750g Reef Culture SPS Display circa 2013

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Reef Culture was a store that I helped build from the ground up. The majority of SPS were my own frags of Vivid, Garrett’s Acropolis & WWC pieces, some like the hyacinthus & lokani were maricultured. I already had a few years managing a different LFS. It was also the first LFS to be lit entirely by LED. This reef display, Elos display systems and the coral systems were my responsibility. Having my own frags for sale and helping customers with any issues is how I built a good relationship with a lot of excellent Reefers and suppliers. This is also where it became painfully obvious that my way of keeping reef aquarium systems didn’t suffer the dinoflagellates, brown jelly, red band and red skeleton disease that was rampant in another system that was 5 ft away and had all the same resources but maintained by a different person. It wasn’t by design or intention, it was by observation and water testing of over 100 new systems of all kinds of sizes and filtration.

 

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Phoenix LFS, Reef Culture, shows off Ecoxotic LED lighting | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Thanks to one of our readers Chris White, we were shown this great local fish store in the Phoenix area, Reef Culture, that uses LED lighting on all its displays and holding tanks. Not only are the…

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Aquarium Store Reef Culture

(www.ecoxotic.com) Reef Culture is the first retail fish & coral aquatic store in the United States illuminated exclusively with energy efficient LED lighting. Reef Culture is a specialized aquarium store located in Phoenix/Tempe Arizona.

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Reef Culture was a store that I helped build from the ground up. The majority of SPS were my own frags of Vivid, Garrett’s Acropolis & WWC pieces, some like the hyacinthus & lokani were maricultured. I already had a few years managing a different LFS. It was also the first LFS to be lit entirely by LED. This reef display, Elos display systems and the coral systems were my responsibility. Having my own frags for sale and helping customers with any issues is how I built a good relationship with a lot of excellent Reefers and suppliers. This is also where it became painfully obvious that my way of keeping reef aquarium systems didn’t suffer the dinoflagellates, brown jelly, red band and red skeleton disease that was rampant in another system that was 5 ft away and had all the same resources but maintained by a different person. It wasn’t by design or intention, it was by observation and water testing of over 100 new systems of all kinds of sizes and filtration.

Gorgeous tank!

 

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Gorgeous tank!

Thank you! There was also a large macroalgae refugium and cryptic zone with just rock under the display. I think we had 8 or 9 MP-60 on the back wall too.