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When will the next BAR meeting be? Next Saturday or the 9th of June? Or are we just like skipping some months?...

You know those clear, flimsy frag containers that everyone seems to put their frags in? Yeah... Where do you buy those? I've looked everywhere for the past year and I just checked Costco and the dude said they don't have them. I don't feel like paying a whole dollar for five containers because I...

Let me start off by saying that all of the water parameters seem perfect. Alk is stable from 8.0-9.0, Mag is around 1350, Ca is around 400-425. My nitrates, nitrites, phosphates and ammonias are all at 0. I have been using chaeto for a few months now and it clogged the back chamber to where I...

I got a bunch of little bottles of povidone from BAR meetings a while back. I just finished up the last of my stash. Just curious where I should buy some. IIRC, somebody mentioned they bought theirs at CVS. What kind should I get? Is there a specific brand?

When I first got my Picassos, my female got very ill due to a worm. Stomach swollen, very lethargic, loss of appetite, etc. She got better after a few days and a few days ago I see my male's stomach swollen while he's swimming against the back wall, but still has some appetite. For the last two...

This thing grows like a weed and is ultra fluffy. It's taking over the birdy next to it so I need to start hacking away at it before it reaches the acros above it. I have two tiny frags made (1/4" each) mounted on rubble, but I am more than willing to cut off bigger frags. I would say it grows...

My digi has been growing pretty fast lately and was terrorizing my Spongodes, so I decided it was time to break it up. I Broke off a 3" branch, which was home to the tip that was stinging the spongodes. It's the far left branch that you see in the picture. Standard DBTC rules apply...

I picked up a Slimer from the swap today. It came from cwolfus. It's tan with electric green polyp tips. After my recent encounter with a pest (AEFW?) on an acro, I blasted this one and swished it around like crazy during the dip. Nothing at all came off, except for two accidental frags. It...

I purchased two SPS today and when I dipped I found tiny AEFW. Didn't see any eggs, though on one of the SPS I see little white patches when looked at under an LED flashlight. I assume that one is the infected one because the other one looks fine. They came from separate tanks. I'm not going to...

I got a monti in the swap last year and when I acclimated it I lost the lid with the ID. Since it came from BAR, I'm thinking somebody should be able to ID it. Description: Grows at a medium-slow pace. Maybe as fast as the average acro. Encrusts on the rock a while after gluing. Plays...

Around 1:00 PM today I went to check out Diablo Corals and they had some super nice stuff. Even with only a few tanks there was a good selection of corals. They had lots of the most popular "brand-name" zoanthids, along with a collection of acans and some super nice SPS. It's conveniently...

I saw these guys at Aquarium Concepts a long time ago. These are the only ones like this that I've seen. The picture doesn't do them justice. They are shiny pastel blue, green, yellow and purple all over. The "fuzz" on them are a nice red color and the skirt is a electric green. I have them 18"...

I suspect one of my new picassos has an internal parasite. He isn't very active, he won't eat and his poop is white and stringy (either that or there was a worm hanging out of his butt). His stomach was bulging yesterday and still is around the chest (but not as much) and he hadn't eaten in over...

I bought some San Francisco Bay Brand Cyclops yesterday and the particles are too small for my fish. My little clowns ate a few, but my large Black Occy pair didn't even bother. Is there a way to clump the food particles together so that my fish can eat as much of it as they can? Thanks in...

I bought some Aztec Sundial zoas at an LFS a few months ago. They're my favorite zoas of all time. I had them 6" under my 110w 50/50 PC in my Red Sea Max but three months ago I moved them 2ft under the 150w 14000K halide in my BioCube 29 HQI. I acclimated them to the halide with 4 layers of...

I recently got an AquaticLife Mini Skimmer for my BioCube 29 HQI, but the pieces with the suction cups that holds the skimmer together won't fit in the filter chamber. The skimmer is cut in half and those pieces hold it together, however it sorta stays together on it's own, but some bubbles...

I came home today to find all the corals in my Red Sea Max completely closed! The fish are fine and my clownfish's eggs are still bright orange and attached to the rock. The hermits are fine and the snails are fine. The temperature is 77F. My test kits for ammonias, nitrates, and nitrites are...

In my RSM all of my zoas are retracting and growing a purple/red slime over them. This is just beginning so I'm hoping I can stop it now. It's attacking every single colony in the tank except for my two favorite colonies. What is causing this and what can I do to stop it? Luckily I moved my...

I've had a nuisance algae for a long time, but it's recently started to really take over my tank. There are four major rocks that have it, two of which have my best two colonies of zoas, and the other two rocks can be replaced. There is some in random places all over the tank, so I probably...

I've been reading a few different threads on Nano Reef and Reef Central about hybridizing palys. In these threads, hobbyist have successfully hybridized Purple Deaths with Nuclear Greens, however the OP disappeared before they shared the final outcome. The farthest one of the threads I read went...