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Does anyone have experience with Fauna Marin Pro salt? I haven’t seen it much in the US but it is popular in Europe I’m told. I heard they are now distributing with CoralVue so likely will become more available to us here, and perhaps in LFS’s. I also heard that it is very similar or maybe even...

TMP salt is the best in my opinion, and it’s 15% off today (only) at BRS. The 100g and 160g boxes are available- https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/pro-reef-salt-tropic-marin.html

Our next BAR Board meeting will be Thursday, 1/25 at 6p on Zoom. All supporting members are welcome to attend! Since it‘s a new year and we have some new Board members bringing new enthusiasm, it should be interesting and productive. Reply here or PM me if you are interested and I’ll send out...

Requesting folks to vote in the members-only forum where the ballot for our new 2024 BAR Board is posted: https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/bar-board-2024-ballot.34930/

I bought Tunze Coral Gum Instant 2-part epoxy in 2017, used it successfully several times for a couple years. I haven’t used it since about 2020, but pulled it out today since I’m moving some coral colonies after getting rid of a bunch of coral and rocks. It looks completely fine, not dried out...

Sorry for the late notice, but we are having a BAR BOD meeting Tuesday 12/12/23 (tomorrow) at 6p. All supporting members are very much welcome to join, it will be on Zoom. I’ll send out the Zoom info in a group message tomorrow afternoon, so if you’re interested please either say so here or by PM.

Hey everyone, it’s that time of the year where we need to plan for who is going to serve on the Board next year. Some folks have expressed interest and we have some spots not filled yet. I’d like to open it up to request that any of our members who are interested in helping more with the club...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’m thankful for our community and for the ways we support each other. (Little bit of fun with Bing Chat AI image generator powered by DALL-E 3)

I saw an article about how a carbon-capture plant recently opened in Tracy, the first in the US. I was surprised that it’s quite low-tech and almost the same thing some of us do with our CO2 scrubbers attached to skimmers to reduce CO2 (and raise pH) in our tanks. It’s effective, but always...

Kenny at High Tide Aquatics just posted an awesome how-to video for using Kalkwasser- A lot of you probably know he’s been a big Kalk proponent for a long time, and has had great results with it. People sharing their time-tested practical knowledge in the hobby is one of the best things we...

I saw Kenny at High Tide Aquatics posted a nice how-to video about doing wet skimmate water changes. It’s great because he actually shows you what he does and how the skimmate accumulates over time. You guys may have heard Ben from Reef Beef talk about this a few times, and some of us reefers...

I’d like to stabilize both pH and alkalinity because they are generally stable on the reefs, and swings of either have been shown to be bad for coral. I dose carbonate (aka soda ash, from Core7) for alkalinity and Ca, which increases pH a moderate amount. It’s fairly easy to dial in the...

We are having our next BAR Board of Directors meeting by Zoom this Thursday, 7/13 starting at 7p. All supporting members are welcome to join the meeting to see how it works and contribute if they want. We are always interested in fresh perspectives and in people potentially interested in serving...

I just noticed today that Bulk Reef Supply now has a freshwater aquarium supply site, BRS Fresh. My first thought was that their corporate overlords are pushing them to expand to get more of a return on investment, and they couldn’t care less about reef vs fresh. My second thought was that...

Matt Wandell at the Monterey Bay Aquarium has agreed to give BAR members another behind-the-scenes tour of the aquarium! We’ve done these before and they are amazing. Tour is scheduled for Friday 5/19, 12:00-1:30p. We will meet in the lobby inside the Aquarium, and the tour will start at 12:00...

I have brown jelly disease affecting one single torch, both heads (unfortunately my favorite one- 24k Malaysian). Noticed it last night. Did a Lugol’s dip last night and again this morning. Torch is isolated out of the tank. Necrosis continuing. Torch was healthy for a year in my tank before...

We want to try out something to help make DBTC sharing easier. Idea is to have a separate table at member events like swaps for DBTC items. Each item will be in a clear container and labeled like a frag swap. Include name of coral and your username, and say DBTC on the label. Members can browse...

Winds are crazy and scary in my area in the East Bay today. Only relatively minor damage on the property so far including fences partially down and some outdoor furnishings thrown around but have had some pretty scary gusts where it sounds like the house is going to blow down or something is...

Noticing today that my data curves in Apex are about 13 hours old, even though the real-time read out is up to date. So for example, for my pH, it is showing data from about 1:45a last night at 2:45p today. Same with the other graphs, temp, ORP, salinity. I logged on directly with apex.local...

BRS having a 1-day sale 20% off of TMP salt. Buckets sold out already, still have the boxes