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I gotta head out of town. Anybody want two for $25? Both are small with one being really small fresh split. Text me: 5127317609.

I’m off Broadway and 28th. Got two now and could get more if needed.

*hey mods, I think I put a post in the wrong spot so apologies for the repeat. I’ve got a few more bubble tips to move. One so far, with more that I can get when I have a bit of time. $25. Pickup in ne Portland this weekend. Here are some photos of the colony.

Bummed I was out of town. Looks like a giant success!

I’m no good with names but I have a few random corals to move. Available in ne pdx. -pink zoas: $20 -orange acans (they’re pissed because my crabs keep walking on them but no damage) $20 - A bubble tip from this master colony. On the smaller side. $20 -this medium/lg plate that hates my display but loves the qt so I need to move it (priced even lower due to crappy photos) $80

Hey all - I grabbed another one of these guys making his way over some zoas. If you're looking for a bubble tip - let me know!

Some of y'all followed the saga of this plate coral a few months ago. He loves my invert QT, but hates the display. I've decided to move him out since something clearly bothered him in that display. I have to try and figure out how to take better photos because these are washed out and not great - but he's got a cool green body and purple tips on the little tentacles. He eats a ton and is probably six inches in diameter when he wants to be. This photo is under the whites of my biocube - I don't have blues to show him pop more, so that's not great. I paid $200 a few months ago. Will go half that -$100. NE Portland.

Thanks Jeff - i think someone is grabbing him next week. If not I'll run him in because he's running out of stars.

I picked this guy up from C&C a month or so ago and he’s obliterated the asterina issue in my invert qt so I gotta let him go to a new feeding field. He’s small - less than an inch. I’ll try to get a photo but he lives under some rocks I’d rather not disturb until I have too. $40 OBO. - pickup in ne Portland.

Update - I need to grab a photo but he's doing much better. Knock on wood. Way more open and fleshy and tentacles coming out. He's still not all the way back to being his huge self, but compared to the shrunken skeleton he was before...I'd say he's liking the QT. I guess I'll have a really cool plate coral for sale in a few weeks, cause he sure did not like the display.

I’m no expert but my pressure goes from about 60 to around 100 when the pump comes on. I also close off my waste line a bit more to keep the pressure up. Everything I read is that rodi loves pressure to run smoothly so I try to keep it jacked up.

Hey Brian - I moved him back to the QT right before lights out. I'm gonna go down there and check in on it in a bit. Hoping he likes being back in his happy place.

Alright cool - I've re-acclimated him back to his first home. Guess we'll see how he does from here.

Hey jeff - that was my thought as well. I've sat and watched the tank for a good long time and haven't seen anything. I had that majestic eating acans, but it was pretty consistent and easy to spot. But maybe something is sneaking in a pinch here/there? I just haven't seen it. I did a full test run on both tanks and the only real difference was the nitrates. They're higher in the display (6.0 vs 21) because I'm finishing off some dinos. But everything else was consistent. If I feed it, it'll open and eat. But the tissue around the mouth is definitely starting to peel away slightly and zero tentacle extension. Maybe I give it a day or two then move it back to it's beloved QT? Dunno.

Yeah that's the weird thing - the parameters are pretty dang close and I acclimated it for a bit. It's not a major shift in anything, but I'll test it all again and maybe see something sticking out. THe flow is really pretty mild where it is. Dead center of tank and not a lot of swirl or anything.

I picked up this plate coral about 6 weeks ago. It spent a month in my invert QT and was gigantic and full of flowing tentacles. The lighting in that tank is really not great - just a standard biocube LED set up, and the coral was always completely open. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or it was starving for light. Regardless - I moved it to my DT about a week ago and it just will not open at all. In fact, it's starting to show some clear tissue recession and I'm getting a little worried. I've fed it twice, and it eats a ton, but won't open. It's on my sand bed, about 30 inches down from XR30's. I've put it in slightly more light and slightly less light - but it's just regressing. Any tips? At this point I'm starting to worry it's just going to die.

I honestly have no clue. I did a microscope test and came to the conclusion I had amphidinium as well. I tried boosting silicates and nutrients but that didn't seem to work. I thought maybe I misidentified so I lowered nutrients and things got worse. I got my ICP test done and showed low iron, and silicates in my RO - so I was back to thinking maybe diatoms. I have had success in the past with outbreaks going away after turning off the UV, so I did that at the same time I put the scrubber on. The scrubber is definitely filling up with brown and it's not on the sand anymore - so (knock on wood), it seems to be working for the moment. If this goes well for the next couple weeks Im going to reduce nutrients and see what happens.

I installed a clearwater scrubber two weeks ago - hoping to battle a dino outbreak by encouraging more algae growth in the scrubber. So far the screen is covered in brown (so either dinos growing there or maybe it's diatoms), and my sand bed in back to being pretty clear. But - I did a few other things at the same time so it's hard to pinpoint cause/effect. I turned off the UV and started adding bacteria, as well as correcting an iron deficiency that came up in a test. Regardless - the theory seems pretty sound, and it's been a fun addition to the tank.

Question though / why are y’all needing ammonia lockers or more water changes for the ammonia? I stocked my qt with a ton of bio filtration (old school bio balls) and it’s set. That stuff doesn’t suck up copper like rocks, and it keeps things just fine. In theory you should always disinfect your qt, which would destroy your bio filtration. But if you’re running copper for 30+ days then I’ve never understood the need to disinfect. You are putting the fish into your dt regardless. So I’ve always just ran my same bio filter on the qt. I also go back to back on fish in the qt though. I suppose If you aren’t keeping a steady supply of fish in there then your bio filtration will lapse.

Just treat the qt like you would any other tank with water changes and keeping thing steady. Did the dt, continue to feed it like you would normally to keep everything alive and healthy.

I thought it was funny they kept having to qualify the statement, but there are bigger tanks. The Georgia aquarium is gigantic. Has whale sharks in it. Same with Tokyo. But still - that thing is massive. Really interesting that the front panel is held in by pressure. That’s pretty crazy.

I also got one from C&C. He’s currently in my qt eating all kinds of food.

I used the scrubber on my skimmer and it worked pretty well. It becomes a pain to change out the media but it lasted a decent amount of time. I’ve also dumped a little kalk in my ato. Led to some fluctuations when I’d refill the stop because so much stuff would stir up then get into the tank. Not ideal. You can get scrubbed up and running in no time. Might as well start there?

I'm no plumbing expert, but I just went through this to replace some ball valves on my mixing station. I originally just used hardware store ones and they have gotten almost impossible to open/close. Every time I have to open a valve that's been closed for a while, it feels like I'm going to rip it apart. So I ordered a Cepex valve and it is lightyears better. Super smooth. It's like driving a Honda Civic then sitting in a BMW. I then got one off amazon for $15 just to see - and it isn't nearly as smooth, and is probably harder to move than the hardware store ones where when they were new. I'm not going to use it. The Cepex is also a union - which saves one step in the plumbing. If I was plumbing a new tank I would 100% use all Cepex valves. If it's just a mixing station, then the cheap ones will function just fine...it just takes a little more work to get open and to make sure they close all the way - as they get older.

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