Tank Entry

Here are some updated pictures of my tiny frags getting less tiny!

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Nothing too new with the tank this month. I've been watching my water parameters to see how long I could go without a water change. No increase in nitrates whatsoever still. I've tested 0 for over four months straight now (test works fine, I've got another batch of rock cycling). Calcium dropped down a little bit to around 420 and I noticed my monti cap lose some of it's green tint. In the next couple of weeks I'll be getting in and installing my Next Reef reactor, an MP10ES and maybe a few ...

Hey y'all,

Was thinking of getting a reactor and some NP Biopellets. I have a few questions:

For the people who use or used NP Biopellets, what do you think of it? Pros and cons?

Secondly, I've heard if you run biopellets and do 2 part dosing you can stop one of the 2 parts. Is that true? If yes why? Or do I still do 2 part dosing and biopellets?

Thanks,

-HAT-

June 25th was a very sad Saturday... I went with my kid to LFS2 to buy a plastic decoration for our QT, something that gave my exiled six-line wrasse better hiding options than the white PVC tubes I had in the QT. My kid chose a cute treasure chest with octopus, with several holes in some vases an in the chest. Would be perfect, good looking and great for hiding in.
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On June 4th at night I added two peppermint shrimp to the tank, and they gradually ate up all the Aiptasias. And there were a lot... but they got rid of them, all of them.

Well, to be honest they ate all but one, the large, no, huge, Aiptasia you saw in a previous blog post. So I decided to manually remove than one and put it in a flower vase for my amusement. This picture was after a week it was in the vase, it climbed up from the bottom to that position:
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