The 3 large pieces of LR I got yesterday were Nomaro LR, today I called PA and ordered 2 more Lg pieces of Nomaro, I also ordered 30lbs Fiji LR, and 50lbs Timora Lr. I went to the LFs where I took the LR back the other day, and he is ordering me the 70lbs of Fiji LR I have already paid him for. That will just about do it for the LR, I hope. The order from PA will be here Wed. and the order from the LFS will be here Thursday.
I didn't ask the LFS man why no Pistol Shrimp, I havent talked to him, I E-mailed him my list. The only reason I can think of would be because I might not have enough sand on the bottom of my tank to meet the pistol shrimps needs. I only have about 1 1/2 inches of sand. I will say this wrong so don't hold me to this, The LFS man told me one time (something like this) since you will be using a skimmer and your LR as your only filter in your tank you don't want to have a thick sand base in your tank because it will (can't remember this part) cause nitrates or something to be high and you don't want that.
As far as him shooting down my corals list, seems like I picked alot of stagshorn type corals. He said that although T5 lighting will grow these types of corals, the down side would be that the blues and the greens of these corals would be sort of brownish in color because the T5s would not be strong enough to help the corals retain their vibrant colors. I kinda want to ask him why he recommended that I buy the T5s in the first place, he new I wanted to have corals in my tank.
Any thoughts ya"ll have on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
