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Always has pods in it and can sometimes have brittles in it, depending on where you get it. MikeM LE Chaeto is probably the best for that because he breeds brittles like nobody's business!
There is a WTB section of the website, very useful. Depending on the type of critter you may want to order directly or for members there's a critter group buy coming up. Others (pods, mini-brittle stars, spaghetti worms, etc) you can get from your fellow local reefers through sand or macro algae.
Love the new ad!
Who all is planning on going to MACNA already? Anyone already have their tickets? Who's planning on going that hasn't purchased them yet? Just curious to see what kind of Jersey crowd we'll have there!
You must have done plenty of reading before getting started. You're off to a fantastic start! From base rock v. live rock to the shrimp for cycle. I'm very impressed!
The tank will go through some ugly phases in its first 30 days or so. There will be a diatom bloom (brown "dust" on the sand and...
Gotcha. We actually did use the thinner stuff. What we ended up doing was putting feet/supports every so often to support the egg crate. In the 125 we strapped a piece of 1" pvc down the length of it to make it a bit more rigid.
But the thicker stuff would certainly make things easier.
Good...
They said today on NPR that BP felt so secure in their "safety mechanisms" that they didn't insure the rig. Anything that is spent to clean this up will all (most) come out of their pocket.
Unless, of course, we bail them out...
I was wondering when I saw an empty tank (wow that must have been some crash...glad that wasn't your display tank)!
No pictures of the tank?! We'll have to have a do-over. Can't not have the tank pics! That's half the reason to have a meeting!
Not really, it is in the tank downstairs and the front glass is a mess. Monroereef has one of the siblings to it and Brian Pope another... you could see theirs and get an idea of what it is destined for though! ;D
Paul, the club has a nice size RBTA for sale. It is currently at my house. If you arrange price and payment with the officers, I can work with you for the hand off.
I just have some pods that James gave me (thanks, James) stuffed into the overflow box in my display (in the shallow first section where the teeth are). They're getting a bit tall and I don't want them sticking out of the top of the canopy (lol), so I'd like to trim mine (and hopefully propagate...