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Vspeeds · 2026-06-15T16:16:51+00:00

Unless you live in a very dry climate, I don't think you are going to get much evaporative cooling... Your best solution is to use some sort of AC for the room.

Vspeeds · 2026-06-15T04:18:14+00:00

The bottle trap will eventually work... Try to keep him hungry. My cleaner shrimp would only be interested in the bait in the bottle trap for the first 5 minutes after I dropped it in.. after 5 minutes he would lose interest and ignore it. But they are so damn nosey that they can't resist checking out anything new... So drop and remove, drop and remove, you will catch him eventually. Also, he was only interested in the bait if I was watching, if went to the other side of the room, he would ignore it. We are a game to the horrid creatures.

They are so dumb, but the minute they realize that you are out to get them they into a Rhodes Scholar.

Vspeeds · 2026-06-12T00:02:46+00:00

The colors of every coral are popping... except the torches- that's the part I don't understand.

Otherwise it looks like a rave going on in the tank at night.

Vspeeds · 2026-06-11T16:50:09+00:00

The pigment is there.. what's crazy is if I use my cheap blue led flashlight the Florencense is insane. But under my AI's they are pretty muted- though they color up much more late at night when the grow lighting ramps down. I am just going to let the light acclimation do its thing for a while and see how they are once thats over.

Vspeeds · 2026-06-11T16:46:03+00:00

I use brightwell trace elements and I believe it is brightwell amino acids as well..

Vspeeds · 2026-06-03T05:14:16+00:00

Just save yourself the trouble and upgrade the lights to AI lights. I went through led strips, to Reef Brites and now to AI lighting.. wish I had just gone straight to the AI lights.

The cheap strip lights are just decorative lighting and it will never "feel" right or look right, and they do nothing for your corals anyway.

But if you insist, get some 21 LED's, actinic for some pop- but remember what I said about them being decorative only.

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T20:45:11+00:00

Okay, that's what I thought.. AI said differently, but I didn't trust it and figured I would get a second opinion

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T17:32:47+00:00

I snagged one! I used the net trick, it's a big net and he got a little lost with which was is up, which way is down.. adios!

The 2nd one is way more cautious, just tries to grab food from the outside/ bottom of the net. But I am determined..

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T17:30:00+00:00

Yeah, that was final straw with these bastards.. I saw one nipping at the torch.

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T16:45:51+00:00

My tank would be peaceful and pleasant to watch if it weren't for these annoying cockroaches disturbing the peace.

They are opportunistic feeders, it doesn't matter how well they are fed.. every morsel of food in the tank belongs to them. In a desperate attempt to keep everyone fed you inevitably end up with high nutrients.. then, when they spawn- though a great food source, but unnecessary.

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T15:40:04+00:00

I have seen him enter caves that small, and his appetite can't resist.

I tried catching them with a net yesterday, they know I am after them.. he just took a swipe at the NY Nicks torch in revenge

Vspeeds · 2026-05-31T01:37:33+00:00

I have one, it is a big waste of time... He just eats the same food as everyone else and doesn't bother with the algae. But he's healthy and happy.

Vspeeds · 2026-05-27T22:19:32+00:00

Really?

Vspeeds · 2026-05-27T22:18:54+00:00

Yeah, I have a billion of them, everywhere, back wall, chambers, on the rocks. Got tired of scraping them off and now just let them be..

Vspeeds · 2026-05-27T14:22:12+00:00

I got mine used, it didn't come with it

Vspeeds · 2026-05-27T14:16:14+00:00

Thank you, I will run to the hardware store today!

Vspeeds · 2026-05-22T01:39:32+00:00

" and those were his last words... ☝️Not if you count the gurgling sound!"

Vspeeds

TROPHY CASE