I went into the fish packed place thinking it would be great from the add I seen. The owner started talking smack right off. To sum it up he suggested you have only NO lighting and a uv system with an undergravel for filtration. After looking at his so unimpressive 400+ 1 gallon tanks I found a reef tank. It was a 500 gallon tank and was actually impresive for him. Nothing was floating. The corals where all soft unattched corals that had been eaten on by inhabitanats.
So I go back over and ask for what I did truly need while I was there just to see if I could get a good price. Only wanted a MAXI 1200 powerhead. Then he ask about my tank. I told him what it was. It's 125 with 880 watts of vho lighting, cpr 194 Cyclone wet dry,95 lbs of arragonite, 175 lbs live sand, 150 lbs of live rock,2 1200, 2 800, and 4 600 maxi powerheads, and iwaki 1200 gph pump. Right off he suggested I go to a 40 watt NO system and trade my sump for a bio wheel system. Then add some uv lights to it and I could grow anything I wanted.
Needless to say I listened to him and let him do his thing and then went and showed him his corals and told him about his neglect of them and also pointed out that the line of hard coral skulls he was saling was a ^$&I%&^(% discrace and murder of species for profit. At anyrate I was questioned but not detained within a mile and not welcome back there due to hostile intent and detering customers. Told the nice officer he was feeding me bs and I got upset and spoke my opinion. He said that was one of thsoe rights that I do have left and just don't go back. Told him that i would have to be paid to go back.
My other is the mandrin goby for first fish. I can say that I did keep him going and alive by great research and alot of money. I still have him and he is the oldest fish in my tank. Little dude has made it for 4 years now and is healthy as can be. Needless to say I am not welcome there either now once I found out what the goby needed to live. I was told he ate flake food. No longer do I trust what I am told. I went to the theory of whats 200-300 in books if it saves you 1k in fish.
Aside from the books I must say this is the best place for info on what to do. 99.9 percent of the time someone has the answer for you and if they don't they do try to tell you where to get it.
