We use many types of grunge in each reef. Our newest product is one of the most asked for things that we've had during the years and this is Garf Grunge Bright White™.
From:"Joel Weis"
In March, I broke down and bought 250 tank janitors for my 125 gallon. Prior to the janitors I had tried stepping up the filtration, and increased water changes, but the green hair algae was out of control. I threw in a lawnmower blenny, sailfin tang, reduced the lighting, and reduced the phosphates. Nothing worked, and I was at the end of the rope.
I pulled out half of the algae covered rock, thinking that the reduced surface area would help. At this point nothing worked, and I was ready to break the tank down and quit, Out of desperation, I pulled all but 3 of the remaining rocks out of the tank, and pressure washed them in the driveway, and threw them back in. ( I realize this is not a recommended procedure), I noticed that even that didn't work, as the algae was starting to grow back.
My brother recommended a janitor pack, so I bought 250 snails, crabs, etc. It has been 10 months, and the tank has been algae free. I highly recommend to everyone, just buy the janitors first, and save yourself the headache, I did notice the janitors were more successful with the algae that was less than 1/2 inch tall. Thank You Leroy for your awesome solution to this 2 year long battle, and saving our tank.
P.S. the Grunge was a nice surprise, it's great stuff.
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I have now grown enough of these amazing salt water mollies to make them part of our newest janitor package, meaning that the mollies will be only 1.00 each. We recommend 1 Molly per every 5 gallons of tank water.VIDEO
Wow, its been quite a while since I have had the time to share my beautiful Xenia with everyone. We have worked extremely hard on sharing in detail everything we know on the care and propagation of these remarkable Xenia. These corals have continued to capture my heart.
please take the time to watch these videos for they will answer all of your questions, and they will probably answer ones that you had not thought of yet. I am very excited to announce that because of my passion for these animals I have brood stock Xenia that have been with me for over 16 years.
I have several babies ready to become your brood stock and provide you with countless years of propagation of many new generations of Xenia that you can share with the general public.
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You are on the largest, and one of the very best web pages that can help you have a great reef aquarium. I am sure you will be amazed at how much information we have published since we started in 1995. It is time to get your algae under control, so your reef will be ready to show off this Summer
We have the finest refugium animals and plants and we have put these specials together for you. These products will make your reef aquarium very stable, and the bacteria and micro inverts will feed on the waste from your tank. They also make a great source of food for your reef.
Hello, This is LeRoy
I've been recovering from a stroke. I have several things to report, and most of them are positive.
If during the last year you've called me and talked to me, and it seems like every time you call I don't remember that we've talked before, well that's probably because it was true.
With my therapy and my new medications I'm doing much better. The doctor says I am going to continue to get better, but until I am all better Sally Jo is setting up a computer program to help me with my short-term memory problems.
This problem with my helping you seems to have been when we had a problem with an order.
I was trying to help, but I should have left the order in the system. I will now do that. If you have had a problem; I hope you will call me again. I promise to get the information to Sally Jo. 1-800-600-6163
We are so excited to share with you some new ways to make Aragocrete sculptures. LeRoy is recovering from the stroke and his short term memory is getting better. LeRoy will show you our newest Aragocrete instruction pages. He will be creating many new rock making lessons, so be sure to check in with garf.org often.
LeRoy Headlee's New Links Continued here
The most important thing we can do is educating and mentoring the children in our lives. Simple things that we see and learn as children can change our lives for the better.
11/22/11 new page - When I was eight years old I was invited into a neighbor ladies home to see her aquariums. I was hiding from the neighborhood bully in the one place he would never follow me. I was in Ruthie's Iris garden. All of us knew that she was mean and cranky, so we never went into her yard. This was a desperate time and I was more afraid of Gary than her.
The story continues on this page. Rock making family project -
The diversity specials have theGarf Diversity buttons
12/05/11 New page Learn how to make a plywood 140 gallon reef tank - save money!
12/02/11
08/29/11 - This is one of my favorite ways to make a reef table. It is one way to use the broken pieces I have left over from breaking so many sculptures by digging them up too soon. The left over pieces are used to make- Learn how on this page - three leg table rocks-
08/21/11 new page Easy leg table rocks-
We remain dedicated to sharing all of our research with all of you who want to be a part of the growing GARF team. These new projects are not only exciting but they can be so much fun.
