I have a hard time believing that their Trochus were the source of the bubble algae as their tanks look pristine but...
Um, I’m confused. They wouldn’t sell you their last Tomini Tang? Isn’t the whole point of an LFS to in fact sell you their last Tomini Tang or anything else they’ve got available for sale? Have Tomini Tangs been banned in AZ, not one more allowed? They cannot get another one to replace it? Why were they denying you the opportunity to own one?
Lol. It was the only tang they had left in their main display tank.
A lot of our local stores out here have displays with NFS fish.
Makes sense. I just wouldn’t think of a Tomini Tang as one that ends up on the off limits list. One of our lfs used to have an absolutely enormous maroon clown that was nfs. It was the store mascot. They could reach into the tank and pet it. Not sure what happened to it, it’s not there anymore.
The cool thing about LE Corals (at least what they were telling a customer when I was there) is that they QT their fish for 3 weeks before they offer them for sale.
I believe it. I was really impressed when I was there. Their tanks are so pristine that they could easily have various algae spores in the tanks and never know it. My tanks run just a tad dirtier.
If you follow them on FB they have specials most weeks.
We've got feral (or strays I suppose?) cats roaming the neighborhood. In the 7 years we've been in the house I haven't seen a single scorpion, dead or alive, and I've looked with a black light a couple of times. My last house at 107th and Indian School had plenty of them before we got a house cat.
I dumped my FB account but I do go out to all of the LFSs' FB pages when I have the 'need for reef', including LE.
We have a bunch of feral cats here as well, my wife has redecorated our front yard two or three times since they like to sleep under our tree at night and leave us plenty of reminders of their presence. We are also on their nightly rounds. That may be why we don't see them either. I think I have found one in the last 15 years. Now Black Widows; we used to have a lot of them. I would go out at night once a week and kill a half dozen or so around our yard. It looks like we finally got ahead of them as I haven't see one so far this year.
Snakes, tarantulas, black widows, scorpions…nope, nope, nope and nope. No thank you. Washington seems better and better all the time. You know what comes in my yard? Rabbits and birds. Dogs chase away the rabbits. Nobody gets bitten by anything poisonous. No special flashlights needed.
It's kind of hard to explain but they really aren't a problem or concern. Some places get more than others but basically it's just something you are kind of aware of. There really is something about the desert. We have Native American reservations pretty much all around us which are predominately just natural desert land and it is beautiful. The fastest way to one of our favorite LFSs is through the Gila River reservation and for about thirty miles it is 75% open desert. It speaks to us, to the point that when we travel back East we find it almost claustrophobic. In all of the years we have been here we have only had a 'close encounter' with a rattler once and it was a young one that was sleeping in the grass in front of an apartment we rented in a 'swanky' section of the valley. The Tarantulas are almost like pets. We had one that had its burrow right outside our front door at another apartment in that same town.
Javelinas have been the most 'worrisome' of the critters for us. We lived in the foothills for a while and the Javelinas, when their young were with them, could be pretty aggressive.
Pithos bury in the sand during the day from my understanding.
Good to know. I figure it is just adjusting to its new home and certainly ate enough in its first day in the tank to hold it for a while.
