Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Hi everyone, I got here off a thread from SWF.com. Great site!!!! Nice to see some fellow reefers in Bama. The thread off SWF was asking if anyone was from Bama.......and now I find myself in Mobile????? Ha,ha.
I love Mobile. I can remember going to the USS Alabama when I was about 5 or 6, and I'm 34 now, so we are talking about many beers ago. I spent a great Mardi Gras in Mobile, in 1990. I was in the Navy and my ship parked there for several days. Friends and family came down from Bham, and I met a few nice ladies also.....aaaahhhhhh...to be 20 again.......sorry, didn't mean to wax nostalgia.......any ole ways, just wanted to say hello.......and of course......Roll Tide!!!!!

good to have you aboard!, hope you come down for some of our meetings, you'll have a great time

Welcome to mbrk.com!

We have family around B'ham... Had thought about moving up there in the not to distant past but that changed. Good to have you around, drop in alot.

Welcome.

Hi, Glad to see you made it.. I left you the message on swf.com .....I hope you get a chance to make it to some of our meetings. They are worth the trip.. the fellowship is great and a lot of great reefers around. Welcome aboard...Terry

Thanks Terry, Actually, I have a good friend who makes her way around Miss. (....hehe....I tried to spell it......nope....one tee many Martoonies....) she is a dietician and goes to a number of different nursing homes around the state. My sister actually lives in Panama City, so let me know. I need an excuse to visit her.........don't tell her that. At any rate, I just started my tank......55g....back in December. I have unfortunately fooled around with several fish........my 2 poor false percs met their ichy demise after I took out most of my live rock in order to catch a shrimp murdering bi-color parrot that my lfs told me would be fine in a reef tank. That caused an ammonia spike, (taking out the live rock)which wiped out my engineer gobies.....I already had my 2 percs in a hospital tank doing the hyposalinity thing because they had gotten a nasty case of ich from a Royal Gramma that died 5 days after I got him....from ich. So now....I have a fishless 55g with about a 100lbs live rock.......40lbs live sand......a sweet 20g refuguim with some macros that I bought off Ebay.....they seem to be ok.......definitelty tons of pods.........and i just got a confirmation email that my first coral order from swf is on the way. I ordered a toadstool leather and 5 ricordia polyps...........I feel like an expectant father......( I also got 2 false percs....hehe.......).....Here we go...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know that much about the lfs in Birmingham, but you might ask someone here:http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisp ... orumid=167. It sounds like the one you go to is uninformed.

I've heard good things about a lfs in Rainbow City, is that near you?

Also, don't worry .......I have the 260w pc setup with the moon lights from Custom sea life.........next on my list is metal halides.......he-he......that and a 150 gal tank........and robbing a bank..............any suggestions...........??????

so far I'm not impressed with the local knowledge. I have been doing a ton of research myself on the subject ( ok....I've read 2 books and a bunch of online stuff..............not sure you could call that research.) But I feel informed.................at any rate, there is a sweet store in Bham, by the Galleria. He has at least 2 500 gallon aquariums, got a 200G loaded with fish.........got a lmb that has to be 8 inches long.......and he has 4 30 gals stuffed with corals. The least he is asking is $40, I think....he's cool, gives me free RO/DI water.....................I just look at the monster lmb

Scott wrote:I don't know that much about the lfs in Birmingham, but you might ask someone here:http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisp ... orumid=167. It sounds like the one you go to is uninformed.

I've heard good things about a lfs in Rainbow City, is that near you?

Nope.......................I'm in Birmingham........Rainbow City is near Gadsden.......which....ironically.......if you happen to keep up with Alabama football..............I do..............Brodie Croyle..............Rainbow City..........................

Rainbow City is a tiny city, situated outside Gadsden. If you find yourself, venturing down 65.......rest assured.......you just left a good place,...you are on your way to better.....................

Belo, I have no idea what you are saying, but welcome aboard anyways

Brandon wrote:Belo, I have no idea what you are saying, but welcome aboard anyways

lmao

Anyways, what is a "monster lmb"? Pardon my ignorance.