Urgh seriously.

[Hemmdog]

Hello,

@Hemmdog ahhh DO NOT STOP the nopox no matter what especially suddenly you will crash and kill all your coral and possibly everything. This is stated very clearly on page six I believe (I can take a photo of it) this basically is the same as a benzodiazepines like for humans. @tdlawdo knows this also. Dosing nopox is very addicting such as vodka but has horrible life long like someone being prescribed benzodiazepines, or like a lesser one prednisone. You can not just stop any of those, this is the same with the redsea nopox. Your corals will starve and basically have a horrific withdrawal from it. Even when your nitrates are where you want you still must do the bare min of your water volume in your tank. Mine for example is 16ml, and I have tried to go lower and things started to go badly. It changed after I went back up to 20ml. This is the huge drawback to nopox, but like you if I don’t use it, for some reason my nitrates hit 40 ppm in a few days. I did 80 gallon water changes weekly and it didn’t even drop them. If your using a different version I highly suggest you read the dosing instructions very closely. I would also make sure you add extra air. If your tank is cloudy I would run carbon in a separate container to see if it pulls anything out. Are you missing any fish, or live critters or have any learners in there? The micropads are basically small pads I put in right before the return pumps. It catches all super small particles and gives clear water.

I have ran my uv 24/7 since my tank started and I have had luck with it. Now I can’t support why, but I have had no fish disease (I also always feed w garlic guard), but I’m also terrified to add any new fish to my system. As far as pods go I have no idea what mine is at. I use the socks to help catch the cyano when I blew it off the rocks. I’m mixed on filter socks but so far they are working and I’m hesitate to change if my tank is doing good. This is also why I make small tiny changes, because I’m hoping to lessen the sensitivity of my corals it swings happen in my tank.

Oh I see. Is there some opening in the micron pad for pods to be able to go into the display though? Like a little gap? That sounds like it would polish the water really good.
Potential live stock that could be dying; I had a massive trochus snail spawning event a few months ago. I had thousands in my display. I sold a ton of them but still have over a hundred I’m sure, I just can’t get them all out. They could be slowly dying off. I also am missing a Midas blenny and cleaner wrasse. The cleaner wrasse disappeared for 4 months before so I assumed he was doing that again. The Midas has been missing for about a month now. I checked the overflow but it’s possible he was still in there, it’s so hard to see.
I use regular Red Sea Nopox, and I do a smaller dose than it suggests to avoid clouding issues like I’m having.

 

[Sarah24!]

Thank you



I went to extremes to finally kill of the cyano in my little ocean. Now is the rebirth of the coral reef. I lost most of my arco's and I will slowly be adding so nice one back when I can find the right ones. I also went back to when I could grown anything with what I was dosing a year ago.

Hello,

I’m sorry about your tank, that’s horrible did you use chemiclean? It’s good and bad but I have seen it have terrible side effects with sps and other corals. I know must people don’t add lots of extra air stones because they turn their skimmers off. How is the tank now would love to see pics and I should probably post some new pics.

I’m still waiting to replace my clam, and hoping that my lfs gets some in. They have a few now but they are only 1.5 inches and those are not easy to keep. Here are a few pics where my corals have really grown and started coming in with nice colors.

@Hemmdog do you have front pics of your tank? Not sure if I missed it but only saw the side one.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

I agree with the music of the 60's though the 90's but after that I just stopped listening. Not a rap fan. I did enjoy some of the disco Era as well as Michael Jackson. Loved everything from Led Zeppelin to Uriah Heap. Well just so much music! Never could handle Country. Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Hard Rock, Easy Listening and some Classical. Eclectic music choices for sure!

 

[Sarah24!]

I agree with the music of the 60's though the 90's but after that I just stopped listening. Not a rap fan. I did enjoy some of the disco Era as well as Michael Jackson. Loved everything from Led Zeppelin to Uriah Heap. Well just so much music! Never could handle Country. Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Hard Rock, Easy Listening and some Classical. Eclectic music choices for sure!

Hello,

Was curious if you ever listened to elo or electric light orchestra. After that Jeff Lynn helped form the super group the traveling wilburys.

 

[tdlawdo]

Hello,

Was curious if you ever listened to elo or electric light orchestra. After that Jeff Lynn helped form the super group the traveling wilburys.

