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biophilia said:
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... :rolleyes: .... ;Woot ;Woot

Welcome... Home!!

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Phelipe's Ocean said:
Amazing Tank! Im in Oakland as well[emoji16]
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Glad to see another Oaklander on here! What LFS do you usually go to? Curious if you've checked out Bay Bridge Aquarium over near Jack London yet? They're still under construction-(ish), and don't have much in the way of coral yet, but the owner Michael is setting up a 1,100 gallon reef display tank behind the front counter that I'm pretty excited to watch grow.
 
biophilia said:
Glad to see another Oaklander on here! What LFS do you usually go to? Curious if you've checked out Bay Bridge Aquarium over near Jack London yet? They're still under construction-(ish), and don't have much in the way of coral yet, but the owner Michael is setting up a 1,100 gallon reef display tank behind the front counter that I'm pretty excited to watch grow.
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Yea I stopped by a few times! I can’t wait for them to start adding corals to their display. I think their pricing is a little high but they have some nice rarities. My favorite LFS has to be Aquatic Collection, amazing store with some really rare fish and nice corals. Ive seen everything over there from gem tangs to True Personifer angel pairs. I keep coming back to this thread to look at your tank its incredible!
 
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Phelipe's Ocean said:
Yea I stopped by a few times! I can’t wait for them to start adding corals to their display. I think their pricing is a little high but they have some nice rarities. My favorite LFS has to be Aquatic Collection, amazing store with some really rare fish and nice corals. Ive seen everything over there from gem tangs to True Personifer angel pairs. I keep coming back to this thread to look at your tank its incredible!
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Aquatic Collection is my usual go-to for fish, inverts, and LPS/zoas. Really knowledgeable staff and a great store! Probably about 75% of the corals in my tank where purchased there, though my SPS I've been getting from Neptune down in San Jose.
 
biophilia said:
Aquatic Collection is my usual go-to for fish, inverts, and LPS/zoas. Really knowledgeable staff and a great store! Probably about 75% of the corals in my tank where purchased there, though my SPS I've been getting from Neptune down in San Jose.
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Im gonna go to neptunes for the first time in the beggining of june. How are the prices?
 
Phelipe's Ocean said:
Also if you dont mind me asking what settings are you running your prime on?
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In my experience, Neptune’s pricing is higher than aquatic collection for some things (example - a fungia plate coral that is $100ish at Neptune can sometimes be found at similar color/size for $65 at Aquatic Collection. That being said, Neptune has a much larger collection of SPS corals and “designer” type zoanthids (Rastas, etc). Neptune has a large tank of nice SPS (like strawberry shortcake acro, Cali tort, WWC grafted monti, etc) some which can be had for $20/frag or less while Aquatic Collection in my experince often just has browned-out wild-caught frags. It’s definitely worth checking out — even if just to marvel at all of their big display tanks up front.

My prime HD settings are just the BRS AB+ settings - UV: 119%, violet: 116%, royal and blue both 80%, green and red both 4% and white 19%.
 
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biophilia said:
In my experience, Neptune’s pricing is higher than aquatic collection for some things (example - a fungia plate coral that is $100ish at Neptune can sometimes be found at similar color/size for $65 at Aquatic Collection. That being said, Neptune has a much larger collection of SPS corals and “designer” type zoanthids (Rasta spas, etc). Neptune has a large tank of saught-after SPS (like strawberry shortcake acro, Cali tort, WWC grafted monti, etc) some which can be had for $20/frag or less while Aquatic Collection in my experince often just has browned-out wild-caught drags. It’s deinitely worth checking out — even if just to marvel at all of their big display tanks up front.

My prime HD settings are just the BRS AB+ settings - UV: 119%, violet: 116%, royal and blue both 80%, green and red both 4% and white 19%.
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Thankyou! Im gonna go check it out on the first saturday of june.
 
Phelipe's Ocean said:
Hey one more question what do you have for flow? I noticed you have acros and and softies, im struggling to keep the high flow for acros and low enough for mushrooms and lps.
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I currently have the stock return pump turned way down (to 50gph-ish) and a Jebao SW2 powerhead turned all the way up (~600gph) on random mode. It's been acting up a lot lately, though, and keeps slowing down no matter how much I clean it -- which seems to be a common complaint with the Jebao pumps. I have a Aqamai KPS pump on order which I'm hoping will be a wider flow pattern and more reliable performance. In general, I shoot for about 60-70x the tank volume as far as flow goes and keep the powerhead an inch or so below the waterline and pointed straight at the glass across the tank (and just a tiny bit downward) so it's not directly hitting any corals. This keeps stronger flow at the top half of the tank where the SPS is and less at the bottom where my ricordias and LPS are. Beyond that, I just try to place things that like less flow in areas that seem to be out of the way.
 
biophilia said:
In my experience, Neptune’s pricing is higher than aquatic collection for some things (example - a fungia plate coral that is $100ish at Neptune can sometimes be found at similar color/size for $65 at Aquatic Collection. That being said, Neptune has a much larger collection of SPS corals and “designer” type zoanthids (Rastas, etc). Neptune has a large tank of nice SPS (like strawberry shortcake acro, Cali tort, WWC grafted monti, etc) some which can be had for $20/frag or less while Aquatic Collection in my experince often just has browned-out wild-caught frags. It’s definitely worth checking out — even if just to marvel at all of their big display tanks up front.

My prime HD settings are just the BRS AB+ settings - UV: 119%, violet: 116%, royal and blue both 80%, green and red both 4% and white 19%.
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I would agree. Neptune almost exclusively sells aqua cultured or captive propagated corals while aquatic collection almost exclusively sells wild harvested corals :-(
 
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Aquatic collection has an amazing selection of fish. Great pricing too. Neptune is always a fantastic visit, but a bit pricy. I’m in Vacaville over here, check out california reef co. Oh and Clearwater aquarium in Saratoga. Ed Deane over at Clearwater gets in some stunning pieces for some crazy great prices. Super cool guy too. Welcome to the forums!
 
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