A Flat Acropora and All The Reefing Things We're Excited About |  

Thank you Remy for pronouncing betta correctly!

Corals and cocktails is already taken! High Tide Aquatics uses that for their talks.

We had fragarama in Brisbane Australia this year and they had a VIP function where there was an RSVP for the first so many for an after party with all the vendors and public hobby peeps. Was epic, good engagement interacting with marine vendors and coral farmers. Worth doing👌

I still have a 29G planted tank, from my freshwater days. It has a lot of anubias nana petite, java fern, some tree branches, a piece of dragon stone to hide the sponge filter, 12 neon tetras, a bunch of cherry neocardina, and a trillion tiny trumpet snails. Totally on auto pilot.

Loved gak!

I’ve been vacationing in the Bahamas since the 90’s. I haven’t seen wild corals more than 2-3 times, and when I did it was nothing but porites-Esque boulders. I don’t think those reefs have been considered healthy since the early 80’s.

Salem if you want crappy diving and snorkelling experience but great coral, visit yo boy at Hong Kong😂

I had that Pichoni in my old tank in 2010. It’s not new. Turns purple like the purple monster, but doesn’t like a lot of light. It stays flat and tables….

Great topic! Canister filter is the cryptic sump. I run my first reef with one and it had a lot of sponge in the end.

Salem is a G

I vote for "Rendezvous on the Reef". 🍻🐠🐟

Enjoyed the brain food you guys provide for the hobby. Keep it up guys/gals!

I want to go the show and drink beers with Salem!! Haha love the podcast keep them coming!

I have both Reef and Fresh water aquarium in my living room and love them both, i started young in the D.R. with fresh water and dive with Tiger sharks while young but would not do it now since climate change has made Tiger sharks more aggressive in my opinion in the Caribbean and dying natural reef.

Corals and cocktails!!! Salem do I need to bring my own bottle??? 😂 Can’t wait for reef stock Chattanooga I live in the area and my first big show

Salem Said Sponges need Organic carbon, So you can try doing Sponges the high end rare species and try carbon dosing and see if you can succeed Sea Horses and Bisma Worm Rock may also get along with that and macro algae

and also #Pimp_Your_Shrimp

#pimpyourshrimp I have a 1.7 gallon shrimp tank with ember tetras. Easiest tank ever. Also I also had sexy shrimp with maxi-minis in a Corallimorph dedicated Studio12 . Easiest tanks out of my 9 tanks.

@Salem so unfortunate that your snorkeling experience was so bad. I went diving to a marine reserve in Cuba earlier in the year and they had major bleaching that killed a large portion of the reef. It was disheartening. I'm currently in the "last chance" tourism band looking for reefs to visit. Count me in for the Reef Rendezvous

#whatsinyourwater

Remy belting out corporate boilerplate-speak to mitigate Salem ranting about partying at ReefStock is peak Reef Therapy. 👌

I have a buddy that has a 210 reef running and has had a 45 cube next to that for over two years has not even leak tested so it does happen

Gear grinding for the win!!!

"Maybe that's why people have such difficult time keeping coral now compared to 20 years ago." Are people having a harder time keeping corals than 20 years ago? Seems to me that you're seeing a lot of stuff that used to be considered destined to die in captivity being kept long term now. As far as DOC's go, that's a huge category of substances. Even restricting it to labile DOC's, most of which protein skimmers are very efficient at pulling out of the water column, doesn't narrow it down by much. I think you would have to be way more specific to say anything useful in terms of what specific types of DOC's do you think cause good bacteria to go bad. They mention a paper by Salem on the subject, does anyone have a link to it? Without having read his paper, his position on DOC's seems a bit hand wavy. It sounds more like the evidence shows there is a correlation in wild reefs between high DOC's and diseases. That's not the same thing as saying the DOC's caused it. Knowing how many very successful reefers have kept mature aquariums very nutrient rich for years but very few that have run really low nutrients for long periods of time, I'm skeptical. High DOC's in nature are correlated with all sorts of other things because it's generally because of high inputs of either urban waste water or agricultural run-off which are not only high in DOC's but also full of all sorts of chemicals that could be the culprits for the increase prevalence of disease. That being said, I think having a good size cryptic sump can only help with bio-diversity and overall health of the reef tank.