picked up a few corals, woot!

Not meaning to hi-jack just wanted to say good for you bro, if my grandfather was as smart as you where he might still be here today if not for the lung cancer, glad to see you made a life changing choice and the right one at that

 

Hey, I'm in chicago land area too, where can I pick up some of dem frags ya got there?

 

dem frags were picked up in wisconsin

 

Further than I thought. I'm way out in Lombard, even though the picture of that montipora makes me want to drive out there. Nice Loot though!

 

if you want a nice coral shop try advanced aquatics in Schaumburg. i've been in there a couple of times. good looking stuff at fair prices (i dont know if they offer a membership discount or anything). they have an outrageous amount of coral. and dont worry about the monti, at some point i will frag it and my fellow 3reefers will be the first to know.

in regards to the smoking bit, dont paint me as the tea-tottling, straight lacer. while i can't stand most cigarette smoke, you will occasionally see me smoking a fat cigar and drinking as early as 10 in the morning... provided my front 9 was bad enough. i don't know why it is but a few beers will make my slice disappear;D

 

Tatted scared me so i ran back to AA ad snatched this puppy up. an Acan Lord, i was told, i absolutely love the color combo. it's actually a pretty good size, its on the biggest plug i've ever seen.



unfortunately this ends my magical coral shopping spree. the wife brought the hammer down. i am only allowed to acquire new corals by trading off frags or bought with gift money. fret not, friends! i knew this day would come. it was inevitable from the moment i decided to start a reef on a newly wed grad student's salary, or lack there of. corals are pretty but my wife is prettier, i think i should worry about keeping her happy.

 

Advanced Aquatics is usually on the high side of pricing. Nice store though, and I can't say any bad things about them because they give the Wisconsin Reef Society deals when we load up the charter bus and go to their shop and other shops in N Illinois.

That is an acan lord, of the standard Indonesian variety. It is just like one of my acans in my tank zj, but you don't want to know how much I paid for mine. Granted it has grown since I got it, but it was still a great deal.

Regarding your coral spending habits, once you let the ones you got get big enough, you won't mind fragging a little piece off and trading that for different coral.

In order to do that though, you usually need to get a little coral garden going first. it is one of those pay to play things

 

yeah, you guys actually came up while i was there. he just laughed and said that you guys must have a heck of a time on the way down. i guess by the time you guys get there you're the life of the party.

As for the fragging, i was checking out your little magnet/eggcrate selves in your tank. i wouldn't be fragging for any sort of monetary gain or on a large scale so i figure i could probably build one of those fairly cheap and stick it on a magfloat or something. i could throw that in my DT in the back for my stonies and use my desk pico for the softies. piece of cake!

 

I highly recommend Advanced Aquatics also. That is my main LFS. 75% of my purchases have been from Advanced. Glen over there is filled with endless knowledge and have never second guessed anything that has been said about reefing.

He does have a membershipship discount. Membership is paid yearly or for a lifetime.

From my experience with LFS's here in chicago Advanced is definitely fairly priced if not great in terms of his livestock.

If your talking about beyond the reef.... then I couldnt agree with you more