Recent content by andyman

Be sure to reduce the light intensity for a few weeks to let the corals recover. I noticed that made a huge difference for me.

You can have a frag of anything in my tank. I think I got a WD but its pretty small still. merlin staff, vivid confetti if yours decline, and a few other corals I have no names for. I think a pearl berr? , bonsai, etc.

One of the symptoms I noticed when I started loosing corals (not all at once btw) was that as the corals get weak from infection, the ones closer to the light STN first. They seem to hang on for dear life when they are at the bottom of the tank or shaded. Unfortunately I didn't realize this...

I saw a rebalance of bacterial colony to move more toward what a healthy tank should be. The score on AB site for me is. diversity before: 312 (72). (below 170 is yellow. red is below 120) after: 355 (82) balance: 0.26 (41) (0.20 is the start of the danger zone). above 0.20 is green. scale...

When this happened to me I tried everything. I had the typical old tank syndrome and I had no clue what was killing my corals and fish (tanks atleast 10yrs old). what I tried: I was originally on T5 and went to AI Vegas when they first came out. Things were fine for a while. but as I...

australia strippie will solve your aiptasia problem. how big is your tank? these fishes are easy to keep, they eat pellets once the aiptasias are gone. Berghias may die off before they eat all the aiptasia. Wrasses can eat berghias if you have them. And berghias can have issues in sps tank...

fill your tank with live rock from someone elses tank and you can skip the ugly phase. But you may get unwanted pest too like aptasia and asterinas.

you sure can. You know where i live! please PM me with a specific time and I'll have it moved to my garage for pickup.

I have 2 free tanks. They were used as sumps and probably best to be used as sumps. Its your standard sized tanks. You can try buffing it out if you want to use it as a display tank. Anyway free to whoever wants it. Located in San Francisco between the cow palace and balboa bart station...

I prefer not doing water changes and simply topping off. I run ICP test to measure trace elements and I add back required trace elements. I find that no matter which salt you use, you'll deplete some trace elements that water change won't be enough to cover. And to top it off, water changes...

Another suggestion to help against ppl gaming the system. Why don't you make a zoa bonus round / zoa ulta instead. That way you provide a zoa ultra, you get a zoa ultra in return. I feel zoa's are way way easier to propogate.

You'd need to diss-mantel that equipment to really be able to weld that but it looks like whatever is under that is bent too. I'm not sure its possible to repair that, your talking about more then just welding. may need a lathe or mill to re-produce that piece under it? Anyway bottom line no...

mainly for limited liability. Your fees also scale with FUTURE income. For example I think the yearly fee is $800 in california. But if income exceeds $250k-$499k you gotta pay an additional $900. And if you go above that $500k - $999k then its $2500. These are all projected income, the llc...

@popper if your looking to fill up a high school tank with corals ping me. I don't mind giving away my large rock of zos! I may even have a rock of green yumas. I'm about to start a thread of more free zoas.

I noticed a Zoa in the ultra list. If anyone has a ultra zoa, they should put it in my tank. I grow them like weeds.