Dylan, petty, Orbison et al. Who wouldn’t love. ELO is cool. I’m a Genesis and Eagles guy had the eagles on 8 track in my first car a grand lemans. And I always used “bad to the bone” George thorogood and the destroyers for my bodybuilding music it really got me fired up and helped get the crowd hyped!! Started the routine with the part about the nurses...thought it appropo for a doc on stage!

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Hello,

Was curious if you ever listened to elo or electric light orchestra. After that Jeff Lynn helped form the super group the traveling wilburys.

Just saw them in Lewiston at hot August nights about 4 years ago. Saw them in Lexington, KY in the early 1980's. Great concerts both times! The earlier tour was fantastic with the stage made up like a flying saucer the split in half to reveal the stage under the top half! Laser show to the "flight of the bumble bee" by the violinist was just fantastic! Yeah the violinist was the only original member of the band here in Lewiston. Few months later the lead singer/guitarist showed up with Styx at the local casino and killed it again. He was not the original member of either band! Don't remember his name but he had the vocals for both groups cold. Think they are called the ELO Experience now. The lead singer broke his leg before the local concert and that is when the other guy stepped in.
I once saw Iron Butterfly on a small stage in Chattanooga purely by accident. Fun show for a one shot wonder band.
How about Emerson Lake and Palmer featuring Rick Wakeman? Ring any bells?

 

[Fin]

One of my old cars is still completely stock. Down to the functioning 8 track tape player - but dwindling number of tapes.

 

[tdlawdo]

One of my old cars is still completely stock. Down to the functioning 8 track tape player - but dwindling number of tapes.

 

[jsker]

I’m sorry about your tank, that’s horrible did you use chemiclean

Thank you, but I cause my own problems when I experiment. I was dosing H2O2 and then hit the tank with 2 consecutive dose of ultra life slime remover and this 7 more days of H2O2. I was frustrated to the point of braking down the tank and starting over.
Picture is from 4/14/19

I know must people don’t add lots of extra air stones because they turn their skimmers off

I leave the skimmer on and add air stones when I treat/dose slime remover.

I am more bummed that I lost my niger trigger and my sally lightfoot crab. I think this is due to pulling the air stones after the 48 hour mark and I should have left the air stone in longer then the 48 hours.

 

[Sarah24!]

Thank you, but I cause my own problems when I experiment. I was dosing H2O2 and then hit the tank with 2 consecutive dose of ultra life slime remover and this 7 more days of H2O2. I was frustrated to the point of braking down the tank and starting over.
Picture is from 4/14/19

I leave the skimmer on and add air stones when I treat/dose slime remover.

I am more bummed that I lost my niger trigger and my sally lightfoot crab. I think this is due to pulling the air stones after the 48 hour mark and I should have left the air stone in longer then the 48 hours.

Hello,

I’m terribly sorry about the losses I know they hurt, it’s always painful when I lose coral or when I lost my clam. To me they are my companions my pets, or even my therapy pets. But your tank looks amazing, and sometimes when we have a setback we lose hope. But in times of setbacks and negatives in our lives, it makes us stronger and better as a person. I know I can’t speak for all but, the set backs have taught me very valuable lessons of what not to do. It also has taught me how to not go a day with out ignoring or looking at every one of my inhabitants. But your tank looks really nice and very happy to hear you stayed with it.

 

[Sarah24!]

Dylan, petty, Orbison et al. Who wouldn’t love. ELO is cool. I’m a Genesis and Eagles guy had the eagles on 8 track in my first car a grand lemans. And I always used “bad to the bone” George thorogood and the destroyers for my bodybuilding music it really got me fired up and helped get the crowd hyped!! Started the routine with the part about the nurses...thought it appropo for a doc on stage!

Hello,

Yes I love them (traveling wilburys) Jeff Lynn George Harrison, Petty, Robinson and Dylan. Still love the first one the most, and my fav song is handle with care. Speaking of them some of Harrison’s work was amazing, his dark horse album was great and cloud 9. His song cheer down brings back memories and crackerbox place I thought was so funny. Some songs like cloud 9 fish on the sand and this is love still listen to today), his dark horse album had more hits when we were fab and all those years ago. It’s said you can’t find that album on iTunes. I have it on my phone from the cd but it’s one of the few that had cracker box palace on it. Oh and what is life was a song I wore out lol.

