Recent content by Slingfox

Unfortunate to see one do the reefing focused LFS go down. Very tough and expensive business to be in given the high cost of the Bay Area and the tremendous competition online. Hopefully the business survives in some form.

I hope the aptasia didn’t come back. I had one pop up and battled it on and ofd for over a year. I initially spot treated with Aptasia X then ended up pulling out the rock and pouring boiling water and peroxide. Unfortunately, t kept coming back and eventually poppies up on a second rock then...

People say you can coat it with kalkwasser or use a syringe to inject it with lemon juice, vinegar or hot water. These kind of slot treatments never worked for me. It would kill the target anemone but it would show up again elsewhere. I currently have my Aptasia under control via a...

Medical/lab gloves can be purchased on Amazon for cheap. I just put a box in the same drawer with my testing supplies.

Mine is super peaceful and it is constantly picking at the rockwork. When I first added it to my tank it swam in circles for almost two weeks—likely due to stress. Thankfully it settled in and is has been doing great ever since.

Looking forward to the upgrade. I currently can’t post pictures from my iPhone since the default size is too big.

Wow, very impressive eyes from @jhuynh !

You can buy marineculture that appears very colorful upon arriving at a facility in the US. If you buy that coral (either the colony or a frag), and bring it back into your tank the color can change dramatically. At least this is what happened to me with three different marine culture SPS. I...

Welcome to the board. You should sign up and come to the frag swap in November. I have a bunch of MarcoRock around if you end up going the dry rock route. I won’t be using that MarcoRock anytime soon since I only use live rock nowadays. More expensive but reduces the headache of battling...

I am pretty sure the margin on the device is significant but they are pricing it relative to the competing devices which are also high ticket price.

No worries. Many of the hobbiest who purchase these colonies are degenerate coral gamblers. Every once in a while the lotto hits!

Nice pictures indeed! What kind of lights do you use on your tank(s)?

You should also not assume that these SPS colonies come straight from the ocean. The largest operations in Indonesia, Australia, and Malaysia are increasingly keeping the best cool they find in the wild and then grow them up in tanks with water piped in from the ocean. You can sometimes tell...

If you have a tank that grows SPS well the survival rate of marineculture should be very high. If people want to increase chances of the SPS pulling through they should frag the colony immediately. That helps ensures high light and flow to all pieces and increases the number of shots on goal...

If you have to ask what the name for a coral is, it should not be sold unless it is sold specifically as 1) unnamed or 2) using a completely new name.