Welcome to my (near) Zero Maintenance Reef!

[VintageReefer]

So I have presets on my light. My current one and I have a “Sunny preset”.

Sunny will be my target and every few days I will increase current preset by 2-3% until current and Sunny are the same

While monitoring for stress or any negative effects of course

 

[telegraham]

@VintageReefer … if you’d like me to compare your meter to the others I have here, DM for my address. I won’t steal your meter. Promise.

 

[VintageReefer]

@VintageReefer … if you’d like me to compare your meter to the others I have here, DM for my address. I won’t steal your meter. Promise.

Ill dm

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

sup. im new to scrubbers, so do you need to get algae to start it growin or does it start all of a sudden, thinking no skimmer and scrubber only but turf is gonna be hard to get my hands on here

 

[VintageReefer]

sup. im new to scrubbers, so do you need to get algae to start it growin or does it start all of a sudden, thinking no skimmer and scrubber only but turf is gonna be hard to get my hands on here

You cannot seed a scrubber. They will naturally grow turf algae from spores in our water. They naturally exist in everyone’s tank, but without a scrubber, they lack the conditions to grow.

And everyone’s tank will have some variation of the spores that are unique to their tank. If I sent you my algae, there is extreme high chance it would die

I have two tanks - this 75 and a 15g nano. The nano got a scrubber. I tried to seed it with algae from this tanks scrubber - It didn’t work! Two tanks in the same house and cross seeding was a fail

It will take a few weeks but the scrubber will grow its own algae colony from scratch on its own

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Thnx btw, its alot more help than u think

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Also can you send some pics of how scrubber works and internals, gonna try to diy it. 3d printing exists thankfully

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Please

 

[VintageReefer]

Please

Go to Santa Monica website and look at the pics for the surf 2 as an example. It’s floating box with waterproof led lid, and vent holes on underside for air to be pumped in and water to flow out. Inside of the box is rough surface with Strings for turf algae to grab on and grow. IMO it grows off the rough surface more than the strings

 

[VintageReefer]

I have a lot….A lot of high end coral coming in the next week or so.

 

[VintageReefer]

I think this is all of them

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

Nice corals (understatement) just one more question, what material is the inside of the scrubber, styrophoam?

 

[VintageReefer]

Nice corals (understatement) just one more question, what material is the inside of the scrubber, styrophoam?

Proprietary. “Green grabber” lining. Cactus sharp rough jagged plastic.

The box is surrounded in foam to float it

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

wow, materials i never heard of lol

 

[smitten with ocean life]

love your new purchases vintage! loving the cynarinas!!

 

[VintageReefer]

wow, materials i never heard of lol

Santa Monica invented it lol

 

[Northern Flicker]

Son, I think you have a severe case of "Coral collectivitis". Welcome to the support group, we meet on Tuesdays. Please bring your bank statement.

 

[VintageReefer]

Son, I think you have a severe case of "Coral collectivitis". Welcome to the support group, we meet on Tuesdays. Please bring your bank statement.

I love it.

We meet at the restaurant in between the pawn shop and loan sharks. If you can’t find it, look across the st from the place that cashes your check before you get it

 

[VintageReefer]

Well…
update 1) ups tracking indicates they damaged the box with my two princess peach grail torches, then decided to hold the package and not continue delivery. Was supposed to be here today and now both seller and myself don’t know when the new date is, and if it’s coming to me or going back to them. Awesome.

 

[SomeHappyFish]

ouch. I hope they survive.