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I have had great experience with Dr. Reef’s—-particularly their customer service. Health wise the specimens were great. Dr. Reef’s and High Tide Aquatics have been bulletproof for me thus far. I do buy fish from other places but those go through 4+ week quarantine which I find somewhat...

Agreed. Putting fish through quarantine is super easy. I have a 10 gallon from Petco which I use to quarantine. The QT provides a chance for new fish to fatten up before they go into the main tank. We are also lucky to have High Tide Aquatics in the area. Half my fish come from there.

If you haven’t got hand on a copper test yet you can borrow my Hanna checker. I am in Saratoga. Note that CopperPower dosage on the bottle is approximately 10% too conservative so I always dose a little higher to ensure I get at close to 2.5 ppm as possible (must ensure level does not drop...

I donated this one at one of last year’s frag swaps. This one is called Viviid Kaleidoscope, and is no longer sold online anywhere In my opinion this looks nicer than UC Amazeballz and UC Glitter Gobi which are more widely known and which I also have.

You can message seller and they will likely sell for less than the 10 minimum listed. They will also provide a quote for shipping. I have bought a bunch of stuff from Alibaba and never had to pay any customs charges.

If I didn’t already have two tangs this would be super tempting!

If you don’t want something permanent why not get something like the Green Killing Machine: https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/green-killing-machine-internal-uv-sterilizer-with-power-head-1237039 The above is 24W and has a pump included. I have had two permanent UV sterilizers...

Awesome video! I didn’t know they were that small. I bit the bullet and just bought one of those Flipper Magnifiers that hang on the glass. I figure the magnifier will be useful generally(or so I hope!). Yes, the flatworms I saw I assumed may be from my euphillia since the size I saw was...

Fed a small amount of the fenbendazole flakes today at around noon. I was looking at the tanks with lights out just now and saw what looks like two flatworms floating around the water column. I was not sure I had flatworms since I dip everything but this seems to confirm their presence.

I have three wrasse (leopard, adorned, and a flasher). I have never seen them make any moves against my snails including the small army of small bumblebee snails I have in the tank.

Yeah, I have been thinking about doing so. I really should pull out some rockwork and look at the SPS under my magnifying glass. Have had the unfortunate experience of pulling out rocks a bunch of times :( I am going to catch and house my Flame Angel for a month and see if polyp extension...

These Angel’s Plus deworming flakes were also just recommended in another reefing video at the 41 minute mark. Incredible tank:

Yes, four times pellets on an auto feeder, one time frozen at night, and I also usually put in few square inches of nori in the morning (not doing so now since I want tangs to focus on the rockwork for a few weeks). I have anthias so it is recommended to feed them multiple times a day. My tank...

I will post my results if I try the regime. The challenge I have is I recently did a major tank reset where I reduced my coral load by 75% (switching to SPS dominant tank now) so I don’t expect to see much of an effect either way. The issue I am trying to diagnose currently is my SPS coral...

I will admit that I actually don’t know what most people do but when I started the hobby I fed way too much which resulted in my tank showing phosphates levels above 1.0 for months on end and an explosion of vermitid snails. I literally had thousands of vermitids in my display tank. They...

Welcome to the club. Looking forward to seeing what you upgrade to!

One other thing to mention is High Tide Aquatics is one of the few places that keeps inverts in fish less systems. There used to be a few stores in the South Bay with invert only tanks but recently started adding fish to their tanks with snails and crabs. This is super annoying since I do not...

For those who have not seen it, a video was posted where Chris Meckley from ACI Aquaculture describes a method he is using to keep AEFW and other SPS pests under control at his coral farm. In brief, he is dosing into the water volume small amounts of a pulverized fish flake infused with...

I recently restarted a 110 gallon display tank + 30 gallon sump. It is only month 2 and when I started seeing my rocks explode with hair algae I went out and bought 40 snails (of which 10 were small bumble bee snails) which is in addition to my bare bones crew of 2 tangs, 2 tuxedo urchin, 5...

Looks great! One day I hope to get a copperband. I have hesitated since I am not sure what I would do for feed while on vacation. Going your route by purchasing a CBB that is already feeding seems like a great way to go.