*Round 2* -SBB- 300 Pop up Auctions- No limit no Reserve Bids start at $1 Going on now!

[steveschuerger]

Continues to be the best Acro I have …Sky King

 

[Kasrift]

... You do realize that's a vinyl background at Petco, right?

I do. That was the joke.

 

[stoney7713]

Maybe? Darned things are ridiculously small. I don’t have a 3D printer though obviously I v know a few here who do. You have don’t you? If so could you try to print a few up? Let me know what you’d want in return…

There's a few files out there for guards. I don't have a Nero 3 to test fit them with. But give me a few days and I will see what I can come up with.

 

[Skay]

man i actually work a 12-6 tomorrow

 

[Kasrift]

Got my aquabiomics test back... Good news, but bad news...

1002123_Microbiome_Preliminary_Report

aquabiomics.com

Fascinating. I think I want to do one of these. Thanks for sharing, learned a lot looking through your report.

 

[Kasrift]

I literally cannot have anything with zooxanthellae in the tank until I wipe out this pathogen. I also have to go ultra low nitrate to do it... so anything I did have would just outright die.

Sadly this means my mushroom corals are goners.

Mushroom are like anemones and you can Cipro bathe them in another tank if needed. Since they are easier in general, Cipro bath and dump in a 10$ aqueon from Costco with a small pump and just water change every 3-4 days.

 

[steveschuerger]

There's a few files out there for guards. I don't have a Nero 3 to test fit them with. But give me a few days and I will see what I can come up with.

Great!. Thanks!

 

[tbrown]

I do. That was the joke.

I thought so but wanted to be sure.

 

[Tony Page]

 

[billyocean]

Well, it's my own dang fault for not checking earlier. Dropping 1500-4k on coral 'hoping' it's just something dumb I'm doing is bad enough, but dropping 1500-4k on coral when no matter WHAT I did they would have gone south? That's painful. Test only cost a hundo. Waiting for it was the hardest part.

Catch 22. IMO better knowing there's nothing you could have done instead of something you did. The test was sent in June and the last sale was July which was your biggest....nothing you could have done except send the test a couple months sooner and how else would you have known? Reset, recharge, renew and come back to it! When your ready we'll get a list together and I'll frag some stuff, let it heal, and shoot you a box. My shipping skills are non existent so we'll cross that bridge together too..lol

 

[Tony Page]

 

[StatelineReefer]

Catch 22. IMO better knowing there's nothing you could have done instead of something you did. The test was sent in June and the last sale was July which was your biggest....nothing you could have done except send the test a couple months sooner and how else would you have known? Reset, recharge, renew and come back to it! When your ready we'll get a list together and I'll frag some stuff, let it heal, and shoot you a box. My shipping skills are non existent so we'll cross that bridge together too..lol

My shipping skills are apparently pretty good, 100% success rate so far. I'll teach you the ways of the Force.

The more I read about this bacterium, the more worried I get. It's present in only 3% of aquariums tested, which means aside from Mote Marine's work on it, it's pretty much an unknown. It's gram-negative, which imparts certain drug resistance, and it's intracellular.

I could treat it like Ricketts and Chlamydia, and get a doxycycline scrip for it. Whole tank, 8 days, 2.5mg/l. I will still need to knock out the conditions that promote it though, High nitrates... not sure on it's interaction with phosphates.

Edited: Misplaced a decimal.

 

[billyocean]

My shipping skills are apparently pretty good, 100% success rate so far. I'll teach you the ways of the Force.

The more I read about this bacterium, the more worried I get. It's present in only 3% of aquariums tested, which means aside from Mote Marine's work on it, it's pretty much an unknown. It's gram-negative, which imparts certain drug resistance, and it's intracellular.

I could treat it like Ricketts and Chlamydia, and get a doxycycline scrip for it. Whole tank, 8 days, 25mg/l. I will still need to knock out the conditions that promote it though, High nitrates... not sure on it's interaction with phosphates.

Whew....this is big-league. Unfortunately it will be a learning experience for all of us.

 

[StatelineReefer]

Nice morning for it.

 

[StatelineReefer]

That should be 2.5mg/l by the way. I don't know what 25mg/l would do.

 

[AKL1950]

No chance. It's an intracellular parasite that takes amino acids produced by the zooxanthellae instead of allowing the coral to metabolize them. So in effect, it starves the coral at a cellular level.

I would recheck the source you got this information from. Zooxanthella are just like chlorophyl in plant life. They convert light into carbohydrates (sugar) and oxygen. They can’t produce amino acids. Amino acids are acquired from the breakdown of proteins. Zooxanthella Can’t do that. That’s why we dose aminos or feed the corals protein food. If that bacteria is robbing the coral of amino acids, it is from the corals production of proteins or breaking down the corals protein skin structure and taking the amino acids. Of course it could also be killing the Zooxanthella by broking down it’s protein structure. Zooxanthella Produce sugars. The coral uses sugars, phosphates, nitrates, natural elements and amino acids to produce complex proteins.

 

[stoney7713]

Nice morning for it.

So what light do you use, AI prime, Radion? You use filters? Amazing how you captured the colors. If you ever decide to frag it let me know.

 

[StatelineReefer]

I would recheck the source you got this information from. Zooxanthella are just like chlorophyl in plant life. They convert light into carbohydrates (sugar) and oxygen. They can’t produce amino acids. Amino acids are acquired from the breakdown of proteins. Zooxanthella Can’t do that. That’s why we dose aminos or feed the corals protein food. If that bacteria is robbing the coral of amino acids, it is from the corals production of proteins or breaking down the corals protein skin structure and taking the amino acids. Of course it could also be killing the Zooxanthella by broking down it’s protein structure. Zooxanthella Produce sugars. The coral uses sugars, phosphates, nitrates, natural elements and amino acids to produce complex proteins.

Symbiodinium—Invertebrate Symbioses and the Role of Metabolomics

Symbioses play an important role within the marine environment. Among the most well known of these symbioses is that between coral and the photosynthetic dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium spp. Understanding the metabolic relationships between the host and ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Thuan]

Happy Fri Yay everyone

 

[billyocean]

So what light do you use, AI prime, Radion? You use filters? Amazing how you captured the colors. If you ever decide to frag it let me know.

The classic og acroproa coniferous