This Summer I am going to help many of you to start a home rock company. It may seem odd to start making your own rocks now that 5 of the big coral wholesalers are producing their own man made rocks for sale. That just means that they know there is now a demand for rock that will help save the wild reefs. When I made up the name ARAGOCRETE in 1996 I hoped this day would come.
It is now very easy to purchase our products on the phone.
You can leave your order on our secure phone line. 1-800-600-6163 Please
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Learn how we make branch rocks using plastic bags
12/12/11 Grow Sarcophytons for profit and fun Learn all about leather corals - sarcophyton
This is what some of our happy customers have to say about our service and products.
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Hi Leroy,
I would like to start by saying thank you for all your help with my order of janitors and the GARF 75 gallon diversity package. As soon as the janitors hit the tank floor they were off and running they have removed all the algae from my tank, I am having to swap live rock from my other tank just so they have algae to feed on. They are definitely worth the price and the Grunge is awesome.
I currently am doing aquarium maintenance at the local community college which consists of a 120 gallon reef tank and I also propagate and clean tanks at the local pet store in town here. I have started to make man made rock from G.A.R.F's instructions which seems to work very well especially since I really want to keep the live rock where it belongs on the reef in the ocean.
I feel that we all can make a impact for the better on our oceans no matter how small or big it all really does matter, it is a proven fact through the research being done at G.A.R.F that there are plenty of ways to have quality man made live rock that is as good if not better than robbing our reefs and not to mention without any risk of nuisance algae or pests.
Thanks for all you and Sally Joe do for the hobby if you ever come to Lexington North Carolina please look me up it would be an honor to meet you.
Today we show you how to make Aragocrete Rocks to mount your corals onUse this page to purchase the Garf.org PRODUCTS for your reef aquarium.
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We use many types of grunge in each reef. In the main tank Garf Grunge Original™ is used. In new tanks we use one pound for each 3 gallons. We also use it to revitalize old tanks, and we add one pound for each 5 gallons of water.
Garf Grunge Original™ has the worlds best strains of bacteria sponges and micro invertebrates.
We have been working for years to build a product that has a very good track record. Many people reorder and seventy percent of our orders are repeat customers. We thank all of them for their support! The Garf Grunge Original™ is the most important one to add when you are starting a new tank. It is a small gravel size, and it is full of very beneficial bacteria, coralline, and micro invertebrates. You do not have to be member of PAYPAL to use the buttons below! The grunge buttons are BUY IT NOW buttons, because each special fills the box. You get the best deal using the buy it now buttons below.
We use two types of grunge in each reef. In the main tank Garf Grunge Original™ is used. In new tanks we use one pound for each 3 gallons. We also use it to revitalize old tanks, and we add one pound for each 5 gallons of water.
Garf Grunge Original™ has the worlds best strains of bacteria sponges and micro invertebrates.
We have been working for years to build a product that has a very good track record. Many people reorder and seventy percent of our orders are repeat customers. We thank all of them for their support! The Garf Grunge Original™ is the most important one to add when you are starting a new tank. It is a small gravel size, and it is full of very beneficial bacteria, coralline, and micro invertebrates. You do not have to be member of PAYPAL to use the buttons below! The grunge buttons are BUY IT NOW buttons, because each special fills the box. You get the best deal using the buy it now buttons below.
Use this page to purchase the Garf.org PRODUCTS for your reef aquarium.
Getting back into the hobby
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I decided to get back into the hobby after getting out of it to raise a family. As I started rounding everything up I found a box from garf, which still had the receipt on it. I decided to see what the date was. Aug. 31, 1999.
now that I'm slowly getting set up, I have been checking prices and in 12 years garf still hasn't changed their prices. I'm returning to garf, because they were always there for support, awesome corals, making it affordable and of course Leroy and Sally Jo .
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04/23/11 Learn how to build aquarium farming tanks. Make three coral farming aquariums and multi-tank stands This is a home school project
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HI!
Leroy has also taken time to talk with me addressing any concern I might have, I also will be trying out a experiment as in the summer we have a 20 hour light cycle with low temps wondering if this would create ideal growing conditions for coralline algae.
Leroy has been a Blessing to me and their customer service is unmatched by any competitor! I recommend GARF over anyone or any other product thank you so much for all that you do for us and our earth!!!!!!!!!
