Pics... hmmm I had em here somewhere...
You know, Last night I was so excited about the new coral frags I got, I fast aclimated my new maroon, and then went to work on attaching corals. I was so wired, I didn't get to bed till 1am. I had to actually try to concentrate at work today, and force myself not to pm and reply.
Now, I'm home, and had a chance to gander at everything again. I'm still very excited about the corals, but I just got a look at that maroon. I relased the male for the safty cage I ushered him into last night, just so I know he wouldn't get mauled. They took Immediatly. I think she's got to be all of 4.5 inches, maybe more. I absolutley LOVe the elegance and grace that Maroon females tread water with those large paddle fins... I can't wait to post pictures to show everyone the size. For those of you who have seen my other 4-5 pairs of maroons, and have remarked at the large sige of those females, this one makes them look tiny. Awesome.
Ok...
John really wanted to go here...
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and lucky for me, we did... but we almost didn't... see, this shop is truely on a corner. and it happens to be at 1300 granger(?) More importantly, it's the only building one the 1300 block. The road out front isn't a conventional intersection in the least, but rather, at a weird angle. We missed it the first time, and that was perhaps because we all had our heads craining so far over our sholders, looking for cars so we could pull out, that we missed the sign you see above... not to mention after te turn, we were still hanging on tightly from Mako's 4 G cornering and lightening jump to mack 4.
After a tool around the gehto, we found our way back.
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This was the main 2 coral show tanks... this is where we found our Blasto Buys...
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And these guys... but we didn't buy them, the pics just turned out great...
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and a shot of the small frag show tank.
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and the Shroom tank...
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There were more tanks that these pictured... lots more... but many of those tanks were populated sparsely, as the expected shipments the next day, today, thursday. We found the staff very helpful and I thought they were a pleasure to work with. At first I was... concerned that no prices were marked on the tanks, but after a few minutes I realized that meant that they were willing to work with the prices a bit, as Jon and I bought the super nice corals, and I was able to massage the price down a bit in my new baby, as explained in paragraph one.