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For sure! Next time I head out that direction I'll look you up to see if you have any frags! With COVID, we generally haven't ventured out across the bridge often in the past.. what feels like forever.

Thanks! I live in Martinez now -- its a bit of a haul to get all the way down there. I used to work in Sunnyvale so the Milpitas store was more or less on my way home from work. Aquatic Collection is generally my go-to now. And if I venture further south I usually go to California Reef Co. I...

Some additional rambling. Skimmer I just upgraded the skimmer to the BH-2000. I have had a Aquamaxx Hob-1 for years. HIGHLY recommended skimmer -- the only issue I ever had with that is that the intake tubes are not sealed at all so they desperately need to be taped/siliconed to have a solid...

Current tank Like I said -- fresh start! Equipment Lighting: DIY Nanobox quad retrofit + 2 36" t5 with clip on reflectors. Skimmer: Reef Octopus BH-2000 Flow: Jebao SOW-15 & OW-25 Return: Jebao DCP-4000 & DCP-2500 Additional filtration/nutrient handling: TLF reactor with biopellets 2x...

Hi all, I just rejoined BAR and wanted to get a new tank journal up and running around my Red Sea Max 250. A little background/history before getting into the tank reboot. I got started with a ~20g nano tank back in 2012. Looking back, its kind of funny because I probably had the MOST success...

Dang I was in Friday afternoon before the announcement!

I bumped my alk from 8-9 and my small clove frag not only opened up but within a week had 3 new polyps growing. So although the acceptable range for alk is ~8+ I would try 9+ if you are having issues.

Wanted to give props to neptunes for having a great store. I went in there on my way home from work on Friday for the first time. I had been meaning to go for a while since i drive through Milpitas on my way home daily but until now never realized that the store is only a few mins off of 237...

if it is white/transparent always assume it is bleached until proven otherwise imo. There is so much mis-information that I think half the people at lfs honestly do not know what the truth is. A guy I work with told me I should get a yellow saebe because he worked at a lfs while in college and...

Have a ro/di, it is not a matter of nass, but I have 4 of those too. It is just the rocks/.

Interesting, I think I will be able to survive because I only am working with a 25G tank so for me 'a lot' of gfo is going through a 1lb container in a month. Already doing a 5G water change weekly which is at least 20% volume, realistically more in the 1/3 (33%) ish if you...

Well I strongly believe there is a lot of truth in that, I usually test my PO4 after doing a 2-3 day lights out period to try to get a real view of the levels after significant algae die off. Of course at this point I am tired of testing the PO4 because the algae growing is a pretty clear sign...

I grew up in Danville and went to school in Colorado, I cannot believe how bad the water for Alameda is vs Contra Costa.. I need to start driving to San Ramon and bottling water out of public water fountains because it still is horrible even with a brita. Yea that second frag was...

Yea but when you put time and effort into something you dont want to show off how bad it looks! haha. At this point there is not a lot I can do aside from keeping changing gfo and wait until my rocks finish their PO4 war on my tank.

Here are the two that I think are favia, think the first one is a xmas favia? Colors are pretty accurate for the first although the second one looks blue in the picture where it is really purple.. camera phones LOVE blue leds ./sarcasm =) As you can see I have some general brown-ness...

If you have that much noise something is broken, my mp10 is essentially silent untill about 70% where you can hear it a little but once I got a mag7 that quickly droned out any other noise, the mag7 is L O U D and I hate it but need it =/. When running mp10 on NTM or any wave mode you will...

Hah, all the pictures I have uploaded are 3-4 months old and look horrible because they are all camera phone shots, don't own a fancy SLR camera. The FTS is also something I am not super proud of because I am on the verge of winning a algae battle thanks to my awesome BRS pukani rock...

Hi, I am new at this and just got my nano tank going back around september 2011. Recently moved back to the bay area and living in Pleasanton. I spend a lot of time reading/responding to threads on reef central and had wanted to join the club earlier, but being frugal could not justify...