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Picked up a few Acropora SPS corals and want to know more about identification? Does anyone recognize and/or know the Id ? Perhaps origin waters? Seller didn't have this information.

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I used to drop in to ReefHotSpot a few miles from LAX to pickup a coral or two. Noticed their website said, under construction. Well, I took a drive and found that "under construction" meant LITERALLY .... Empty warehouse all tanks gone, building for rent. Spoke to a guy inside and he said his buddy bought the biz. That's all I got. Don't know when or where they will resurface. The previous owner had redid the whole place and built it out nicely. Won't speculate on why, could be the ...

The good news, got a new toy The Hanna Phosphate checker... The bad news, phosphates are .23 No wonder things don't seem to grow fast in my reef tank ... I admit that I don't vacume the sand bed with every water change. Tank is 4+ years old. So, I want to ATTACK this problem with vigor or vulgar or vodka When I gently rack my sand bed, it's big clouds, I'm in detritus hell ... I went out looking for lanthanum chloride type stuff and didn't buy anything yet. I did however, ...

Was concerned my Sally light foot crab would not find enough to eat Low and behold, she likes coralline algae



Marc,

I noticed you may have posted a frag pic of this few SPS coral I have in the tank. What do you call this coral? Is it a bonsai?

Those with experience having in-line refugium, please offer your thoughts. I have a refugium with miracle mud base plus few inches sand bed on top of that. Been running for three years. Content mainly consists of cheato macro algae,small pods, and quite a few of bristle worms... I've seen a you tube video of a cleanup crew farmer saying, small bristle worms of the kind in my refugium are good, just not a certain large type worm (forgot the name, 8+ inches long ... That's great.

So, ...