Recent content by bradleyjay

I second Coral Seas. It's a small shop, but their prices are competitive on livestock, and they have a nice selection of corals. Best of all, they're knowledgeable about most reef things. I've bought a lot of stuff from them, since they're right between my office and my home.

Before you go to Aquacon, do yourself a favor and search here in the forums for "Aquacon". They have quite the bad reputation AFAIC. Aquacon is about 10 minutes from where I live, and I have been there a few times. The sales staff was extremely rude and condescending. I personally wouldn't...

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Squeez: Thanks for the directions, that place is about 5 minutes from my office! (looks like I might have to take an 'extended' lunch break) Sorry to get off-topic, but how's your experience been with them? I deal mainly with Marine Life Designs in Deerfield Beach. Their prices are a bit...

Where is Ocean Reef? I'm in Fort Lauderdale, but have never seen this shop. I checked anywho.com, but could only find Ocean Reef in Daytona Beach, and I don't have a phone book handy right now. Just when I thought I knew all of my LFS, I find out about another one...

I got my fighting conchs from Marine Life Designs, in FL. They do mail order as well. IIRC these guys were tank raised, so they won't grow as large as their wild cousins, but keep in mind that they do grow pretty fast. Mine have grown from about 1 inch in January to about 3 inches today...

A little North of Miami, I know of several: Coral Seas (Fort Lauderdale) - Small shop with knowledgeable staff, decent selection. Aquacon (Sunrise) - Med size shop with decent selection, but rude staff & terrible mail order reputation. Do a search here and you'll see what I mean. Marine Life...

Texman, sorry to hear about your disaster. That's really terrible. Having said that, I don't understand why you're blaming this on "evil" canister filters. In your case, it could have been any pump external to the tank. Return pump, skimmer pump, etc. Anything that pumps water *out* of your...

Check out this thread over at RC: http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75074 I plan to buy the 175W 10K's, but I'm waiting for a little more research to be done.

I had the same problem with my Koran about 6 months ago. I never tried anything as drastic as freshwater baths, as I didn't want to stress my fish any more than it already was. Since he was sick when I got him, he was pretty stressed from the move. Anyway, all I did was try to keep my tank...

I also got great service from Reefpure. I won a Tornado 4 stage on an eBay auction, and it arrived really quick. Anyway, being new to ro/di I thought it was missing parts. I called them up, and they walked me through the whole setup process. I know there's mixed opinions about Reefpure out...

Mouse: So the poor fish deserves to die so I can make a point boycotting the LFS...that's really nice...kind of like the pulling legs off spiders thing you mentioned, right? Listen, pal: I'm not gonna keep going back and forth about this with you. I'll say it again since you obviously didn't...

You sound as if I'm the person who took this animal from his natural habitat. Wrong again. Please remember that this animal was caught by someone other than myself. I'm going to assume that was the importer. So had I purchased the fish or not, it doesn't matter. He's still not in the ocean...

To all those who offered advice, thanks. I won't dump my Koran into the ocean. As I said before, I just had an idea and never heard it discussed here before, so I asked. I guess some people think that means I like pulling the legs off spiders. I guess we can let this thread die now.

Just as a contrast, mine use the whole tank. It looks like they're dating. They swim around, stopping to eat, stopping to do the shakey dance, etc.