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Hmmm... Long-story-short. Octos only live 8-14months. So I don't have one right now. Mine lived 10, then passed away. We knew we were going to be moving so held off on ordering another one, because we expected the water parameters to be a bit jumpy for awhile. The move didn't go as planned...

Have you posted this over at nano-reef.com yet? They've got a lot more traffic over there.

Nope, The octo was in the 40gal. It was plumbed togther with the 55, much like it is with my 75 now. There was a lawnmower blenny with it, but nothing else. You can see both of them in the pic. That fish was the coolest. I guess he learned from watching the octo come up and get food out of...

Yes, price fixing is illegal. However proving it's going on is nearly impossible unless someone's stupid enough to write things down. All of this is hearsay, and conjecture, and rumor, but a lot of it makes sense. The fact is that many of the fish store owners in that part of town know...

Cool, thanks for the link, that had lots of good info. I've seen the systems that will measure your PH, ORP, Salinity, Temp, and monitor/adjust your lights, current etc... I just got excited there for a second when I though maybe someone had come up with probes that could actually replace most...

:lol: Those are fabulous Exile. My cleaners used to do that when I had the 55. For some reason the new ones in the 75 seem much shyer. Here's a few. Not the best pics, I shot these pretty much right after I got the camera so my skills hadn't improved yet. :wink:

:lol: I'm gonna have to look at my camera when I get home from work and see if it was a reflection on the camera, if not, then I'm going to try to figure out what shirt I had on. If you look even closer it actually says "Bright". B

Yep, if you see any part of it starting to disintegrate, just pull it out cause it's a goner. In houston you can also sometimes find fromia stars as well, they tend to be kinda the same color orange as the linkias, but their arms are more flattened than the linkias are. What about harlequin...

Re: Thanks guys! I really love both of these fish. They both have great personalities and are generally pretty peaceful. If you're looking for algae maintentance and are choosing between them go with the lawnmower, not the bi-color. I've never really seen either of my bi-colors go after...

Sorry, but all the sites say the same things about these fish, and it's bulls$$t. Do a search for "mandarin" on RC. These fish need a very mature 30-50gal tank to survive. Preferably with a refugium that will help keep the tank supplied with copepods and amphipods which is ALL THEY EAT. Even...

I agree that their prices are usually the best in town, and their location is very convenient for me being right next to the freeway. These pretty much are the only reasons to shop there. My concern is that if they manage to run enough of the other shops around them out of business then their...

My understanding is that most of the stores have a sort of gentlemans agreement to not bring prices down below a certain point. This makes sense after a huge price war in the area a few years ago that was before my time. However in the past year City Pets has started to ignored the agreement...

Post your favorite pic of a fish, invert, etc.. displaying interaction with it's tankmates, or owner. :lol:

A sand sifter goby would be cool, as long as you see it eat flake or mysis/brine in the store. These guys normally get all their food by filtering the sand, and most of our sandbeds don't have enough food in them to support these guys for long. But if you can find one that'll eat other food...

I haven't tried horseshoes. I've got a sandsifting star in the 75 and the 40. I've also got a couple nassarius snails in each tank. That seems to do the trick. What size tank are you wanting this for? For nano's I'd say go with nassarius. There might not be enough stuff in a small tank to...

When Shannen and I were in there last night there was another couple that bought a fire shrimp, a green bubble coral, and at least one other thing I didn't notice. The only thing fish-wise that was tempting to me was the fu mancu dwarf lionfish. Unfortunately I don't really have space for...

The cheapest places I've found for a new one is $115 http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_con ... sp?CartId= http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/par ... 233;pcid1= http://www.exoticfish.com/results.cfm?c ... C1840%7C0& http://www.aquariumguys.com/pinpoint1.html I've ordered from...

I bought several pieces last night, he still had plenty of stuff although several pieces I wanted were on hold for other customers that evidently called in and asked for them. He said his goal is to be closed by the end of the year. I'll probably stop back through there towards the middle, and...

Re: Pinpoint Salinity Monitor w/probe I did a quick searc on RC for pinpoint AND salinity, here's the results page if you want to read through some of the threads. Some people seem to like them, some not so much. http://reefcentral.com/forums/search.ph ... descending From that results...

This is pretty close to what I've got. http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem. ... uct=CP2111 If I were buying one today I'd go with the one SM posted, or I'd look around on ebay like I orginally did. I got mine 2yrs ago, when they were going for $90-$130, and found the one I have for about...