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From: Jim Date: 2007/10/13 Sat PM 09:22:02 EDT To: leroy@garf.org Subject: thank you thank you!
Dear Sally Jo, Leroy and everyone else at Garf,
I have tried now for 5 years with many many systems, and so many different regiments, too many to mention, some working ok and most not. The end results were always the same, poor water quality, and animals dying, not to mention the amount of money on water testing, test kits, one chemical after another. Only to have the same result...Failure. Why oh Why did I wait so long! My 25 gal is incredible! I purchased your grunge, and now follow the SeaChem regiment, and it is unbelievable! I have coralline algae growing on every rock , sides and back of tank, power heads, snails, with colors I have never seen at any local fish store. I have brilliant purples, all shades, and the most beautiful pinks I have ever seen, as well as green, which my tang loves to pick at, not sure if there is a benefit to her but she loves doing it only at the green. As far as my corals, it is amazing the growth, and self propagation that goes on in this tank, in fact the corals have taken over ever rock and space in my tank. I must send you some pictures, it is really amazing. The other thing I love is...I never test my water. Except for regular hydrometer test. When I first started my tank I called Leroy and was ready to do a total water change because after a week or two using the seachem , I tested my water, and the calcium level was reading off the chart. Leroy told me stop testing my water and look at your animals, if they are looking good and I am following the bullet proof method, then all should be fine. And it has been! Honestly I do not check for PH, Nitrite, Nitrate, NOTHING, and I have not lost one coral, or fish in 1 year. Oh except for some hermit crabs.. but everything in this small 25 gal, is healthy, and growing like crazy! I am now ready to set up a 75 gal in my new home, and I am cutting my plenum out ready to get things started. I will be ordering your Aragocretetm Cave Arches and your grunge, to get things going. I am so excited to see how wonderful this system works in a larger tank. Again many thanks and bless you all for the wonderful work you are doing to save our natural reefs. Sally Jo you especially are in my prayers, and I am so glad I got to speak to you the 1st time I call Garf, your enthusiasm, and the love of what you do came through the phone and made me a believer in your method. I thank you , you have given me such joy, every time I look at my tank...and that is all the time.
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From: "Martin and Lisa Wilcox" To: leroy@garf.org Subject: Martin and Lisa Wilcox Reef with Argocrete Leroy and Sally, Hot off the press are the first two pictures of our reef using some of the Argocrete pieces that we cast. The casting was so much fun but took a little time to get the hang of it! We havent put on the backing and completed all the aesthetics, but it's a start!
Our reef janitors seem to be enjoying their new environment.
They appear to like the few pieces of live rock we have as well.
We must say that it has been wonderful learning about reefs from your website.
Sally and Leroy, we wish you the best! |
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From: "James D. Stevenson" To: Leroy@GARF.org Subject: grunge (it's hardy!) Dear Leroy, Just a quick follow-up to an e-mail I sent you a week or two ago. As I'm sure you'll recall (What, you get 300 e-mails a week and you don't instantly recall every one?), I had accidentally put a piece of uncured concrete in my new tank, and cooked the corals when the Ph went to about 8.8 or so, and I was wondering if the grunge was likely to have been blasted too. You will be happy to know that at least some of the stuff in there is alive and doing fine. I was getting a brown coating (of diatoms, I think) that all of a sudden disappeared yesterday and this morning, and the bed is full of little worms and other crawlies. Must be some seriously hardy stuff. So, in case there's someone who keeps track of that stuff, your grunge can withstand several days of high Ph. The cave rock is now curing in a plastic box in the backyard, and will stay there until the Ph stabilizes, and I'm moving on with the new tank. Thanks again for all the good stuff.
Jim Stevenson |
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Subject: Love the Grunge! Thread-Topic: Love the Grunge! From: "Tom Karvonen" To: leroy@garf.org Leroy,
I wanted to send you a short note to let you know just how impressed I am with your GARF Grunge. I have a 120g Reef with a 6" DSB that I originally seeded with a mixture of original and plus last year when I set up the tank. Since then I had to move the tank and in the process lost most of the detritivore life with the exception of some worms.
Tom Karvonen |
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From: Greg King To: leroy@garf.org Subject: reef janitors
To GARF The product you advertise and sell is the best ever. My live rock looks live again, the base rock and crushed aragonite has never looked so good. This has to be the very best investment that I have ever made on any aquarium I have ever owned. BTW I also got ten pounds of GARF GRUNGE, exceptionally good stuff. If anyone really wants to see a huge difference in the appearance of their tank, new or old, listen to what these guys have to say.
