Oookkkk... LONG day. But I'm home and everything is situated.
My haul for the day. Well, you already know I won the Reefer250 from R2R. I have it in the office for now, which has become a dumping ground for fish tank related things. I need to clean this place up. Small couch, TV on the wall, Nintendo Switch and a Reefer250
I think I'll be going fish only with this one. The girlfriend wants an angel. She immediately asked if a blue girdled would fit when I said fish only... she really wants one and knows they eat corals. She halfway got excited until I told her they need a 180 gallons. I pointed her towards the Cyntropyge. Maybe a fu man chu lionfish and a blue spotted toby puffer.
Also included in with the tank was a box of Aquaroche ceramic rocks. Talked to the guys that make these at the Elos booth, and my local LFS is the ones that got Elos and Aquaroche over here from France. They are inert ceramic rocks for the display. They make all sorts of base structures and have interlocking plates that go in them for a shelf reef look. They even have pieces molded in a 90 to fit the sides on an internal overflow box. They said their only limitation to size is the kiln is only 6 feet tall. Yep, you can get a rock structure made that is SIX FOOT TALL... I just got a few pieces of base rocks, but will be looking at some of the neat centerpieces they have at the LFS.
ME Coral also threw in their liquid calcium magnesium and alkalinity chemicals.
Elos provided 3 cans of their fish food.
In the VIP swag bags, we got a Cobalt MJ Mini pump and a set of Aqualife Ca, all and Mg chemicals, PE pellets, Sera Marin dry food, a handful of frag plugs, glue ME Coral one shot dip, Reef Roids one shots, Chemipure Blue nano... oh and the orange shades that helped out a lot. I brought my orange safety glasses, but they aren't black rimmed shades...
Probably the coolest thing I brought home, besides a new tank and corals and a bunch of stuff... ok it's all cool stuff. This is live phyto, in an IV bag. I've been wanting to get my hands on this stuff. I talked to one of the guys at the CMAC expo last year and he was describing it to me. It's an auto dosing unit without having to use your dosing pump... just hang it up and drip it in as fast or as slow as you want. They had phyto green, phyto brown, phytoplasm which had zooxanthellae in it and a bag with I think phyto and pods combined. It was at the end of the show before I finally saw the table... talked to the same guy I saw in October and he remembered me. Handed me a bag of the phytogreen for free. They said the pods went as soon as the show opened up. I'll be ordering more too. So glad they got from idea to market.
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