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02-28-2006, 04:09 PM
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Learn something every day
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Carson Valley Nevada
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LFS Story
I stopped in a LFS that I had never been in, but I needed a new bulb. (My clown fish, in an attempt to bite me splashed water on my 400 MH bulb and of course it sounded like a gun when it exploded.) but I digress, in talking with the owner of the shop about tanks I told her I was thinking about selling mine and she said half the stuff I have would be useless ie: the skimmer the sump and most of the live rock as well as the MH's 'cause we just don't do it that way anymore. That is old school, the best way is with flouresent bulbs and undergravel filters. Needless to say I didn't get a bulb and didn't even look at the livestock.
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02-28-2006, 04:28 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Strange, I thought the old school was the undergravel filter and flourescent lights, not the other way around. Scary fishstore.  Mine is okay, you just have to take their advice with a grain of salt. At least they own their own saltwater tanks at home. |
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02-28-2006, 05:22 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: waukesha, Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Caoineag
Strange, I thought the old school was the undergravel filter and flourescent lights, not the other way around. Scary fishstore. Mine is okay, you just have to take their advice with a grain of salt. At least they own their own saltwater tanks at home. |
I am going to have to 2nd that!
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02-28-2006, 05:27 PM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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Let me make a resounding 3rd on that! That information is backwards. Good move on walking out the door.
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02-28-2006, 05:40 PM
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Rockin-Roll Mod
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Coal Valley Illinois
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Sounds like you were at Petco in Moline Illinois, i have smarter Rock's in my drive way! then they have running that store.
Brent.
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02-28-2006, 06:02 PM
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Noo Doot Aboot It!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Prince George
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Wow! all I have to say about that.
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02-28-2006, 11:19 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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Thats funny , Must be a store that is still in the 70's. LOL
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02-28-2006, 11:36 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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They are stuck in an episode the twilight zone.
I think the best way to run a tank is with coral skeletons and NO "grow" bulbs from walmart. |
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02-28-2006, 11:50 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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Whats wrong with undergravel filters?
LOL
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02-28-2006, 11:52 PM
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uber-stupid
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Biloxi, MS
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Originally Posted by VWD
Whats wrong with undergravel filters?
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Nothing they are the new thing. See here is how they work. They suck all the detritus down into the graval so you cant get to it and neither can anything else. Then after a couple months you have to tear the entire thing apart to clean it and VIOLA your tank is as good as new.
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03-01-2006, 07:42 AM
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Rockin-Roll Mod
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Coal Valley Illinois
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Originally Posted by VWD
Thats funny , Must be a store that is still in the 70's. LOL
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Ya Vince, what do you think? 1972 LOL!
Brent.
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03-01-2006, 08:12 AM
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The Bitter Mod
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Atlanta
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Sounds like someone was trying to get some equipment on the cheap.
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03-01-2006, 08:50 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Yuma, Arizona
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And to think that she may be giving that info to newcomers in to the hobby is the scary part.  
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03-01-2006, 10:48 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Norfolk, VA
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i love LFS that have no idea what they are talknig about, actually i go out of my way to fins stores like that!!!! the day before yesterday i found a new one that had Sebae anem. for 2.99 and when i bought 2 of them they gave me the little porcelin anem. crabs for free too!!! then my brother and i were looking at some LR with xenias on it and my brother asked how much for old rock in there with grass on it and they were like ummmm....4.99 a lb! i love stores like that. they also had mushrooms for 2.99!!!
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03-01-2006, 01:00 PM
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Tang Lover
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rockville, MD
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The mind boggles....
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