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[OrchidMiss]

 

[SBB Corals]

A few words about customer service.

A few months ago I contacted SBB via PM because I was having trouble with my corals. Several of my SBB coral were dying and it was a month or so after I got them. I couldn’t figure out why. Some of you may already be aware of this, but Shane has said it’s okay to share this with everybody now. My parameters seemed to be fine, so Shane wanted to focus primarily on my water and my acclimation process. I use a seven stage BRS RO/DI system. We changed out all filters and both membrane along with a 50 gallon flush to make sure everything was now clean with no preservatives. With that done, over a month I did a 50% water change (90 gallons for 180 gallon tank). For the acclimation, I had been using Coral RX. There was concern I may be burning the frags in acclimation, so we switched to potassium chloride for my dipping. One other thing I’ve been looking at is CO2 regulation to keep my PH more stable in the 8.0-8.3 range.

Shane said he was going to send me some “practice” corals once I got everything we discussed done. Well, I just got my practice corals this morning. OMG! I expected a few small frags, but the pictures below are the corals after being in my tank for 2 hours. Needless to say, I was speechless. If anybody ever doubted where the best customer service is in the industry, doubt no more. This is over the top service to help a customer. I cannot take Shane and SBB enough for their efforts to help me with my tank. It is more than I ever could have ask for. Thank you Shane.

Here are my “Practice” corals. Polyp extension started within 30 minutes of going in the tank. Wow!

Now I’ve got to make sure I keep them happy.

Amazing pictures thanks for sharing. And happy we have our little community going. We all love corals and was happy to send you some stuff to replace and try with the tank procedures!!!!! May you grow them well and enjoy them for a long time to come

 

[wes84]

Oh wow, already!!! I’ve never heard of Manteca, must be inland.

5 or 6 hrs up the 5 from you.

 

[Joe462]

BKchem fruit loops from SBB almost killed this one the tips and the encrusting base is all that survived, so I cut out most of the dead the dead and made frags of the tips, and they are all doing well now. In different tanks so they look a little different.

 

[ryshark]

5 or 6 hrs up the 5 from you.

I looked it up. I have been to Tracy, CA before.

I’ve heard that most of the county doesn’t refer to freeways using “the” like we do.

 

[ryshark]

BKchem fruit loops from SBB almost killed this one the tips and the encrusting base is all that survived, so I cut out most of the dead the dead and made frags of the tips, and they are all doing well now. In different tanks so they look a little different.

I like! Wish I had mine from SBB still. They are actually pretty hardy Tenuis.

 

[Kasrift]

I like! Wish I had mine from SBB still. They are actually pretty hardy Tenuis.

They are hard to find and when you do they are sold at a premium.

 

[wes84]

I looked it up. I have been to Tracy, CA before.

I’ve heard that most of the county doesn’t refer to freeways using “the” like we do.

Oh ok thats right next to Manteca. Lol i wasn’t sure if you were going to catch that or not. It’s definitely a socal thing.

 

[Digitalfirex]

Woah @LRT is here with us peasants! I'm honored. :0

Also, DIY king @ me yesterday :0

 

[Digitalfirex]

 

[robanister]

Trying new senseye. Says ph is 8.93.

 

[billyocean]

Trying new senseye. Says ph is 8.93.

8.93?

 

[billyocean]

First diy alk solution. Trying sodium bicarbonate and will make it sodium carbonate if I need to.

 

[OrchidMiss]

I was just behind the starfish!

 

[AKL1950]

First diy alk solution. Trying sodium bicarbonate and will make it sodium carbonate if I need to.

Manual dosing? What’s your mixture ratio?

 

[billyocean]

297 grams sodium bicarbonate per gallon of rodi. Don't know how much I'm dosing yet. I dose 60 ml a day of red sea alk now..on a doser.

 

[robanister]

8.93?

That's what I said think I'm at 8.7 in reality. End of day highest ph.

 

[wes84]

I was just behind the starfish!

Ive never met you but for some reason i thought you were taller. Black on black on black, classic.

 

[woodyarmadillo]

That's what I said think I'm at 8.7 in reality. End of day highest ph.

Not something I have to worry about because my ph is always low, but where does high PH become an issue? I’ve heard 8.3 is the sweet spot, 7.8-8.6 being the acceptable range. What happens when your Ph gets up to 9 or something?

 

[woodyarmadillo]

These Gobies are pretty neat and they don’t seem to crowd up the tank at all. Clowns don’t mind them. When y’all were telling me to get more fish, I got a yellow goby, Yasha goby, and purple fire fish goby. They’ve already got a tunnel system under the rock work with multiple entrances. They spend most of their time hidden but come out periodically or for food.