Recent content by M_Phobos

And if you do that often enough it catches up to you. But making a big to-do over what appears to be a special circumstance (and I'd assume if you had evidence that it was a part of a larger pattern we would have heard it by now) is silly. It comes off a little petty - like me judging you based...

Race, let's be honest here - they should cut you out, not me. As Jeremy said, there will always be the affluent in any given market who make B&M retailers/maintenance companies a necessity AND a collector would want B&M stores around to expand markets for them. If collectors started selling...

Hmmm... I don't honestly understand the concern over a few VERY high-end fish going directly from collector to consumer in this industry. (And for some perspective on who this is coming from, I work managing the largest MO retailer in Oregon outside of Portland). To be honest, we rarely move...

Hmmm...not sure why the pics aren't loading in-message in my browser....but if you right click on the supposedly broken link and click "view picture", they come up just fine. Curiouser and curiouser... Later, Austin

Hey all, Just thought I'd post a few pics of my current nano. Tech specs: JBJ (via Nanocustoms) Nanocube 6 with upgraded lighting (2 X 18w) 50w Stealth Heater Rio 800 return pump run through Hydor Flo rotator device (replaced stock pump) Substrate: Large-grain sandbed 9lbs LR...

"Or the tale of how one fish's stomach was too big for his own good..." The backstory: At our store we have two large marine displays. One is a 300gal reef display, the other is a 300gal predator/large fish display. It was near the end of the day yesterday when a customer approached me to...

LOL JP....try diving the Oregon coast if you enjoy the "hand in front of face" style visibility. It's HID dive lights in 40' @ high noon around here almost all the time. ;) Now the Puget Sound...there's a dive site. No tidal worries, 40' viz, and the occasional six-gill (or white if you're...

Funny you should mention shipping times, JP....lol. Two weeks ago (three now? hmmm...the week AFTER Thanksgiving..so there ought to have been NO excuses...) we placed our order on Tuesday as always for a Wednesday delivery. The usual flight path is LAX to Sea-Tac to PDX (Portland, OR) to EUG...

Well....a few beers into the night....hmmmmmmmm :lol: Later, Austin

JP..hittin' on the other forum members? tsk, tsk...;) We've had previous bad experiences with a certain wholesaler/jobber in the past and now receive very few shipments from his establishment...if any. (The occasional specialty item...an octopus for an employee comes to mind..) So I'm not...

I can't remember the publications I saw the articles in...but I'm certain I saw two in the same month earlier in the fall. One was in "Alert Diver" (the publication of Divers' Alert Network...no surprise since one of their specialty courses in in dealing with injuries caused by marine...

Okay, Okay...right next to the "Serengeti's Pride" (regular striped) T. squamosa and across from the "Lawrence Welk's Fantasy" green Plerogyra...LOL. Later, Austin

LOL...JP, I can see it now. "Navajo Dream" or some such nonsense. Like the supposed "Green People Eaters" we got in last week...ugly "kinda green" large zoanthids...oy. The problem is...I don't think any of my regulars even have a clue the internet exists...so the trendy naming thing won't...

A lot are willing to spend it....once in a blue moon. It's price point AND volume/turnover. We have a beautiful "key" shaped reef display in our store (you should head down sometime and check us out, Piero...you're in this neck of the woods...lol), and in it sits a beautiful turquoise...

Bahamian fish? I think it's far more interesting that Pterois volitans is a new NEW ENGLAND fish. (found as far north as RI) ;) Cheers, Austin