Started selling my extra frags.

https://www.communitycorals.de/farmer/freundliche-korallen-muenchen/

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Bought a coral for my birthday!

Red Goniopora.

My first Goniopra. Reading care tips I’m a bit nervous with the stories of hobbyist struggles. Hopefully since this is coming from a farmer I trust and has be fragged successfully many times things should be good.

Pictures of the frag and mother colony

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Nice exploration of the deep sea from the comfort of the browser.


The Deep Sea
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
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No Gem x Scopas Hybrid for me in Mauritius 🇲🇺 but I did see plenty of brown Scopas tanks which makes me want one for my tank even more.

https://reefbuilders.com/2021/10/06/first-gem-x-scopas-hybrid-tang-collected-from-madagascar/

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@tomdeb

Super interesting to hear about your clean up crew. Sizing it is so hard. My tank is 300l ~80gal I have 5 Trochus snails, serpent star fish, cleaner shrimp, arrow crab, six spot golby, and fox face rabbit fish. Including fish that help clean…

My nutrients because of little feeding and algae growing in refugium are zero without dosing. So I dose po4 daily and n03 weekly. Still I have hair algae. Weekly tooth brushing it off rocks keeps it clear for few days but it comes back. Hoping more clean up crew will help.

5 more trochus snails coming, Mespilia globulus urchin, 3x Nassarius snails, 3x Nerita snails.

Thanks for tip about urchin knocking stuff over. Right now everything is glued down. Fingers crossed nothing gets messed up.

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Baby snail! 🐌
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Ordered my first Micromuss as well as an army of snails and an urchin to fight my hair algae problem.


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Thinking the Giesemann Stellar would be a great update to my lighting system. Two ai primes plus the stellar will raise the PAR and boost my SPS growth and the spread of the bulbs should help get rid of some of the weird growth patterns and shadowed spots.

https://www.giesemann.de/stellar-hybrid.html

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working on converting my tank journal from emacs org file to yaml so I can plot my parameters and see trends.

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Ceva and the clowns were photogenic today.

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The new long nose hawkfish is eating well so I brought him out quarantine today. He is enjoying his new home.

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Built a shade for the refugium light today. Loving the new rotery tool! 3D printing is cool but a lot of the time plastic objects can be upcycled by cutting them cut into shape. Hopefully now there will be less nuisance algae in the sump.

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No more salty floors next to the tank thanks to RoboMop!

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Topping up my alk and Calcium dosing containers.

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Here is some montipora and pavona growth.

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Got my results back.

https://travisshears.com/personal/documents/analysis-5095.pdf

Calcium was high which I knew about and was accidental, Goal 420 ppm Ca.
Potassium was low.
Iodine was low.

Started using RedSea trace elements to correct the values. It has only been a few days of correcting and already my montipora is showing new polyps which it’s hasn’t before!


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Sending in my first ICP test today.

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If I upgrade my lighting system it will be with Reefi-labs’ LED Uno, such a good price to LED ratio. The software is not glamorous but serviceable. Wonder if I could write something custom over the top? Also I’d have to make a custom mounting bracket to support the Uno and my two existing AI Prime lights. 🤔


https://www.reefi-lab.com/reefi-led-uno/

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Should you wonder the difference between ATI ICP test and Fauna Marin ICP test, got you covered.

Translated, lowered cases, sorted, diffed

https://paste.sr.ht/~travisshears/aaecbda6a4e7793da1aac05e3f3f7e3510858b27

Time to start ICP testing my tank.

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Made a platform to hold the cheato up.

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