This video shows you Sally Jo's Garf Diversity™ Bag-o-Copepods and explains why you need to add several different types of Copepods to your system.VIDEO
New 02/26/12 We have a $100.00 winner - best rock making idea in February
04/13/11 You can see our newest page. Reef aquarium research project .Diversity™ Cleaning the fungus from 36 gallon reef
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Here is one of the emails that touched me today!
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Hi guys. You don't know me at all but I know you. I started following your website at its very early begginings. I was going through my attic the other day and found stuff I printed up in the mid to late 90's in college. I have a whole three leaf binder made up about coral farming from your site. You got me turned on to reefkeeping and coral farming. I was going to University of Rhode Island and studying aquaculture.
I remember consulting frantically looking things up on your website in the wee hours of the morning trying to write papers on the economical and enviromental advantages of raising ornamental fish and invertabrates. And this was before the internets were really cool. A step above a green monitor and a dot matrix printer. When 56k dialup was lighting speed (remember when you clicked on something and had to go make a pot of coffee run to the store cuz you ran out of cream and maybe just maybe when you got back the page would be loaded because it had like 5 pictures).
Anyways I digress. I had four tanks ranging from 55 gals down to 2.5 gals in a 10x10 room. I was raising softies in the 10 gal at the time and perculas in the 55. Lots of great stories about those times but I could go on for hours (including a heater malfunction that cooked the 10gal over a weekend break making the dorm smell like lowtide when I waltzed in on monday).
Anyways I digress, and life got in the way, I no longer have all the tanks or corals(wish I still did), and I find myself doing something for a living that is about 180degrees from my aquaculture roots but that pays the bills a bit better. The other day after going through some boxes I found my old garf binder it brought back memories so I went over to the more greatly improved Internets and hit the google and poof there you guys are as always with a great site and great info.
Sorry for the rambling email. I am setting up a 24 gal aquapod soon and going to be visiting this site much more often for info, advice and supplies. I am so glad you guys are still around. Thanks for taking time to read this.
Watch this update of Sally Jo's reef challenge # 2. It shows how she is growing so many corals in each reef.
We now have 156 tanks here at garf.org so we are busy this winter.
Rick's link has last week's videos
Today you can purchase our famous Grunge and we will pay the postage if you use the paypal buttons on this page.
You can have a bali Pom Pom Xenia and several fancy Zoanthids and your choice of many more high grade soft corals. These corals ship to you from Idaho, so you know they are hardy!
Q. Why should I consider not using anything from the wild to set up my captive reef system?
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I am posting samples of our 9 childrens books, and I would love to get feed back about the different formats that LeRoy is using. Please call him if you have ideas that might help him with this part of garf's web site
You can have both of the great corals in this image
Sally Jo's spring update 2010. Please see my new letter to our web friends.
We have a great special . We will help you pick from our 7000 coral plugs so you will get the pick of the litter today. Call LeRoy at
garf.org 1-800-600-6163
We have many rare colors of Fancy Colored Capnella, Duncans, Chalices, Xenia, Zoanthids, Pallythoa,
and Star Polyps and other soft corals in our Coral special! You can buy 8 mixed
corals for 100, that is 8 different corals for only 100.00, and you
will receive 2 pounds of Garf grunge for free!
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I have a cousin named David Ewen who used your methods religiously several years ago and swears by them. I've been out the hobby for about 14 years, but just got back into it starting with a BioCube 29 HQI. I set it up at the end of October.
I hadn't thought about GARF in all those years. In January, I told my cousin (who also got completely out of it) that I had a tank and was setting it up and he reminded me of you guys. I was doing barebottom and decided to re-do it with a plenum. So it's all set up now and I've been ready for the Grunge for about 2 weeks. SOOOO excited!
I have a dream of building a coral propogation facility here in Vegas. I have the designs and plans in my head and am going to start writing them down. After that, it will just be a matter of funding it, which will probably take years but it's all about having goals, right? :)
Thanks again LeRoy!
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On the farm we often set up a roadside stand for selling fresh vegetables that were ready and especially for the fresh corn on the cob. It was great getting $.50 an ear for corn instead of two or three cents for dried corn, so we had to market during the right time of year and that's the same thing that you'll find next September with the reef aquarium business. People buy the most reef stuff in the winter. Remember that coral farming is much like any small home farming business.
Like corn the aragocrete making buisiness has seasons. This is the perfect time of year to make rocks, because it is just beautiful weather.
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