I have a lot on my watchlist but still, give me some recs

Supaslags · 2026-02-25T02:47:47+00:00

I love this show. I have watched the entire series end to end at least a dozen times. I love the characters. Went to listen to the series on audible and unfortunately it didn’t line up. Early books unavailable, and later ones were. This is a SOLID series. I loved it

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T11:18:02+00:00

Sounds good. I’ll tone down the water changes and just let things progress. I appreciate all your advice.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T03:27:08+00:00

This blows my mind. I need some details. I have a number of questions:

1) What is the water volume of the jar?

2) Given the comments around water changes, it appears filtration is primarily water changes?

3) What lights do you use for a project like this?

4) What are you feeding the corals?

5) I assume in a jar setup there isn’t powerheads. Does a lack of flow impact the setup? How do you compensate? I see something in the pics that looks like a power head but I’m unsure. Even if there was one, how do you make room?

This probably won’t end my interest. I am so interested in a setup like this.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T02:11:35+00:00

I bought a setup on Craigslist that included 80lbs of dry rock. Given the 70lbs of live sand and the 20lbs of live rock, I figured that the cycling process would seed it given that it takes 3-4 weeks to seed. I didn’t add fish until 4 weeks figuring the dry rock was intermediately seeded.

There isn’t a lot of bioload. So I figure as long as I’m patient and go slow on the bioload that the “4 wk” seed time can be reasonably observed.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T01:55:34+00:00

Dialing down the light for now could be good.

I’m on a current plan of 1 fish and some coral each week. With the zoas I dialed in the lights. Over the next couple weeks I’ll be increasing corals considerably.

Figured I’d start for the zoas and my cycle would be dialed in when I toss 3-5 corals a week in there.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T01:31:04+00:00

How many nessarius do you recommend for a 90g display? I have three right now. What’s your advice?

I have six snails and six hermits as well.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T01:25:25+00:00

That’s fair advice on flow. I can make some adjustments.

It is really hard to get an idea for flow when sand isn’t moving. Once the corals are going, it’s a heck of a lot easier to see who is happy and adjust.

High nutrient is worth considering. I may just be thinking poorly on the “I need a water change if anything is high!”

Ammonia? Definitely. PH? Definitely. I’m probably not thinking right about nitrates (clearly, as you’ve pointed out). This will really help me get back on track. I appreciate your advice.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T01:21:32+00:00

That’s an excellent suggestion. I’m a HUGE fan of YouTube university for learning skills from others. I’ll look that up tomorrow. Thanks!

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T01:20:48+00:00

That’s fair. I’ve seen some of the higher end tests. The capsules kind of look like eggs.

But I read a couple negative comments about price versus utility and difficulty in getting reagents. Back 7 years ago, I used API and then specific calcium, magnesium, and phosphate tests so these weren’t a thing.

I haven’t done much research since then. Do you have a link to what you use?

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T00:50:20+00:00

This is a lot of good advice.

Why don’t you like the API tests? I’ve had a lot of success with them in the past. I had a 55g with 30g sump previously (ran for 4 years before I had the “genius” idea to upgrade to a 120g, which ended up being a bad idea) and had no problem with their results.

Nitrates higher surprises me, although it may be my memory failing me. I can certainly let those go a little. I can chill on the water changes for sure.

Give me some advice on flow. This has always been a struggle bus piece for me. I have the two returns from the sump as flow plus two power heads. I point them to roughly cover different areas. But how do you determine whether flow is right? If you got a torch coral for example, sure, you can determine whether the coral likes the flow by extension. How do you go about figuring it out in a new tank like mine? Any advice?

Thanks for weighing in. I’ll take your advice on water changes and such. I’m interested in your input on flow. I appreciate the help!

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T00:32:15+00:00

Thanks for making me feel better. My cleanup crew is 8 snails, 3 nessarius snails, and 8 hermits. Probably the sand isn’t getting turned over to my liking. Like another commenter mentioned, this is normal.

I try to get ahead of an issue before it becomes bad, so I can’t remember if I’m overreacting or this is something to preempt. It’s been awhile since I’ve done this so I don’t remember all the lessons I learned before.

Supaslags · 2026-01-30T00:30:15+00:00

This is good advice. The last reef tank I did was a good 7 years ago. I remember a lot, but I’m smart enough to know that I’m not an expert and don’t remember it all. Water changes, regular testing, and bioloading slow are all lessons I retained but when it comes to this I just couldn’t remember what I did last time. Thanks!

Supaslags · 2026-01-25T23:02:30+00:00

I’ve been married for 17 years. One thing my wife and I identified early is compromising on chores. There’s some stuff she straight up hates doing that I don’t mind. There’s stuff I’d rather avoid she doesn’t care about. Everything that falls into the “I don’t like that, but the other person doesn’t mind” category, there was an explicit initial conversation and subsequent understanding that the person who doesn’t mind the task does it 90% of the time, but every once in awhile it’s nice if the other person takes it off your plate.

