Hi JHC,

Thanks for coming out yesterday. We had lots of fun!!

The Mandarins are trained on frozen mysis and are fed every second day. I would love to witness them mating but it hasn't happened yet.

Hope to see you at the Grand Opening.

Cheers,

Paul

Hi,

Your wife, Brenda is so patient. You are very lucky. We were packed like sardins in the shop and she patiently waited her turn for assistance. Please thank her again for me for taking the time to come out and support us.

Hope to meet you with your wife on Opening day at the new store. It will have lots more room. :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Paul

OK what is it for shipping what so I need to get a shipment over night how much to spend I see some nice stuff ....:mrgreen:

pm me what you have left

To everyone that came out yesterday; Albert and I had a great time spending the afternoon with you, Thanks so much.

For those that we failed to help and had to leave early, I am very sorry. The support was overwhelming and we should have had a bit more help, although there probably wasn't more space for another person in there.

Just a reminder that today is the last day for the sale and we are available between 12:00 to 5:00PM today.

Come out and meet us if you can. We have lots of livestock to browse through.

Cheers,

Paul

Hi Mike,

We ship via West Jet and it's about $75.

I'll take note of inventory and PM you what is available.

It will be a long list as we have quite a large selection. :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Paul

Hi Paul

Glad to hear you had some great support for your viewing!! I was wondering if you were able to set aside the corals I had requested before your showing?? If not would you be able to send me a list of what you have left aswell.

Thanks
Craig

Hi Craig,

Your corals are set aside for you and are awaiting ship out. Please PM me your schedule for pick up.

Thanks,

Paul

Very nice indeed. Paid Paul a visit yesterday, what a nice guy and beautiful setup. Picked up a few more beauties. Today every one is open and happy.
Thanks again for the sweet finds.

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Any tips for training the Mandarins? Do you plan to maybe train some on frozen for sale in the shop?

Paul it was great seeing you again and having a talk.Thx for the frags and im sure you'll see me in your new store every now and then.Thx Josh

Did you have a few spare seconds to snap some pics of the event Paul?

Hi Ron,

You need to seclude them in a smaller tank with some live rock and feed them little portions of mysis on a daily basis. They are restricted from eating during transit from the collectors so by the time they get to us they are pretty hungry. The trick is to get a bit of flow going so that the frozen mysis appear as if they are moving. You will start to see the mandarin try to hunt them down. If the flow is too much the mandarins can't keep up. So watch your flow. We seclude them so that they have all the time to pick at the mysis as they try to catch them. If there are other tankmates, they will invariably consumer all the mysis before the mandarins get to it.

We've had some success with training mandarins using this procedure; however we are trying to get some tank raised specimens that are already bred to eat frozen mysis. These are one of my favorite fish.

Thanks,

Paul

Hey Ryan,

No, it was pretty busy from the get go and I didn't think of it. I'll get some pics at the Grand Opening for you if that works.

Thanks,

Paul

Good...good...cause you know I'll be a askin'... :razz:

Just an update.

My OC Bonsai is now sending up many purple vertical branches now that it has fully encrusted the plug!

The red planet I got during the sale has started to encrust the rubble it was glued to. It has a nice green base and i hope the polyps turn red soon. The frag was cut two days before i bought it and i believe it only arrived at oc a few days before it was cut. so it was a gamble buying it since it was so stressed. I would assume that is why the polyps don't have the red coloring.

Acan frag is expanding and sending out feeder tentacles at night. It's looking better than it did in the OC frag tank. These particular acans didn't look like they were doing all that well at OC.

Cali tort has started to grow and encrust the rubble it's attached to. It has blue tips and a green base. Hoping this will color up some more!

blue milli has colored up alot in my tank and is more blue!

Prostrata is extremely hair and really pink! It has encrusted 75% of the plug and is sending up vertical branches!

Quite happy with my OC frags!