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Looking good! 7 isn’t bad and not something I would worry about too much. You can increase AFR a little more as long as the other parameters are good and not elevated? Otherwise, small additions of soda ash at night might help. If things are looking good and there are no issues, then I wouldn’t...

Nice! I love fungias, they are a pretty cool group of corals. I have a nice diaseris in my nano that I got from Elliot at GSC. I would love to pick an orange herpolitha. I wouldn't think 1.027 would cause any major issues, I've ran higher without issue and I know Adam (battlecorals) runs his...

They only live 10 - 12 months and by larger, I meant at least 1/2" long, not the tiny ones that some people sell, as they just turn into food in established tanks that have amphipods.

I think 4-6 larger ones would work. It’ll take a few weeks or more before their numbers start to build before you’ll actually see a dent in aiptasia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is another option for online and they're located in Washington, so not too far from us. K & P Aquaculture

Nice chatting with you again today! I’ll take care of the little pink streaked. C’mon people, grab this fish! Blackcaps are awesome fish! GLWS! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think it’s a 50/50 split between the two. There’s a thread on R2R about the Hefri and AliE bars. Reach out to @telegraham and Jim will help you. Or reach out to him on Humblefish. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry, I can't upload full quality pics from my phone, but at least you can see colors.

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If you're just looking for pop and not coral growth, then I would buy the AliE bars, as you can custom order the spectrum/diodes you want. XHO's are the most overpriced and cheaply made light bar out there. They have great pop, but you can get so much more from other bars for much less. The...

You should check Quanta Pro bars, so much better than XHO's. I have the Meso Blues and they are awesome. They out-perform XHO's and Orpheks combined. Quanta Pro

I’ve heard mixed reviews with that company, but have never used them. I’ve used Triton, ATI and Fauna Marin. Out of all the ones I’ve used, I prefer ATI, with FM being a close second. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was there on Monday and they had a couple, but give them a call first. I think if it’s not super long they’ll go after it, but one thing to keep in mind, they require other algae too, so if they stop eating GHA, then you need to offer them something else, like nori. They don’t just eat GHA and...

What company? Also, they're using the same type of tests we are for testing nutrients, so they have the same margin of error as we do. I found Fauna Marin and ATI to be fairly close to my testing.

This may sound like dated advice to most, but I would buy "The Reef Aquarium" volumes I & III by Delbeek and Sprung. I think there's a whole generation of reefers who could benefit from information that's contained in these books. If you get lucky, you can find used copies in great shape for a...

Golden State Corals have a few and they're located in Reseda. I think they open at noon. Also, you'll need to trim back the GHA by hand to help out.

A couple turbos, about 5 astraeas, 4-5 trochus (red banded). For these snails to do their job, you’ll have to pull most of the GHA out by hand so there’s only a short tuft left. Nothing will go after the long stringy stuff. I get wanting to keep pH up at night, but you really don’t have a huge...

As Speedo mentioned, you don't lower salinity to correct alkalinity or any other parameter, that's not how it works. In fact, when you run a lower salinity, all of your testing results should be altered/recalculated to match the salinity. Shoot for 35ppt or 1.026 specific gravity (give or take a...

I have both and like them for different reasons. But if someone is just entering the controller world, then I would probably recommend Hydros. The programming is straight forward and you're not stuck with buying a massive system to start with. Hydros gives you a lot of options that you can add...

It's true that nano tanks can be difficult, but they don't have to be if you keep on top of them. Here's the thing with all reef tanks, the fundamentals haven't changed at all, but now we have better tools and we get more detail into each aspect. For nano tanks, the two main issues are heat and...