saltn00b
Active Member
ok here is the situation.
my LFS offers rewards via a point system. i am around the corner of hitting the 5000 point mark (1:1 $ ratio
), at which point i am eligible for $200 dollars of anything in the store, all at once.
the short of it:
my tank is a 150g mixed reef with sps. i have a ~30g fuge underneath. and all the flow i could need.
last summer i lost the majority of my fish and now only have a GSM clown, lawnmower blenny, and a green mandarin. so i clearly need to restock my fish.
i am always looking for pretty new corals.
i could use a few new inverts, such some emerald crabs to keep a few bubble algae bubbles at bay, a bunch of snails to keep the tank clean, maybe a skunk cleaner shrimp.
to keep up with the calcium , alk and mag, i dose with the 2-part solution technique, and it is something that i finally found that works great and is very cheap, while also being easy to implement.
the problem:
the thing with this store, i really dont trust there livestock, fish usually are sick with one form of disease or another and die within a few days. i prefer to purchase fish from online or other, better stocked LFS. Their corals are usually sub-par at best, and it is always a crap-shoot if they have anything even slightly worthwhile, and when they do, it is way overpriced.
so what to buy? inverts and some equipment? what equipment? a calcium reactor? an RO/DI unit from them? the RO/DI's if they have them, might not be what i want / need. any other ideas?
my LFS offers rewards via a point system. i am around the corner of hitting the 5000 point mark (1:1 $ ratio
the short of it:
my tank is a 150g mixed reef with sps. i have a ~30g fuge underneath. and all the flow i could need.
last summer i lost the majority of my fish and now only have a GSM clown, lawnmower blenny, and a green mandarin. so i clearly need to restock my fish.
i am always looking for pretty new corals.
i could use a few new inverts, such some emerald crabs to keep a few bubble algae bubbles at bay, a bunch of snails to keep the tank clean, maybe a skunk cleaner shrimp.
to keep up with the calcium , alk and mag, i dose with the 2-part solution technique, and it is something that i finally found that works great and is very cheap, while also being easy to implement.
the problem:
the thing with this store, i really dont trust there livestock, fish usually are sick with one form of disease or another and die within a few days. i prefer to purchase fish from online or other, better stocked LFS. Their corals are usually sub-par at best, and it is always a crap-shoot if they have anything even slightly worthwhile, and when they do, it is way overpriced.
so what to buy? inverts and some equipment? what equipment? a calcium reactor? an RO/DI unit from them? the RO/DI's if they have them, might not be what i want / need. any other ideas?
