Recent content by MikeyZO

Hi, thanks! Not new, just returning lol

This is probably a stupid question, but how do you go about coral acclimation/dipping? I assume you acclimate corals and then dip them? are you using water from your tank for the dip or fresh made water? if fresh made, I assume you acclimate to that first, and then dip, and then re-acclimate...

What is this and is it good or bad?

Do you still have this?

If your skimmer is pulling out a decent amount of thinner liquid, do you replace it with RO or salt water? Forget fine tuning the skimmer for a minute, and not talking evaporation, just the skimmate.

I have a ton of spirulina powder for gut loading baby brine shrimp, just wondering if anyone has tried using it on frozen mysis before feeding, and how do you go about it? I’ll never use it all for the brine before the expiration date lol

Just curious if anyone has used chaeto in one of the back chambers of a biocube? I was thinking of taking the carbon cartridge out of chamber 1 and putting in a small pile of chaeto or maybe using both in the same chamber. Thoughts?

How much reagents do you have left for the testers?

What is everyone’s favorite go to LFS? Whether it’s for good livestock, prices, knowledge, etc. T I A

I just got one and set it up for my son. I’m the same, been out of the reef game for 10+ years. I just posted my setup thread

So here are some pics of the BioCube jr setup I started. It’s a 14g tank with the smart LED hood. I like that you can set the times and white/blue lights for a daily schedule, predawn, sunrise, daytime, sunset, night, overnight. I outfitted it with a coralife mini uv sterilizer, nano protein...

Hey all. I haven’t been active for a very long time as I have not had a reef tank up and running for probably over 10 years. But I just got my son a Coralife smart biocube jr (14g) and have decided to get it up as a small reef. He’s really excited. So just wanted to reintroduce myself. I...

What are the dimensions of the tank? And did you ever water test it for leaks?

how are their overall quality? Does cheap = lower quality than a custom build?

So I’ve been out of the reef hobby for quite some time, prob more than 10 years. That said, I finally want to start up a new tank. So my general question is, should I invest the money in a really good AIO like a Waterbox or Red Sea or should I build everything myself? Is it even cheaper TO...