captmicha

You're darn right I judge a group that supports a store that sells puppy mill dogs. I have MORALS while the individuals in this group don't seem to have ANY. That makes YOU cowards for supporting such a screwed up practice like puppy mills where dogs DIE and are RAPED and live in squalor every DAY on a MASS SCALE. Who has the issues? YOU DO for sitting back and letting this practice continue just so you can get a few bucks off aquarium supplies. Sick. It'll never end until you experience something like it yourself because it's obvious you only care about yourselves. But that'll never happen so you'll just go on thinking only of yourselves and not caring about anything else. Continue the animal abuse. I know you will. This is my last visit to this worthless and disgusting forum. I hope you rot and karma is real.

I was giving serious thought to buying a membership to WAMAS because I'm getting into marine but saw that Petland is actually one of your sponsors! It's been PROVEN that Petland obtains their puppies from puppy mills! Puppy mills are incredibly damaging places to a dog's physical AND psychiatric wellbeing. As a professional dog trainer and rescue advocate, I can attest to the problems seen EVERY DAY in these dogs. LASTING, permanent damage. You're hand in hand with the devil, so to speak, for some meager discounts on aquarium supplies. I'm VERY disappointed and disgusted and won't be purchasing a membership after all. Please feel free to ban me. I have no need for a soulless group like this.

Thanks guys! I think I'll go with the RC, no offense to anyone who suggested different. I just want the best of the best. I had no idea that Congressional in Rockville sold ANYTHING that cheap! I'm totally going to buy a membership when I can afford it but by that time, I'll probably be ready to start annoying people with millions of questions about reef tanks (yes, even AFTER doing all the research on my own since I tend to confuse and complicate things, if you couldn't already tell!). I guess I'd have to have a paid membership to access the hidden forum to buy salt from members?

This is weird, but I still need help from some one who knows their stuff please. I don't need to be called an idiot or flamed, like I was at another unnamed forum... Right now, I'm using salt for land hermit crabs and for cichlid salt for fresh water aquariums. At some point in the near future, when I've done all my research and have the money, I'm going to have a marine tank, hopefully a reef tank, and will use the salt for that too. I've only had a brackish tank and that was for a very short time so I know basically nothing about marine stuff, besides what little I remember from Marine Aquariums for Dummies... :/ The hermit crabs' salt water dish doesn't really count as marine experience. I am considering Instant Ocean Reef Crystals or Oceanic. I heard that Instant Ocean (I'm unsure of whether they mean the salt mix, the reef crystals or both) has a lot of heavy metals in it. That would be a concern for sensitive hermit crabs and any other inverts. is that true? I also hear that it has more nutrients than other mixes. I hear a lot of good things about Oceanic and that it's just as good as marine salt (because it has all the added nutrients and stuff like marine salt would), even though it's called sea salt (which doesn't have all the extra stuff?). It's what I've been using thus far. For my hermit crabs, I use it at a specific gravity of 1.021. Of the two, which is better? Can some one who knows their stuff maybe compare and contrast them in terms that a newb would understand or just tell me which one I should use? I would prefer to use the better of the two. I have acidic water, low KH and low to moderate GH (haven't tested in a while). I can report back with the exact numbers if that's pertinent. I want to buy a box or a bucket to make 200 gallons instead of having to keep buying more. Is it a bad idea to stock the salt? What air proof container would be good for storing it in (if I go with the one without a bucket)? Buckets from Home Depot maybe? Right now I'm keeping my five gallon worth of salt in a freezer bag. Thanks for any advice.