The Counter Message with

The Counter Message with ‪@telegraham‬ - Episode 113 - Reef Beef Podcast.
In this episode with have return guest Jim Graham back on the show to talk more about battery backups, DC pumps, and the perils of “Sales Reefing”.
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Time Stamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:57 Hey Jim
00:09:25 SPONSOR: SaltwaterAquarium.com
00:10:42 Disaster Planning & Batteries
00:19:20 SPONSOR: Champion Lighting
00:20:40 Batteries continued
00:27:30 SPONSOR: PolypLab
00:28:55 New Talent & Methods in the Industry
00:46:34 The “Concoction”
01:03:11 Rich’s Water Idea
01:05:28 Jim’s tank plans
01:07:53 Wrap Up
01:09:02 So many Bloopers
#ReefBeef #DisasterPlanning #AquariumBatteries

[@MikeyColon]

Great episode - wasn't long enough!

[@J_ellis709]

Jimmy Graham fits Reef Beef so perfectly!!

[@AMGEE]

Love you guys! Reef Beef is like no other beef!❤

[@criticalreef1372]

Great show gentlemen 👏

[@leemont909]

Ben with affects always kills me

[@brandonclow1170]

Always one of the top shows out there!

[@johngraves2185]

Great show! I usually wait at least a week to clean my glass for that very reason. Cheers!

[@pataclow]

sometimes I wonder if the BIOME thingy will end up joining the "ICP test uncertainty" team. 😁 We've done a lot of WC since the early days of Jaubert. Keep it up!

[@billssaltwaterheaven]

Yea baby!

[@1Marine_Biologist]

New beeeeeef 🥩🥩🥩

[@Coralvids]

Why is this so good?!

[@luckyday4134]

Yes

[@jahsreef8386]

Just frolicking 😊

[@power21100]

A Kasa smart power strip and a jackery battery portable power pack works well for my 40 gallon

[@kalamazoo_reefer]

Kasa - good stuff!

[@power21100]

@@kalamazoo_reefer for real, when i was building my 40 gallon AIO, it made me think. Then i found Kasa, its kind of like having an apex, but with google assistant. No more bending over backwards to find the right plug.

[@power21100]

@@kalamazoo_reefer yes sir! I've had mine running non-stop for 3years now

[@jasonlanger4118]

I'm just here to comment.

[@1GolfJones]

My Seachem Division 1 skimmer is the best skimmer I've ever owned. Two years in, problem free, and still skimming like crazy. My only beef with the skimmer is it takes up a lot of real estate, but the payoff is worth it.

[@adotare9180]

I mean, it’s only logical that rapid de-pantsing would occur in the Back to Barstow house

[@InappropriateReefer]

🪸 🥩 🔥

[@InappropriateReefer]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@srt4eric1]

When did Guy Fieri join the podcast and start reefing?

[@srt4eric1]

Nevermind... it was only Ben Johnson

[@CaptiveAquaticEcosystemsCAE]

Chillin in flavortown

[@insanity4224]

Could the ‘concoction’ be freeze dried and used as a powder? This could kill the bacteria making it much safer to use whilst providing nutrition.

[@CaptiveAquaticEcosystemsCAE]

I believe it has been shown that freezing does not kill all the bacteria we are concerned about.

[@insanity4224]

@@CaptiveAquaticEcosystemsCAE agreed. But freeze drying is very different.. it freezes whilst removing all moisture. Freeze dried products are desiccated and stored at room temperature. I have read that nutritional values remain largely unaffected. This could possibly provide nutrition to coral and avoid contamination.

[@cephhead]

I think it would be weird to freeze dry food that has been rehydrated after it was freeze dried. More importantly, no one seems to have any idea what is being grown when they 'cook' it so....

[@insanity4224]

@@cephhead hey Rich, love your podcast. I’ve heard every episode! I didn’t even consider that some of the ingredients were possibly freeze dried items. Once they are digested again I’m not sure it would matter. I’m skeptical about exactly what is being grown in the concoction and I’m not willing to try it myself. But if a company made it and had each batch e dna tested to make sure it is something our corals actually want to eat, then freeze dried to kill it off and make it convenient to use.. I might buy it. Edit: IF I actually knew it would benefit me. I collect leather corals so realistically do not need anything other than seawater and fish turds.

[@KCYT2010]

Ecoflow has sold thousands of refurbished units on Ebay. Read the customer comments, lots of complaints about short life span and complete failure in the first year. So I decided to buy another brand that uses a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery and has much better reviews.

[@telegraham]

If you have sales numbers, please share. Your comment suggests you do. That, and the River 2 has a five year warranty. At $120 on EBay with the warranty intact, they’re a reasonable option. Mine still works and I use it everyday. Guess we’ll see!

[@don_chuwish]

Their eBay feedback profile is pretty darn good.

[@KCYT2010]

@@telegraham I replied with sales numbers but my reply must have been deleted by your guys. Oh well, I was just saying due diligence is in order.

[@ReefBeefPodcast]

It was not deleted. There is nothing in the review queue or flagged as spam.

[@KCYT2010]

@@ReefBeefPodcast I put an eBay link to a listing in my post and I saw it added to the thread. But now it's gone. I think YT deleted it.