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@aherre07 I would love to meet up some time when all this Covid **** is behind us! It has been crazy as of late. Plus, we could trade frags too!! Message me if you want and we can text/chat!Congrats on the new build! I must say I was very shocked as I read through your thread and saw that this was being setup in El Paso. Fellow El Pasoan here who is also a stickhead. Great to know locals here in town who are also into SPS. I will say that the local availability in our LFS for SPS is slim to none as you probably are very well aware of. Love your selection of equipment as I am in the planning phase of upgrading some of my equipment (sump and lights possibly). Let me know what you think of the Orpheks as I am actually looking at those in particular. Can't wait to see your tank filled.
I have been planning this build for at least 4-5 years, as my wife and I were prepping to purchase the house and then through the remodel phase. I agree the local shops leave much to be desired, a little story if you will: I tried to order this 8ft tank through a local shop, i will not mention them by name, but I wanted a planet aquariums 8ft tank and they wanted to charge me, what i paid for this MRC Hybrid aquarium! I am not putting down planet aquariums, it is just they have their prices listed online, and this gives the consumer a pretty good idea of what the tank should cost, and this shop owner about tripled it, so i was disappointed and started to look else where. That lead me down the road to MRC America.
Brandon from Exotic ocean is great to work with and i usually buy my fish from him, but will QT this time round for sure.