Group buy for MTRC Meeting at Emerald Bay

New member interested

New member interested

I am a new member with MTRC and would like in on this deal. Have ya'll already ordered or is there room for additional orders?
Thanks,
Preston
 
I would like

1x Cleaner Shrimp
1x Yellow Reef Brittle Stars
10x Black Turbo Snails



Also, can someone enlighten me as to what a sea rabbit is? :p
 
Re: New member interested

Re: New member interested

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10393179#post10393179 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aquatron123
I am a new member with MTRC and would like in on this deal. Have ya'll already ordered or is there room for additional orders?
Thanks,
Preston
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Welcome to MTRC, Preston!

The deal is still on. You have until July 30 to post what you would like to get. Sean from Emerald Bay will then place the order and we can all pick it up at the Meeting on August 4.
 
I believe a sea rabbit is the same thing as a sea hare... which is a type of sea slug that voraciously eats hair algae.

Most that I have seen in the hobby look like this...
sea_hare_blunt-end_3160379.jpg


Now that I've said what they're good for, I need to to tell you what they aren't good for. When I say they eat hair algae, I mean I got one a while ago and it almost cleared a very invested 90 gallon tank of algae in a matter of 4-5 days. I had heard this and life was good. I also heard that you need to get them out once they finish eating the algae. However, before it finished the job, it started hiding when it had to work harder to find food, which means I couldn't find it to get it back out of the tank. It starved before I could get it out and then the resulting muck it put back into the tank took me almost back to square one on the algae issue. Lessons learned... they eat algae faster than you can imagine and if you don't get them out long before they run out of food you might as well not put one in to begin with. More importantly, I realize (now) that no matter how fast something eats algae, the algae will always just come back unless you have fixed the problem that initially caused it. So... work on that first, then if you still need it consider herbivores such as a sea hare.

I don't want to hurt Sean or the group buy, but if there are a few people that think they need one of these, I'd buy just one and pass it around quickly as it takes out the majority of algae in each tank. Then, sell it back to an LFS where hopefully they'll be able to keep it alive before someone else who needs it buys it. I wouldn't recommend one though unless you have A LOT of hair algae (meaning covering almost every surface).
 
Howard-

I don't know about the starving issue as far as lettuce nudi's go, but I do know that you have to be very careful about your pump intakes and powerheads with this guys. The nudis are very light and have no type of skeleton, so they easily get sucked into those kind of things and/or blown around the tank in a high flow environment. Sometimes (if they/you are lucky), an encounter with a pump will end up with 2 nudis instead of one. Most of the time nobody is that lucky.

As far as the cucumber, I've never had a tiger, but I have a sand sifting cucumber in each of my bigger tanks (not sure of the species, but they both seem to be in the same genus, Holothuria). I had one die on me a day after I added it to a 46 gallon that I was using as a kind of "quarantine" tank (I put it in quotes because it wasn't quite dedicated solely to that purpose). I was running carbon, and the cucumber didn't have a lot of time to sit there (overnight), but I didn't experience any problems with any of the frags that were in the tank. So, while I've heard that they can cause tank problems by way of toxins, my own experience is different and I would tend to believe that they more than likely cause problems by way of "polluting" the tank with sheer rotting biomass (especially if you're running carbon). Just my experience. FWIW, my hermit crabs don't bother either of my cucumbers at all.
 
Me too, please...

5 Tri Color Hermits
2 Peppermint Shrimp
5 Astrea Snails

Haven't been to a meeting in a while, and haven't been to EB in a while either...two birds with one stone as they say!

kev
 
I would appreciate any input on what to add to my tank I have started of with 20 blue legged , 7 red legged, 10 cerraiths, 3 turbo, and 10 nausau vibrex, I am wondering if adding a blenny would help or hinder at this point ?? or a sand sifting star.? well have to get those damsel out first...lol..and I have that brown kind of mossy looking algea starting on my rock closet to light so have been limiting the daylight but what if anything eats it? thanks mary
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10396088#post10396088 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by torpedo101
I would appreciate any input on what to add to my tank I have started of with 20 blue legged , 7 red legged, 10 cerraiths, 3 turbo, and 10 nausau vibrex, I am wondering if adding a blenny would help or hinder at this point ?? or a sand sifting star.? well have to get those damsel out first...lol..and I have that brown kind of mossy looking algea starting on my rock closet to light so have been limiting the daylight but what if anything eats it? thanks mary
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IMO, you are fine sticking with your current order. The turbos alone should take care of the algae you describe, and the rest of the crew will help keep things nice and clean. You can then add over time depending on how the tank develops.
 
Nope... I got some from Sean couple of weeks ago. I think they're kind of like zebra hermits. I've not looked at them real close, though. I'm not 100% what the three colors are, but they're not blue leggs. :)

Brandon
 
Wow. Lot's of people getting in on the group order!

Here's what I've got so far. Double check your order to make sure I got it right. There's still time to add things, or place an order if you haven't already.

Also, looks like the salt is only at 2 boxes. If you use IO salt (most of us do), this is a good buy. I've already got 3 boxes in my garage so I don't need any right now..

Some of the other items may have a minimum order of 5. Sean will let me know if there are any issues with that, though, when I submit the list on the 30th.

Anyway, here's the list so far:

group_order_snapshot.jpg
 
I will be adding to the order in a couple days. I know I need a box of salt. What are sea rabbits?

Steve
 
Here's what I want.....

1 Sand Sifting Star
2 Cleaner Shrimp
1 Sally Lightfoot
10 Tricolor Hermits
10 Blue-leg Hermits
3 Scarlet Hermits
 
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