Greg King |
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From:"PETER SMITH" Date: 2007/10/21 Sun AM 12:37:51 EDT To:leroy@garf.org Subject:thanks for the grunge
Leroy,
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| From: "Smokey Sturtevant" To: leroy@garf.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:13:04 -0700 Subject: Corals X-User-Info: 172.183.87.182 Greetings Leroy and Sally
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| Dear AZA Research Partners, Thank you again for your continued efforts in the Symbiodinium study. We have processed and analyzed your first group of shipped samples. Following is a brief progress report for the current AZA Symbiodinium study. This report contains a brief review of the methods used in this study; an explanation of the data found your previously forwarded Excel spreadsheets, and a list of suggested readings. Once the samples arrive at the NY Aquarium, the live samples you send are labeled, accessioned, and placed in culture for future Symbiodinium studies. The Symbiodinium from the preserved samples you shipped are extracted from the coral host with an airbrush (to blast the coral tissue off the skeleton) and a centrifuge (to help separate the cells from- for example- the denser bits of loose skeleton). Then, we work the samples through a series of- primarily- chemical steps (e.g. organic extractions, alcohol washes, enzyme reactions, etc.) which result in- mostly- isolated Symbiodinium DNA. Next, the Symbiodinium DNA is taken through a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) which make millions of copies of one particular gene, the large subunit (28s-like) rDNA gene (common in all known Symbiodinium types). Next, a procedure called restriction fragment length polymorphism (RPLF) analysis is performed. The PCR products are digested into smaller pieces with restriction enzymes (TaqI and HhaI).They are then carried through agarose gel electrophoresis, which separates the various pieces of DNA, by their sizes. The resulting RFLP pattern of DNA bands, tagged with a chemical stain in the gel, is photographed under UV light. The gene from each Symbiodinium type (A, B, C, D, etc.) is digested in a different way by the restriction enzymes and therefore produces a characteristic pattern or 'DNA footprint' on the gel (observed in the aforementioned photograph). |
| From: "YI, SU I [AG/2001]" To: "'leroy@garf.org'" Subject: Customer service Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:17:48 -0500 I just wanted to write and thank all of you for your great customer service. I recently had a shipment that didn't get to me for two days due to DHL having mechanical problems at one of their stops. When I receved my shipment, all of the bags were very warm and by the next day I had lost almost half of what I ordered. I called in the morning and Leonel was kind enough to resend everything that I had lost. In fact on one of the plugs, there was a zoanthid that I had wanted that was in several of your pictures. Just getting that single polyp made my day. This has been my 3rd order not including the last reshipment and I have been very happy with everything I have received. I have more variety in my 2 small 5 gallons than my local pet store has in his 2 125 gallon reef tanks. Thanks again and I'll be sending some pictures soon! Su, Ankeny, IA |
| Delivered-To: algae-garf-leroy@garf.org X-Lotus-FromDomain: CORPORATE To: leroy@garf.org Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:54:07 -0500 Subject: Reef Janitors Hi, I just wanted to send a note
and tell you how glad I am that I purchased some reef Terry Otis Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:23:04 -0600 From: "Peter Laskaris" Subject: Re: algae bloom >Hello >I recently started a 90 gal reef tank >I used about 2inches of aragonite sand, 10lbs garf grunge, 45lbs of cured live rock, 75 > mixed snails, 60 mixed hermit crabs, 2 powerheads, and a sump which acts as a 3rd > powerhead >the tank has been set up for about 2 weeks and I haven't seen a sign of an algae bloom >I find this amazing since I havent used a protein skimmer in my past experience I had > noticed that my corals do better in a system without a skimmer >do you think I will have or have a chance of an algae bloom? thanks >Peter Laskaris Hello, You did right the first time and any algae that started was eaten by the organisms in the grunge and the Janitors. You are in for smooth sailing. We often do not use skimmers for about six to eight months, and then we use a small SeaClone from Aquarium Systems. Thank you so much. LeRoy Headlee Director of Research Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation http://www.garf.org 800-600-6163 ------------------------- Delivered-To: leroy@garf.org I experienced a severe algae problem in my 45 gallon
mixed reef in late 1998. I battled the My boyfriend heard about GARF from a bulletin board
and suggested I take a look. After removing the blue-legged hermits, I had your
crew shipped to my office and took an I am working part time in my LFS and am the
"go-to" person for our customers with hair Once again, many thanks for the great service and for getting my tank turned around. Shannon Baxter |