Oregonic

I have a red sea stand with a hinge that needs to be replaced. I got about 3.5 years out of it by lightly coating in vaseline. 

Fubon, or the new asian store where thr Fred Meyer’s was on 82nd and Foster. 

Almost like GSP on the back wall 🤣

7 hours ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

Nice looking leapord.

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He is always trying to photo bomb any pic I take. He usually is just a blur in in the center of pictures 🤣

49 minutes ago, Mooseman_Sal said:

I can trade some acan frags 

PM sent. 

29 minutes ago, Felixsr said:

Can we meet on Friday if you still have some available 

Sent you a message with my number. 

Just now, littlenano said:

Are you willing to ship? 

Local pick up only, sorry. 

Got some purple with green tip frogspawn and green with purple tip hammer frags. Most frags have 2 heads, a few have 3, a few larger frags just have 1.  $15 a frag would also happily trade for other frags. Located in NE Portland near Glendoveer golf course. FYI I do have vermetid snails and aptasia in my tank, but who doesn’t 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gravity fed algae scrubber for an AIO, aka no pump down flow. 

Was just up at Reef Box, Brian had some great looking frags!

I missed the last few, hope I can make it to this sale. Some of my healthiest corals have come from you 😁

🤣 my wife just decorated the bathroom with coral theme too!

Well I built my fixture this weekend, pretty happy how it turned out. Ended up going with a blue plus and a coral plus, store only had one blue plus in stock so I guess its fate 🤣. Im starting acclimation with T5’s on for a hour and fifteen minutes for the first few days, and will add fifteen minutes every 3-4 days. Im thinking of maxing out at four or five hours of T5, and leaving the hydra on the same schedule 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

Welcome to the addiction!

10 minutes ago, Blue Z Reef said:

I’d look around online but this is a good reference picture (not mine):

actinic - coral+ - blue+ - purple+ - B+ - B+

it may seem like the purple plus would have more purple but it definitely has a whiter/pinky purple hue to it. Actinic is a dimmer bulb that helps things get that little extra pop (similar to UV leds).

Yea I saw an old video from Tidal Gardens and thought the blue plus with purple plus looked good. Blue plus and actinic looked good too. I think I will use the led to adjust the white as @spectra suggested. 

Great thank you everyone. I was afraid a 1 to 1 of coral plus/blue plus may be to white and sound like your experiences agree 😂. Anyone try the blue plus/purple plus combo?  

Just ordered 2 t5 single bulb fixtures to add a more even coverage of light.  Currently running a hydra 26 hd on a slightly modified ab+ schedule. Recently moved and have sold off all my BTA’s and some other coral and looking to replace with some more sps now that I can keep an acro alive and coloring up even despite a the move along with a few other sps. Curious if anyone has any opinions on what bulb combo to add. I like the look of the blue plus with purple plus. Was thinking possibly blue plus with coral plus but it may be to white. Also curious if I should just run them for half of photo period or more or less (after a few weeks of slowly adding longer light periods every few days of course). 

Whats the size of the tank?

That actually is really cool looking. 

PM sent @The ReefBox

1 hour ago, The ReefBox said:

Looks like he is doin good. Did you get my message bout copperband

No message?

Stopped by Reef Box for the first time today. We showed up before Brian opened and he invited us in. Brian was great to talk with and had a pretty good selection of fish and a few full frag tanks. Cant wait to see this store fully stocked in the future. I was expecting this clown wrasse to just dive in the sand and disappear for a few days but to my surprise he has been making laps around the tank from the minute I dropped him in. Thank you for the happy fish and great hospitality Brian!

I never found it locally. I ordered from BRS. Each bottle of reagent lasts me 2-3 months. The only issue I have ever had with mine is on bottle of reagent tested about .5 dkh lower then any other bottle I have had but was consistently .5 lower the entire bottle. Just be mindful when you open a new bottle and dont freak out. I have started opening a new bottle just before the previous one runs out and test using both new and old bottle for a few tests. 

Not interested in the fish but may have a tip to catch them. In the middle of the night, hours after lights out take the brightest flashlight you have and you can basically stun them by directly shining a flashlight on them and net them. 

Love my hanna alk checker. I believe mine tests a little low, but it is very consistent and easy to use. The reagents are pretty affordable too.