You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

tbrown · Apr 4, 2023

Are you not running an ATO?

Slocke · Apr 4, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
Are you not running an ATO?

I have the RB prism but it won't turn itself on. Can turn itself off just fine but needs help turning on because it is useless. I think I'll buy the TUNZE osmolator. I was waiting for the red sea but its taking too long.

tbrown · Apr 4, 2023

Slocke said:
I have the RB prism but it won't turn itself on. Can turn itself off just fine but needs help turning on because it is useless. I think I'll buy the TUNZE osmolator. I was waiting for the red sea but its taking too long.

Get a smart plug that turns on throughout the day. I have mine turn on for an hour and a half to run my skimmer and ATO, then off for 4.5, then back on for 1.5, etc.

crusso1993 · Apr 4, 2023

tbrown3589 said:
Get a smart plug that turns on throughout the day. I have mine turn on for an hour and a half to run my skimmer and ATO, then off for 4.5, then back on for 1.5, etc.

Bingo. This right here.

Slocke · Apr 12, 2023

Finally home! I'm going to report both tanks here as I'm exhausted. Starting with bad news and ending with good.

Fish:

Lost the ribbon goby to a jump. Quite sad as it was a very cool fish and I was having success with it which is rare.
YTTW, A. meleagrides is looking underweight. Healthy behavior but not gaining the weight most of my fish do.
Smaller engineer goby is MIA.
Everything else looks great though!
Red coris, C gaimard has had a growth spurt and has started transitioning which I'm very happy about.

Corals:

Two corals knocked to sand but still look OK.
Plate and green goniopora still struggling
Red branching montipora has recovered and is showing great polyp extension though no or little growth.
Purple stylophora and blue pavona have exploded in growth!
My red plating montipora has resurrected! I'm guessing no one here knows I had a red plating monti. It was growing well until the cyano outbreak last summer covered everything and it seemingly died. Well guess what? In a hole in the rock right under where it used to be I noticed a red glow and seemingly the coral is still alive and maybe returning!

Algae

A weird red and green sheen covered the sump surface and killed a lot of the caulerpa. This is probably the only really worrying thing as that is my main filtration and it dieing is obviously bad in two ways as it no longer operates as a filter as well but also lost a lot of nutrients to the tank.
This awful tough green algae covered my glass and resisted my magnetic glass cleaner. Took a good half an hour to clean off manually.

In other news I got the good Tunze ATO. Hopefully this will solve my problems.

Slocke · Apr 12, 2023

Also went to the pittsburgh zoo and aquarium on my one day off. It was not great but ah well.

Some cool fish:

Can you spot the tentacle snakes. A true snake I adore but is very boring long term.

One reason I thought this place wasn't very good was their lack of good or even accurate signage. @i cant think I know this is freshwater but can you identify this fish better then the aquarium?

Finally they had this on dispaly as their "save the corals" initiative. As you maybe can see the tank is terribly neglected and all the corals are dead. Not a very good campaign then hunh??

i cant think · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
One reason I thought this place wasn't very good was their lack of good or even accurate signage. @i cant think I know this is freshwater but can you identify this fish better then the aquarium?

They aren’t wrong about the genus it’s in but they really couldn’t get the species?
It looks to be a Rainbow Darter - Etheostoma caeruleum. Every type of water and climate? Psht, not really…
They avoid Silty and polluted waters as they’re rather sensitive to that (They stay in clean, non-polluted water as a result) and are found in small, high moving streams and small-medium rivers.

Before coming into the salty side I used to be addicted to the Darters and kept a lot of fresh water (Although I didn’t really enjoy the large FW fish and stuck to the smaller species). So I do enjoy seeing the FW gobies and Darters.

Slocke · Apr 12, 2023

i cant think said:
They aren’t wrong about the genus it’s in but they really couldn’t get the species?

Exactly! HAHA
This place only identified like half their fish and it was very infuriating. Though what really annoyed me was the size of the enclosures on the zoo side. Especially the elephant and polar bear enclosures were tiny compared to what they need.

crusso1993 · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
Exactly! HAHA
This place only identified like half their fish and it was very infuriating. Though what really annoyed me was the size of the enclosures on the zoo side. Especially the elephant and polar bear enclosures were tiny compared to what they need.

What did you expect to find within a state that elected a senator with major cognitive issues?

Welcome home!

tbrown · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
Finally home! I'm going to report both tanks here as I'm exhausted. Starting with bad news and ending with good.

Fish:

Lost the ribbon goby to a jump. Quite sad as it was a very cool fish and I was having success with it which is rare.

YTTW, A. meleagrides is looking underweight. Healthy behavior but not gaining the weight most of my fish do.

Smaller engineer goby is MIA.

Everything else looks great though!

Red coris, C gaimard has had a growth spurt and has started transitioning which I'm very happy about.

Corals:

Two corals knocked to sand but still look OK.

Plate and green goniopora still struggling

Red branching montipora has recovered and is showing great polyp extension though no or little growth.

Purple stylophora and blue pavona have exploded in growth!

My red plating montipora has resurrected! I'm guessing no one here knows I had a red plating monti. It was growing well until the cyano outbreak last summer covered everything and it seemingly died. Well guess what? In a hole in the rock right under where it used to be I noticed a red glow and seemingly the coral is still alive and maybe returning!

Algae

A weird red and green sheen covered the sump surface and killed a lot of the caulerpa. This is probably the only really worrying thing as that is my main filtration and it dieing is obviously bad in two ways as it no longer operates as a filter as well but also lost a lot of nutrients to the tank.

This awful tough green algae covered my glass and resisted my magnetic glass cleaner. Took a good half an hour to clean off manually.

In other news I got the good Tunze ATO. Hopefully this will solve my problems.

I had a similar situation take out my Dragon's Breath early on. I have an internal fuge and the water surface had a reddish oil slick.

Petcrazyson · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
Also went to the pittsburgh zoo and aquarium on my one day off. It was not great but ah well.

I was trying to squint thinking I would see your face lol

Petcrazyson · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
My red plating montipora has resurrected! I'm guessing no one here knows I had a red plating monti

I didn’t know you had a Monti cap…………..

Slocke · Apr 12, 2023

Petcrazyson said:
I didn’t know you had a Monti cap…………..

Idk if you can see it but its just to the left of the urchin. The urchin is actually sitting on the frag plug it used to be.

Slocke · Apr 12, 2023

Also there is a new boss in the tank and its got a massive pot belly

. It is not being overly aggressive but is definitely king wrasse now.

Petcrazyson · Apr 12, 2023

Slocke said:
Also there is a new boss in the tank and its got a massive pot belly . It is not being overly aggressive but is definitely king wrasse now.