Tom9

I used to buy food from Scott 711 for a couple of years and now make my own. It is really easy. I buy most of the ingredients from the local Asian market. I use a cheap blender. I blend the ingredients with rodi water in the blender and blend to slightly chunky. Then mix all the blended stuff in a bucket then put in sandwich bags and freeze. I make about 6-8 months worth at a time and takes me about an hour or two from start to finish. Lots of info on the web and WAMAS. My basic ingredients follow: From Asian store: -Frozen Seafood Medley (contains: shrimp, squid, cuttlefish, mussel, and octopus) -Frozen Oyster -Frozen Smelt (same as silversides) -Nori (seaweed) Bought elsewhere -Reef Roids powder -Spirulina powder -Kent Marine Zoecon -Frozen Mysis shrimp -Frozen Calanus from Piscine Energetics

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I'll help on Sunday.

I have a 180 that got overrun by aiptasia. I controlled it with ap-x, but every couple of weeks they would be back. If I used ap-x weekly, I had great results but I'm lazy and never kept up. I tried a file fish but he ended up in my sump and unfortunately died in my skimmer pump before I could find him. I then followed zygote2ks recommendation and put about 50 peppermint shrimp in my 180. I have not seen an aiptasia in the 6 months since I've added the peppermint shrimp. I never see any of the shrimp, but they must be around since I still have no aiptasia. I got the peppermint shrimp from reeftopia.com in bulk for $1.95 each I also have a 46 with 3 peppermint shrimp. I know at least one is still alive but I must not have enough of them because every couple of months I use ap-x on a random aiptasia. In this tank I never saw more then 10 aiptasia, so much more manageable with ap-x.

I'll take 25. Thanks!

I can help anytime today. I'll PM my cell. Tom

Watched with my 6 and 9 year old. They have now decided my tank should look more like the great barrier reef.

I'll take the 28lbs of rock for $40. Tom

I recently moved a 180 gal tank and did the following. The night before the move I premixed about 50gal of saltwater at the new location. I bought 15 of the 18-gallon Rubbermaid totes and some large ziplock bags from Home depot and rented a U-Haul for the move. I Filled 4 of the totes with rock. I put all the fish individually in large ziplocks and put them in a cooler. Then I filled another 9 totes with water. The sand fit in 2 totes. All totes were about 3/4 full and the sand and rock were submerged in water. All the equipment I put in some boxes which ended up getting soaked so I would recommend extra totes. Everything fit in a moving truck stacking the totes 2 high on one side and the tank and equipment on the other. The stand and canopy went on top of the tank and totes. I did not use trash bags in the totes so I did lose some water; the floor of the moving truck was soaked. After the 3 hour drive to the new location, I put all the fish in one of the totes filled with water and put a power head in the water. Now it was time to setup the tank. I was tired and it was getting late so I got lazy and did not rinse anything. I did take the time to level the tank and then just set everything back up as quickly as I could and filled the tank. After the water cleared the next morning I put the fish in the tank. I had no livestock loses but did end up with a slight cyanobacteria outbreak and a very dirty tank. If I were to do this again I would have used bags in the totes to hold the water better and not have been in such a rush to setup the tank. I should have taken 1 day for the breakdown, move and cleaning and a second day for setup.

This weekend I noticed the glass covering my 250w HQI MH on my Coralife Aqualight Pro was shattered. I noticed on RC that somebody mentioned Coralife sent them a new one for free. I gave Coralife a call and they are shipping me a replacement for free. Wow, was a impressed, and glad I didn't have to figure out what type of glass to buy. The tech person even kept me on the phone to see how I liked my light and asked about my tank. The tech also mentioned that Coralife is getting out of MHs and now have an LED it just released. So I give Coralife an A+ for customer support on a product they no long make. Tom