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My sand dollar died last month. I went out to Something Fishy this past weekend to get another. To my surprise, they had one. (It never showed up on their web inventory.) They'd had it for a year, and kept moving it from a sand bottom invert tank to another invert sand bottom tank to keep it...
I don't think so, I recollect seeing BRS saying you'd get a store credit for the amount of the item you won. I think they may have had excess inventory on my gift. I'd rather have the store credit. My gift tank looks to be a 15G nano.
Today I got an odd assortment of free stuff from Bulk Reef Supply.
Included is
a small stuffed Mr. Chilli
a deck of BRS Playing Cards
a stuffed BRS clownfish
a very large orange MXM t-shirt
a wooden Mr. Chilli wireless phone charger
a pair of 11" VCA Limited Edition BRS Tweezers
and
an...
If you're willing to buy on-line, Salgado's has the least expensive fish around, especially with their common 20% or 30% off sale prices:
https://www.salgadoaquatics.net/
Considering that their fish are quarantined and medicated, the prices are especially good.
BUT THERE ARE CAVEATS:
Last...
Salt Water Aquarium's Black Friday Kolar GFO HC is the lowest price I've ever seen:
https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/search.php?search_query=GFO§ion=product
Most copper meds say you can't treat scaleless fish with it. Mandarins are scaleless.
Suggest you ask Humblefish for advice at https://humble.fish/community/
UPDATE
Decided it was dumb to mount the Raging Ramas.
I've only got one batch of mini brittle starfish. They're too labor-intensive to catch anymore.
The Raging Ramas came from:
All,
FWIW, I'll bring a free Raging Rama chalice for all paid-up members who attend. You'd pay $50 on-line for a decent sized frag! Sign on soon so I have time to mount all of them!
After 52 years of keeping marine specimens, I've collected a lot of hobby related items I need to part with...
Mr. Saltwater, on a SaltwaterAquarium.com series, recently raved about the Hydros salinity probe. Without naming names, he said it was the best out there. (He also has a Neptune controller, so you know what he was comparing it to.)
I think I might have figured it out. They look like two different pumps - maybe the Champion version was the original:
https://www.championlighting.com/images/product/Dosing%20Pump%20Pro2.png
And, the BRS one is newer, with "X1" added to its name...
Actually, they were in last week's BRS Wednesday Weekly Gems offer. They were less than $90, I can't remember exactly. That offer expired yesterday. I am glad I didn't buy one from them, now I can buy two! :) This week, BRS has Reef Factory's Dosing Pump ATO System for $121.79 vs the $202.99...
I've thought for a while that the Reef Factory Dosing Pump Pro was the best dosing pump currently available. Stepper motor, reversible flow functionality, under $100 when on sale, runs independently of a Reef Factory controller, Wi-Fi controllable, minute dose amounts if wanted, yada, yada... I...
Ah, yes ~ good old Tubifex worms. Useless for us, they lasted about three seconds in salt water. They used to be collected from open sewage lines but lost popularity because of fecal bacteria they would carry.
Here's a site that sells live blackworms:
https://easternaquatics.com/
I'm not too sure how reliable they are. My LFS won't do business with them. You can buy a 1/8th pound from them and keep them alive in one of these...
Per something I read somewhere, I experimented with some frozen blood worms for my Copper Band. They need to be chopped into smaller pieces. The CB ate them, but all my other fish turned up their noses at them.
The Mastick is worth a shot. I got my Moorish Idol going on it. Then I began...
Bulk Reef Supply is having a two-day sale on their house brand GFO HC. It, and I believe their other house branded Carbon and GFOs, are going for $25% OFF. They're the lowest recent prices I've seen.