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12-10-2003, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: austin texas
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hurry quick: what should I get with my store credit?
I am going to exchange my scopas tang and clownfish for store credit (around $25), what do you think would benefit my tank the most? (cut and paste the link at the bottom of my sig for tank details)
*Live Rock...I know this gets casey's vote 
another cleaner shrimp (would be cool to have 2 so they can *breed)
*mushrooms or other small low-light coral
*purigen (see recent thread)
*brittle or serpent star
*calcium/alkalinity test kit
*make a suggestion!
but hurry, I go to the LFS tomorrow at 11 am!
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12-11-2003, 09:44 AM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I would vote in a serpent star. I love mine.
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12-11-2003, 12:29 PM
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www.pris-MATIC.com
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Sacramento, CA
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calcium/alkalinity test kit dont add what you cant test...
-Paul
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12-11-2003, 12:37 PM
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JOHNNY PHAT SAX
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: California
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Go with it . . .
I would go with the shrimp. . . keeps things clean and like you said can breed. A lot of baby shrimp swimming everywhere in your tank makes it look so natural!
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12-12-2003, 09:22 AM
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BRW member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: austin texas
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okay, now I am minus my beautiful scopas tang and scarlet the clownfish. hope they get good homes.
it was a rough choice between the mantis shrimp and the lobster, but...
i got the cleaner shrimp. as a bonus, when I got shim home it had little eggs already in its swimmerettes!
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12-13-2003, 08:39 AM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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LOL on lobster, you'd be right back where you started, lobsters are messy critters i'm told 
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one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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12-13-2003, 08:41 AM
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Location: austin texas
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yeah i know. he was real pretty though, pink/purple/orange crazy pattern!
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12-13-2003, 08:48 AM
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Reef Freak
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleton, WI
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I always trade in for store credit ... and leave the store & buy later.
But I would still get a Calcium / Alkalinity test kit. Probably the most useful thing in a reef tank. |
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12-13-2003, 09:59 AM
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Location: austin texas
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yeah i will invest in one soon, im sure. I just wanted to get something live to replace the live things I took out. something to fill the void, you know
besides, I dont want to torture myself knowing if my calcium is 'too low' (I dont keep anything except fish and soft corals) because I cant afford a kalk reactor (which to me seems the preferred method of dosing) if I need to supplement!
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12-13-2003, 11:54 AM
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Reef Freak
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleton, WI
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I use the 2 part to great success, no Kalk reactor, SPS and clams, and high calcium/alk.
Only a 58g tank, but easily manageable.
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12-13-2003, 07:02 PM
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Location: austin texas
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thanks! mind disclosing which brand you use? and if different than the directions, how often you dose?
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