Definitely worm free (IMLagoon25)

BristleWormHater · Jun 9, 2025

twentyleagues said:
Have you seen it actually consume the powdered foods? That would be good.

Yes, I turn off flow and use a pipette to spot feed it, the polyps close around the powder.

BristleWormHater · Jun 11, 2025

I got my ato reservoir in on Tuesday, set it up the same day, I went with the IM hydrofill 5 gallon and set up my osmulator 3. It works amazing, and it's so nice to not have to lug out a huge jug of ro water to pour into the tank. I got the reservoir from Hidden Reef $40 under retail price! With free shipping! I'd recommend them for dry goods at least, dont know about livestock. I'll post some pics tomorrow
Goodnight yall!

BristleWormHater · Jun 13, 2025

Food poisoning is so fun right guys? I think I threw up 25 or so times over the past 24 hours.

BristleWormHater · Jun 13, 2025

Also the red cyano seems to be dying, it's starting to peel off the sand bed and rocks, I'm too lazy to go get pics because of the food poisoning lol

BristleWormHater · Jun 20, 2025

Had a little ato mishap last night, I turned off the return pump as the ato was filling the tank. And once the water got up to the ato water line it started a siphon which pulled a ton of water out of the tank and into the ato reservoir, and it almost overflowed! I did not realize this until this morning. So last night I panicked and thought something was clogging the return pump so I pulled it out and put in my spare and when that didn't fix the problem I drew water put from the liverock tank and added it to the main tank. Now I have to drain the reservoir since there's salt in it :/

ZzyzxRiver · Jun 20, 2025

BristleWormHater said:
Had a little ato mishap last night, I turned off the return pump as the ato was filling the tank. And once the water got up to the ato water line it started a siphon which pulled a ton of water out of the tank and into the ato reservoir, and it almost overflowed! I did not realize this until this morning. So last night I panicked and thought something was clogging the return pump so I pulled it out and put in my spare and when that didn't fix the problem I drew water put from the liverock tank and added it to the main tank. Now I have to drain the reservoir since there's salt in it :/

ATO errors always read like horror stories to me. Glad my top off is a gallon jug, haha. How’s the food poisoning treating you?

BristleWormHater · Jun 20, 2025

ZzyzxRiver said:
ATO errors always read like horror stories to me. Glad my top off is a gallon jug, haha. How’s the food poisoning treating you?

Oh that only lasted about 2 days, got it from some bad salsa I think.

BristleWormHater · Jun 21, 2025

Got two Hanna kits, phosphate should be coming in today!

This goniapora is absolutely bulletproof, still growing insanely fast, seeing new polyps emerge every week or two.

BristleWormHater · Jun 27, 2025

Here's some pictures for the first time in months! I'm suspecting that a lack of copepods could be the root cause for this algae outbreak. Before I moved the tank in January I had a massive population of pods, very noticeable in on the glass and in the rear compartments of the overflow box. Now I see maybe 3 or 4 on the glass and hardly any in the overflow box. Anyways I'm hoping to order some pods soon but it's been in the 90º's all week.
I'm enjoying the favia, it seems happy and has it's feeders out almost all day.

Some of you may have noticed I haven't posted a feather duster update, that's because they are not doing well :( I think seems the cyano on the sandbed really ticked them, and they all seemed to shed their crowns, thankfully they are all still alive but their crowns are pretty tiny now, going to take them awhile to regrow.

ZzyzxRiver · Jun 27, 2025

I’m glad you’ve still got a few! I’m sure they’ll make a big comeback once you’ve got things destabilized. I just idiotically overdosed hydrogen peroxide in my tank (don’t even ask), and now I have the beginnings of a cyano situation. I’m dosing silicates again cause it worked for Dinos so maybe cyano?

BristleWormHater · Jun 29, 2025

ZzyzxRiver said:
I’m glad you’ve still got a few! I’m sure they’ll make a big comeback once you’ve got things destabilized. I just idiotically overdosed hydrogen peroxide in my tank (don’t even ask), and now I have the beginnings of a cyano situation. I’m dosing silicates again cause it worked for Dinos so maybe cyano?

Yes definitely hoping for a comeback!

BristleWormHater · Jun 29, 2025

I should be getting some things for the tank soon and yall might see some action with the 8 gallon from IOAOI. I'm thinking I'll transfer the liverock tank into it and clean out the ten gallon to use as a quarantine tank for some new fishys.

Anyways I'm hoping to get things moving again and I'm up really late because of ufc tonight.

BristleWormHater · Jul 1, 2025

Cool limpet popped up in the liverock tank, he was super tiny a few weeks ago, added him to the main tank today. Super cool to see more life pop up after months of having the rocks.

BristleWormHater · Jul 1, 2025

Good news on the feather dusters, they seem to be opening up more. Recently they've only opened up when I fed the fish to get those little bits of mysis, now I see one or two open randomly throughout the day. Hopefully I'll get them to be out all day again soon!

BristleWormHater · Jul 3, 2025

@Slocke does Nemo have conch snails and cheap clean up crew, I need some and I don't want to go to premier because they're so expensive.

Slocke · Jul 3, 2025

BristleWormHater said:
@Slocke does Nemo have conch snails and cheap clean up crew, I need some and I don't want to go to premier because they're so expensive.

Cheaper then Premier but unlike their other stuff its not super cheap. I can't guarantee conch but they do fairly often. My most recent is from there

BristleWormHater · Jul 3, 2025

Slocke said:
Cheaper then Premier but unlike their other stuff its not super cheap. I can't guarantee conch but they do fairly often. My most recent is from there

Thanks!