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Hey Guys, I ended up with some extra equipment. First up a stack of 2" ball valves on 3" plumbing. 12+ pieces The valves are all glued in, but they were glued with enough pipe to cut and reuse. The plumbing is brand new and never had water in it. Would like to trade for something...

Hey Guys, Here is an update on the outside frag tank and some new fish I am trying to get settled in. https://youtu.be/-tvVnHAOcxk Hope you like it. Dave B

Hi Guys, The new Blue Planet 2 from BBC airs on October 29th. I am thinking of inviting people over to watch the premiere on a big screen in the back yard. Do a little BBQ, trade some frags, talk about corals, hang out with reef geeks. No charge. Just come to hang out and have a coral...

While my fish took a horrible hit last month, my corals have been doing really well this summer. And basically I have just too many. And they have been growing so well, I have too many of what I already had so much of. So I want to mix it up and get some different corals to grow out. So...

I have been growing out a few of the grafted Monti colonies for several years. My Monti mountain started as frags of Red, Grafted, Purple, Leng Sy, and an Aussie Blue rim. As the mountain has grown over the past years some plates outgrew others and now I have to trim them because there just...

Hey Guys, On the heels of the huge loss of fish last week, an article was published in a French Reef Keeping Magazine about my aquarium. If you speak French, please feel free to let me know what they wrote about me... Ha Ha Dave B

I live in Los Angeles and after the 94 Northridge Earthquake I bought an emergency generator. In the past 23 years I had to use the generator 2x. In the past 6 months I have had to use it 8x. The last 2 weeks of June, when the weather was over 100 degrees the power went out twice. The...

Hey SoCal Peeps, You know I love to give corals away to local Reefers. I am willing to donate "at least" 2 pieces of WWC Kung Pao Monti. Here is the deal. I have fully healed nice sized frags of WWC Kung Pao Monti. Frags for this Monti usually sell for $600 for a 1/4" by 1/4" frag with...

Hey Guys, I picked up one of the new Neptune 'utility' pumps a few weeks ago to use for a filtration project. I originally thought it was going to be a good little pump for small water needs. Well yesterday I come out and find it's not working. I took it apart of find the center of the...

Hey Guys, Everyone that see the outdoor frag tank asks about "What happens When it Rains?" Well after the rainiest season in decades here in So Cal here is what happened to the outdoor frag tank. https://youtu.be/pHK6pLJGt3s Dave B

Been Working on this for awhile and finally have it running. Still needs a few details worked out. It was shot in HD - Click the HD don't watch in Youtube crapD Dave B https://youtu.be/i1t1fddvPkQ

Hey Guys, The past 5 months my tank has been assaulted by instability from so many different issues, and then when we had the big rains last month a 14 hour power outage while I was up in San Francisco. But things are starting to stabilize. I got motivated to take some photos of the happy...

Hey Guys, I want some cool new corals. My Frag tank outside is packed and there is some really cool stuff growing out there. So I want to trade. You know me and I am stupidly generous when it comes to the So Cal Reefing Community. So at the bare minimum I will give you 2 frags for...

I have frags of the WWC Kung Pao Monti Available. Frags are decent sizes and much bigger than any others I have seen offerred of this coral. $600. Verify the colors yourself - The mother colony is sitting front and center (at bottom) of my display tank. Live webcam 24/7 at...

Hey Guys, If you have an Apex and are using Fusion (for sure Fusion not sure about classic) check your settings, and then double check and triple check. When they updated Fusion recently it changed my 220v heater outlet to a CO2 outlet. It also changed the alarm points for 2 of my pH probes...

Hey Guys, Had some tank issues the past few months and my millies and tenuis took a heavy hit. Would like to restock with trades for corals. What I have to trade is.... Nice sized frags of Miyagi Tort Various size frags of the True Leng Sy Purple Rim Cap Colonies of Red Cap Any Size...

If you didn't get a chance to come visit for the frag swap a few weeks ago here is a video of the fish in the display tank. https://youtu.be/7FiZlzVNnQ4 Dave B

Wooo Hoo!!! Whose ready for a fun afternoon chatting about corals. Sure there are big shows in air conditioned air plane hangers where you can walk past a bunch of tanks with over priced bits of color glowing under oversaturated blue cans of light. Each tank begging to empty your wallet or max...

If you know me you know I am a fish and coral nut. And currently my display tank is doing fantastic. And the frag tank outside is doing great. At the start of the year a little angel caught my eye. I've always wanted to grow an Imperator from Juvenile to adult. I found a beautiful little...

Hey Guys, Here's a status update on the display tank. Been spending so much time on the outside tanks recently but the inside tank is doing well too. https://youtu.be/c0VZQQrY8Yk