Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[najer]

Did you target feed yours?

No, I don't target feed lps unless there is a problem.

 

[Katrina71]

@Robin Haselden I told you to put a ring on it for a reason! Lol. Little did I know...

 

[Katrina71]

No, I don't target feed lps unless there is a problem.

Good! Me either.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

No, I don't target feed lps unless there is a problem.

Ditto.

 

[NY_Caveman]

From this (it was even worse)

You don’t have to post sad emojis on this post. I appreciate the support, of course, but it had a happy ending.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

@Robin Haselden I told you to put a ring on it for a reason! Lol. Little did I know...

I mean if she thinks that's 6"

 

[NY_Caveman]

I mean if she thinks that's 6"

Lucky. LOL!

 

[NY_Caveman]

Y'all need to check out the sales at @AquaSD!!! That's where my trachy is coming from. Got Andrew 2 blastos...shhh! WARNING: you'll need a drool towel. 50% off with the CM50 code!!! I have never pimped a sale here. It's that good!

Why? WHY?!?!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Y'all need to check out the sales at @AquaSD!!! That's where my trachy is coming from. Got Andrew 2 blastos...shhh! WARNING: you'll need a drool towel. 50% off with the CM50 code!!! I have never pimped a sale here. It's that good!

All those acans... ;Drool;Drool;Drool

 

[NY_Caveman]

Opinion please...when they recover, they look better than before? All of my survivors do.

The Acans and the Lobo are vastly different. The Lobo had amazing colors before, but glows much more now. The Acans are all darker, but more vivid. I should do a post on the difference.

here is the Lobo before in its glory

now

Obviously less full now. I am half thinking of starting to spot feed it just to see what happens. It has kind of plateaued in this current state.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

The Acans and the Lobo are vastly different. The Lobo had amazing colors before, but glows much more now. The Acans are all darker, but more vivid. I should do a post on the difference.

here is the Lobo before in its glory

now

Obviously less full now. I am half thinking of starting to spot feed it just to see what happens. It has kind of plateaued in this current state.

What happened to it?

 

[NY_Caveman]

Move, tank crash, neglect, life etc. etc.

 

[Katrina71]

Y'all gotta look at the 1200.00 scoly on AquaSD. It would be half, but good Lord... it's freaking amazing!

 

[Fin]

Y'all gotta look at the 1200.00 scoly on AquaSD. It would be half, but good Lord... it's freaking amazing!

I try to envision what expensive corals will look like dead. Eventually, that is what I will end up with. That usually curbs my enthusiasm. :-)

 

[anon9896]

:D Had this discussion before...show me the science. That is like saying pure water is bad for you so drink the polluted water to get your minerals. The majority of mineral uptake us from your food period. All the minerals from suppliments just gives you expensive urine as very little if any is absorbed. NIH publications support this fact.

The answer of my chemistry teacher. It's bad

The information I have been able to obtain is that our body acts as a huge osmosis device.

While some water particles tend to penetrate into our organs, the water in our body tends to come out of our organs(osmosis(not reversed osmosis), and since the surfaces in contact with the water we drink are designed to let some molecules big as (C₆H₁₂O6) through, then the ions necessarily come to dissolve and get lost via the stomach. (which has absolutely nothing to do with urine).
There are, of course, debates about these facts. But I'm going to tell you that evolution has always made us drink water that was not RO. If you want to believe in companies that hope to sell you bottled water (the idea is the same to sell you an osmosis machine). Feel free, but please do not go around and act like somebody who can actually give you the facts.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Y'all gotta look at the 1200.00 scoly on AquaSD. It would be half, but good Lord... it's freaking amazing!

Looks like it’s gone. Can’t find it.

 

[sfin52]

The answer of my chemistry teacher. It's bad

The information I have been able to obtain is that our body acts as a huge osmosis device.

While some water particles tend to penetrate into our organs, the water in our body tends to come out of our organs(osmosis(not reversed osmosis), and since the surfaces in contact with the water we drink are designed to let some molecules big as (C₆H₁₂O6) through, then the ions necessarily come to dissolve and get lost via the stomach. (which has absolutely nothing to do with urine).
There are, of course, debates about these facts. But I'm going to tell you that evolution has always made us drink water that was not RO. If you want to believe in companies that hope to sell you bottled water (the idea is the same to sell you an osmosis machine). Feel free, but please do not go around and act like somebody who can actually give you the facts.

With all the pesticides,pharmacy drugs and what not, I'll stick to ro water. I can taste the difference. I don't get that chemical taste and I'm on city water.

 

[anon9896]

With all the pesticides,pharmacy drugs and what not, I'll stick to ro water. I can taste the difference. I don't get that chemical taste and I'm on city water.

well I buy bottled water from a known and stable source.
As for the fish , obviously RO water.
Best I heard for us is 'purified water'.
We live in a very harsh environment.
Hell even drinking the rainfall would be acidic.
One thing you must remember like everything else, diversity is the key.
For the knowledge rats, https://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com/blog/tag/endocrine-disruptors-water/
cheers

 

[living_tribunal]

@living_tribunal
How's the Dino battle going??

Wayyyy too hungover to be looking at that.

It’s over I’m pretty sure. Kind of some interesting dynamics going on with the tank.

The bubbles persist at the top of the rock but there is no Dino bloom. So either it’s trace amounts of Dino that are slow subsiding or something else.

I’m also getting a diatom bloom lol on some of the new rock that wasn’t recycled from my previous tank.

This new tank build was a bizarre one, it’s gone through a reverse cycle: coralline first, cyano second, Dino third, diatom fourth.

Everything is looking great lol.


I also hate to say it, the microbacter 7 may be cleaning up the frag tank, just don’t tell my lfs.

 

[living_tribunal]

That moment when...

you realize your purple birdsnest looks nothing like a purple birds nest.

here’s a pic from google (sourced from R2R LOL)

Here’s what is in my tank that I have been happily referring to as a purple birds nest for about 2 months now!

first pic with polyps retracted (thanks shrimp!) second is a normal day with lots of extension

Looks like a purple stylo.

I made a similar mistake when I was going around trying to find a “blue digi” and everyone looked at me funny