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Mine is super peaceful and it is constantly picking at the rockwork. When I first added it to my tank it swam in circles for almost two weeks—likely due to stress. Thankfully it settled in and is has been doing great ever since.

Looking forward to the upgrade. I currently can’t post pictures from my iPhone since the default size is too big.

Wow, very impressive eyes from @jhuynh !

You can buy marineculture that appears very colorful upon arriving at a facility in the US. If you buy that coral (either the colony or a frag), and bring it back into your tank the color can change dramatically. At least this is what happened to me with three different marine culture SPS. I...

Welcome to the board. You should sign up and come to the frag swap in November. I have a bunch of MarcoRock around if you end up going the dry rock route. I won’t be using that MarcoRock anytime soon since I only use live rock nowadays. More expensive but reduces the headache of battling...

I am pretty sure the margin on the device is significant but they are pricing it relative to the competing devices which are also high ticket price.

No worries. Many of the hobbiest who purchase these colonies are degenerate coral gamblers. Every once in a while the lotto hits!

Nice pictures indeed! What kind of lights do you use on your tank(s)?

You should also not assume that these SPS colonies come straight from the ocean. The largest operations in Indonesia, Australia, and Malaysia are increasingly keeping the best cool they find in the wild and then grow them up in tanks with water piped in from the ocean. You can sometimes tell...

If you have a tank that grows SPS well the survival rate of marineculture should be very high. If people want to increase chances of the SPS pulling through they should frag the colony immediately. That helps ensures high light and flow to all pieces and increases the number of shots on goal...

If you have to ask what the name for a coral is, it should not be sold unless it is sold specifically as 1) unnamed or 2) using a completely new name.

Aquawiz is what I would get. Great reviews overall. Been tracking it for 2+ years now and don’t remember seeing anything materially negative.

I use the AquaticLife Smart Buddie RO system. It is worth every penny. The unit works as a pressure booster, automatically flushes the line when it is powered, on and will also prevent any draw of water when powered off. Eays to purchase on Amazon: https://a.co/d/gtK0DwY

One simple way to do it is have a float valve in your ATO container. Connect your RODI to that float valve and have it run for some fixed amount of time periodically (you can do this with some sort of smart power plug—they sell them for cheap on Amazon). My ATO container lasts 2 weeks so I...

if you can save $1 per tube and you are ordering 50 tubes of your, that is $50 to put towards the ATI Straton budget!

Agreed that the above is the best superglue I have used. I still mostly use the very economical stuff from Amazon but if cost was not an issue then I would go IC-gel all the way. I generally have some around for when I am gluing important frags to the rockscape in the display tank.

thank you for the link. I didn’t know this vendor existed. One potentially very useful product is the metro flakes / pellets. That could be a more reliable way to treat fish going through medicated quarantine with metronidazole. The powder version of metro is easy to purchase but you have to...

In terms of value for money there is zero doubt that getting known frags is the more dependable route. Of the three marine culture SPS I grew out none are long term keepers. That won’t stop me from gambling on some marine culture SPS again in the future. The prices at Clearwater are great so...

I purchased 3 of these marineculture and after 3 months 100% survival. What I do is frag them up immediately—I don’t leave them in colony form. No issues whatsoever with survival. The colors can change dramatically.

I got frags of three marine culture SPS colonies a fee months ago. Colors in the tank were beautiful. After about 1 month in my display tank the colors changed dramatically (ie, browned out or colors flipped one one side of the color wheel to the other). I had zero issues with survival but...