Recent content by andyman

fill your tank with live rock from someone elses tank and you can skip the ugly phase. But you may get unwanted pest too like aptasia and asterinas.

you sure can. You know where i live! please PM me with a specific time and I'll have it moved to my garage for pickup.

I have 2 free tanks. They were used as sumps and probably best to be used as sumps. Its your standard sized tanks. You can try buffing it out if you want to use it as a display tank. Anyway free to whoever wants it. Located in San Francisco between the cow palace and balboa bart station...

I prefer not doing water changes and simply topping off. I run ICP test to measure trace elements and I add back required trace elements. I find that no matter which salt you use, you'll deplete some trace elements that water change won't be enough to cover. And to top it off, water changes...

Another suggestion to help against ppl gaming the system. Why don't you make a zoa bonus round / zoa ulta instead. That way you provide a zoa ultra, you get a zoa ultra in return. I feel zoa's are way way easier to propogate.

You'd need to diss-mantel that equipment to really be able to weld that but it looks like whatever is under that is bent too. I'm not sure its possible to repair that, your talking about more then just welding. may need a lathe or mill to re-produce that piece under it? Anyway bottom line no...

mainly for limited liability. Your fees also scale with FUTURE income. For example I think the yearly fee is $800 in california. But if income exceeds $250k-$499k you gotta pay an additional $900. And if you go above that $500k - $999k then its $2500. These are all projected income, the llc...

@popper if your looking to fill up a high school tank with corals ping me. I don't mind giving away my large rock of zos! I may even have a rock of green yumas. I'm about to start a thread of more free zoas.

I noticed a Zoa in the ultra list. If anyone has a ultra zoa, they should put it in my tank. I grow them like weeds.

i have the same issue. Its like acrylic haze or something. I was doing my research and the only way to fix this is the sand and polish this using a mighty magnet and sand paper. fortunately you can do this without draining. I just ordered my magnets and plan on doing this shortly. For what...

Most of the islands gets pretty dull after 8pm. There is no night life in maui. Still worth the visit but 1 or 2 days max. Never been to the big island. For Oahu, get yourself some snorkling and flash light and you can hit sharks cove for some night time snorkling (there is an enclosed...

was gonna say... time for a ICP test of the trace elements. I have sps in my tank but the biggest trace element depletion for me over the last year of ICP testing is flouride and strontium. There are a few others but its not as much as the depletion of those 2. Now the problem is how much...

Sounds like the moonshiner method. Basically no water change, ICP for trace element. I guess everyone is doing that but with different names.

I believe these are all king midas? The red ones I got are still stuck on a rock. If I ever get them off OR if they start expanding off the rocks and onto my bare bottom tank, those will be free too. In fact they are already starting to spread so I will probably have more zoas soon in red.

I've got a frag on a plug. If your in san Francisco I can give ya a piece to test. Is the thought that if they were not compatible that they will kill each other? I've got the colony growing against a WWC yellow tip and they seem to get along! I thought they were gonna marry each other...