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Another must-read article in this month's issue of Coral Magazine, Nov/Dec 2011, pp. 64-77: "Blue light and its importance for the colors of stony corals" http://www.coralmagazineus.com The last issue discussed the technical/physics aspect of LED ligthing. This issue talks about the biological...

Anyone regenerate DI resin? How so you do it? Is is worth it?

Santa, i want a small, reef safe, crosshatch trigger pair! I've been good (mostly). I'm not even going to ask for a gem tang, again... - rayray's tank

In 2009, A well known LFS owner from the SF Bay Area, was caught transporting 52 Clipperton Angelfish from French Clipperton Atolls 800 miles west of Acapulco. He recently pleaded guilty and will receive up to 1 year in jail plus up to $100,000 in fines...

What do you do with your RODI waste? Do you do anything with your dirty salt water change? I used to run RODI tubing under the garage door to the lawn, even to the pool. I collected some in a 30 gallon rubbermaid trash can with wheels and gave it to my wife for her roses. Ive heard of people...

Coral Magazine, Sep/Oct 2011 p30-72 If you are sitting on fence about getting LEDs, and need a professional opinion, this is $8 well spent (or better yet, subscribe on-line) LED Lighting Demystified by Sanjay Joshi Reef Lighting: Past, Present, Future by Daniel Knop A 2011 Consumer...

there are so many great tanks posted here, lots of smart reefers, but how did YOU get there? have you had a tank since 1st grade? is this your 10th reef tank, or did you read, lurk and go slow to get your 1st tank perfect? do you refresh the socalireefs webpage 100 times per day, and switch...

Can we add a Responsible Reefkeeping Forum under the General Discussions Forum?

Big price drop on these LEDs, used to be $529. They are tried and tested, really grow coral fast, even SPS in my experience. I think they are feeling the competition from RGB LEDs like Vortech Radion. Good news for reefers...

so that frag or colony survived and grew large, and a year later you realize..."I shouldnt have put that there!" Post your coral placement mistakes. Mine: Putting monticaps more than half way up... they plate wide and fast then shade everything below Placing hydnophora 1foot near anything as...

soo cute... nice vlamingii, rayray... just came back from Yosemite... "I wish I had a nickle for every time I saw this"... oh snap this time its me :a09:

some as big as my thumbnail... yall go on without me :yield:

The western world's economy looks bleak. Lets face it, reefing is a luxury. Post what you are doing to make those reefing dollars go a little bit further. Heres what I did. 1. use my reef old water change for my FOWLR new water since it is cleaner. FOWLR water goes to the garden 2. shorter...

the 90g fuge finally cycled. I held my breath as I opened it up the the main system. dual 120w triband grow lights installed and on reverse daylight photoperiod. got some cheato, and soon returning my legal caulerpa strains in there. the lights are so bright, looking at them for 1 second then...

Its halfway setup... thanks to everyone's great suggestions! this is going to make it easier to maintain, which is good because I neglect the tank for weeks... Floor epoxy dry, 2x 20amp lines installed, sink plumbed, walls insulated... IM KICKING THE BUCKET !!! No more buckets or trash cans...

Aqua Illuminaton's nano sol blue LED light... anyone seen them, got one? I heard they were in final trials, look so awesome!

Any physical chemists out there? I need your help... I have an-ozone safe fluidized reactor that is receiving the output from my ozone reactor chamber, it has 3 things in it: activated carbon, GFO and biopellets... How will O3 affect GFO? How will O3 affect biopellets?

Seeing a large SPS colony grown from a 1inch $20 frag or $30 mini-colony is neat , environmentally friendly, and encouraging to new reefers... So post them if you gottem... Misc blue acro stag... 2006 2007 2008 2009 - fragged (moved to a larger tank) 2010 2011

whats the best LED for a 24inch deep fuge? im growing mad calurp... oh wait... i mean legal algae, and 10 mangroves with 6.5k power compacts but getting tired of changing bulbs...

Great little store! Andrew & Clayton are very helpful and friendly. They always get me what i need quickly. Most recently a large acrylic tank and 220 lbs of live sand, great price. Good selection, clean store, great service!:congrats: