They almost sell nothing in the way of supplies have a quarter the number of fish tanks J&L have but their hard coral selection is amazing. Almost exclusively corals.
In the back room they have a huge 12' large tank (almost twice the size as the store display tank) where they take most of their cuttings from and they have dozens of large frag tanks where they grow out their corals. The 12' grow out tank is full of corals, you would hardly know they are constantly taking cuttings from this tank. The back room is almost as big as the entire retail section but not much room to move around because of the rows of tanks.
The only thing I didn't like was their large display tanks in the front were under only blue lighting. The large 12' tank in the back is under a wider spectrum light and so are the grow out tanks.
All their tanks are impeccably clean and did not see any signs of pests like , vermetid snails, aiptaisa, bubble algae, nuisance algae, hydroids or anything else that is large enough to see.
They are running their tanks at an alkalinity of 8.6 and a pH of 7.8 to 7.9. they are using only calcium reactors on all their tanks to manage alkalinity and calcium. They adjust their protein skimmers on timers when their nutrients (primarily nitrates) get to low. Not sure how they manage phosphates, forgot to ask. They said they do not shoot for numbers other than alkalinity and that they have measurable nitrate (10 to 15). Their display tanks are lit with only Radion led's. They use supplemental T-5's on the large tank in the back.
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