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Aqua-Scape
What does your 200 gallon aqua-Scape look like, do you have caves, canyons, for fish? What about your space for LPS, SPS and misc corals? Let’s see those setups…
Ich management meta — hypo vs therapeutic copper vs test kit addiction #1
Not diagnosing — asking what your house rule is AFTER positive ID from someone qualified. Mine: pull new fish QT always, DT gets fallow. Cross-post vibes from a…
405 gallon build
This thread is for my custom 405 gallon cell cast acrylic peninsula display currently being put together. I will add information and updates along with photos a…
DT length — 76 days display fallow sanity thread #1
Apartment peninsula, one display. Velvet paranoia kicked in — chose display fall over hospital tank because I genuinely do not have floorspace. Bubble tips look…
Two-part dosing schedule — Tuesdays feel cursed now #1
Splitting alk/ca into micro doses weekdays. Miss one Tuesday — alk dips, mood dips. Automated dosers scare me because power loss stories. Semi-manual hive mind:…
Soft coral + LPS low nutrient shame thread #1
Ultra low NO3/PO4 crowd says my mushroom looks happy but too clean. Nutrient soup crowd says algae incoming. Reality: mushrooms fat, few film algae wipes. Searc…
Return pump chatter after service — bearings or imaginary #1
Italian pump serviced with official kit — still hears faint hum ONLY when house is silent at 2am. Marriage hazard. Guess vs replace again? Cross-post vibes from…
Refugium turned copepod nightclub — skim drier yay #1
Lights reverse schedule, chaeto ball twice original size in 14d. Pods visible on glass. Skimmer pulls darker. Sharing because this was the laziest meaningful wi…
Soft coral + LPS low nutrient shame thread #2
Ultra low NO3/PO4 crowd says my mushroom looks happy but too clean. Nutrient soup crowd says algae incoming. Reality: mushrooms fat, few film algae wipes. Searc…
Return pump chatter after service — bearings or imaginary #2
Italian pump serviced with official kit — still hears faint hum ONLY when house is silent at 2am. Marriage hazard. Guess vs replace again? Cross-post vibes from…
Refugium turned copepod nightclub — skim drier yay #2
Lights reverse schedule, chaeto ball twice original size in 14d. Pods visible on glass. Skimmer pulls darker. Sharing because this was the laziest meaningful wi…
Ich management meta — hypo vs therapeutic copper vs test kit addiction #2
Not diagnosing — asking what your house rule is AFTER positive ID from someone qualified. Mine: pull new fish QT always, DT gets fallow. Cross-post vibes from a…
Clam on sandbed — micron sand vs bare bottom backers #2
Derasa happy 8 months till snails bulldozed a trench. Moved to frag rack elevated — clam happier? Debating sand grooming philosophy. Cross-post vibes from archi…
Magnesium test disagreements — trusting which brand thread #2
Salifert vs Hanna vs mailed ICP divergence. Hobby says pick one trajectory not one number. Cross-post vibes from archived hobby boards — PlantedTank cadence min…
Refugium turned copepod nightclub — skim drier yay #3
Lights reverse schedule, chaeto ball twice original size in 14d. Pods visible on glass. Skimmer pulls darker. Sharing because this was the laziest meaningful wi…