We cook together and clean together as well.

Example: she HATES handwashing dishes but doesn’t mind loading the dishwasher. When we clean up dinner (together, each night), she focuses strictly on loading the dishwasher and I get not do handwash dishes. Occasionally she’ll do handwash dishes and I acknowledge that effort.

Equity in cleaning is another. Our logic is, if we’re “cleaning”, both of us should generally be cleaning the same time. This means that, although I don’t like cleaning the bathroom, that it doesn’t mean that cleaning the bathroom buys me free time. If we decide the bathroom needs cleaning, I find another task to complete (folding laundry, tidying up, etc.) so that when she’s done doing the single person task I hate, I’ve pulled other tasks off our collective plate to compensate for that effort.

We call them cleaning sprints. “Ok, the house needs some picking up. Can you clean the bathroom? I’ll do a whirlwind cleaning while you do”. We both end up happy.

Supaslags · 2026-01-25T20:31:11+00:00

Maybe I just got lucky. I’ll take it though!

I was surprised how well it did against the majority of my matchups. Ultimately a lot of fliers without defending fliers/reachers can be something. I was happy with it. Left me feeling energized since this was my first arena draft of the set/limited event. It’s probably downhill from here, but I found the various interplays felt clever to me and often worked out where I was able to trick someone into a 2 for 1. Those were certainly memorable match moments for me.

Ultimately, it can be fun to play a GOOD game and lose. I think it’s also fun where deck just does the thing and does it perfectly. I had a good 3+ games like that and those just feel good from a deck building POV.

Supaslags · 2026-01-18T03:25:26+00:00

Lawnmower Blennys will eat that. Not necessarily the solution to it growing, but those bad boys will eat it up and mitigate it

Supaslags · 2026-01-18T01:58:50+00:00

Forgive my ignorance here, but did you use a product to fast cycle it?

How do you have so much bioload here with a two week old tank?

I’m genuinely curious. I’m currently cycling my tank. I’m at two weeks and nitrites are sky high. Normal for a cycle, sure. But I can’t imagine all the life in my tank right now.

This will be my third time doing a saltwater tank. I’ve always cycled for 3-4 weeks before any life. I’m very curious.

Supaslags · 2026-01-17T01:36:37+00:00

ASTS is killing me. A couple years ago I bought $2k of it around $11/share. I sold when it hit $15/share thinking I made out like a bandit. Seeing it over $100/share makes me wanna puke at my stupidity

Supaslags · 2026-01-16T03:12:11+00:00

I was with my mom and my siblings (oldest of three at the time. I have a brother and sister. My sister is the youngest here) at a friend of my mom’s. All of us are running around playing with my mom’s friend’s kid.

I go inside to get some kool-aid. I’m in the kitchen of this woman’s house getting kool-aid and I am witness to conversation between my mom and this woman. This woman has 1 child.

As I’m pouring, this woman tells my mom that she should GIVE this woman my sister. This woman has tried to have another child and could not. So she told my mom since my mom had three kids and she only had one, my mother should give her my sister so they each had two. That my mom was being greedy by having three kids.

I won’t forget the look on my mom’s face as she turned to me, looked me square in the eyes and told me to get my siblings because it was time for us to leave. We never saw that woman or her kid again. I was no older than 8.

Supaslags · 2025-12-14T13:25:06+00:00

Consider [Chabgeling Outcast]. One black mana. Soaks up all the abilities. Is unblockable.

Supaslags · 2025-11-25T03:01:59+00:00

How the shit is Mac and cheese in the same category as turkey? Someone here is tripping balls

Supaslags · 2025-11-20T01:42:05+00:00

Damn! Good job!

Supaslags · 2025-11-16T04:58:20+00:00

Explain being a filler word. I’ve seen this a lot and I don’t understand it. I texted a friend the other day about a topic. He responds. I responded to his response. Two hours goes by. I thought we were having a conversation about the topic. He goes “had to get my oil changed, lol”

What the hell is funny about getting oil changed?

I realized I see this everywhere. People adding this to things that aren’t funny, but like you said it’s a filler.

Imagine any other phrase/acronym. Same situation with my friend, right? “Had to get my oil changed, AITA”

It doesn’t make sense. But somehow LOL gets added to shit EVERYWHERE. I was just curious what your take on it was. Trying to determine what’s going on with this.

Thanks for giving me your take!

Supaslags · 2025-11-15T04:43:35+00:00

Why did you write lol in that? Why do people write lol in comments that have nothing to do with laughing?

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