LadAShark

I love reefs, but I'm also a big fan of large predatory tanks which usually end up FOWLR. Is there anyone else here that likes these as well? If there's enough, it would be cool if we could have a section to discuss FOWLR. Cause when I go to the Fish section I sure see a lot of Reef fish :P

I recently needed to do a dip for my corals, so I purchased loads of 99.9% purity iodine crystals and 99.9% purity potassium iodide. Just wanted to see how interested people would be to buy something chemically equivalent to Lugol's solution for sale at like 5-10 bucks at the April 15 meeting? Would probably be willing to trade for frags too. For background, so that you know I'm qualified to do this, I am a bio(chemical) engineer.

Fair enough. It's actually not often that someone comes talking about a shark tank or about shark and goes through with it. Even more common is the "can I keep a bull shark in a 40 gallon tank?" To which I often reply "no I suggest a 4 gallon biocube"

Ended up putting off the expansion of my house, so I am instead setting up a temporary pool in my garage. There was a possibility I was going to work in Turkey for the next six years (which is no no longer going toomo happenw ), so I had no choice but to put off my plans. As they say, life happens. Anyway, the pool has a 600 gallon bestway pool as a base, and is lined with two layers of pond liner. It will be attached to a fluidized filter as well as a turf scrubber to guarantee ono metals or in tank algae growth. Am surprised you remembered that I was going to build a shark tank. Unofortunately it didn't work out, but I haven't given up! The stocking will be some catsharks, a short tailed nurse shark, a live shark sucker, and a few other large fish. I happened to see a good deal in North Eugene on a 120 reef tank, and so I happened to get it. Doesn't mean the sharkies are called off. You can expect some updates on that in the summer.

pretty sure you can

lol

Killifish beg to differ!

wow...

I mean, I understand why people didn't like cichlids. At a glance they aren't the prettiest fish...

Would be nice to see them even if you did know you had a mated pair :P

I currently have a tank that crashed, any chance you'll be having such awesome sales in like 2-4 weeks time?

Purchased a fully set up reef tank from way down in North Eugene. I had seen a tiny piece of montipora broken off with what I thought was rot at the time. However, 5 days later I have realized that that was brown slime, and by purchasing the tank I led to a huge outbreak that basically wiped out all of the coral in my tank (several square feet of montiporas, acroporas, and several softies). In a couple weeks to 4 weeks time (after I cycle and recure the live rock) I will be restarting the tank, and was hoping I could get some help in the form of frags. Unfortunately I don't have a reef currently setup to restart the tank with. Once my tank gets going I'm willing return the favor! P.S. the guy had a pistol shrimp in his tank too, which is still alive and about (which explains the hundreds of empty shells I found in the sand), if anybody wants him

awww, ok please close topic

http://reedmariculture.com/support_rotifers_culturing.php http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/9/breeder When cultivating rotifers, it's important to control ammonia. By directly interfering with ammonia, you can get a huge amount of rotifers that would normally not be possible due to the insane bioload.

Classifieds is a better place to put this.

The salinity could very well kill plants, assuming the salt remains in the soil. It really depends on the grain size of your sediment.

Good news is I have the iodine dips going (I just got my potassium iodide and iodine crystals in the mail). Bad news is I already don't have much hope

huh, interesting how nobody replied to this I'll give him a try if nobody has taken him off your hands. I have one 120 that will be ready soon, and two more soon after that.

Nah, rotifiers aren't that hard to raise.

Now if you did plan on raising them, I'd love to have one or two or four ;P

Interesting. Hoping this isn't just a turf scrubber, but I'll be waiting on it regardless.

Oh! Lugols is iodine. I was planning to do dip myself. I will buy some laboratory grade potassium iodide crystals and iodine crystals and produce some 5% solution myself (how lugols is made). I have amazon prime so hopefully it will arrive in a day or two. It does seem there are some montiporas that are only slightly infected, but there are also some in horrible condition. Most have outright melted. Well on the bright side I'll have extra iodine solution if anybody needs it! I'n not going to get my hopes up, however, as I don't want them to be dashed. For now I'll order the crystals, concentrate on saving what I can, cure the live rock, and bake the sand so I will be able to start back up in a couple weeks ot a month at most.

I would have suggested a harlequin tusk if you weren't so sold on the melanarius. but now that I think about it the harlequin tusk is no cheap fish ?

Woah! That's a steep price!

Oh my bad, I miscommunicated, I'm not cooking the rock, I'm cooking the sand. The rock, I'm gonna let that sit at around 80 degrees and let the rot happen. If I could legitimitely save some acros and others I would be really happy!