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Should be able to make it! You know I love a good raffle [emoji57][emoji41]
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I’m just outside salem in Independence. I have a few zoas....looking to clear out racks so most frags are $10-20. Here are a few pictures. I’m free most evenings if you want to take a look.
List of some I have: BBEBs, eye or raw, scrambled eggs,oxides, blueberry fields, Grandis, bam bams, Rastas, GB Twizzlers, iron mans, nuclear green, Speckled Kraks, and a few more.
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Hey Mr. Bret and his daughter!
I passed this post along to my little bro. He has been looking for a python for a while and would love to rehome your snake. I know Randell (hopefully I spelt that right) is interested and I don’t want to step on any toes but my little bro would like to get put next in line please
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Sale thread please! I'll totally drive down for some collector pieces
Was just setting aside some stuff that I need to photograph. Nothing high end this go around. Going to be mostly $10 frags with a few that will be $15 or $20. Need to make space.
Going to have scrambled eggs, Rastas, eye of raw morph, dragons eyes, bam bams, and more.
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What does everyone use their reef lights for....other than reefing..??
My parents goats recently had kids and we set up a temporary kidding barn. Well they needed a light for the barn and I had an extra LED with burnt out diodes [emoji23] so the goats are getting sunshine inside for now!
On another note, look at how cute these little guys are! Meet Oreo and Coco!
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I run a few different T5 combos over my tanks.
My 75 gallon is two Kessil 360s and two blue plus. Personally I’m not a fan of T5 because I love the shimmer/color of LEDs. So I run my T5 while I’m at work and when I get home they turn off and I get to view my tank how I like it. But the corals benefit from the spectrum the Blue + bulbs put off.
Now jump to my dads tank. He has a 180 and runs 3 kessils 360s with two coral plus bulbs. The kessils are cranked all the way up with blue and the tank is still super white. But that’s how he likes it and he gets great coral growth.
On my frag tank I run just 4 T5 bulbs and will be changing it to LED soon. But I run 3 blue + and one Purple + on that. Other than not liking T5 to start, I would say the color of the tank is good.
So long story short, I would recommend getting two blue + bulbs. And if it’s to blue for you, just have them turn off when you get home I believe that blue + bulbs give off the best spectrum.
I’ll try to grab some pics of the tanks today.
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Just picked up some Pink Diamonds and Utter Chaos last night from Nate. Buy with confidence, corals are all healthy and Nate is a great guy!
Corals are open and healthy [emoji41]
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Newest acquisition, curiosity of Cuttlefish and Corals!
Speckled Krakatoa Paly! One of my favorites!
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Would you be willing to trade for a half a bag of dog treats? They gave my dog diarrhea.
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Dad's bringing the fire! Will keep an eye out for your sale thread...
Please do, pricing will be fire [emoji41]
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Tell your dad to get a hold of me if he wants to trade/sell any popcorn [emoji4]
Will do. I know he wants to take them under the knife at least one more time. That would bring him up to 16 Og bounces [emoji23]
And a couple dozen jawbreakers lol
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Got a pic of the larger Utter Chaos? I’m interested.
And here is a pic of the blueberry fields I just took in my tank today. Easily one of my favorite zoas. I believe your colony came from a frag I sold you!
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A few frag tank pics! Sale thread probably coming soon [emoji41]
And a couple super awesome pieces in my dads tank [emoji7]
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@Gaidin
did you sell the tank or change your mind on selling it? Sent a pm a day back but didn’t get a reply.
Shoot them a text. I got an instant reply doing it that way.
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Here is the pic I was sent. Hope it helps sell the tank
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The stuff I claimed is back up for grabs. Little to far for me
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Where are you located? Interested in torch, utter chaos and Duncans
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Pm sent
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Lovin' the potted plant in the back there. Looks good!
Thanks [emoji23] threw it on there one day to keep it from blowing around and thought it looked fitting for a frag tank on a plant nursery lol!
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Zoas....zoas everywhere
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Hey Cody -good to see an update. Sounds like the zoa collection is still going strong. Missed you at frag fest this year.
It is! Going to be offloading about 80% of these frags to a wholesaler. Plan to start collecting something else, had zoas for as long as I can remember haha.
I was bummed I missed it. It sounded awesome and had some killer raffle items...and you know how I like my raffles lol!
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Well I haven’t done much since my last update [emoji28]
Frag tank finally got clean up today. Made some 300+ zoa frags.
Little before and after...
75 is just trucking along. Had some pieces die which is always sad, but I think the tank is bouncing back.
Better pictures to come...eventually lol
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I just got an Order from them on Tuesday. Was very happy. The 1/4” ones are pretty small. There are twelve in the picture haha. But they will grow [emoji41].
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Definitely a branching hammer. Torch has different tentacles. Very nice hammer colony though.
Opinions on top offs/float valves
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My dad and I both run versions of RODI straight to a float value on the tank.
My dads setup: RODI literally straight to a float valve in the sump. He has had it like this for over 10 years and has never had an issue.
My setup: my dads was a little too risky for me. So I go from RODI to a always closed marine solenoid (cheap on Amazon’s). The solenoid is controlled by an electronic float valve. Once the electronic float valve says “open” the solenoid opens and allows water to flow which then goes to a float valve in the sump.
In my mind this has roughly three safety steps.
1) the solenoid is always off this cutting the flow off.
2) say it gets stuck on. There is then a mechanical float valve to close off the water.
3) my electronic float value has a back up so if the water level ever gets too high, the power to the solenoid gets cut off. This cutting flow off again.
I have been running my setup for about a year.
Here is a photo of my setup. Excuse the messing wires [emoji23]
In the back right of the sump are the electronic float valve
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