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Thanks everyone! BTW getting old sucks! Lol

Horrible news, so sad. James was a great guy and this is so shocking!

That's what it is. Those are sperm packets.

Bingo! Smart cookies here!

Bret is going to post pics for me.

Thought I would share a bizarre experience I had last night. Now I have fragged more than my fair share of sps corals over the years and what I encountered last night had me perplexed.

The coral in question was a wild collected piece that hasn't been in my possession for very long and I wanted to split it and make a couple frags.

I started with bone cutters then took the fragments to the saw to make a clean cut.

I noticed immediately after cutting the first fragment from the colony that it had these bizarre red spots in the main part of the hard skeleton. 1st thought was retracted polyps? Then I said it couldn't be, they where to deep in the skeleton. After smoothing out the cuts with the saw I set them in a tub to rinse off and went about my business cleaning up the saw.

When I returned to the frags I notice what looks like drops of blood accumulating around the water line of the container, at this point I'm in the [language filter] stage. An acro that bleeds?? Sent pics off to a friend and after some discussion we are pretty sure we know what was going on. There is only one spot visible in the pic of the cut but there was many more before I snapped out of my disbelief and grabbed the camera. Remember none of this is on the body but actually in the skeleton.

Brand new in the box icecap dosing pump for sale. $75

Anyone here local use a reefkeeper? Looking for some help updating and reprogramming my controller.

Shouldn't be a problem, I did it on my sump.

Jeff the new place is amazing! Good to see some familiar faces too!

Small one is sold!

Last go around for awhile!

Have 1 small $150 and one small multi branch for $250. Send me a pm with a number and I can text pics of the one you are interested in. Not really looking for any trades at this time.

Thank you for looking

It was very nice to meet you Lonny! Keep me posted on how it does for you.

Discounts if you buy multiples.

I have probably 10 of these frag racks for sale. They come in 2 different hights.

Will need a cleaning and looking for $15 ea.

Thank you for doing this for me Bret!!

As a bonus, if you are a current paid member you will get an additional frag of my choice if you win!!!

And you give me grief for giving stuff away.......

Tsk tsk

Sold! 1 more available soon.

Located in Sw Portland

Why would you do this to me right now Matt!!!!!!

Sorry Brian.

I have a small wd for sale. Aprox 3/4" for $175

Don't want to mess with uploading pics so pm me and I can text you one.

20 plus years ago we used tap water with a product called Holdex, it was a blue powder. Back then there wasn't much live coral, we used coral skeletons and had to bleach them every 2 weeks.

Check with Kim, she might let a couple go.

There is one wwc on Facebook with a tag of $2600 or something ridiculous like that.