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I'd like the other one if you're close enough to me. Let me know your location by PM if you prefer. I'm located in North Oakland.

Wow! You must have crazy growth of TONS of corals! I retract all my previous comments about this seeming strange. The only strange thing must be your coral bioload and growth rate. I really need to figure out why I'm struggling so hard with issues in my tank... Good luck finding the...

My bad on the misreading (or not reading, lol) of the original post. Makes more sense now. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

All true, and I am familiar with and have great respect for Randy Holmes Farley. However, as I said, the Mg supplements being discussed are cheaper from BRS than from the sources the OP linked. And even though RHF used mag flake and Epsom salt, it can't be worse for your tank to use higher...

I'm just curious, but why do you need to dose so much magnesium in your setup? What salt are you using? Do you not do water changes or something? I sometimes dose some MgCl2 if a new batch of saltwater from a new box of salt tests a bit lower than I like. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but the...

Wow Roberto! Very cool. Looks like reefangel is hitting the big time with real research citing it in their methods :-D

I had Dinos in my setup. Not as bad as yours though. My nutrients dropped to undetectable nitrates and phosphates and the Dinos disappeared. Now I'm dosing nitrate and feeding extra to help with coral growth and the Dinos aren't returning. No blackouts, no treatments. No nutrients = no pest...

Lmao!

I'm glad it's working for you! You have to post some pictures of it soon.

I keep my tank between 71.8 and 72.5 F in the winter and I am not planning on doing any cooling until it gets over 80 F. I haven't had it running during the summer yet, but this weekend it only got up to 73 F in the main tank and 75 F in the quarantine, so I think I'll be fine unless we have a...

I just want to thank everyone again for a great swap! I hope to grow out the frags I got so I can bring more frags to the next swap!

Thanks @Enderturtle! I'll have to find you tomorrow when I get to the swap :-) And thanks for the tip on finding the room @Geneva.

I was able to get 2 frags to bring: a 2 polyp candy cane and a small but multi branched green pocillopora. Not much, but it was the best I could do. Anyone want to donate one of their frags to me so I meet the 3 frag minimum?

In support of this statement, I went and checked out California Reef Company in Fremont this weekend. Just as I was told by some other members on this forum, it was the nicest looking aquarium shop I've been to in the bay area so far. However, after getting some nice looking decent sized frags...

I have only 1 permanent QT for both fish and corals. However, if I needed to treat any of the fish, I would set up a separate hospital tank because the treatments for most fish diseases are toxic to corals. People who prophylactically treat their fish using either hyposalinity or copper have a...

Like rygh, I use IO regular and I used it on my last tank in Texas as well. It's cheap, easy, and I works fine. For me, it mixes up to Ca = 430 - 450 ppm, dKH = 8 - 9. My new system hasn't had much growth yet, but I had good growth of sps and a clam in my system in Texas. If you have a big...

I totally want a shirt too! Beautiful yoda painting as well :-P

That "green tufted algae" is in the genus Cymopolia, probably C. barbata. I just got some myself and it's really cool and already growing new segments after just 1 week :-) Go to some LFS and look in their coral tanks for pieces of live rock with coralline algae on them and no loving coral on...

Fair enough. I'd only add that many people who buy animals from an LFS are ignorant of the existence of pests and the need for QT, while no LFS is ignorant of these issues. So I don't think the blame is equally shared by end user and LFS. But for those of us who aren't ignorant of these...

@sfsuphysics: 1) I don't think it is hypocritical at all. Do you think it is hypocritical to expect restaurants to hold and pass health/food safety inspections when you do not hold such inspections in your own personal kitchen? I think not. Because businesses like LFSs and restaurants are...