a better one?
That's what I use.
 

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I started feeding one more time per day and doing benepets again also. So that may have helped it too. I'm just glad everything is looking good again. Moved the torches and frogspawn to their permanent home also on the rocks tonight. Will post pictures once they get back expanded. They didn't like me taking them off the plugs lol.
Supposedly Benepets is Phosphate free.
 

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Supposedly Benepets is Phosphate free.
Oh, I always thought it had it in it. The label says phosphorous at min 0.05% I think on the label. So, I just assumed it was adding a little.
 
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The more I look at the SBB grab it coral from a few sales ago, the more I like it lol. Bright yellow and red. Moved it to its 'permanent' home. Hoping it may encrust the bottom rock completely lol. It's been getting some nice PE in the evenings also.

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Here’s my grab it corals. Nice color. Might have to move to a brighter spot, see if mine will do the same.
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Got home just as the light is starting to ramp down so i thought i would get to see if these SPS are getting any PE. Instead i get to see that one of my @$$hole fish decided to relocate 10 of the frags onto my torches, hammers and in select holes in rockwork making it real fun to try and retrieve. Hopefully they didnt just all get thrown to their deaths. But the ones still on the rack did have a little bit of PE!
 

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