Hello Everyone!
It has been awhile since I have been on here! I would like to reintroduce myself my name is Geoff and I live in the Alabaster area. I had a 55 gallon saltwater tank for almost 9 years that was thriving for about 6 years. However with kids and such I had let my maintenance slip and the past couple of years my tank completely crashed with hair algae and what not. I have tried in vain to get rid of all the hair algae off my corals and live rocks by taking them out and scrubbing the algae but when I did that I lost all my zoas and star polyps. About 4 months ago I tried again to clean up my rock and corals and in that process I lost 2 of my longtime fish my bicolor Angel that I had over 4 years when it actually got scared and jump out and my sixline wrasse that got sucked up into my filter when I was cleaning the protective cover. I honestly felt like giving up my one and only true hobby that I had for over 13 years! Instead of giving up the hobby completely, I decided to downgrade to a 30 gallon and start over with fresh sand and cleaned up live rock. So I have a few questions.. First of all are there any decent pet stores in Birmingham or Tuscaloosa area? Second anyone interested in buying a 55 gallon aquarium with 2 110 watt VHO and 2 175 watt MH? Third is there anyone on here that would be interested in selling my some frags and possibly some good seeder sand to help me get this aquarium back up and running as good as I can make it? Thanks and sorry for the lengthy post.
It has been awhile since I have been on here! I would like to reintroduce myself my name is Geoff and I live in the Alabaster area. I had a 55 gallon saltwater tank for almost 9 years that was thriving for about 6 years. However with kids and such I had let my maintenance slip and the past couple of years my tank completely crashed with hair algae and what not. I have tried in vain to get rid of all the hair algae off my corals and live rocks by taking them out and scrubbing the algae but when I did that I lost all my zoas and star polyps. About 4 months ago I tried again to clean up my rock and corals and in that process I lost 2 of my longtime fish my bicolor Angel that I had over 4 years when it actually got scared and jump out and my sixline wrasse that got sucked up into my filter when I was cleaning the protective cover. I honestly felt like giving up my one and only true hobby that I had for over 13 years! Instead of giving up the hobby completely, I decided to downgrade to a 30 gallon and start over with fresh sand and cleaned up live rock. So I have a few questions.. First of all are there any decent pet stores in Birmingham or Tuscaloosa area? Second anyone interested in buying a 55 gallon aquarium with 2 110 watt VHO and 2 175 watt MH? Third is there anyone on here that would be interested in selling my some frags and possibly some good seeder sand to help me get this aquarium back up and running as good as I can make it? Thanks and sorry for the lengthy post.
I did not know if there were any newer stores around the area since Aquarium Designs closed down. Reefcleaners is where got my shipment of snails, pods, and chaeto that should be coming in next week. My aquarium looks pretty bare right now.. I have a toadstool a couple of fuzzy mushrooms, and some button polyps. At this moment I have two fish that hope will survive the move which is a Clownfish and watchman goby. My sand is all new except for a scoop full of my old sand. The live rock I have I tried keep the pieces that had mushrooms and polyps on it but I do not want to the hair algae to raise its ugly head again. Really I feel like I am in a grey area on the cycling of this aquarium so I am trying to keep a watchful eye on water parameters. The frags I am interested are the softies like the zoas so I will be glad to buy some and just see if they will take off like they have before.
