baker.shawn

Hey friends,

So last night a local reefer posted coral for sale on the local forum, i jumped on the opportunity and bought 2 colonys and 2 frags. This brings the total up to 19 new pieces of coral in the last 3weeks my sand bed is getting extremely full! im acclimating now i will have pics up once everything is in the tank im going to need help with ID as we werent sure what one of the corals is.

teal/green acro
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as the weather starts to get colder and the leafs begin to fall im beginning to dread winter, here most of the power lines are underground but we still get our fair share of power outages lasting a couple hours on average, this year I’m considering buying a UPS to protect my investment, im just wondering if anyone uses one? i was looking at TigerDirect and they have tones, at all different ratings and prices...sort of overwhelming

My uncle got out of the hobby sometime around 2004 and sold most of his stuff, this week my parents went to visit and he passed along some of his last reef equipment.

5-stage spectra pure filter, with a pure check monitor, auto shut off, extra DI and chloramine filters
My first concern is what to do with it; I already have 6 stages on my current system hmmmm…11 stage double membrane? This is very tempting. All the filters and membrane need to be replaced which isn’t a big deal ...

that us supposed to be a triccolor front and center there, it is the coral inspiring this question, as you can see there is only growth in one branch, i remember reading a post on a forum saying if i were to clip the "dormant" branches it could encourage new growth. im just wondering if someone can let me know if this is true

today i picked up 2 great frags, a browned out millie that is already turning metalic blue, and a turquoise,purple and orange acan frag....my sand bed is at capacity with frags so its now time to pick a new fish

i just had my very healthy purple firefish die due to unknow reason and my rainford goby and other firefish are getting lonley soo its time to get them a friend im just starting to look so im open to suggestions keeping in mind thast its cool, reef safe, will fit in my 45cube, ...