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I'm starting up a coral spawning experiment tank and I decided to keep a tank journal to help monitor progress. Since I don't have tons of space, I went with an RSR 170 bought from @dandemeyere (thanks again!). The tank has been cycling a few months and is in the post cycle ugly phase right now...

Ok! Just in time, wasn't sure what to do with it. How's this afternoon/evening for you? PM me to organize

I recently moved everything to another tank and I don't have space for this GSP colony. I plan to frag off a small piece to keep in my frag tank, but the rest is up for grabs. It's in a bucket atm, so I'm looking to hand it off asap. Pickup in Livermore/Dublin/Pleasanton area.

Ok, definitely interested, I'll PM you

Do you still have any? I'm interested

Doing much better! Yesterday I medicated with Parizipro and I've been feeding food with General Cure/Focus just in case. Not sure if it was that or just reduced stress, but it is eating more and out in the open more. The Prazipro treatment is recommended for 5 days minimum. If you prefer I can...

Thanks, will definitely keep an eye out for these!

Yes, this would probably make things easier to start off. However I've read (in an article by J. Craggs iirc) that there is some degree of plasticity here, and corals from one region can sync up to a different regions' seasonal changes.

Also, I'm mainly interested in corals that are simultaneous hermaphrodites at first, since I don't currently have the capability to reliably identify the sex of gonochoric species.

To be clear, I'm not saying cloned corals can't spawn and reproduce in general, most probably can. I'm saying that two corals which are clones of a common mother colony likely cannot fertilize each other. For example, from a section about home aquarium coral spawning in Rich Ross's recent...

This one might be a little out there, but here goes. I recently set up a coral spawning tank with a reef-pi which mimics the seasonal solar, lunar and temperature changes of an indo-pacific reef. It is currently going through the ugly phase, and in the meantime I'm planning out which corals to...

Yea, let's give it a day or two to reduce stress. I'm offering food every day, hopefully it'll bounce back. I'll let you know how things are going on Wednesday.

Yes, still available! It seems to be doing a little better, swimming around and not hiding all day. Still not eating much though.

I'm giving away a Pajama Cardinalfish that I pulled from my display tank because it was getting bullied by two other Pajamas. It's been in a quarantine tank for two days now. Full disclosure, it is not eating much and hides inside a PVC tube all the time. I don't think it has any common disease...

Thanks for sharing! I'm currently setting up a spawning tank, this is good info

I responded to the poll a bit late, could you send me the link too please?

I struggled a lot at the beginning when buying saltwater from various LFSs. I never found a place that sold water with consistent enough salinity or parameters, so I started making my own and the health/growth of my corals improved by leaps and bounds. Good job for taking what I consider a very...

Are frags ok or only larger colonies? I have some Scrambled Eggs that I can offer.

Thanks! Yea I thought of the same thing about the front rock. There's some space to move the whole structure back a bit, but I'm going to test it with a cleaning magnet. If it's still an issue I'm going to chisel off a little from the front. I'm not planning on any fast growing, invasive corals...

Alright, here's what I came up with. I really liked the arches I originally had, so I modified them a bit and added the shelf pieces up top to create more of a plateau. I think this will give more space for acropora up top while also leaving space for some LPS/softies towards the bottom (want...