There's something fishy about this build...

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

I'm more like you than you know......I'm a super old young teenager! Tonya always calls me a big kid! HA!

 

[Reefering1]

 

[JoJosReef]

I will take it upon myself to show our host and patron of this thread, @Slocke , the error of his ways! I will not rest until Samwise Clamfree has been thoroughly cleansed!

 

[Slocke]

Don't worry. I'll have a talk with the main culprits if the shenanigans
@Stang67 can you come see me in my office

 

[Crabs McJones]

 

[Stang67]

Wait I have been working all day?!

 

[Projects with Sam]

 

[JoJosReef]

Wait I have been working all day?!

 

[Stang67]

Just got approved for OT. Whoo hooo.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Just got approved for OT. Whoo hooo.

I wish I could get approved for Other Tank....

 

[tbrown]

Long distance and through the snow Wrasse Thursday!

 

[Slocke]

So much pollen!!

 

[Slocke]

So question
What would you do if you had money but not time?
I was looking at controllers but I already have a temperature controller and water level monitor and I don't particularly care about pH.

 

[Reefering1]

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Slocke]

What are you trying to accomplish?

Anything
Like maybe it’s time to toss AI aside and go for some really good lights?
Or better powerheads
Is there any tech that has really upped your reefing or is just cool?

 

[JoJosReef]

Anything
Like maybe it’s time to toss AI aside and go for some really good lights?
Or better powerheads
Is there any tech that has really upped your reefing or is just cool?

I was initially not a fan of the overhyped Ecotech MP pumps, but I got a used MP40 and like it more than the Maxspect gyres I was using in the previous tank.

Lights-wise, I like the new Orpheks, mostly because it is a single big unit instead of a bunch of pucks. And I like the whiter spectrum. Two little bars on the side round it out.

Control-wise, I have the Hydros Minnow and a Reef Outfit smart dosing container for All For Reef. That makes life easy. The Minnow has 4 sense ports (one for the smart doser), so I can have an extra temp sensor for redundancy, a leak sensor, and in theory I'm running a sump water level monitor, although that sensor doesn't work. I like the Hydros system and plan to get more.

Speaking of which, I need to follow up with Coral Vue about that...

 

[Stang67]

Anything
Like maybe it’s time to toss AI aside and go for some really good lights?
Or better powerheads
Is there any tech that has really upped your reefing or is just cool?

Tech is kindof over rated. I got on the hydros purely to have access to everything in one place. Granted some of its just off on access, but there are other apps to control those situations. I like that everything is at least being monitored and I get notifications as I see fit.
The big $ suck for me has been the MS. I admit it's great and I don't have to do water changes but it required dosers, elements and testing.
New powerheads meh, new lights, not broke why fix, new skimmer maybe since my levels are high but trying bacteria first, new return not broke.
If I had $$ not sure I'd put it towards the tanks. Everything seems OK. Would save for a trip or something nice (new fish or coral).

 

[Slocke]

Tech is kindof over rated. I got on the hydros purely to have access to everything in one place. Granted some of its just off on access, but there are other apps to control those situations. I like that everything is at least being monitored and I get notifications as I see fit.
The big $ suck for me has been the MS. I admit it's great and I don't have to do water changes but it required dosers, elements and testing.
New powerheads meh, new lights, not broke why fix, new skimmer maybe since my levels are high but trying bacteria first, new return not broke.
If I had $$ not sure I'd put it towards the tanks. Everything seems OK. Would save for a trip or something nice (new fish or coral).

I am considering a big trip though right now all I have planned is a quick trip to the Channel Islands to do my first kelp dive.

Still think FIJI is the best?

 

[Slocke]

I was initially not a fan of the overhyped Ecotech MP pumps, but I got a used MP40 and like it more than the Maxspect gyres I was using in the previous tank.

Lights-wise, I like the new Orpheks, mostly because it is a single big unit instead of a bunch of pucks. And I like the whiter spectrum. Two little bars on the side round it out.

Control-wise, I have the Hydros Minnow and a Reef Outfit smart dosing container for All For Reef. That makes life easy. The Minnow has 4 sense ports (one for the smart doser), so I can have an extra temp sensor for redundancy, a leak sensor, and in theory I'm running a sump water level monitor, although that sensor doesn't work. I like the Hydros system and plan to get more.

Speaking of which, I need to follow up with Coral Vue about that...

These are all awesome suggestions. I have been eyeing the natura lights…

 

[Goaway]

Naoko is probably the most exuberant flasher of all the fairy wrasse. Some people mistake it for aggression which why some think they are aggressive but it’s just them being flashy

I know exactly what this means. Having several wrasses the dart to a fish "look at me I'm pretty. I SAID I AM PRETTY!!!"

Wrong thread. But, I didn't feel like partaking in the other.