Search results

You wanna play on my stupid system I am game. I don't need no money, you keep that!

Puffer man! They are in a spot by the side of the house where they don't get much rain on them. Almost none. They are also inexpensive, so if I have to replace them, it isn't the worst thing in the world, but I don't expect to. If they were to get direct rain, I would put some sort of awning...

Good point! This is why I have the sump in the crawl space - the temp down there is pretty stable and cool in the summer.

Putitng my sump and equipment remote was the best thing I ever did. I have the sump and skimmer under the house in the crawl space, but recently moved a lot of equipment out of the crawlspace and into metal cabinets to make maintenance easier. That is the main thing I would suggest, make access...

It might be fine!

I am doing it through the lid. I was going to drill the neck and go down in there, but I like being able to remove the line for cleaning, if I have to. Or just to replace it. I would avoid the ventruri because I want to reduce the possibility that the lanth could bind to pump parts. That is a...

I use it and am happy with it. It depends on what you want it for. I like it because I just don't want to manually test anymore, and am looking for trends regarding n and p - not because I care about n and p (I largely do not) - trends around feeding and dosing. If I wasn't interested in that...

Exacly, so if you want to make money fast, you need to cater to new folks who get out of the hobby fast. People who make it through generally stop buying a lot of stuff. So the reality is, you either need new folks, folks who are killing stuff, or folks that keep setting up more tanks as your...

Less regulation can also hurt people and the environment - it is a double edged sword.

I think we also have to really pay attention to the idea that running an LFS is really hard just in principle. For instance, who are your customers is an almost impossible question to answer and it is very very very difficult to cater to everyone

OMG, that conference was SO MUCH FUN. I wish it had made money so we could have done it again! Thank you for it!

That was me, and that was like 20 years ago or more. This 'issue' has been there for LFS kinda forever. Heck, one of the best LFS remaining in the Bay Area started in a garage and got so much shit because garage dealers take customers away from businesses trying to do it all above board - they...

What a great time. Thanks for having me!

No one wanted to wake up before lights on and dose!

I think the downside is what led us away form this 20, 25 years ago. Having to do it. Though, maybe with dosing machines it will be easier. It is the same instruction as ESV b-ionic. :)

From the video it seems like he is doing it to try to see if it works for him

I think it is mostly up to the individual to insepct and act on any corals they want to bring to their tanks because even with people caring, pests can slip through. For id and stuff, Marc Levenson gave a good talk about pests in December at the Boston Reefkeepers Society (don't watch my talk...

Yes he does. For two decades. Had a rat problem once, and they didn't touch the lines. I do like to keep it off the ground wherever I can, which is almost everywhere because it is so easy to fix to the substructure. I have a 40 inch crawl space so it is easy for me. If it were smaller, I...

It does!

I am looking forward to this! I have a new talk and I think you all will dig it. Thanks for having me.