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I did have one I was treating and getting ready for sale but after I had that fire in my fish room it died :(
So now I’m back to just the one in my display. I’ll hopefully be QTing some more in the near future. [emoji1696]


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Hi, about a year and a half ago, I replaced a bunch of the LEDs in my mars aqua. I tried to match the LED layout of the SB reef lights. I noticed the other day that many of the UV spectrum diodes have blackened the lense. I also noticed that sbreef lights claims they use a different lense for their UV diodes that is supposed to last longer. Anyone have much experience with the board retro fit kits? I am also considering just getting an entirely new lights. I think the ones I have are likely 5+ years old. Not sure how long the drivers are good for. Just noticed YouTube has a bunch of negative reviews of the sbreeflights failing after about a year and it taking several months to get a replacement. Anyone have experience with this? I would like to use sbreeflights products since I have had great results using their spectrum. Plus, I feel I kind of owe them since I did copy their spectrum. Thanx Pete

I've also started using the heavier stuff, like crushed coral. It was too annoying seeing little bald spots develop over time from my pumps with fine grade sand. I've heard it can trap detritus easier but I have lots of sand critters and I haven't noticed anything, been using it in my tanks for about a year and it's nice not having to look at sand blowing around or bare spots develop.

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Check this out! My brain has joined the latest trend. Anyone ever seen this before?
 
 
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[emoji54] now this is what I'm talking about! Beautiful peice! Where did you find it? I'm an LPS fan and have been keeping an eye out for nice big LPS peices like this. And a year already, wow that flew by. Your tank looks amazing, I really like your aquascape and your fish choices.

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I think I dealt with more if a depression where the tank sat, like you could really tell something was there. We did this after a move out, that particular tank I had made some messes during water changes (like knocking over 5 gallon buckets lol) and I was always worried about the carpet. After we moved I just used a carpet shampooer but it won't do much for the depression if ones left there unfortunately, at least in my case it didn't. I'm not sure if that's something that goes away over time or not though because like I said it was during our move out.

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Typically anything that nukes an aiptasia leads to a bigger outbreak of aiptasia months later. Ask me how I know

Wow I just watched a video and briefly read about F Aptasia. Does it actually harden around the aptasia once coated? 

woot, I got a call from the freight company today my tank is scheduled to be here sometime next tuesday.  
Also picked up a used in very good condition 26" trigger systems emerald sump from a guy locally last night, to replace the old basic eshopps one the baffles started separating from the sides on when I was cleaning it
 

I have two Green Toadstool frags right now, one on a small rock, the frag itself is about the size of a nickel, the other Green Toadstool frag is on a frag disc, the actual frag is a sort of comma shape, maybe 2 1/2 long? I could also just pull a peice of Green Star Polyps off a rock super easy, and I have at least a couple individual green Mushrooms attached to rubble or small rocks but could easily take off a couple or few more if you want more than one or two. As far as the zoas I could chisel off a few for you of either or both. Let me know!

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I have a frag with a few of these (this isn't the actual frag, just a pic of what they look like) with a couple small branches of Kenya tree coral attached to the small rock as well. These aren't the actual corals like I said, just I picture I pulled of the internet that looks like them, I could try to get better pics if you want

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Here's some of the Green Mushrooms I have

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Here's some of the Orange Zoas and you can kind of see some of the Green Zoas, sorry I can take better pics when my lights come on, this picture was taken a couple minutes after lights on yesterday so not all polyps are open, I actually took the picture to upload on Facebook to try to figure out what type of Zoas they are

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Looking for corals for my kids tank. Mostly softies but LPS would be okay. They have a few green mushrooms and some Xenia but that’s it. Thanks everyone. 

BUMP, still looking! Available Saturday to buy if anyone has any. I did find some from someone on the forum but they wanted to wait until the lockdown is lifted I guess and apparently doesn't want to ship which I completely understandbut who knows when the lockdown will be lifted so I'm looking elsewhere for now.