I can’t even list all the songs I love from bob Dylan but definitely lay lady lay and positively 4th street had some memories lol. I also loved the Byrd’s as well and lots of Roy Robinson and jd sutherner as well. I think with Tom petty there are two songs I listen to constantly also where are I need to know but prefer the Stevie nicks and petty version but can’t find it anywhere as well as listen to her heart. Then there is Jeff Lynn and elo where I love don’t bring me down like a lot lol. Good lord I could write a whole blog on music that I love and how it has affected me growing up even though most was before my time. Any one remember grandfunk railroad and Gordon lightfoot.

Lol this is what happens when I inherited music from my older brother and my parents because they upgraded or whatever they did with all their music. Here is another great one Allison Krause and Robert plant in a duet, but Allison Krause has an amazing voice probably in my top five with Natalie merchant, Karen Carpenter, Carley simon and the last is a toss up of about ten others lol but I like the voices (all sisters in the band eisely) a lot. But they are not super well known .

@Fin wow now let’s find some actual 8 track cassette and get it working lol, that’s sooooo awesome is it odd that I want one. I mentioned it to my dad and he thinks I’m insane from lack of sleep for wanting one.

@tdlawdo have you heard the version of that song that is live on their fair well tour. Which reminds me how many know The Beach Boys? So here is a trivia question which album (now read this carefully lol) did the song help me Rhonda appear, but it is the version and only version that has the harmonica in it? It was only produced on one album all other versions on other albums are different. There is like ten versions but my favorite one is the harmonica version.

 

[neoGeorge]

One of those musicians who likes to rhyme and reminisce about tougher times. This guy was assassinated in the early 90’s though.

Not for children
(Video removed by Mods for language)
Very clever rhymes though lol.

The album name is "ready to die" and he was assassinated?

 

[norfolkgarden]

"Which reminds me how many know The Beach Boys? "

Please don't make old men cry.
:-(

That is just sadness.

 

[Fin]

Hello,

Yes I love them (traveling wilburys) Jeff Lynn George Harrison, Petty, Robinson and Dylan. Still love the first one the most, and my fav song is handle with care. Speaking of them some of Harrison’s work was amazing, his dark horse album was great and cloud 9. His song cheer down brings back memories and crackerbox place I thought was so funny. Some songs like cloud 9 fish on the sand and this is love still listen to today), his dark horse album had more hits when we were fab and all those years ago. It’s said you can’t find that album on iTunes. I have it on my phone from the cd but it’s one of the few that had cracker box palace on it. Oh and what is life was a song I wore out lol.

I can’t even list all the songs I love from bob Dylan but definitely lay lady lay and positively 4th street had some memories lol. I also loved the Byrd’s as well and lots of Roy Robinson and jd sutherner as well. I think with Tom petty there are two songs I listen to constantly also where are I need to know but prefer the Stevie nicks and petty version but can’t find it anywhere as well as listen to her heart. Then there is Jeff Lynn and elo where I love don’t bring me down like a lot lol. Good lord I could write a whole blog on music that I love and how it has affected me growing up even though most was before my time. Any one remember grandfunk railroad and Gordon lightfoot.

Lol this is what happens when I inherited music from my older brother and my parents because they upgraded or whatever they did with all their music. Here is another great one Allison Krause and Robert plant in a duet, but Allison Krause has an amazing voice probably in my top five with Natalie merchant, Karen Carpenter, Carley simon and the last is a toss up of about ten others lol but I like the voices (all sisters in the band eisely) a lot. But they are not super well known .

@Fin wow now let’s find some actual 8 track cassette and get it working lol, that’s sooooo awesome is it odd that I want one. I mentioned it to my dad and he thinks I’m insane from lack of sleep for wanting one.

@tdlawdo have you heard the version of that song that is live on their fair well tour. Which reminds me how many know The Beach Boys? So here is a trivia question which album (now read this carefully lol) did the song help me Rhonda appear, but it is the version and only version that has the harmonica in it? It was only produced on one album all other versions on other albums are different. There is like ten versions but my favorite one is the harmonica version.

J.D. Souther, eh? Now you are just showing off. He was more of a behind the scenes writer and wrote numerous songs that were done mainly by Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. He did join up for a time with Chris Hillman (of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield & The Flying Burrito Brothers) and Richie Furay (from Buffalo Springfield and Poco) in the "Souther, Hillman, Furray Band." More in the vein of country-rock, which was gaining popularity in the late 60s & early 70s. See the Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album with songwriter/singer Gram Parsons (also of the Flying Burrito Brothers).

