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Not trying to jump your thread, but the demographic of this thread will not be offended and will likely be amused. Millennial story of the day. I was walking at lunch and noticed a car stopped at the bottom of the hill and a millennial looking down at something in front of their car. A few cars...

When in doubt, water change daily until it reaches the number.

I have never seen peppermints turn on coral, I have see some ignore the Aiptasia, but considering the alternatives, it is best to throw some into the tank, and if you have a problem, throw in food wait until they come out, then net them.

Petco delivers. I have a biocube mixed reef with about 23 gallons of water. I use one box a change. Only works for small tanks. I order 4 boxes at a time and the shipping was $5.99 last time. It is expensive, but it saves a great deal of grief for a small tank...

Water changes or making beer, both to be done while the wife is away.

Equilibrium homeostasis whatever you want to call it. Getting the tank stable and not making changes beats chasing every little 0.001 change in chemistry in the long run.

When I had a larger tank, I put T's and valves on my return pump. One setting was normal, one pumped water to a drain, third pumped water into the tank. It was on the same floor.

Men hunt, woman gather.

It was a general comment. In general, most things do not get repaired. Throw away and buy another. Cobblers? TV repair? Fuel for lighters, vaccum cleaner repair you just don't see them anymore and if you do they make me look like a kid.

I remember Boston MACNA at the NE aquarium.

If it is made in China it is disposable. When they try and introduce new lighting technology they always assume in their calculations they will "last forever" and save you money on electricity.

When thinks don't look good, I do the 10% water change per day while I try and figure out how everything got out of wack. Usually it gets fixed before I am 100% sure what went wrong.

It really depends on your definition of "bleaching" If you mean white coral because the live tissue died, or because the symbiotic algae was expelled and the reason the symbiotic algae was expelled. https://www.nature.com/articles/35081151 https://www.nature.com/articles/40843...

When I get new corals, on many occasions I will see it "spit up brown goo", then bleach. Once it takes up the zooanthelia strain from the tank, it recovers.

I use the same method. I shift my photoperiod so my halides are not on during the hottest part of the day

I wish I had sold off the expensive high mait coral, and moved to fowler/ easy corals/ mushroon Gorg tank instead of getting out of the hobby. Starting over is a drag

The new jeeps are designed to get yuppies to work when there is 2 inches of snow on the road without actually getting out and turning the hubs. It is handy, but where will you get the electronic parts in 10 years.

Flake for tank raised clowns, phyto for coral, frozen shrimp from grocery store for corals and shrimp.Why is shrimp, fish, clams etc for humans cheaper than when you buy it as fish/coral food?

After the superbowl, until the start of football season

I think we have all bought two corals and where told they were different, but when put next to each other in our tanks turned out to be the same coral, just different colors under different lighting after a month or so.