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I have tried this new beaded reef welder, it requires hot water to activate it and don't have much time to work with. Most of time only works for above water gluing because it will harden and no longer sticky very fast soonest touch the water with temp that we keep at Another thing that I don't like is that it needs to be keep in hot water to make it soft and possible burning fingers when handling it Wish it only need just room temp water to activate will be so much easier IME a combination of white epoxy and cyanoacrylate glue currently is the best for attaching coral above and under water Make 1/2" - 1" ball of epoxy depending the size of frag, first put a bead of glue on the plug and press light the epoxy ball till attach to plug, apply another bead of glue on the other open end then while holding the frag plug press to a rock. It will attached good even on the side of ledge or upside down placement.

Use the basic white / non color epoxy, it will give more time to work with

Yes, you need to remove that from the tank of it will take over all your rocks. If you remove the rock you can use razor blade to start peeling from base, it is thick like leather coral and has a mat skin that attached to rock.

Forum's vendors feedback actually function like amazon review of personal buying experience with the vendor good or bad. It is not a discussion much the same as in amazon. All forums usually do not allowed open discussion of personal buying experience because such discussion always become off topic and shouting match among members. Over the years hobby forums have adopted to use personal vendor feedback only. This vendor feedback posted in the forum's vendors feedback section will be permanent record unless posters can't back up their claim or fake feedback because poster never done business with the vendor. In a way the vendors feedback serve the community to provide information about a vendor to gauge purchase consideration without all the negativity if it were in discussion format.

There is always a different between bully comment and actual personal experience of negative/positive feedback, you know who you are that always make fun of others for a personal amusement. Then when the consequence happened from the remark immediately crying foul and act like injustice victim. True not fun when the amusement fall unto yourself. In the end no body smiling except yourself. Stupid comment from stupid person always is stupid and doesn't belong in the forum. Feedback good or bad base on personal buying experience always welcome and appreciated.

This is what I use for magnesium chloride. It has to be mixed with Epsom Salt / Magnesium Sulfate to use it properly otherwise you will have chloride imbalance https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-ORGANIC-MAGNESIUM-CHLORIDE-FLAKES-BOOST-IMMUNE-DEAD-SEA-NATURAL-PURE-MGCl2/224158024505?hash=item3430dc0339:g:mOMAAOSwC-5d9Vsx

You can use only Epsom Salt / Magnesium Sulfate if you do not dose much and do water change regularly It is the cheapest way to dose magnesium This is Randy Holmes-Farley Recipe: Recipe #1, Part 3B Dissolve a 64-ounce container of Epsom salts (about 8 cups) in enough purified freshwater to make 1 gallon total volume. This solution is added much less frequently than the other two parts. Each time you finish adding a gallon of both parts of Recipe #1, add 610 mL (2 ½ cups) of this stock solution. It can be added all at once or over time as you choose, depending on the aquarium's size and set up. Add it to a high flow area, preferably a sump. In a very small aquarium, or one without a sump, I suggest adding it slowly. The first time it's added, I recommend adding just a small portion and making sure there isn't any problem (such as corals closing up due to stress) before adding the remainder. Make sure corals and other organisms don't get blasted with locally high concentrations of the main ingredients or impurities, or else they may become stressed. This solution contains about 47,000 ppm magnesium and 187,000 ppm sulfate.

All live coral exporters in Indonesia very aware of the agreement, signed it to phase out wild coral trade and move toward 100% mariculture. It is plain blantant ignorance imo if majority still doing 100% wild coral. The wild coral exporters keep asking for more time to transition to mariculture coral trade. The latest I heard asking an extension to keep exporting wild coral till 2024. IMO 12+ years is enough of an extension plus the law that ban collection and trade of wild coral in Indonesia become effective first day of 2021. The way export coral quota set up yearly in Indonesia took into account established population of mariculture coral. What it means is whenever there is significant numbers of one specie being grown successfully the export quota of mariculture coral for this specie will replace the same number of export quota for same specie as wild collected coral. So every year the wild coral export quota has been on the declining trend because more and more species being grown as mariculture.

The first ban on wild and mariculture coral it is not involving mariculture coral initially. It was a bit complicated event at that time, still tied in to very issue now that will close wild coral trade for good. In the past all live corals exporters, wild and mariculture, in Indonesia were under one group / association where wild coral exporters were the majority by 4 to 1 in numbers. Fisheries secretary at that time known by all is Susi that enacted bold regulation to fight illegal food fishing and illegal live coral collection for aquarium trade. She initially banned the wild coral trade because there was an agreement signed in 2007/2008 by all live coral exporters to move toward 100% mariculture. The trade should come up with exit strategy to phase out wild coral and phase in involvement in mariculture abd the Indonesia government itself introducing a bill to close all wild coral and collection trade in 10 years time. So back to the first ban that initially for only wild coral trade, the association since the majority are wild coral exporters decided to use mariculture trade as bargaining tool. The association argue to the fisheries secretary that if wild coral is closed for good the mariculture trade should also be closed. Of course Secretary Susi at that time being put in that position later closed the mariculture trade also. Because of this situation mariculture companies / exporters felt being handicapped by the association quit the association and forming another association specifically for all companies that only do mariculture and export mariculture corals. These companies almost all of them which is about 16 companies all located in Bali Is. Mariculture coral has never been an issue in Indonesia from the get go.

It has never been an issue with SPS

SPS and Torches / Euphyllia consider a fast growing corals, so we will continue to see these corals in the trade

For marine fish only those that usually come from Hawaii. Other than that still plenty of availability from other area. The scarcecity now is because of logistic challenges with covid As far as live coral we will not see those solitary coral that took 10-20 years to grow to saleable size level like cynarina, acanthophyllia, trachyphyllia ect.

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https://reefbuilders.com/2021/02/18/theres-another-situation-looming-regarding-wild-corals-from-indonesia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3-SjscbA0KvXp3JSHX0ysjPCKvJaHvh5ghokUD1SOI8rHgmxPlAWRwADE It is sad to say that soo we will not be seeing much of solitary / non colonial corals anymore exported from Indonesia. Whatever shipments of wild coral currently still coming from Indonesia is using 2020 export wild coral quota. When this 2020 wild coral quota done the trade for wild coral from Indonesia will no longer exist. Mariculture coral trade will resume as normal because this has been the goal since 2010 the beginning of exit strategy for the stakeholder to transition to 100% mariculture. Unfortunately 10 or so years has been passed with ignorance and the law went into effect this year. Wild coral exporters association is in communication with the government to ask for more transition time till 2024 but it doesn't look like that this will be granted given that these wild coral exporters already have some 11 years to change and choose to ignore it. As end user we should take proactive approach to build our awareness about where the coral in our closed reef coming from and also educate ourselves how we can help with the sustainability.

I know some of members in our reefing community been hit hard with the snow storm just passed Some even still have no power to the present. A few I know lost the reef tank as a result. Stay strong, rebuild to start the tank going again. I have some free starter frag pack to seed your tank when you get your reef tank back up running again. Please pm me if you are one of the unfortunate that lost your reef tank I will gladly help.

It is the same accuracy as Hanna Checker for Alk test

Not sure where you read this information? Alk, marine shows 5% deviation

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I need a bag or two of clean chaeto and dragon breath, will trade for frags

Reasonably price for the amount of saltwater testing it can do, the drawback is that it is manual testing.

Does it matter 🙂

This is another option for those that like to do manual testing https://www.hannainst.com/multiparameter-photometer-and-ph-meter-hi83300.html