Bookfish's Blog

As I was getting ready to head in to the store today the phone rang.It was one of my local wholesalers claiming he had CB maculosus angels and CB bumblebee groupers. Now these are both large species and to the best of my knowledge, neither had been raised in captivity. So I asked my salesperson to check with the owner re: whether these were actually CB or simply TR (captive bred is a whole lot different than tank raised btw). The answer came back that they were truly tank raised. Believing this to be a near impossibility, I went over to look anyway and although I can't swear to it, it looks like he's right.

Lots of excitement. I've got 11 systems running and by the end of the day should have 12. Some of the captive bred blk occelaris babies are coming in today from Robin. They are some of my favorite baby clownfish. And while his fish aren't the absolute cheapest in the market, they are the highest quality I've run across. And our banner is up on 2 local club forums. We're currently sponsoring Bay Area Reefers (of course) and Northern California Reef Club. We hope to add 3 more California clubs to that list shortly. And soon I have to get that ORA order in. I just fired up the RO/DI unit yesterday to produce the coral worthy water now that some systems are almost done cycling.

Fired up system 7 yesterday. Is it too much to hope for that number 8 might be done tonight?

As of last night, systems 5 and 6 were up and running. Currently they have tap water based SW, and some live rock just to kick things off. As I do the first water changes I'll move them over to RO/DI based SW. So now it's on to system 7 and the first of the 250w lighting!

Got 4 systems up and cycling now. Hopefully tomorrow I can assemble 2 more systems and be half done with the systems. Finally getting there!