I hope you all are doing well. I heard about the bad weather. Yes, battery pumps work, my tank lived through 36 hours on them, even though the temp in the tank dropped to 70, nothing "totally" perished. Living in KY has been great. I now own a 12g nano cube of zoos and ricordea, softies, etc.
I felt obligated to write because my local reef store always has BLOW your mind zoos and other softies in stock at ridiculously cheap prices. I was just there and saw 3 rocks of PPE zoos (look like it to me anyway) with about 70 heads per rock, $60 for the rock!! - the rocks are about 5" X 6" and totally covered. He also has some slate blue, sky blue, orange, peach, pink, lavendar, you name it. I asked him if he would mind if I brought in a camera for pictures, posted them on this site, and let you all do a group order. He said no problem.
For what it is worth, I have no business relationship, any for that matter with the store, except that I am a big fan. Store is a couple thousand feet with only saltwater corals and some fish - - yep, way more coral than fish.
I just bought a six inch rock of PPE and some morph of it - big purple centers with neon pink/peach skirts
If anyone is actually interested, I will drive and take pics (20 miles one way), list prices, etc. It will probably be "my risk" in that I will have to do the shipping - they will pack. It is a young husband and wife that own/run the store.
If I get around to it, I will introduce you all to my tank later in the week.
Happy reefing, good to see you are all still "out there."
Glad to hear things are going well
