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Aquatek used to give loner jugs with purchase of water for initial set up, so long as you return them w/n 24 hrs. Call ahead & confirm they are available.

Have any Crown conchs coming in?

Tank Gone!

Great start here. We let our little one (3yr old) share in finding new things as well. So far he picks good fish.

Tooo Coool! Want! Wonder how long the waiting list will be?

On another note... How are you managing to keep the Elegance and Leather in the same tank and both happy? We have had our elegance for a little over 1 month and it has been a struggle to keep it happy these past 2 weeks in our tank. I understand that too strong lighting can bring on photo shock of sorts bu not really sure what else we can do?

Apparently the trick here is knowing what / having light to go with the nano. Everything is either to big, over $110 or on back order till late August.

FYI We just got our Tunze 9002 in last weekend. It is running great. Saw one down at a LFS for same $$ we order it for.

Dimensions? Do you still have the top for it? I would need to keep a few paws out of it? Do you know where / how much a top for it would run. I'm considering a small nano bc of a size limit.

Totally agree with you. That's why we have just the USP back up on the filter & pump for emergency delays and power outages. We don't worry about the lights, either. We have already had the big crash and understand that it's out of our hands at that point. One of the reasons we are trying to maintain a self sufficient ecosystem. Finding any reasonable generator before an emergency is part of the planning challenge for anyone. But again, in past adventures with Humberto, We only used a borrowed generator for running our fridge and fans for short intervals to maintain manageable living conditions with a 18mth old and conserve what fuel we had during the extended outages. And that was no party.

I just don't understand some peoples priorities sometimes. I ALWAYS make sure I've got enough cat food to last a couple of weeks. Hungry Kitties you have, Hmmm, watching dinner swim is more fun for them. But how much kitty litter do you have?

Well considering that we lost a SW 46bowfront to no power for most of 3 weeks in Port Arthur with IKE 2008. And it was only 2mths along . it's always a concern for our tank here. Our planted 50g fresh water tank made it through just find with all fish accounted for. One of the top 10 reasons to move to Austin was no direct hit from tropical storms. Now we have just the 44g SW. No FW tanks. We have a UPS backup unit (used for Computers) for the tank. Only the filter & power head are plugged in to the battery side. They stay on when we lose power. It will run the filter & pump for aprox 4-6 hrs. It also acts a a surge protector for large fluctuations in power...avoiding most unwanted fried filters or more in major storms. Since our move here 1yr ago, we have lost power a few times but rarely for more than 2 hours. On those occasions the weather was much cooler so it was more a concern to keep tank warm. But something that can be remedied. Cooling a tank can be managed carefully with floated Ice or gel packs. *suggest something sealed, that is already frozen, other than fresh water ice if you don't have a way to prevent leaks. Battery operated fans, help too. Heating it a bit more tricky with no power. Hot water bottles for the fish...sort of. My plan was to warm water (gas stove) and float in bottles. The heat/cooling from the bottles should equalize with the rest of the tank. If you have a HOB fliter then you can try to place teh hot/cold bottles near the outflow to attempt to maintain a consistent temp.

We are Looking for a super small internal skimmer?

Any pics of whats left?

Hey Derry, Just wanted to say Thanks for the Zoas. The Dragons are really vibrant and the Gorrilla morphs are expanding nicely as well. Kev got them all glued down to some shell frags and they are opening up nicely even the bits of the rebels Ra. Have a great week.

Pm sent. Let me know.