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Just to avoid being misquoted, my post reads "million dollar dive boat", not "million dollar dive crews". Actually, I might have been off-base with that figure; one might be able to purchase an older boat for half that. I will concede that there is a possibility that (in places where the reefs...

At 4x the normal price it must have really cost them a lot more to produce the fish than an ocean collector; one would think that it would cost little more than it does the ocean collector to pay and equip divers and boat crews, and operate a million+ dollar dive boat (that costs $500.00+ /...

That's right, Sarah, the demand now is now high with respect to the supply. ORA just needs plenty of stiff competition selling like items, then they'll come down quite a bit. This practice by businesses of price-gouging based on supply and demand just infuriates me....

That $144 was a round figure including the shipping from online retailers. I don't think any of the reef shops in my area carry the ORA fish. I might could fork over $45, but that's still a bit steep. If those people at ORA expect us to buy their aquacultured stuff to promote conservation, then...

As I do not have a money tree in my yard, I'm not putting $144.00 into a $16.00 fish. Even if I had that money tree, it is still against my principles. I'll buy the $16.00 one, temporarily stick him in my 20L, and while he's in there train him to eat frozen food using sushi roe in a basting syringe.

Yep, I know. A problem with chloramine in my RO water wiped out my first mandarin in this setup (along with the pods, a maroon clown and 2-spined angel).

He says that hundreds of pods are released whenever he shakes the foam block out; that would certainly be enough.to sustain the fish adequately if he does that every few days. He says the mandarin is fat; unlike the undernourished mandarins I've too frequently seen in office aquariums which...

One guy on another forum uses a large foam block in his sump for refugium & breeding of pods. He just periodically removes the block, shakes it over the aquarium, then returns it to the sump. Says he's had a mandarin in the tank for months, and it is still fat & happy. I believe I will try that...

I am entertaining the notion of establishing a pod population in my 45G FOWLER, and eventually supporting a mandarin using a pod pile. I am considering starting the population by adding three or four generous cultures at first, then once a month adding a culture for say, six months. What I am...

Yes, I am aware of that fact that the fish require adequate horizontal swimming room. But that varies with the species of fish, i.e. tangs require a lot of horizontal area for swimming, much more than my little tank has. Changes in the number of fish do not decrease the swimming room as long as...

What would be the maximum number of fish (medium - sized, say avg. 2") for a 45 gallon (high) FOWLR setup ? I would guess about six, does that seem right ? I'm thinking in terms of clowns and damsels and maybe a wrasse.

I was aware that the chlorine would be detrimental to the membrane, but thought that I saw something about chloramine being worse; but then that is the purpose of the prefilter - to remove the chlorine and/or chloramine before it can damage the membrane. The test results today indicated zero...

Now that I think of it and check other sources, the statement about the chloramine being removed by the DI resin does not agree with any of the other info I have seen. Other sources indicate that (while I have long known that deionization beaks down buffers and softens the water), chlorine and...

I remember reading that ammonia is very destructive to the TFC membrane. Does the DI canister stage go in the line before the TFC membrane, or after ?

So does the DI resin remove the ammonia, then ?

The newer type carbon block prefilter element I just installed is supposed to be effective at removing chloramine, but I cannot yet verify that its output is completely free of chloramine until I get my chloramine test kit. The Salifert ammonia test, as I understand it, will not detect...

Actually, I had already replaced the existing carbon block prefilter with a better one, and the Salifert test shows zero ammonia in the RO water. I have yet to check it for chloramine, test kit now on order for that. But I would like to add two stages to my unit some time in the future; another...

Oh Right - but that's easy enough for me to figure out; just a standard filter canister.

Do you sell a housing and the necessary hose & fittings to connect it in line with my Coralife RO unit ?

Mine is just a plain 3-stage RO unit. Maybe I should replace the particulate filter with another carbon block ?