Recent content by Calgoby

PIF: Anyone going to the frag swap from the El Cerrito/Richmond/Hercules area? If so I can make a dozen or so frags for you to bring down. They are taking over, please help !!!

Been a while since I've posted... Paying forward some Halle Berry zoas from a previous BAR frag swap. They've done quite well in my tank and are everywhere now due to my careless fragging (oops...). Option for unattached pieces, or rubble frags with complimentary bubble algae :p Pickup in Hercules

@grizfyrfyter sorry I missed CFM (and BAR happenings in general lately). Happy to get you some frags if you're interested @WillU still some frags available of all above, except purple stylo. I've been wanting to make more but my stylo has slowed down its growth due to my lazy reefing lately

Some PIF corals in Santa Cruz and San Ramon. Photos mostly show the mother colonies (though they are not really colonies by our club standards haha...) From UCSC Newman 20gal (pickup in Santa Cruz): Neon green nephthea Teal/brown mushroom From San Ramon Fluval (pickup in San Ramon): Purple...

Agreed, and I just realized we already had this conversation on this thread in January - sorry about that!

Original Post: @Schmitty I also have a ~4" branch that's been growing out. Not definitively from this chain, but I think there's only one purple stylo strain out there (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I'm in San Ramon if you're interested. Edit: This discussion probably should've had its own...

Purple stylo, red monti cap, monti setosa, green pocillopora. Also GSP For supporting members. Pickup in San Ramon (Edit: should mention that they are frags)

Just completed a tank move (Santa Cruz to San Ramon) over the weekend. Luckily it only took 2 buckets to move livestock, rocks, and water. From start to finish it still took ~6 hours including driving time. Corals seem alright so far . Had to banish my cleaner shrimp to the overflow...

Regular IO leaves brownish slime for me every batch (been using it for the past 2 years but I've debated switching). I've heard of people either scraping it out once a year when it becomes a thick cake, or having a filter inline with their mixing pump.

Michael, best wishes in Las Vegas! I think a quarter of my 13.5's corals came from your tank. I definitely hope to pay forward that generosity of frags and knowledge

Last night I did a 10% water change... and turns out my saltwater mixing bucket was still plain DI water when I refilled the tank. Ended up adding ~5% tank volume in DI and returning 5% of the old saltwater that I hadn't dumped yet. SG dropped by <0.002 My plan is to let salinity slowly rise...

I keep misreading this on the home page and thinking we have a DBTC for green bubble algae

Only dosing kalk regularly, but I use 2-part for manual alk adjustments. My tank also tends to run low on phosphate (and excess nitrate), so I sporadically dose potassium phosphate when I notice slowing algae growth and corals turning pale/pastel. @kiran @vissen319 join the Fluval club! I look...

Another coral growth update Pocillopora bailouts have been popping up. Kinda fun to spot I pulled out 20 or so asterinid stars the other day. Didn't realize there were so many throughout the live rock until I started hunting for them... Once I started spotting them all I couldn't un-see...

Good job everyone :p we convinced him