Recent content by GreshamH

What did you pay? Aussies are more expensive.

Given the lack of context, your post was left field. The gas tax is fairly straight forward ;)

A .20 tax the store is responsible for collecting on saltwater sold? Are they applying this to all water sold? Got a link for this?

MO falls under "animal feeds", like dogs, cats, even livestock. https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/Products/AnimalFoodFeeds/PetFood/default.htm https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm047111.htm Under FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) enacted a few years ago, regulations...

The FDA and USDA indeed do oversee pet feeds, and very strictly as well. Technically all aquarium feeds should be made in a USDA certified kitchen. FWIW I was the Compliance Officer for a major aquarium feed manufacturer. Manufacturers are held liable just like any other food producer. The...

there was talk on a fwew breeder forums but the logistics prohibited it. The US is just too big.

Vibrios (numerous species of the genus Vibrio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio ) tend to be omnipresent in aquaria. Its just when they get out of control, they can do real damage.

They won't crash it.... but they will out compete it.

IN an effort to help those that volunteer to make this map, giving all pertinent data really helps... Keith's Coral Reefs 457 B PARK AVE SAN JOSE, CA 95110

C-Pure used to be the guy... dunno if they are still around.

FWIW I left Reed Mariculture, the parent company of Reef Nutrition, a couple weeks ago. I manage the aquaculture department of a large aquaponic grower now :) but that doesn't mean I no longer know reef stuff. I wouldn't mix RN products together for several reasons. I'd go with the multi...

renters don't pay for water? I must have missed that memo at every place I have ever lived in California :lol:

OH hot dang! Good job.

SiO2 also is used in glass aquariums :headwally: Very little goes into solution, and diatoms are in fact beneficial to marine aquaria. Out of control diatom growth isn't however. I've used silica sand in numerous aquariums, never had much of an issue.

Newsweek and Time Magazine published looming ice age articles in the 70's, which is where that entirely came from (not from scientific reports). Nearly all scientists, besides the few interviewed by Gwynne (Newsweek editor), did not believe that to be true. You (and a lot of others) got played...