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This coming Saturday, May 17th is the next meeting of the new reef club at The Local Fish Store in Morton Grove, 6014 Dempster Street. The last 2 meetings were awesome and a lot of fun, so come be part of an awesome group, meet the awesome staff there and the sweet puppy and maybe find a fish...

JBJ Nano Cube 28g. Just got it Monday night at the The Local Fish Store in Morton Grove at the second meeting of the brand new reef club there. Got it cleaned up, brought into the house late afternoon yesterday and was up until roughly 1:30 am making new saltwater and filling it. It's currently...

So everyone is aware, The Local Fish Store has started a by weekly reef club where corals and other reef things can be traded or sold. They will alternate between Monday's and Saturdays. The second meeting was this past Monday so the next one will be the Saturday after this Saturday, May 17th at...

Just started a new tank that will be a transfer from a smaller one. Wondering if anyone near the north side of chicago has 2-3 smaller pieces of live rock they would be willing to donate. Since I decided to go the safe route... cost a little more to get it started with New sand and also making...

My blue tang sure knows how to cause heart attacks. The first night as soon as the light dimmed to the moonlight setting he totally disappeared, couldn't find him with a flashlight, so overrode the light timer and a few minutes later he came swimming out from under a rock and looked at me like...

My Colorado Sunburst Anemone is arriving today. It is in transit as I type this via FedEx from Oklahoma by priority overnight. It should arrive between 8:20 am and noon according to FedEx. With the lovely Chicago temperatures, hopefully it arrives alive and in good shape. Planning on letting him...

I was the lucky winner of a reef keeping fb group's drawing and won a Colorado Sunburst Anemone. I am excited for it to be arriving likely sometime next week. I have been on other forums.... and have seen that powerhead are a problem. Wondering if I can use one of my mom's nylons to cover it, or...

Here is my nano reef. about a month old.

I am wondering if anyone is interested in starting a local club or monthly get together with fellow reef keepers? I am on the far north side of Chicago, near Evanston, and would be willing to locate a meeting location if anyone is interested, think it would be a fun way to get to meet people and...

Well today is the one month anniversary of my nano reef tank. It is a Fluval evo sea 13.5. Its current occupants are a bonded pair of sebae clowns, a Kenya tree, green toadstool, a green splatter hammer, gold hammer, rasta zoanthids, 2 other zoanthids I forget the name of, cabbage leather and...