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I'm sorry to report that the 400g tank is leaking. I was about to go to sleep, and thought I heard water splashing on the floor. And it was, unfortunately.

I caught this very early, well before the floor drain could work its magic, but for now the 400g has been drained about 50% for the night, and tomorrow I need to make some calls to see who can fix this locally.

I'm very unhappy as you can imagine. I have containers of saltwater ...

While attending NERAC last weekend, I never had a chance to purchase any raffle tickets that day. A friend of mine named Kathy offered to loan me $20 cash since they only accepted cash or checks. With her assistance, I was actually buying my tickets as they pulled the first ticket. I bought $10 worth of $1 tickets, and got 12 green tickets. Then I spent $10 more on the $2 tickets and got six red tickets.

I quickly separated the green tickets and tossed them in the community bucket. ...

Nearly 14 months ago, I set up the 400g with the critters I already had. It's time to replenish those snails and hermits once more. I usually use Keys Critters out of Florida for that need, and organized a group buy on DFWMAS last week. The order was placed Sunday and the box will arrive this Thursday.

I ordered a variety. You can see the spreadsheet itemized here.

http://melevsreef.com/pics/12/3/kc_032512_breakdown.jpg

If you like group buys, here's ...

A customer recently contacted me requesting a project that included a divided section to house two mantis shrimp. These two zones flow slowly into the skimmer zone, and then into the return zone. The display tanks will drain into the mesh socks. An external pump will push the water back up to the display tanks. The customer will drill the sump for the bulkhead himself.

The sump has three mesh filter bags, rather than the common 200 micron filter socks because they don't clog up ...

This was a special request from a customer in New York. He needed the sump to be rather tall, and wanted the refugium zone blacked out. It's challenging because there's really no room to incorporate baffles and have any type of return zone.

The big bracket is for the new Eshopps rectangular filter sock.





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