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+1 on the auto projets.

Marc, I've never had a hammer, but my frog spawn and open brain have recovered before when I thought them gone for certain. Hope they come back soon.

And a have a few good guesses on your up-coming projects. I think I'll be duplicating one of them soon myself.

Sorry your hammer is taking a nose dive..Yeah it doesn't look like that will pull through but there is always hope if there is any flesh left. And I'm in awe of the amount of projects you tinker with on any given day....you sir are my hero.

That little one is awesome. I want it!

i wil snap a shot of it tonight and a full grown 1
will try to put up pic tonight if not as soon as i get back in town sunday night
i have not tried feeding it
but i feed the monsters like 2 times a year

I'd like to see the tiny one. Have you tried feeding it anything?

marc reading this made me think i found the smallest little anem about 3 weeks after my tank did this
it was on the glass so i scooped him up and threw it in my 20 frag tank
it hasnt grown an inch and just moves around the tank
nice pics as always

I'm liking the new regulator quite a bit. Each time the light flashes, the low pressure (PSI) gauge dips down and quickly bounces back to the preset pressure. A little bit like a heartbeat.

Because the calcium reactor has a built-in pH probe, I don't need the effluent box any longer. I've not used one in more than a year.

That sounds like a gravity issue, which has to overcome a vapor lock. Mine works for days at a time, then I have to fiddle with it slightly to get it going again. You might try a gentle tug / bounce of the drip tubing to see if it overcomes it before you make any adjustments to the drip rate.

Oddly enough, the very next night the BTAs in the main reef spawned again. The Rose (hereafter shall always be referred to as "she" or the female name "Rose" wasn't interested. However, her tentacles are more translucent, akin to what we often refer to as a bleached anemone. She's not nearly as vivid red with the deep pigment I'm used to seeing.

I did a 55g water change last night and set up the skimmer to pull out the meds and the other stuff. I also restarted the Carbon reactor. The water is more clear today, but the Pink branching Hammer coral continues to look shut down. The Toadstool Leather is fully open again.

Wow ... Great photos of the event. In a year you could have a tank covered with anemones !

What nature can do is beautiful! Hopefully ya tank goes back to normal in time.

Marc, I am going to start dosing VSV in my tank I was reading your Vodka dosing article and see that you drip your vodka in through what looks like an IV dripper. I made one of my own using baby medicine syringe air line tubing and a irrigation drip system shut off valve. The problem I am having is that once it runs dry if I add more fluid to the syringe it will not drip until I fully open the valve let the fluid run out and then close it up until it starts to drip. Do you have this problem or have an ideas on how to correct it?

Marc I am sooooo glad you were home with a camera. That is sweet that you got to document this

Very nice to have a spawn, did you notice any corals spawning triggered by the spawn of the clams?
I for usre would have restarted my skimmer to filter those out. Maybe collect some of the spawned material and have it in a small tank with it's own filtration?
would be very interesting to have a few anemones pop out following this.

Congrats Marc! Such a neat thing to experience. That acan is probably the same species as the "orange crush" I had and YES those sweepers are deadly little suckers. My $70 orange crush killed my $250 acan. I'm interested to see if your system will naturally raise the babies. I had a mysid shrimp colony in my refugium that tended to itself without much help from me when I had my 90 gallon.

I see you have the dial style regulator, and not their digital version. I bought the dial one too, but have not set it up. I noticed you are dripping the effluent into the return, and not into the little drip box first. What was your reason for doing so? You used to have the little drip box with the ph probe mounted in it...now I see you have the probe mounted inline and no drip box.

You should post some update pics of your sump systems....I would love to see how you have things set up.

Thanks!