Definitely loved Grand Funk Railroad and Gordon Lightfoot. Gordo wasn't really rock though. He was/is a Canadian folk singer that had some really good albums. Everyone will remember "The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" and "Sundown." If you want to check it out, this is my favorite ballad of his - "Beautiful"

 

[jsker]

Hello,

I’m terribly sorry about the losses I know they hurt, it’s always painful when I lose coral or when I lost my clam. To me they are my companions my pets, or even my therapy pets. But your tank looks amazing, and sometimes when we have a setback we lose hope. But in times of setbacks and negatives in our lives, it makes us stronger and better as a person. I know I can’t speak for all but, the set backs have taught me very valuable lessons of what not to do. It also has taught me how to not go a day with out ignoring or looking at every one of my inhabitants. But your tank looks really nice and very happy to hear you stayed with it.

Happy Friday, and the kind words and advice.

Set backs for myself are just challenges to over come. I agree that it makes better people out of us if we face our challenges and learn from our mistakes.

You are a kind person, again thank you for the complement on the tank.

 

[AquaDaddy]

Plus Aerosmith, Kansas, Styx, the Doobie Brothers, Heart, REO Speedwagon, Rush, Supertramp.
To name a few more.

all on my phone.... as well as a ton of other stuff! I've recently just been going back and adding select songs from a lot of the 80's hair bands too, just to round it out.

 

[cshplumber]

I really WANT to like Rush but what's up with the 22 min songs! I love all the big hits but they were written for radio at 4-6 min long.

 

[Sarah24!]

I really WANT to like Rush but what's up with the 22 min songs! I love all the big hits but they were written for radio at 4-6 min long.

Hello,

Lol I can handle long songs but wow they are 22 min long? Have to admit I don’t know much about rush, but I am use to long songs. Enigma for example some of their songs have three sections and 15 min long. Examples like sadness, and river of beliefs etc. Even queen had issues with their bohemian Rhapsody because it was 6 min long. But it was amazing and also Pink Floyd dark side of the moon is pretty long.

Well in terms of tanks lol I have been testing more frequently and recording changes. It’s interesting to see my tank consuming lots of alk and cal daily. I’m also starting to see how my corals are adapting to smaller swings. For example I have a coral (.no idea what it is) but it’s color went straight white but still big and fluffy. It’s an lps im sure of that (like a wellsphlyia but it’s not), and was normally green and red. I use to have it on the sand bed and moved it up maybe four inches because my goby liked to bury it in sand and was afraid I’d lose it. So moved it out of the way and slowly it lost all color but just remained big and fluffy and went down at times and wasn’t dying but definitely not happy. Now that I have increased trace elements, coral feeding (lower light), but kept alk between 7-8 and cal 420-440 it’s starting to get color back. But I strongly believe either it’s me dosing trace elements, or me feeding each coral twice a week now.

 

[Brew12]

Hello,

Lol I can handle long songs but wow they are 22 min long? Have to admit I don’t know much about rush, but I am use to long songs. Enigma for example some of their songs have three sections and 15 min long. Examples like sadness, and river of beliefs etc. Even queen had issues with their bohemian Rhapsody because it was 6 min long. But it was amazing and also Pink Floyd dark side of the moon is pretty long.

Well in terms of tanks lol I have been testing more frequently and recording changes. It’s interesting to see my tank consuming lots of alk and cal daily. I’m also starting to see how my corals are adapting to smaller swings. For example I have a coral (.no idea what it is) but it’s color went straight white but still big and fluffy. It’s an lps im sure of that (like a wellsphlyia but it’s not), and was normally green and red. I use to have it on the sand bed and moved it up maybe four inches because my goby liked to bury it in sand and was afraid I’d lose it. So moved it out of the way and slowly it lost all color but just remained big and fluffy and went down at times and wasn’t dying but definitely not happy. Now that I have increased trace elements, coral feeding (lower light), but kept alk between 7-8 and cal 420-440 it’s starting to get color back. But I strongly believe either it’s me dosing trace elements, or me feeding each coral twice a week now.

The coral may just like the music you have been listening to lately better.

 

[Fin]

Iron Butterfly had In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida back in the late 60s. It was about 17 minutes long and had a famous 2 minute drum solo. It was one whole side of the album (if I remember correctly). It may be an easier way to put out a full album with less actual material.

And, of course, Alice's Restaurant. 18:15