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Looking for enough live rock rubble to fill a gallon Ziploc baggy , a bit more or less would be great too, I have no clue what that would weight so I can't give a weight of what I want... Just about enough to fill a Ziploc baggy lol. A few slightly larger peices would work as well, just looking for some more rock for my sump. Prefer live rock, already cured would be ideal, also somewhat local Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Aloha, Beaverton etc, possibly Portland. If you have any please let me know your location and what you want for it, I can pay cash, I don't have anything much worth trading right now. Also looking for some Amphipods (the larger pods) to seed one of my tanks and still looking for long polyp Toadstools!

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Hopefully that'll start in the next week or 2, I don't have a tracking number for the tank but SC has it marked as shipped and I got an email notification that it was shipped
Probably start the thread with building my stand after the tank gets here and I can get a few measurements to double check my plans and make sure everything is going to clear.  I really don't want to burn all my lumber building the stand then find out there isn't enough room to get the bulkhead nuts on past the 2x4 frame rail on the back lol
 

well now that I've waffled around enough on it (and the 80g seapora lagoon tank went up in price to 701) I finally decided on the SC Aquariums 90g rimless 36x24x24.  Ordered it this morning, should have it by end of next week it looks like

 

It had come down to pretty much the seapora or the SC, I think what really sealed it for me was the SC being starfire vs the seapora being regular glass and steve telling me he'd honor the warranty using my own built stand so long as I used solid 3/4 top (except the drain cutout) and self leveling mat.  The $99 extra over the seapora was worth it for those 2 things.

 

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Thanks for all of the info guys! I love this forum! I did look into the sb reef lights but didn't see a size that works for me (didn't know there was a 45" one) but they look pretty similar to my old light and I'm ready to change it up. I would've loved to try the reefi lights but I'm laid off right now and the wife and I decided it's not the best time to spend that much $. I did see at a frag swap recently that Daniel was using a pendant style prototype, it looked great, I'll be looking into it for my small tank if he starts selling them! 
Anyways we ordered the Reefbreeders v2+ 50. Im excited that it doesn't ramp up the colors on the hour, it is supposed to slowly ramp up throughout each hour. Logan gave us 10% off for being return customers and gave me a part for my old light for free. I think it came out to $643. But I'm a bit nervous since I've never seen the light on a tank (other than in pictures). It should be here at the end of the week so we'll see! 

I'll take them if they are still available [emoji4]

I have two of these and they are model citizens and all I have is small fish and one yellow tang. The only thing they attack is my arm. Sometimes it is really jarring. They are totally awesome otherwise. Love those little F***kers.

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I love Azures! Had three for awhile but they're total dicks. I have 5 fish now so I'm maxed. 

 

Beatiful reef fish and they swim a lot so they're a great addition. But dicks [emoji4]

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I finally found a mate for my female Wyoming White Clownfish who's been living as the lone Clown for a while now in one of my tanks, I've been going back and forth between a few types of Clowns but finally decided on a Mocha Storm Clown. My daughter and I stopped at Paradise Coral to buy fish food and they had the perfect little Clowns, we almost immediately picked out this little guy and brought him home, we put him through Safety Stop and put him in my tank. I was a bit worried at first that my female wouldn't care for him but she immediately went to greet him and they've been inseparable living in their Toadstools since [emoji16] sorry the pictures aren't the best, some corals are mad still, I had just moved around some of my rocks and corals to remove a Damsel that was trying to bully the new fish so it and the other Damsel was banished to my sump until they can go to a new home

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I have a pair of Azure Damsels, or Yellow Bellied Damsels that need a new home FREE. I'm hoping to have something lined up for next weekend, I'm located in the forest Grove area but I'm sure I could meet possibly in Hillsboro OR POSSIBLY Beaverton if I'm in the area. Full disclosure: the larger Damsel can be a bully to fish smaller than him! (Surprise Surprise right?) He's about ~2 inches long, if you have fish larger than him he will be absolutely fine, but he tends to try to bully tiny fish. He tends to stay in one area of the tank and can be territorial only towards very small fish, I've decided to re-home them both together because they're a pair and mostly because he started trying to bully my new little Storm Clown. If no takers he's going to a LFS or I'm posting on Craigslist free which I hate doing but right now they're in my sump and I don't want to leave them in there for too long.

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Selling two rainbow nems, they're about 4 inches each attached to a 3-5lb rock. 971-270-6153. thanks. located tigard/tualatin 

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