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[Thuan]

Personally I do not like the ceramic ones because I have trouble cutting the stems off.

Hubby as a tile cutter. I wonder if you can use house ceramic tiles and cut into squares

 

[robanister]

Hubby as a tile cutter. I wonder if you can use house ceramic tiles and cut into squares

No.... they have dies and paints... get the white portland concrete and aragonite and make your own. Cure in freshwater bath. Plugs same way.

 

[Thuan]

No.... they have dies and paints... get the white portland concrete and aragonite and make your own. Cure in freshwater bath. Plugs same way.

Thanks. Just cuirous.

 

[robanister]

15 lb box of mushrooms coming my way

 

[Brisk]

Good morning

 

[Brisk]

What dips do you recommend for LPS and softies?

 

[Thuan]

What dips do you recommend for LPS and softies?

I dip them all in kcl

 

[Brisk]

I dip them all in kcl

Would dipping them in kcl and then revive be too much for the corals?

 

[mww00ds]

The real suprise is he had never jumped before. None of my wrasses have so I thought I was good. Clearly not. Clearly gonna need to do netting if I want to continue with wrasse, even egg crate if I have to for a short time, he was a good 3 feet away from the tank.

BRS has these diy screen tops that work pretty good. I picked one up from my tank and was able to customize the layout pretty easily for all my wires and return lines.

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[Thuan]

Would dipping them in kcl and then revive be too much for the corals?

I've never use that combo or the need to use 2 dips

 

[robanister]

Would dipping them in kcl and then revive be too much for the corals?

Why?

 

[Brisk]

Why?

Why do 2 dips or why it would be too stressful for the corals? Sorry.

 

[Thuan]

Why?

Exactly.

 

[mww00ds]

Water testing complete.
New reagent made, tested and adjust complete on the KH Keeper. Will verify at midnight when it test again (if I’m not asleep if I am I’ll do it tomorrow)
Refilled and calibrated all dosing pumps.

So 100gallon
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8.6 dKH (going to test around the same time tomorrow and see if there is a noticeable move so I can set up a doser)
480 ca
1350 mg (want to raise this a tad - did mix my BRS magnesium up but haven’t dosed anything)
.9 NO3 (dosed 10ml of sodium nitrate and 5ml of ammonium bicarbonate)
.09 PO4

75 gallon
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75g
8.8 dKh (KH keeper said 8.89 so I’ll call this a win but this was pre new reagent)
490 ca
1400 mg (wouldn’t mind seeing this a bit higher)
13.3 no3 (dosed 4ml of ammonium bicarbonate)
.19 po4 (this runs between .19 and .22 so within range for this tank)

Who likes bristle worms???

I'll take some of those worms. They really are a great part of any cuc when under control. I've learned that when they get out of control that I need to check my feedings and see if someone has unalived themselves somewhere in the tank

 

[mww00ds]

I bought two curious wormfish maybe two months ago. I bought netting for my 10g, the first one jumped the second I put it in the tank, landed behind and by the time I put him in, he was struggling.

The second lasted about a week until I found him in the RO top off bucket. He jumped through the netting...

Wow I just looked up what those look like. Really pretty fish, sorry to hear about them jumping out though.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

I'd heard Marinepure and Brightwell blocks are no bueno.

Incidentally, I use the Maxspect blocks and media balls. I hadn't had high aluminum. I just bought two icecap blocks on Black Friday since they were $5 each. I tried to do some research, but seems no one uses those ones.

I also bought some maxspect nanotech sand since I like their frag plugs and bio blocks. We'll see how that goes.

I asked the one dude he sent me this

 

[mww00ds]

Hubby as a tile cutter. I wonder if you can use house ceramic tiles and cut into squares

I would think so. I worked with another reefer back in Iowa. Who had used them for getting clowns to pay eggs on, then transfering the whole tile to a rearing tank. Sadly he was never successful with raising them to maturity.

 

[mww00ds]

15 lb box of mushrooms coming my way

Now are those sea mushrooms or psychedelic mushrooms. Lol

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Hubby as a tile cutter. I wonder if you can use house ceramic tiles and cut into squares

There are some tiles that you can use.

Ceramic tiles - nothing with any blue or green coloring- watch out for glazed tiles that are colored. people use clear glazed tiles for clowns to lay eggs on since they like “smooth” surface. Just make sure the tiles are those intended for sale in the US, some fired painted tiles from mexico and the far east have lead paint on them or use metals in the glazes.

I believe Travertine tiles would work.

Marble would work as well.

 

[robanister]

Why do 2 dips or why it would be too stressful for the corals? Sorry.

Yep stress