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Stop in

See it before you buy it.

Two reef-tested systems on the floor with current livestock and dry goods. Coffee's usually on. Come ask the dumb questions you don't want to ask online — we're not in a hurry.

Browse 600+ species

Tap the same kiosk we run in store.

Care notes, gauges, photos, current stock counts. The species browser the customers use on the sales floor — now on whatever screen you're holding.

This week's drop

Hand-picked frags from the in-store tanks.

Limited pieces, never restocked from the same colony twice. If you see one you want, come grab it before someone else does.

Shop departments

Everything you'd find in the shop, organized.

Pick a department to jump in. Every section is stocked the way the shop actually runs it — no fluff, no fillers.

From the reef bench

Notes from twenty years of running tanks.

Practical write-ups on the gear we trust, the species we recommend, and the small things most guides leave out.

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Salt
5 min read
Why we run Fritz RPM on every system in the shop.
After three years and a dozen brands, here's what we landed on and why. Includes the four mixes we tried first and what made us switch.
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Fish picks
7 min read
First reef-safe fish picks for new tanks.
Five species we trust to break in a freshly cycled tank without taking it down with them, plus the two we always tell people to skip the first time around.
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Chemistry
9 min read
Dialing alkalinity without losing your mind.
The boring playbook that actually works, the test kits we use in the shop, and why most "alk swing" problems are really dosing-pump problems in disguise.
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