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Thanks for that info! I'll see if I can make the holiday party. I've been wanting to have a different themed tank every year so students are exposed to a diversity of marine life (last year it was soft-coral focused). For example, I've contemplated how it would work to sustain a pipefish/seahorse tank in a future year. So, I would be curious if there was a way to return some of the livestock to the store at the end of the year to repurpose some of the funding if some livestock isn't compatible with next year's theme.

Hi all, I have set up a tank again at my elementary school this year as a clownfish/nem focused tank since that's what kids were most into last year. I was curious if anyone had any rock flower anemones and/or a pistol shrimp & goby pair (preferably something smaller than a watchman goby) they would be willing to donate or offer at a reduced price. My office is at the front of the school and all the students walk by the tank in the morning, so it gets a lot of visibility and enjoyment. We have a new principal this year so I kept it at 15 gallons, but I'm contemplating going bigger next year I have two small rainbow bubble nems that were donated from last year still and bought some new darwin clowns (last year's pair bit me when I'd clean the tank so they went back to the LFS). I'm hoping to add more anemones of different colors. I'm happy to offer bubblegum digi (I have a lot) or bicolor hammer frags in return! Located in Eugene.

Hammer coral is the one in the back. The torch and bubble are currently accounted for.

I'm coming up to Beaverton on Saturday from Eugene and have a bunch of things I can bring up for anyone interested. Rather than take pictures of everything, let me know if you are seriously interested in something and I'll include pictures either in DM or add to the thread if it's something I have multiples of. You can also find older photos of a lot of the livestock on my instagram: oregon_nano Frags (sizes are approximate): Bubblegum Digital: $15 for large frag (2 inches), $20 for X-Large (3 inches with multiple branches; only three x-large available) Red Monti Cap: $20 for 3.5 inch piece, $10 for 1.5 inch piece. Highlighter Torch (3 full-grown heads): $75 Bicolor Hammer: 3 heads for $30, $5 per extra head. Green Sinularia: $10 for large piece (>3 inches) Green Nepthea: $10 for large piece (>3 inches) Bubble Coral Frag: $20 Other: (Very) Clean Chaeto: $5. Not even aiptasia or any coral/fish pests in system (my personal biggest pest are little vermetids, which won't be in chaeto). Gear: Eshopps Nano Skimmer: $40 Cobalt Neotherm Heater 75W (3 available): $20. Used as backups or intermittently for quarantine tanks and heating up water. Innovative Marine 10 Gallon AIO: $40. Comes with pump, filter basket, and lid. Chip in upper corner above water level. No issues for structural integrity and has been used as quarantine tank with no issues. Still great for quarantine purposes. 3D Printed Items (as a service): If you need an item 3D printed and want to send me the link to the file, I can print it out for you for $5-10 + cost of filament (ranges from a few cents to a few dollars). Black PETG only (aquarium-safe). I have several colors of PLA if you aren't worried about it (some people report no issues) and do want something in color.

Thanks to The Aquarium Store and @New Reeferfor donating some fish, nems, and a few softies to go in this school tank. The kids have been super into it.

I’m late to this party but thought I’d share that I had knocked back Dino’s with UV and regular turkey basting and sand mixing to get it in the water column. Was way better but still had some collecting on the rocks and sand everyday (which generally wouldn’t significantly regenerate until the following day vs an hour like before. Was tired of having the eyesore of my UV running out of the display so I got a big bottle of an isochrysis culture and started dosing daily. The Dino’s completely disappeared after a week. Hesitant to attribute causation, but it did seem to line up to suggest a relationship. I didn’t verify but the dinos seemed to be Ostreopsis or possibly Coolia. If the Phyto was only helping by boosting pod populations, I wouldn’t have expected to see such a big change in only a week.

I've got bubble gum digi, garf bonsai, bicolor hammer, rainbow Monti, red Monti cap. Everything else is too small to frag.

I’m also in Eugene. Hit me up if you are looking for something (most of my stuff is SPS though but have a few other things) or ever want to do a group order. TCK corals and someplace with quarantined fish are my go to’s right now. The Aquarium Store in Eugene is the best place I’ve found for dry goods. They don’t always have the kinds of corals I’m looking for but I try to support them to keep a solid LFS in business. They’ll also quarantine fish for you, they just sometimes take awhile to get ahold of something from their supplier if it’s non-standard.

Don’t go so big though you won’t bother to do routine water changes.

Pieced together some extra Marco rock and added clownfish last night. Planning to move it over at the end of this week. If anyone has some pulsing Xenia, green Kenya, or zoas to donate the tank is ready to tank them! I’m thinking on waiting till the tank is at the school to add the nems. The tank will be in my office window just inside the entrance of the school so it will get a lot of viewership. Barring some tank tragedy, anything donated will be offered to be returned if the tank has to get shut down, such as if I get reassigned to a different school next year where I don’t have permission for a tank (yet 😊).

Thanks! I like the Bangaii. I need a few more active swimmers. I think a lot of the fish tend to stay tucked in the rocks given how much I have the flow pumping during the day. Need a few more active swimmers to fill the open areas. Can only really think of Vanderbilt or Acares Chromis at the moment, if you have any other ideas.

Selling my 20 gallon Innovative Marine Peninsula AIO. I'm in Eugene but will be in Portland this weekend. $550 for the following: - Tank with aluminum stand - $650 retail sale price, $760 normally - 75 watt Neotherm Heater - $55 retail - Eshopps Nano Skimmer - $160 Retail - IM Desktop UV Filter - $50 retail - Media basket & Mighty Jet DC return pump w/ Random Flow Nozzle - $20 retail for nozzle, rest included in tank price - Custom Clearview Lid with feeding door - $135 retail - Your choice of a nano Flipper Glass Cleaner or the Tunze Nano Magnet Cleaner - $20 retail Total package is priced to be 50% of retail. If there are other reef "knick knacks" you need, let me know and I might have some I'm happy to get rid of, either thrown in for free (within reason) or also priced at 50% of retail. Some examples are coral foods, additives, light hanging hardware (AI or Ecotech), extra Neotherm Heater, extra IM Mightyjet pump, etc.

Probably a gorilla crab or other Xanthid crab.

Anyone have a good way to get an alert if you have a power outage while you’re asleep (assuming you don’t have a controller)?