lynn.reef.nerd

I recently purchased some corals from GSC. I heard of this vendor through @NamReefs and decided to give them a try. After chatting on Facebook with the owner, Elliot Azhdam, I found out he is a native to our area. He used to work at Congressional! What a small little world our hobby is. https://www.goldenstatecorals.com/ He currently has a nice little shop in CA and his corals are just beautiful! Extremely responsive on Facebook and email. He works with my schedule to make sure I get my corals in a timely manner. Highly recommended!

I found a youtube video recently. I really like his side-by-side color comparison.

Recently I went through a blastomussa obsession and a couple of WAMAS member indulged me in my coral addiction. These beauties are stolen/borrow from @NamReefs and @Llemonz. Yes, I know.... Bryce, the stick guy actually have some LPS! For Nam, that dude just has everything . This last one is the one that got me to fall in love with these bouncy weirdness.

Yeah.... My hoarding is getting bad.

The S500 + frag tank ~ 200 gallons. The E170 + overflow ~ 75 gallons.

Some upgrades I made after "stimulating" the economy. Let's just say I stole my husband's too. Original light that came with the S500 was 3 Hydra 26s. I went with 2 Radion XR30 Blue and T5 hybrid fixture. 4 x Blue+. Frag tank also got an upgrade with 3 Radion XR15 Blue and T5 hybrid. 3 x Blue+, 1 x Coral+. Softies had a hydra 26. I put an XR15 Blue on there also. Not sure if it is enough lighting since I added a nice Maxima clam in there. I'm thinking about adding a couple of of reefbright strips. Not sure if that's needed. Small mushroom/zoas overflow tank currently has two Redsea ReefLed 90. Personally, I'm not a fan of that light. I would say it is comparable to the Kessil. If I had a choice, I would not buy this light again. I really do like the Hydras and Radions! I was also fed up with the skimmer that came with the Red Sea tank. I finally upgraded it to their RSK 600. Seems to be running like a champ.

Thank you! One or two I'm not too worried, but I lost the majority of my bigger corals. Frags were unaffected. It was super weird. I also had a big spike in phosphate (2.7). I attributed that to dosing failure (~1000mL of acropower). I think with all the stress it added to the issue. Lesson learned.

It has been a while! Lots have changed with the tank. I had a mini crash recently and lost a few colonies. Weird occurrence, only bigger corals especially fully encrusted ones were affected. I added two additional frag tanks to handle my hoarding habits. My buddy was able to drop by and help me plumb the tanks together so that I only need to handle two separate system instead of 4. I am running out of space again though

That's great!

Are you able to get to the link that WheresTheReef sent or the "Members Only" forums? If are you, you should be good. If not, let us know!

I use mostly cobalt neo-therm, but I am switching most of them to the finnex or BRS branded ones. I have the inkbird to control on/off and Apex as secondary precaution.

Hello. Are you up to date on membership fees? If you are not, you might not see the member's forums. @ReefdUp

I thought of something else also. I have a softy/mushroom tank that is not tied into my main system. No dosing and no acros. That tank has been up for over a year, but no trace of coralline. I move corals back and forth between the two system, so I am sure there are traces of coralline passed between the tanks. Not sure if that helps with anything.

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I have the same black sand in my 65 gallon. Tank started oct 2019. Full of coralline by around 3-month mark. I keep mainly acros in that tank right now. [emoji2368] Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

um... I have to delete my history after that

Ok .... these names are getting ridiculous But with this name... I kinda want one. https://reefbuilders.com/2015/12/21/christmas-tree-coral-studeriotes/ "There are currently six known species of Studeriotes, all of which share the peculiar behavior of being able to completely contract the trunk and branches into the base, forming what appears to be, for lack of a better word, a sphincter. This behavior and contracted appearance was responsible for its other common name of ‘sphincter coral’, although this moniker has understandably fallen out of favor."

Ducksbill limpet. Same creature. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

looks almost like a limpet.

Similar to the avatar chalice.

Fintastic got a bunch of really nice ones in last weekend. I picked this guy up.

@telegraham

Someday I would like to be in the big boy/girl league. Still doing 2-part right now.

Thank you guys! I just use the polyp lab lense (macro) and my samsung phone.