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[JoJosReef]

TANK TALK: What’s the coolest surprise you’ve discovered in or about your aquarium?

Hidden cup corals just popping up out of nowhere almost 2 years after adding the gulf live rocks. These rocks never cease to amaze me.

 

[rmorris_14]

Hidden cup corals just popping up out of nowhere almost 2 years after adding the gulf live rocks. These rocks never cease to amaze me.

Love this!

 

[Cell]

Official Entry: I have a Fiji Cube 48G I'm using as a frag tank and currently am using a polycarbonate sheet for a lid. I could definitely use something a little nicer!

 

[Cell]

Bonus entry: supporter/partner

 

[JoJosReef]

Tag #1: @tbrown could use these for the new tank he just won. with his luck, he'll probably win these, too. Hahahaha

Don't forget the Red Sea Reefer Max 300 G2+ @tbrown will win tomorrow!

 

[JoJosReef]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

I try to keep it as simple as I can. I fear setting something up, like my liquid feeding system, and then having to make changes to the system.

 

[tbrown]

Don't forget the Red Sea Reefer Max 300 G2+ @tbrown will win tomorrow!

I need that Neptune.

 

[tbrown]

My crazy fish jumping story: My powder blue tang, ("Kyle" according to my now college age daughter), once disappeared from the tank, this was about 7 or 8 years ago. A week or two went by, and I was thinking, huh, I wonder where the king of the tank went? He was in perfect health, full of zip. It's a pretty big tank so I assumed he got into trouble somehow and was dead in the rockwork or something. A few days later, I was messing around in the overflow, which is a coast-to-coast tray that's about 5" wide and holds about 2.5" of water. It was packed with rock, basically completely full. I noticed a swish of a fin, and sure enough, Kyle is wedged in a tiny space between two pieces, swimming in place and mostly upright against the current that flows down the tray (2500gph flow down a 2.5" x 5" area full of rock). Poor dude had jumped from the tank into the overflow (which was about a 4" high wall to clear) and landed in that tray full of rock, managed to flap about until he found that little slot, where he then swam in place for over a week, in the dark, with no food. oof. Scooped him back into the tank, no worse for wear. Still looked perfect, and went back to normal behavior of owning the place within minutes.

I forget who it was... @Projects with Sam I believe. Someone on here had a fish jump from his DT into his QT if I remember correctly. It wasn't a small jump either!

 

[rmorris_14]

I forget who it was... @Projects with Sam I believe. Someone on here had a fish jump from his DT into his QT if I remember correctly. It wasn't a small jump either!

it was Sam

 

[tbrown]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

I approach the technical side of things by researching and asking lots of questions and then doing whatever I want... Usually I take a mix of the advice and a mix of the research and try to make it fit best with what I have. Every tank is a little bit different and no two tanks can be run identically and expect identical results.

One great thing that's also very easily a negative in this hobby is the amount of information available. Too many people are ready to tell you that you can't do something one way because it didn't work for them while so many other people are willing to share their results with you in a positive way - even if it was a failure.

 

[JoJosReef]

@Avast Justin I'm wondering if you could incorporate a plank into a baby brine shrimp hatchery (one of the black disk ones) to autodrop new eggs every day or two. Some sort of auto WC system could flush out the old eggs and then refill water for the new eggs while a doser pulled out the BBS that make it to the center of the hatchery...

 

[tbrown]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

And DIY. I enjoy a lot of DIY.

 

[tbrown]

@Avast Justin I'm wondering if you could incorporate a plank into a baby brine shrimp hatchery (one of the black disk ones) to autodrop new eggs every day or two. Some sort of auto WC system could flush out the old eggs and then refill water for the new eggs while a doser pulled out the BBS that make it to the center of the hatchery...

That's brilliant!

 

[Cell]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

I think we often make this hobby more complicated than it needs to be. I try to keep things simple!

 

[JoJosReef]

That's brilliant!

Trying to think of how to get an automated system for a dwarf seahorse tank, since it is a lot of hatching, enriching, then hatching, enriching... Maybe the doser can run the BBS first into a container with another head dropping in phyto, followed by a third head sucking out the enriched BBS into the DT and then flushing the container...

 

[tbrown]

Trying to think of how to get an automated system for a dwarf seahorse tank, since it is a lot of hatching, enriching, then hatching, enriching... Maybe the doser can run the BBS first into a container with another head dropping in phyto, followed by a third head sucking out the enriched BBS into the DT and then flushing the container...

I was trying to figure something out similar for phyto. An automated Phyto feeder/replenisher.

 

[ESABOE]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

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BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

I knew from the beginning I wanted a tank that didn’t have a lot of tech/gear. A) I’m very biology/math ignorant, B) I don’t have a lot of money, and C) the more tech/gear you have, the more maintenance of those items and dealing with glitches and breakage. After watching BRS Ultra-Low Maintenance series, it confirmed I could do just that.

Don’t get me wrong, I insisted on a Red Sea Reef Mat, and a UV sterilizer, but other then that I just try and purchase high quality food, very little, but high quality additives that I manually add, no dosers, and quality products like Top Lids and Avast!!

 

[KarlSharx]

Would kill for the custom lid, mostly. Currently just have a piece of acrylic that i shoddily cut to fit over the top of my tank, so a custom lid would change the game. Also being able to regulate what my fish eat and when with the auto feeder is a really nice bonus

 

[Mschmidt]

BONUS TANK TALK: Our hobby can be very technically challenging for many. How do you approach the technical side of the hobby? Is it something to be feared or reveled in?

I'm cautious of the tech. I can get lost in the weeds and to a point, it's all a little bit much. do I need it change my light schedule from across the country? No probably not. But it can be done, not by me though. I don't need to tinker with rgb ratios, but I like the tech that kessil has for the 360s over my tank. Make the color look good to you, and the light adjusts as needed to feed the coral.

It also costs too much!

 

[ESABOE]

I need that Neptune.

Is there a Neptune contest?