Arminius

The fish room is even better than you described, JR. Really want to see the rack with the actuator over that tank. Everything looks awesome.

Geez Roy, what size truck did the front end go under?!?!? Sorry to see this happen to you. But happy to hear you come out of it at all, let alone with relatively minor injuries. Take care of your lady, she is going to need some help while lugging that cast around.

No problem JR. Glad to pass it on. Original post updated.

Sent you a pm 'newbie

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First to come through and pick up the rock gets it, I have held things before with poor results, sorry 'Newbie. But I am in no hurry - whenever it happens.

Consolidating to original post - more added.

Switch the pump on your existing skimmer to a Reef Octopus BubbleBlaster and it will be a whole different animal.

Coralife TurboTwist 6x with new bulb. Works great, haven't tested the seals. $50 obo

Aqueon 1250 powerhead. New in box. $20

2 Fluval Edge 25 watt Compact heaters. New in box $15 each

35 or 40 lbs of dry rock rubble. All or most very small pieces. $20 - SOLD

American Marine Pinpoint pH monitor. Needs a probe. $20

Mist King Ultimate Value Misting System. Brand new in box. $120

www.mistking.com/ultimate-misting-system.html

More as I go through purging un-neccessaries from the pile, but this is a start.

Dang - I ordered last night - oh well...

Sent you a PM

What about the seaswirls and the mp10's?

Light bulb size - dims on par38 get bigger (diameter and height) the more LEDs it has.

Dimmable with a wall switch, no wiring.

If you are going with a hood and have the dough, and since you seem handy enough, BlueZReef's color combo sounds like the ticket.

...and smashed the crap out of the little bastard...

That is a no on the cumulative discounts.

I tried this morning.

For Halloween

...the thing that I noticed as a hitchhiker was this curious little shrimp-like critter - very colorful with brilliant eyes - that had come from somewhere out of a bunch of live rock i had just purchased for my 75g reef in '98.

I saw him a couple of times in the beginning and was overjoyed with not only his appearance and that it had come with rock for free, but his shy, cautious behavior and those hauntingly intelligent seeming, bright little eyes. He would back into hollows and stare back at me as I stared at him, and soon he did not seem to come out of the reef pile at all. I was a little put off by this, thinking it had died, that perhaps I had not given it its required nutrition.

Some time later I began to notice I had fewer snails than before. And hermits as well. Then soon I had so few, and they and their shells had completely vanish I began to become gravely concerned. Then fish began mysteriously disappearing. The disappearances also eerily coincided with a late night, loud cracking or popping sound I would hear emanating from my tank - mind you I slept only 2 feet away in a tiny apartment. Gone were goby and the dragonet, shrimp and chromis and firefish. Then one day my prized baby powder brown who was eating well and swimming happily around the tank swam into the rock work at lights out for the last time..."POP"!!!! I had never heard of a mantis shrimp, but I did notice my tang was not about when lights came on the next day. I did see a curious flash of color down into the rock at that same moment, however. Engaging the internet webs, I searched until I found a probable source of the creepy midnight popping.

That is when I moved my corals to a 40g, pulled all of the rocks out of the 75 and began smashing them in the driveway...water and rubble flying about everywhere as I raised them over my head just outside the door and dashed them to the ground, manic in the glee of destruction, inwardly weeping for all of my lost little buddies. I was finally able to dislodge a large base rock from beneath the pile and, grinning wildly like some madman, hurled the rock to the pavement, dashing it to rubble. Amidst the LR carnage I saw a thing squirming and twitching wildly in the dross of the shattered aragonite composite. A little peacock mantis, dirty and struggling. I almost took pity, then I noticed all the empty snail shells I had been missing, spilling from a hollow in one of the crushed rocks. And then I saw that they were scattered everywhere as well. I began to identify the remains of crabs, and urchins - the skeleton of my diamond goby, long lost, lay amongst them...then I saw the mangled and half-eaten carcass of my little powder brown tang, who for weeks had gleefully swam to meet the clip filled with nori upon my daily return home from work . Now shredded, his eyes a miserable milky hue, his gills torn apart and his entrails spilling from his abdomen...I almost shed a wee tear for this little fellow. But then my anger boiled up from within, and I turned my head to stare crazily at the shrimp squirming in the mire. I turned, slowly closed upon him, raised my hands over my head and lifted my right, booted foot high...

Man...sorry to hear. I am in Vancouver too, so if you need help - I know I am a total stranger, but you all here are the closest thing I have to local friends so far.

Go get 'em Toby!

To be fair - he has great stuff, and any new import is always treated as the must have thing on the coral market. Some people actually have the money to spend on stuff like $1500 an eye chalices...sort of the penis measuring set, but whatever.

Interested in seaswirls...pm sent

$1500 would pay a lot toward a trip to Vietnam to collect your own...let him go - for every thief there is a sucker. Obviously you know better.

Group buy status shows in upper left by your name after you log in. The discounts are prefigured in the prices you view on regularly stocked items. Certain big ticket equipment items are unchanged due to MAP (minimum advertised pricing) agreements within the regulatory commissions of the market.

Anyway - I was wondering how the points help out the TFT program.

White washed or not dude, nice tank! That's a big 'ol clam.

Made my BRS order today, waiting for my LEDs to be shipped (reefbreeders ran into a housing manufacture snag and the hurricane), and getting a extra special smokin deal coming in the mail tomorrow - I will share with pics once I get that!

Tank is still untouched however, as with the sump. Finalizing the design of my stand now - going to try to have water in a tank by Christmas - the best thing I can get from Santa for sure.