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I would like some advice on my RBTA. I moved the two of them to a bigger tank a little over a week ago. (Drip acclimation over about two hours). The two split and now I have four. Three of the four look great; they're puffed and eating. The fourth looks almost dead. It's alive and has moved...

How do you transfer from one tank to the next? Would you try to get it off its rock first and do a drip acclimation? Do you find a really big bag for the rock and BTA to float it and do drip acclimation? Or do you just make sure salinity and temperature are the same and do a quick transfer rock...

I've ordered from them before and this time shipping seemed to be REALLY fast. Haven't ordered livestock from them yet; just dry goods. I placed my order for salt and a few other items yesterday around 430pm and it arrived this morning at 1030am. I think they're in OH so that would explain a...

I saw the posting on CL and I know another member had mentioned it on chat. I stopped by this store today and met the proprietor. His name is Brian and he seems like a nice guy. He said he had been reefing for about twenty years and finally decided to make a go of it as a business. He hasn't...

I went to the Butera market on Chicago Ave (just West of Naper Blvd) and checked out their water machine. $.40/gallon. The machine was serviced on Nov 14th and the tds meter read "3". FYI.

Anyone have experience with consolidating smaller tanks into one larger one? I'm planning on keeping the livestock in plastic containers while I rinse out the old sand for reuse. (I'll keep a small amount just for reseeding.) I'm wondering how long of a cycle period should I expect. Has anyone...

Why must an employee/owner from a LFS to call an online vendor "parasitic" never having ordered from them or dealt with them it seems. This person even admitted hearing good things about the online site. "My beef with online stores like F&S is how they parasitize off the work stores like mine...

Picked this up at AA in Bolingbrook over the weekend.

Who wants some Rep. points?! :) I'm guessing it some small Halimeda plants and some sort of fern. Any ideas?

When do you change your DI resin? When TDS measures more than "0"? Or do some members let it go a little higher?

Duran Duran show at the Chicago Theater on Oct. 21st. I would like to get two tix but I don't want to get them thru a broker. No trades; just cash.

Had a little time today and cleaned the glass finally! lol

I drove by today and saw that they had "Under New Management" on their sign. Hopefully, it's for the better bc the last time I stopped there the place was a wreck. Anyone know anything more about the change?

(I didn't want to hijack another thread so I'm starting this one.) The consensus about LS is that it's a waste of money or doesn't contain anything live. I'm not stating it does or doesn't but is there anywhere I can research that information? I've read it here and have seen it posted in...

I got an email notifying me of this sale. It goes until July 13th. I don't know what size tanks the sale goes up to but I've heard it been up to 55G in the past. I've only seen the sale go up to 40G breeders myself.

I heard they're going to be featured in a story tonight on Fox-WFLD. They're doing good work in the reefing community. (9pm news).

Signs in the windows - $30 all live corals and 20% off all fish. It's located at Harlem and Madison. I've never been in there; just happened to drive by.

I just had another good experience with Saltcritters.com. I originally bought an item from them thru eBay but then started ordering from their website. My last order was placed Tuesday morning (1130am or so) for some corals they had on sale. ($3.98 frags!) My order arrived last night around...

Our power went out for about an hour tonight. Just from experience I knew it wouldn't be for an extended period but it got me wondering : " What's your back up plan?" I'm guessing people have generators and battery operated air pumps. But what would you do if you don't have those options?

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/ :cheer2: My first order from them was for a Coralife CF fixture. It arrived quickly via UPS but the bulbs had shattered in transit. I called their customer service number and they had new bulbs to me in two or three days. No cost to me; no photographic...