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North Jersey 07850 , can meet at Roxbury Petco, Ely's, or maybe sea level on the right day. Can also deliver near Randolph/Roxbury area.
Purple Stylo, larger of the two pictured. Great beginner SPS, super hearty, grows in most lps to sps light.
$30
Started using kalk recently, used to use all for reef, I notice (far from a scientific measurement) that the sps like the kalk a little more and my softies/anemones like the all for reef more. Overall both were fine.
I used 35 ppt same for the tank. I think it's better with a slightly lower salinity, but I have a mixing station full of that water, so I just used that. And I had it in my utility room which is always kinda between 72 and 80 all year long . No heater. I tried just to under think it as much as...
I started by putting a bottle of pods in a 2 gallon drink serving container with an air pump turned way down to like 1 bubble a second. And a couple watt light. Keep the water tinted green with phyto. I did a 1 gallon water change once a week and used a 53 micron sieve for the babies and 120...
I like tisbe pods, very easy to culture and Hardy, are small and hide well . I got them off eBay. Threw them in a 2 gallon container and cultured a few generations into my tank. My mandarin now eats pellets and I feed live brine all the time so I typically now just throw whatever in once or...
I think absolutely fish is worth it, typically a large selection and I've yet to get a sick fish. But, the staff is hit or miss, so you gotta kinda know your fish
No joke I had a single one of these looking things under my rock flower one day a few weeks ago. Never saw it before or again. It had almost a light brown stalk
Your brine shrimp feeder gave me the confidence to get a mandarin. I've been working on a design that's L shaped and traps air at the top and has a feeding screen on the end of the L. That way I can just load the thing with eggs, and lower it in my tank to the sand with a magnet mount. The eggs...
Heard you on YouTube and about halfway through realized I've been reading your posts here and as well as some of your various posts on diy solutions. I can't believe it's all the same guy