renman303

That's interesting because one of the inlets into my sump I have a filter sock that is fairly large as far as pores go. When I went to clean it the other day there were 5 inside the bag????? I pulled them out individually and placed them in my tank. The fish went nuts hunting them down!

Wondering if anyone has had success growing or whatever "Copepods"? There are some available on "Live Aquaria" that say you can add them directly to your aquarium or to your refugium. What is best? A bit of both? A bottle of these guys is $19.99. I have some type of little critters zipping around the rocks in Fuge that look like "Silverfish" if you will. I think that is what they are but, how do you "harvest" them to put into your tank to feed the fish? My brain, hurts...much!

I have a lot of "Devil's Hand" Leather Corals and "Button Polyps" that I'd like to trade for any other frag that you may have. Most of mine are pretty good frags at about 2"-3" tall and about 1"-2" wide. Lots of polyps open on them, very healthy. I would like to get some "Acro" and "Fans" as well.

Don't usually get to Austin as I own/run a restaurant 6 days a week.

Yes, it's available. Let me know when you'd like it? Dave

Reeftopia is one of the best deals going. You'd easily pay twice the price for the same amount from you LFS.

Just thought of something else for ya. I used to work for the Four Seasons Hotel. Do Valet Parking....it's all cash tips and you get to check out some pretty serious rides!

True, the POS does make you claim all of your CC tips but, it also makes you claim a minimum of 8% of your cash sales as tips as well. This covers us employers with the IRS proving we make the employees comply with the minimum standards. However, most waitstaff, at my place at least, make much more than the chefs that spent $50k to go to school to learn to cook in the first place! Also, your tip outs don't go to "the restaurant" they go to other employees such as bus boys, host and the like. I have my employees tip out 1% to each the dishwasher and the host, 2% total. Be glad you are not the employer, we have to pay 1/2 or all of your Medicare and SS taxes! I pay out over $2500 a month, right off the top of my profits for all of my employee's taxes. Plus Quarterly Fed. Income Tax, Unemployment Tax and Inventory Tax...all of these come right off of the top of my gross income. Now the **** democrats put a 1% "Gross Profit Tax" on anything over $300k gross a year! So, you shell out another $3k a year to the Feds for....um.....fun, I guess? This is no longer the land of "Free Enterprise" where the market dictates who makes it and who doesn't. It's now "Government Managed" and that's about as close to Socialism as you can get! You don't know what being robbed is until you own a business! Sorry....I'm off of my soapbox now.

"Low-balling" with most companies can't happen as POS Systems automatically calculate cash and cash tips. A minimum amount is put in based on projected tips say at 15% of the cost of food. No company worth it's salt is going to put up with an employee stealing and certainly won't risk fines by the Feds for fixing the books. Besides, "Integrity"....it all you really have in life.

Tipped jobs like being part of a Wait Staff are still taxable as the company is liable. Even though tips may be paid out every evening by most employers, the employers must declare that income so the Bast___d's in Washington can tax you on what you make as well as taxing us on what you make. www.Fairtax.org That's all I have to say about that!

I would love a frag for my new 225 tank if you still have some available?

Do you still have the frags? I have a lot of leather's that I'd be happy to trade for?

Andrew, Glad everything is working out. We'd love to have you and your girlfriend up for dinner. Please call Nonna's restaruant (512/863-3442) well in advance as we are booked nearly a week out.

James, I have some LR Baseball size, and a Devil's Hand Leather and Green Star Frag if you'd like? FREE

I'm already using "Clams". Love it!

Andrew, OK, Here is what I'd do although I'm not sure what a collection cup may cost? I have a Prism Deluxe. Where the collection cup fits the skimmer itself, at the "O-ring", it is 2". Get a piece of 2"ID PVC. Cut it to 2-3" in length. Use PVC glue and connect it to a 4-6" diameter piece of piping and a cap to just fit (no glue) or any container with a lid. Hell, even a tupperware container will work. The suction tube can be regulated with a simple, small, binder clip. Clip it on to start it and allow some air flow to keep it running. Ghe great thing about this is you can make the collection cup as big as you like. The Prism's are soooooo small.

No problem... Sorry, the T5's didn't last long.

John, Thanks for the input. Some of the critters were sold to me by a LFS without much knowledge of the interaction with other aquatic creatures...I admittedly know little as well so, it was blind leading the blind. For instance, I now have what I thought was a really cool creature, "Philippine Sea Apple". Not knowing the toxicity or car needed to maintain them. Also a pair of "Blue Line Wrasses", which evidently need a lot of fish to clean to get the nutrition that they need. That being said, 2/3 of my live rock was well established for the past 3 years so hopefully the Mandarin will have plenty to eat. The "Black Worms" were suggested foods for the Mandarin per Drs. Foster & Smith.

Live Brine Shrimp and Live "Black Worms" are recommended for the Green Mandarin that I have. Where do you get either of these? I have lots of Brine Shimp eggs but have been really unsuccessful in getting them to hatch? Black Worms???? Never heard of them? Can't find them on Drs. Foster & Smith either? I'm all for raising Brine Shrimp if I can get them to hatch? Suggestions that may be more suitable for feeding? Also, In need of PhytoPlankton...has anyone propagated this successfully?

$10.....? Bueller?....Anyone????

I'll take $100 for the tank and the sump together. You just need a pump.

Just looking for a basic laptop for my business. Really cheap....something that is just taking up space at your house. Doesn't need internet or anything special. I just want to be able to put MS Office on it. I have one now (Dell Latitude LX, circa 1995) that is refurbished but only has a 10" screen. I'd like something a bit larger. Dave

This is neither "family" nor is it "business". It IS opportunity. One man's trash is another's treasure. If a close friend, I'd suggest an "offer" to be polite. If declined, happily take the tank. "Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose." Dave "renman"

Stand is Sold. 55 Gallon Tank and Sump Still Available.

SOLD!