Kerbash

Welcome tot he forum!

i use those 120 watt chinese black box led over my frag tank, i think 120 bucks a unit?, seems to grow everything fine even acro, the only issue seems to be high end acros dont color up as nice as my main tank.

Yes! Thanks @Emerald525 for being so on top of it!

Noooo missed it 😞 well holding my spot in case one opens up

These guys were the result of a spawn one year ago today. There were 6 of them but lost 4 when I went on vacation ☹️. All of them have different color morphs from their parents! They grew pretty fast too. Just a year and they are already almost full size.

Sup, Im trying to set up a new frag system but I am in need of a skimmer, Im looking for any thats rated for 100 - 200 gallon but prefer 150. I can pay cash or corals, got a bunch of chalices/zoas/japanese pink nepthea/gonios.

Hey do you have a skimmer? for how much?

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I got a molly in a tank with a ritteri nem, put in 3, all eaten by nems by the third week,

I think one more on the list is Kenya Tree. A really nice coral thats also pretty easy is the blue cespitularia, if you are in the Puget Sound area hook me up, I got so much Xenia, Kenya tree I can give them up for free lol.

I think that might be an Ocellaris clown fish, if not a Percula Maroon are a bit darker in color

Nope but my system is really big though ~450 gallon. I know that the Aptasia-X is made from a similar thing, if you are concern dont apply too much once, like kill a couple a day.

I tried a couple of file fish over the year, they always ends up nipping coral especially acans and this weird chalice i got for some reason, last time, the filefish I killed like 90% of my weird chalice... How I finally got rid of aptasia was mixing kalk with tank water into a thick past and "feed" it to the aptasia, squirt a little bit on their tentacle and they pull it in, in like 30 minutes they melt.

The goni were crazy at the show! I picked up 3 I think it was from the OMGJesusCorals booth.

Ha! Thats awesome

Dang! The nem is so nice!

Anyone got any cool pieces from the coral show today? Wanted to be there but I couldn't make it today 😞 so went to the Seattle yesterday instead. I got one of the only two merten's carpet anemone I have ever seen! Should have gotten both the red one and this yellow one, Im sure Ill be regretting this decision on my deathbed...

I cant unfortunately 😞 I dont have access to the wholesaler site, its from a friend of mine, Ill ask him though

huh never seen them before !

yeah im honestly not sure. we were thinking of just emailing the wholesaler and ask what so special about it lol cuz it was 125 bucks at wholesale prices.

The funniest thing is that next to the posting in big bold letters it said RARE!!!

Huh thanks guys, yeah we got no idea. Too bad its so expensive i wanna have a closer look.

Sup guys, A LFS friend of mine, told me that his wholesaler have some strange zoas up for sales right now, they look just like zoas. He said its listed as Zoa Rod, both of us have never heard of them Goolging dont give me any concrete answer, does anyone know their species name? I really want to know if they can build branches like a gorgonia or something. Anyone heard or seen anything like this b4? Or have we been duped and its just zoa growing on some skeleton.

Hey guys, No picture but just a thought that crossed my mind today. Not sure how accurate this is but thinking about my past experience I think there are a couple of different types of RTN and how to treat them seems different. Would like to hear about anyone thought or input! Or if you have any experience confirming/contradicting any of my experience please post! Observation: 1. Brown Jelly: - Noticeable especially in low flow area - Flesh inflates into a brown jelly - Seems to spread from proximity - No apparent reason for occurrence - Seems to always stop after iodine dip ime 2. Peeling off: - Flesh falls off as sheets - Most prevalent in Pocilloporidae (birdsnest, stylo, etc) - Only happened three times for me so far in separate colonies: twice alk too low, another got stung by hammer, both times, manage to save frags for both. - Cut above the line, if far enough works 100% of the time 3. Burnt tips: - Corners and tips of acros turns white - Diffused (no clear distinct line separating healthy flesh) - Mostly in acropora, birdsnest and monti - Seems to be due to unstable param??? No clue - No concrete cure, sometime fragging work sometime it doesnt 4. Distinct Boundaries: - Patches of flesh necrosis - Clear distinction between dead and living flesh - Mostly in acropora, monti - No clue, possibly irritation? Happened a few types never any link to each other. - 50/50 cure with antibiotics for 10 days. Fragging works some time as well. Hypothesis Brown Jelly: I am pretty sure this is caused by some pathogen, they seem to kill really rapidly, I have never seen any progression or where they start because by the time I notice, half the colony is gone. Dips seems to always solved it for me in SPS. Also not sure is it the same in LPS but peroxide treatment in LPS seems to work 80% of the time if caught early enough, to nervous to try on SPS. Peeling off: Never seen acropora do this but it might be because they are all in high flows so any flesh gets blown off before I can see. A wild theory here, but I think it seems that this maybe due to some anchoring/calcification mechanism getting broken, so the flesh slough free from the skeleton, not sure what triggered it sometime, but the two out of three times that it happened its because of low alk. The rest of the colony never looked distress, polyp extension like normal. Burnt tips: Seems to always be related to unstable param, No clue why pass that though could be because of a curse for all I know 😅 Distinct Boundaries: I think its due to some pathogen distinct lines of dead coral seems to match some known coral disease although all of those are STN i think. Viral is possible too, thats why antibiotics and dips only works sometime. Note: Although I had all of these happened out of no where, stress of some sort seems to be a trigger for any of these.

My printed one is not a magnet, I cracked a tank once using magnets so i try to stay away from those, but I use suction cups instead. Mine two have been up to close to a year now, made from PLA, and works great. Im sure you could modified this really really easily to fit whatever magnet you are using. I attached the model file to this message. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZS7MV1K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Frag Rack.3mf