Recent content by trilinearmipmap

This thread shows why this forum has gone from a leading internet reef forum to a forum ignored by 99.9% of reefers. When I started researching my first reef tank about six years ago this forum was had a stature equal to RC. In fact I felt that this forum generally had more thoughtful posts...

There is more than one way to run a reef tank. The very nicest tank I have ever seen in person (full of SPS, clams, an anemone, gorgeous) was run on a miracle mud system only with no lights over the miracle mud and no macroalgae. No skimmer. No chemicals to remove phosphate or nitrate. No...

Excellent idea SantaMonica. What you have done is take an established idea and demonstrated a practical and simple way for people to implement the idea. I'm going to try it in my 30 gallon cube. It is a higher-nutrient lower-light reef. So far it has two Ocellaris clowns, a BTA, and a...

IMO your excellent water quality is killing these mushrooms. Dirtier water (more nitrates) makes them grow IME. Shrooms do lousy in my tank because I have a low nutrient load. When nutrient levels spike (eg. overfeeding when I was away on holidays) the shrooms and softies proliferated.

OK makes sense, ship it with water to get more diverse pods etc.

How do you secure Chaetomorpha in a refugium/sump? Does it just float in the water, or attach to a piece of live rock, or do you bury it partly in the sand? Also as a rough idea how fast would it grow, what I mean is, do you prune it out weekly or is it much more slow growing than that? I...

Well I have lots of experience shipping plants (FW) as I have traded plants with dozens of people across North America. The best way to ship plants (or marine macroalgae) is with no water in a plastic bag. Take a half a piece of paper towel, submerse it in tank water to make it moist, then...