stylaster

yes it is an encruster

Picked this up at some sort of fancy annivesary sale thing. I think the name is fitting

Great gifts so far, nice job guys

Hi all, im looking for a decent sized frag or small colony of pink lemonade acropora. Thanks

I am a supporting member

Hanna ulr phosphate checker. Brand new never used. Asking 40.00. I'm located in Kelso wa. Pickup only. Thanks!

Ok so I can connect a second dos right to first one it looks like. Ie daisy chain it

Before i go out and buy a second neptune dos and ddr system, i wanted to make sure my apex can handle another unit without having to add break out box etc. Thanks guys

I would bump your phophates up to around .05. Phosphates are needed for the health of the corals. I noticed when my phosphates bottomed out i would have issues with my SPS.

Hi All Curious to see how long some of you have been in the hobby. What was your first tank? what equipment did you run back then? For myself i started in 1990.... been in the hobby for 31 years... im an old salt! My first tank was a 55g acrylic tank with two 400w iwasaki 6500k metal halide bulbs. The tank had a hang on the back overflow box into a 25g sump that housed... and i kid you not a 5' tall downdraft skimmer. I had that tank running with mostly soft corals and a few stonies. Then i met Steve Tyree and that's who started me on my SPS journey. Steve would go down to the wholesaler in LA let me know of any cool SPS and then he would ship them up to me... ah the good ol days. Then i took a little side trip in the late 90's into giant clam breeding with a guy from Tacoma. We started culturing our own zooxanthellae for the giants clams. (got the culture from a sacrificial giant clam by cutting up the mantle tissue and isolating the algae.) We did have luck getting clams to spawn, but where never able to get them to grow out much past a couple mm's in size. Im guessing lack of appropriate foods back then. For a few years i was the club president and met a lot of great folks through this hobby Let's here what you guys have done!

Did the mp 10 sell?

I got a bunch, im up in kelso wa if you want to head up this way let me know

Ya its in lower corner of the tank not under the lights

I have a 10x10" rock that im letting 9 of them encrust and grow together. Then the rest im gluing on branch rock to encrust

Thank you to Rudy for all the great corals over the weekend. Everything is settling in nicely

Just wanted to say thanks to Jeff for this killer Cyphastrea. So far im up to 23 different types. Amazing how there are so many of them

Hi All Im looking to purchase cyphastreas. Let me know what you have for sale and pictures if possible. Im located in Kelso Wa. Thanks all

I would like to be next, going to have those radion gen5 to dial in

Rudy is a great guy ive known him such a long time we use to do out of the trunk coral deals down by the airport lol

looks great!

what are the wattages on the uv sterilizers?

oh forgot to add the tank has been up and running for 6 years before i had an issue

Saw this thread and i just restarted my 312 gallon tank that had the same issue. All my soft corals zoas, anemones fish etc etc are fine, but anything with a hard skeleton died slowly over 2-3 months. I did have a discussion with another reefer with the same issue and he thought it might be a dinoflagellate called ostreopsis ovata. It is toxic to hard corals and will kill them over time. I am not sure if that was teh issue or not. I did end up shutting my tank down. Here is what i did Acid washed all the rocks and let sit in fresh water for 2 weeks. Cleaned the tank and sump out and checked for any rust or signs of metal contamination (none found) Replaced my mp 40 wetsides Replaced my main return pump with a spare i had (hammerhead rated at 6,000 gph) Cleaned my calcium reactor. Added a dos dosing system to my apex and tied that in with the trident and calcium reactor to minimize the amount of alk, ca and mg swings Added a salinity monitor to the apex Changing over my radion gen ones to radion gen5 blues Cleaned skimmer and pump throughly, inspected for any type of rust on screws on the pump. Started tank back up filled with ro/di water (new filters on rodi) Let tank set for 2 weeks Added salt and put in rocks again and let sit a week Then i added a couple pieces of live rock that i saved to repopulate the system with coraline. So far system has show great health again. All old corals and fish are back in system and thriving. I have added a few tester hard corals and they have been doing great for 3 weeks now. In the end do i know what caused the issue? No, but doing a complete reboot of the tank seems to have helped. Ill try and keep some updates posted as things go along. I do plan on adding a reef octopus biopellet reactor in the near future to help with the nitrates. Currently the parameters are salinity 1.025 Temp 77 deg f alk 8.5 ca 462 mg 1289 ph 8.24

Looks great, now just to let them color up with coralline

ok gotcha good luck all