Chris-

Wow, more places than I thought. I will check them out, thanks everyone.

Does anyone know of a place in the Fairfax are that has or sells live black worms?

I dont like brown so much but not bad coloring!

8.6? Thats sweet! I dumped mine in at 10.6 and all was fine (remember, it was an experiment), lol.

Whats the PH showing in the holding tank after a 12 hour refresh?

Nice!!

Depends how big the arch is and how big your tank is. I threw mine in after a week of toilet flush changes. I had about 1/3 rock in a 90. Everything was just fine and dandy. Just toss it in and check the PH every hour. Throw it in tomorrow morning and watch it with the PH meter. If the waters PH has not gone up in 12 hours or so, i would say your safe, however....... While water is fine, any shrimp that hide on/under may not be okay. I did not think about this when I threw my shrimp in. Quite a few died and I chalked it up to when I saw one sticking out of of bluespots mouth ( I always got the small shrimp), so, not sure if it was him or the PH that did them in. Seems all my shrimp lived after he was gone, but that was a year after the rock went in. I never thought about doing a test or to check them for shrimp safe-ness. Just a thought, though, everything else was fine. FYI - Made a sealed concrete (eccept for the entrance/exit) goby sleeping cave and threw that right in the next day. Goby was used to sleeping in it and faired just fine. I have no theoretical proof, but, I think saltwater binds, seals, locks up the PH to a degree. You figure, I put 1/3 of pure concrete rock in my 90, which according to my bucket stated that in 24 hours the PH would go up to 10/10.5 . I decided to play devils advocate since I have a lot of flowing water and figured the PH would bleed off, and, sure enough, not a .1 change in PH . Your mileage may vary, but, those were my results. I tossed the other 1/3 of rock in the next week, same cure time and same results.

When you getting some cute baby blue Atlantic blue tangs in?

Uhm..... not really. Finally got the fish selection I wanted in there after 2 years, living and all getting along together. Even got the Anthias to eat flake! Yes, actually it could be a brackish fish. Got him from asseteage island boat ramp, but, not sure how brackish that water really is since the ocean is right on the other side of the mound.

Oh, and it is probably the size of (length wise) my yellow goby, not as big around. Also, in 6 weeks, it has not really grown, so, maybe not a fry? I dunno!?

Bait!? Man, u suck! ha ha ha ha Well, just wanted to make sure whatever it is I could toss it in the DT and it would not eat me fishies. Then again, it looks like it has a small mouth. When it tries to eat scallops, it looks like it is sucking it into its mouth with a straw, no big gulps like my anthias.

Picked this fish thing up in a net when I was scooping in the weeds for gold. Dont think it is as valuable as gold but I have no idea what it is either. Any ideas? Paul, where are you you old salty dog? I bet you would win the cookie on this one!

This blows! Thats $$ I could spend on a fish!

Ben, Sharky and I are interested in some fish (need to double check with sharky). I am thinking that puts us in the $100 range. That means, only $40 to go for free shipping. My only criteria is that it is in the FFX area and I would like to pick up first thing in the morning, even meet at Fedex to get my fishies home asap. Ben said he may be interested in hosting if everyone can pick up in the morning, but again, would need to double check with ben to see if he is still interested in hosting.

Clown tank 82 and the main tank 90? I detect something amiss!?

I mean, what are you trying to say....really!?!? Ahhh, good times......good times......

"My" truck would actually take $6 to get there and back. It s a gas sucking hog, and, if i did not tow my boat with it I probably would have gotten rid of it a long time ago. - The other Chris that lives in Chantilly

Yea, in the coco worm tube at that for easy trapment!? Cant ask for more than that!

Man,I almost want him, lol.

If nems travel, would it matter a whole lot as long as you dont have a 60w incandescent GE bulb? A nem can go where he wants, to the top, as long as the flow is not crazy up there. .......... Just a thought.

That would have to be one strong overflow! How old n big is the tang?

Yea, whats he doing now?

I will take a look at that article. Thanks for the help everyone. P.S. I still do not see how they can catch a pod, lol.

Ha ha ha, thanks Bob, wil stay out of that debate, but... How can these slow movers eat fast moving pod's??? Figures thats where they are, in my soon to wanna be pod tank, grrrrrrrr.

He looks like this