Melissa

I wanted to post some shots of my newest additions, two of Tegs "burnt orange" clowns. I'm hoping to get one of them to pair up with my misbar. I apologize for the lack of quality on the pics, they were taken with an OLD iphone. Also I know my glass is dirty, and really scratched, and I apologize for that too

My new PJ from Chalinda

Right after the lights came on this morning

My one eyed hawkfish. He ironically jumped on my birthday this past Friday

aww i wish.

I wouldn't eat food that has been tampered with, and I wouldn't feed my pets (wet or furry) anything out of a container that had been. I don't honestly believe the person was inspecting for pellets. It's not hard to shake the container and hear the difference between powder and, well, anything else. I think you are right to ask for an unopened container to replace the one they opened. You aren't being out of line at all.

If not Townlake, I know of a nice BIG duck pond off Slaughter that I have released a lot of rescues I found. Heck, maybe you could convice the kid to help release them, and he could always go back to visit them. You see little heads come out of the water when you stop to feed the ducks

I did find both shells from them

I've had mine since January, and he doesn't bother the snails. Now, on a different side, I've tried on two occasions adding another conch, and both new ones each time ended up missing within a day or two. Maybe they don't like their own kind?

Aquatek did have one last week when I went up.

I toss in an egg, brineshrimp, plankton/krill combo flake that all my fish love. I don't feed it daily, maybe every 2-3 days, and frozen the rest. But the shrimp, and rest of the cuc all eat it, up too. I originally got it for our freshwater fish before we downsized, and have a lot left over, so I figured it wouldn't hurt them to eat it on occasion. My engineer gobies eat the most of it, and my oldest went from 2 inches to about 6 in the last 3 1/2 months. It's easy to put too much in tho, so I normally put a few in and after they get them, put a few more in, for a few minutes till they start to get slower and less interested.

From my freshwater experience though, it can be super messy if you dump too much in at once, a lot will get sucked up before the fish can get it. In both our 150 and 75 fw, I use the same method of feeding them, a little at a time. Just my 0.02.

I've bought food from two places online and like them both. For spirulina flakes one has them for 1 pound for 9.25 or 8 oz for 5.50. and for the spirulina sticks they are 11.50 for a pound or 6.75 for 8 oz. Another place I have used had pellets for 4.50/lb or a half lb for 2.50. figured I would throw that out there in case anyone could use it.

OK, this is as good as i can get for the moment. The camera I borrowed is worse than mine, which I'm going to try to rumage for tonight, so my old iphone had to suffice. I really love watching these two play. Both have no interest in the Dragon Goby that's been chilling there trying to bulk up, and start the transition to marine. They only bicker during feeding time, when it's everyman for himself lol. With the new addition (Ralph) Egor has started to eat more, and finally started bulking up. He's severly disformed, and has a small pinprick of an eye, with a normal eye that he can see out of. Again sorry for the dirty tank, and the bad pics.

Thank you Dena, It was nice to finally meet you. I love my goodies

What are you looking to trade for?

lol ok. I will try to take some tonight. I borrowed a camera I'm hoping to be better than mine.

aww i was going to have you bag it as well. Dessert for my hawkfish

Jeff thank you so much! Ralph is buzzing around with his bew buddy full of brine shrimp, just as happy as can be. When I introduced him into the tank, Egor swam right up and looked at him with his big eye and they stayed together all night. This morning both were playing in the plants with each other, hunting for breakfast

Next time, put a small dinner plate on the sand and pour the water on to it. That way the sand doesn't get disturbed.

That is a great idea. I never thought about that.

I SAY we share a tank, but he THINKS the tank is his. I do the maintenance on all 6 of our tanks, so sometimes I may feel a bit more partial to tank ownership lol. But realistically, its ours. I have only one tank that is considered mine and thats our 150g fresh, the ownership usually gets pointed out to me by "YOUR fish did this, or everything in YOUR tank got moved around.." (catfish that rearranges anything in his way lol, including driftwood).

But when we shop, we tend to have the same tastes in fish, coral, etc, so we don't have many issues with who's getting what.

Age doesn't matter here.

That was a tough game, Drip hasn't beat LT since I was mascot back in '02.

Woohoo! Go Tigers! My hometown! Welcome!

It was great meeting you too. The AOGs popped open in the sun on the drive home, same with the mushrooms. I love my goodies and they look great in the tank! Thanks again

I have no experience in regards to babies and reef tanks, BUT, my niece (4) loves to come over and play with our catfish in the big tank. She loves to stand on a stool, and hold the pieces of fish and pellet and wait for one of the two to come up and slurp her fingers while searching for the hidden chunk, inside a clamped little fist. Neither of the catfish have the capability to actually bite her, (one not mentally, and the other physically deformed) and she loves when the RTC's whiskers come out of the water touch her face, and the giggles break out. I don't have kids toys at my house, aside from the random stuffed animals from claw machines (boring), and our 360 which she plays for a while... so she gets hours of fun with them and I too, have a blast. I bet our new niece would love our salt tank.

I know the Dome has some. They had some about the size of a half dollar on up. I saw a couple at River City too, but I don't frequent many others, aside from Fishy Business.

Until I could get a bigger one, would it be ok to put the Eshopps and my current(don't laugh) Seaclone 100 together to combine their power?

Will an Eshopps PSK-75 powered by a Rio 600 pump be a good choice for a 75 gallon system? Or would I need something bigger?

Thanks guys! Crendon, I could swing by after I get off of work tomorrow, which is around 6:30. Mark, thank you again for the offer