Flippers reef 125 gallon

[Flippers4pups]

Update: tank is still improving! Corals are doing much better!

Water change for this week is complete!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Ordered a kit it see what's lurking in Flippers reef! I'll share the results here and on that thread! Cool stuff!

This is what I've dreamed of for so long! Testing for microbes in our tanks!

Finally someone has done it. To be able to test for microbes strains in our tanks! This could be very helpful! https://aquabiomics.com/articles/core-aquarium-microbiome#The_Core_Microbiome_of_a_Saltwater_Aquarium

www.reef2reef.com

 

[NY_Caveman]

Ordered a kit it see what's lurking in Flippers reef! I'll share the results here and on that thread! Cool stuff!

This is what I've dreamed of for so long! Testing for microbes in our tanks!

Finally someone has done it. To be able to test for microbes strains in our tanks! This could be very helpful! https://aquabiomics.com/articles/core-aquarium-microbiome#The_Core_Microbiome_of_a_Saltwater_Aquarium

www.reef2reef.com

I have one I need to send in.

 

[Blutspitze]

Ordered a kit it see what's lurking in Flippers reef! I'll share the results here and on that thread! Cool stuff!

This is what I've dreamed of for so long! Testing for microbes in our tanks!

Finally someone has done it. To be able to test for microbes strains in our tanks! This could be very helpful! https://aquabiomics.com/articles/core-aquarium-microbiome#The_Core_Microbiome_of_a_Saltwater_Aquarium

www.reef2reef.com

Definitely curious to see the results on this.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Very cool.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Got my kit from AquaBiomics in the mail today!

Very well thought out kit! I geeking out like a ............

Time to put on the lab coat and pocket protector! This is so cool! ;Jawdrop;Joyful;Nurse;Oldman;Pompus;Wacky;Woot;Watching;Walkingdead;Singing

 

[Flippers4pups]

Heading up to Wally world for coffee creamer and over to Petco to pick up another aqueon pro heater for the tank. Had one over the summer that after 5 years finally stopped working. Time to replace it.

It's gotten very cold here. Tonight's temp in the mid twenties with a wind chill lower than that. We aren't going out tonight with the kids! Staying inside!

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Winter is coming john.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Winter is coming john.

Well I reject reality and insert my own! After all, I do have a slice of the tropical ocean in my house! Lol just need a beach and some sun screen!

 

[Flippers4pups]

With it being that time and some talk of scary bacteria and protozoans lurking in our tanks.....

FROM FLIPPERS DUNGEON, I MEAN REEF! LOL BOO!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Heater time!

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Remy wins.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Those pvc heater holders are awesome. Love it

 

[C. Eymann]

I love your DIY heater "rack"

Great advice on multiple smaller wattage heaters vs one big one risking cooking your tank if not on a standalone thermostat.


Fins up!

 

[Flippers4pups]

I love your DIY heater "rack"

Great advice on multiple smaller wattage heaters vs one big one risking cooking your tank if not on a standalone thermostat.


Fins up!

Absolutely Fins up!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Roll up your sleeves because it's sock cleaning time!

 

[Victoria M]

Roll up your sleeves because it's sock cleaning time!

I usually sanitize the washer before I clean my socks and my husband is like “ what the heck, isn’t that backwards!”

 

[Flippers4pups]

I usually sanitize the washer before I clean my socks and my husband is like “ what the heck, isn’t that backwards!”

Thinking the same, but hey........ It's all good!


I've said my sump has become a "scary" place, a "haunted house" of such.... Well in reality it's doing its own thing.

Cryptic zone, sponges are "creeping" and taking over rock, pest palythoas....anything in their way!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Thinking the same, but hey........ It's all good!


I've said my sump has become a "scary" place, a "haunted house" of such.... Well in reality it's doing its own thing.

Cryptic zone, sponges are "creeping" and taking over rock, pest palythoas....anything in their way!

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Cool!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Water change today! Got to clean the skimmer cup!

Ever since the UV has been installed, its been pulling some of the darkest skimmate I've seen before!