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One part of MACNA that I know everyone loves is getting freebies from the various vendors. I think it's in our inherent nature to acquire stuff that didn't cost a dime, hauling our score back to the hotel room and eventually home. Being a vendor myself, I'm aware of these expenditures through research of what I might be able to dole out myself to visitors of my booth. I can assure you it isn't cheap, from the point of ordering the product to getting it to the show, paying union workers to place ...

Being sick is never fun, and knowing your reef isn't doing well only adds to your misery. I'm reclining per the doctor's orders and just watching tv, little energy to do anything else. But knowing some corals are declining is frustrating. (Knowing customers are waiting for their orders is even worse, but I need to be on my feet first to take care of those items...as soon as I feel stronger that is.)

I wrote an email to Prodibio to see if they had any direct suggestions to reboot ...

The return assembly going into my reef enters at the right end of the tank, but touches nothing that would allow the clean up crew to get to the plumbing. I designed that portion to be removable so that section's occasional soaking would be relatively easy. However, a couple of weeks ago I decided to park a snail on one return and let it get a meal. Within two weeks, that return is nearly completely clean, while the other shows a striking difference. I'm thinking about putting a second snail ...

At MACNA, I spotted a pair of Golden Dwarf Moray eels on Friday that I was sure would sell immediately. They were paired up already, best friends for life. Come Sunday afternoon, they were still for sale much to my surprise. I've been wanting one for a long time, but two is twice as nice, right?!

Little haggling was done. We agreed upon a price and they attempted to bag them up. The first one went into the bag with no fuss, but the second ...

Recently I've read a few threads where people's tanks were dead when they arrived home after being away. I always make some type of arrangements to have someone stop by daily just to do a quick visual inspection and throw in some thawed food. Usually this works out quite well, but over this past weekend, it was somewhat of a cluster.

Mere days before I had to leave, mine cancelled on me because he and his family were heading out of town as well. My home is automated so I texted another ...