I agree with your salinity thought!! Have ordered fish and coral recently and every specimen bag has different readings??? Couldn’t believe some things were even living!
Hahahha! I appreciate fancy! I don’t like them hyper-spindly. I was yammering on the fly today, I probably parsed words poorly 😂🤣 Even me, Mr. Stacked Rocks, can appreciate a beautiful scape!
@@kalamazoo_reeferfair enough 😅. My scapes are typically bulkier than those “hyper-spindly” scapes. Those skinny ones don’t give enough habitat for fish.
good stream, methodology and habits are always an interesting discussion and the results they can bring across the spectrum of the hobby. My testing discipline varies like a cycle over time, im currently at a low, i know i should do better (more testing) but I also feel like some of the other things that ive started doing better (stability, no changes) allow me that slack, along with the knowledge that ive gained over time in watching my tank and fundamentally seeing the health and being able to understand when things are and are not right. i'll forever be still figuring things out as long as im in the hobby and be wrong more than Im right.
Bingo! That’s what I’m talking about. You said it better than I did. You literally “earn” slack. That ingrained, hardcore stability, coupled with intimately understanding your system, leads to the ability to enjoy slight slack on testing. I like that thought process.
I’ve got a blacklight party in the morning and evening! Hahaha. I just like a bright reef through the main part of the day. The blacklight party IS cool as heck, I just can’t look at it all day 🤣
There’s never any going back! It’s like when my wife made me push my peninsula against the wall after deciding she didn’t want it jutting out into the living room. No going back! 🤣
Didn‘t enjoy the unsubstantiated ramblings about ocean live rock and sand. There is no evidence of uronema ever coming in on Florida rock, nor are there bobbit worms in the Gulf. A 20 second google search would tell you that their habitat places them in Indonesia/Fiji. Telling people to start their tanks with dry rock and bottles of bacteria is fine, just warn them they will fight uglies for a year or more. Sorry for venting, but do a bit of research.
You’re fine. I respect your view on it. I believe there is evidence. I personally know a reputable individual who exposed their system to nothing more than TBS live sand and tested the tank before and after introduction of this sand, and found that uronema had come in on that live sand. Oh, just noticed the bobbit worm thing. I mentioned that I was unsure if they even existed in the gulf. I was sure to say that. I was, however, just trying to elaborate on general things people worry about regarding visible pests and live rock.
@@kalamazoo_reefer sorry I overreacted. Not sure why I defend the gulf live rock companies but I do know that they have proven over snd over again that uronema can be ruled out in the gulf. Mantis shrimp, aiptasia, hydroids yes. Urunema, monster worms no. Btw, Ben was talking about you in the member section of the reef beef discord today. He had much kinder words.
I agree with your salinity thought!! Have ordered fish and coral recently and every specimen bag has different readings??? Couldn’t believe some things were even living!
Don’t even get me started on the wild salinities we all see on stuff that gets shipped in. It’s so bonkers!
No fancy aquascape?!?! Boo this man 😂
Says the person who works on scapes while listening to podcast 😂
Hahahha! I appreciate fancy! I don’t like them hyper-spindly. I was yammering on the fly today, I probably parsed words poorly 😂🤣 Even me, Mr. Stacked Rocks, can appreciate a beautiful scape!
@@kalamazoo_reeferfair enough 😅. My scapes are typically bulkier than those “hyper-spindly” scapes. Those skinny ones don’t give enough habitat for fish.
That’s my primary concern. The poor fish on those insanely spindly scapes, man. Lol! They’re just like always scared and lost 🤣
good stream, methodology and habits are always an interesting discussion and the results they can bring across the spectrum of the hobby. My testing discipline varies like a cycle over time, im currently at a low, i know i should do better (more testing) but I also feel like some of the other things that ive started doing better (stability, no changes) allow me that slack, along with the knowledge that ive gained over time in watching my tank and fundamentally seeing the health and being able to understand when things are and are not right. i'll forever be still figuring things out as long as im in the hobby and be wrong more than Im right.
Bingo! That’s what I’m talking about. You said it better than I did. You literally “earn” slack. That ingrained, hardcore stability, coupled with intimately understanding your system, leads to the ability to enjoy slight slack on testing. I like that thought process.
Don’t come at my black light party! 🎉🪸🐡
I’ve got a blacklight party in the morning and evening! Hahaha. I just like a bright reef through the main part of the day. The blacklight party IS cool as heck, I just can’t look at it all day 🤣
I have a custom 160cmx long 80cm deep it was a little two much in reality, but I can't go back now hehehe
There’s never any going back! It’s like when my wife made me push my peninsula against the wall after deciding she didn’t want it jutting out into the living room. No going back! 🤣
Yo I’m in Kalamazoo too we should meet up lol
@@reefingbliss2354 Ha, unfortunately I don’t live there anymore. Moved way down south for my job! But love the Zoo!
Didn‘t enjoy the unsubstantiated ramblings about ocean live rock and sand. There is no evidence of uronema ever coming in on Florida rock, nor are there bobbit worms in the Gulf. A 20 second google search would tell you that their habitat places them in Indonesia/Fiji.
Telling people to start their tanks with dry rock and bottles of bacteria is fine, just warn them they will fight uglies for a year or more.
Sorry for venting, but do a bit of research.
You’re fine. I respect your view on it. I believe there is evidence. I personally know a reputable individual who exposed their system to nothing more than TBS live sand and tested the tank before and after introduction of this sand, and found that uronema had come in on that live sand.
Oh, just noticed the bobbit worm thing. I mentioned that I was unsure if they even existed in the gulf. I was sure to say that. I was, however, just trying to elaborate on general things people worry about regarding visible pests and live rock.
@@kalamazoo_reefer sorry I overreacted. Not sure why I defend the gulf live rock companies but I do know that they have proven over snd over again that uronema can be ruled out in the gulf.
Mantis shrimp, aiptasia, hydroids yes. Urunema, monster worms no.
Btw, Ben was talking about you in the member section of the reef beef discord today. He had much kinder words.