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  1. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    get a few hermits! they can't hurt...they are usually like 2 for 1$ or just go find a rocky area on the beach and find then urself! thats what I did....I never even knew they were local till I saw someone selling a big bucket of them one day to Fish Paradise! that is also why I added them...
  2. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    Originally Posted by airforceb2 Definately no inverts until the cycle is done. Not many things will live during a cycle. Most fish die or are severely harmed. hmmm..strange...all my blue leg hermits lived through the cycle...even a few snails...what works for some may not work for all....
  3. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    I cycled mine with 10 pounds of live rock...about 20 hermits with just that for a week....then added a shrimp in a filter bag hanging in the tank...and week 2 I added 20 lps rock, the frytzme and the following week when the shrimp was gone and everyone was pretty much to zero, I added 2...
  4. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    if you go to the barrier reef and get the live bacteria, frytzme, I think its called, it will help speed up the process. some people say it skipps the process all together, but I added it while I had the shrimp in there and within a week the shrimp was gone and everything evened right out...
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    GSM clown

    I have a HUGE GSM clown...shes like 3.5 inches long...shes very protective of her BTA...even nipoping at my fingers if I get too close....at the LFS they have some small GSMC's for 16$....do you think that she's end up killing it even if I do it slowly like people say. Put it in a smaller...
  6. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    you can still view his other auctions....and if you registared...you should be able to send him a msg fromthat post to see if he still has some or is going to be getting more in soon...
  7. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    just put this in the search field. 4379783637 should bring it right up
  8. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    no...he doesn't allow local pick up...I tried with him before. I think he was in Miramar or Pembroke Pines...I forget which one....but sign up and send "liverockboy" a msg and see what he has in stock if ur interested. Doesn't the barrier reef have the cheap base rock too? I haven't been...
  9. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    I went and picked up at his house. He lets you pick whatever pieces you want. Its pretty cool...getting it at wholesale prices! I heard there is a new fish store in Boca up off Clintmore but I have yet to get up there with enough time to check it out! have you heard of it or been there yet...
  10. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    Yeah, I live in Ft Laud....right now it looks like he only has the haitian rock on there...I didn't see that, he had it at his store front. but his name on tehre is "liverockboy" send him a msg on there asking if he still has the other or when he is gonna get it back in. Mine has some small...
  11. bret61081

    Help Lots Of Questions & Pics!

    Hey reef man...if you search that big auction site, there is a guy in Davie that sells live rock for $2.50 a pound. He has some pretty good pieces...lots of growth. Get like 20 lps of that and then get like 5-10 from the barrier reef for addtional seeing. His is from the carribean, so its not...
  12. bret61081

    Georgia Aquarium

    http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/ Looks interesting...opens in Nov. Looks like i am gonna have to take a trip up there! anyone hear of any other exibits other then the whale sharks...thats all I have really found info on...
  13. bret61081

    Orange Spotted Filefish: How often do you feed?

    Oxymonacanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider 1801), the Harlequin Filefish or Orange Spotted Filefish in the aquarium interest. The most commonly offered member of the family... and rarely alive for more than a week in captivity. In the wild almost only eats Acropora polyps. If thats the one...
  14. bret61081

    125RR for sale in Jax. Fl.

    if she doesn't take the pair of perculas, I have a friend driving down from that area next week who would stop and pick them up if possible! let me know...
  15. bret61081

    getting ready for hurricane dennis

    Teresa...Just out of curiosity...how did your tanks weather the storms last year? no power, light, ect? Ft Laud here...trying to get a few battery backups ready for this years season. I hear a lot of people do the battery operated air pumps…but I know I was without power last year for 3-4 days...
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    125RR for sale in Jax. Fl.

    What are the dementions of the tank and stand?
  17. bret61081

    Marineland Eclipse System 12

    If you want a great place to get a retro fit kit for the eclipse tank, let me know. I ordered mine from a company called AH supply. Came with everything pretty much I needed and great instuctions. check them out...good prices too...If they block the name of the company...email me...
  18. bret61081

    Eclipse Lighting Upgrade

    I did 2 13W in a 6G eclipse with no problems...just make sure u put in vents to let the heat out b/c b4 I installed them they tank was getting rather warm....now it says right below 80....good luck with it...
  19. bret61081

    What is a good cleaner fish?

    I have a Neon Goby in my nano tank. he cleans my percs all the time! its cute...in my 55 I have a cleaner shrimp that doesn't clean anything but my pygmy angel....and steal silversides from my anenome when I feed it! so I dunno...but I like the neon goby personally...and living in Florida...
  20. bret61081

    I need help, my new fish keep dying

    I agree with Puffer...raise the salt levels...its ok to lower the salt slowly over a 24-48 hr period...but if u are accimilating a fish from 1.023-1.025 down to 1.018 in an hour or so...that surely could do it...expecially if the nitrates are as high as he says...just my opinion...
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