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I have shopped at Trop for years and have not had the problem you are. I am pretty sure Trop runs their fish systems at a lower salinity than we all do in our tanks which is why we drip acclimate. I am pretty sure Trop even states in their fish guarantee that you have too. We can argue QT...
Egg crate height will be dependent on your light and what corals they are. I agree with trio, DT water and a hob filter with a power head will be perfect.
Almost forgot the most important part: When you pull up the expo center, if you are looking right at it, there is parking underneath the building to the left of the entrance. For volunteers this is probably the best place to park.
Just a couple of quick tips on the eve of this awesome event, for volunteers and for attendees as well.
Wear sneakers or comfortable shoes. Chances are you will be on your feet for a while and having nice shoes to wear is pretty crucial.
Bring another shirt to wear, this is mainly for raffles...
Depends on your lights as well. Different intensity lights can bring out different colors. Yellow SPS can be really hard to keep that way, what lights are you running and where in the tank is the coral?
I will be up there on Friday and Saturday and most likely Sunday to help, Nikki will probably be there Saturday and part of Sunday. I am XL and she is a small.
Yeah, I would listen to the above advice. The general advice on a situation like this is corals can withstand a sharp drop but don't spike it up let it slowly move back up. Long term, you would only use hyposalinity in a fish only system, it would over time kill your corals and inverts...
Great store, have gotten fish from them in the past. Call ahead because their hours are a little different than other places. He used to post when new stock was coming in on the website and you wanted to be there when it came in because if would go quickly.
Jim we have the 4 foot frag tank we can host some fish in and even our 60g refugium is a good place for some fish. Let us know if you need some temporary housing.