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Hello, This is LeRoy. I hope you enjoy all of these links, I will add more soon.
SCOTT'S BULLET PROOF REEF CALCULATOR
This amazing program will calculate everything you need for any size reef aquarium
NEW PAGE APRIL 10,
SALLY JO'S 6 YEAR OLD REEF
A NEW GIANT IMAGE FOR YOUR DESK TOP
NEW PAGE MARCH 28,
SEE THE REEFS IN SALLY JO'S BIRTHDAY UPDATE
NEW PAGE APRIL 2,
THIS LINK TAKES YOU TO SEVERAL
GREAT WALLPAPER IMAGES
links to aragocreteTM
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:45:03 -0500
From: Michael Lukaczyn
To: leroy@garf.org
Subject: Thank you
Leroy,
First I have to say thank you...Everytime I get a package from GARF I
feel like a kid on Christmas morning. My fiance laughs at me because she
sees how happy I get when I receive a package from you and how I rush to
the door to receive it. My fiance always asks...why is it that when ever
you are going to get a package you rush to the door but when my mother comes
over you don't...I told her because one simple reason...because my future
mother-in-law isn't from GARF!
From the Reef Janitors to the Grunge to
the soft corals I received yesterday everything I have received is always
beyond my expectations. Thank you and your staff again for the great job you
have done.
Best Regards,
Mike Lukaczyn
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From: "Philip McCleskey"
To: leroy@garf.org
Subject: Thanks for the great corals!
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:03:13 -0700
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2002 04:03:19.0488
Leroy,
I received the corals I ordered Friday afternoon at exactly the time I was told they would arrive.... THANK YOU!
They all look great and I was so excited to see a couple extra ones added in there! I am very excited to watch them grow.
I will definitely be ordering more corals from you in the future.
Thank you,
Philip McCleskey
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MARCH 15,
GEORGE GRIGUS XENIA FARM
THIS PAGE SHOWS HOW TO START XENIA FARMING NEW PAGE MARCH 23,
GARY GREGUIRE PLYWOOD AQUARIUM BUILDING
DETAILS ON FARMING SYSTEM CONSRUCTION
NEW PAGE MARCH 17,
GARY GREGUIRE FARMING UNIT
THIS PAGE SHOWS A GREAT FARMING UNIT
NEW PAGE MARCH 13,
J.R. EATONS 38 GALLON REEF FARM
THIS PAGE SHOWS HOW TO START FARMING
NEW PAGE MARCH 24,
MARK DEFRANCISCO'S REEF UPDATE
NEW PAGE MARCH 10,
MARK DEFRANCISCO'S REEF
YOU WILL ENJOY THESE REEF IMAGES
NEW PAGES FEBRUARY 26,
SCOTT'S CORALS - A GREAT SET OF PAGES
LEARN THE NAMES OF MANY CORALS THAT ARE GROWN IN CAPTIVITY
NEW PAGE FEBRUARY 7,
SCOTT IS UPGRADING HIS SYSTEM TO VHO LIGHTING
NEW PAGE JANUARY 16,
LEARN TO
PROPAGATE THE INCREDIBLE ACROPORA MILLIPORA
NEW PAGE FEBRUARY 23,
SALLY JO'S REEF BIRTHDAY PICTURES
THIS FIRST GROUP SHOWS ALL THREE REEFS WITH 2ND REEF HIGHLIGHTED
Today we all get a treat from Scott Morell - Garf's volunteer of the year - he has added several new pages that show his great coral collection.
SCOTT'S CORALS - learn to identify many corals
Scotts reef update
I am happy that our hobby is starting to produce many of the corals
we keep in our aquariums. GARF is contacted each week by people who are
starting to farm corals. If you are farming corals on any scale please
send us an e-mail, leroy@garf.org,
so we can learn from your experience. We are certain that many small locally
owned coral farms will make a positive impact on our hobby.
This letter is the finest message I could have received. We
reef keepers CAN make a difference in our hobby. Please help GARF
and our supporters make this a hobby we can be proud of!
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 Jo,
I purchased a couple of corals from you about a year ago. The "Green
Slimer" is an incredibly fast grower. In the last six months, my local
LFS has not had to purchase "commercial" corals because I have been able
to provide him with enough soft and hard coral cuttings to meet his needs!
I wanted to thank you for the superb corals and for letting me provide
"home grown" corals for my local market. You will be hearing from me soon
for more of your beautiful corals.
Take Care,
Smokey Sturtevant, Asst. Mgr.
CompuServe Aquaria/Fishnet
Billings, Montana |
These are a few of the hundreds of nice e-mails we receive:
To: leroy@garf.org
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:48:56 -0800
Subject: Reef Janitors
X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 13-15
From: Cheryl L Ellison
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I received my Reef Janitors on
Friday and I am so amazed at how quickly they went to work. My tank was
very colorful, but unfortunately it was colored with green, red, maroon
and brown algae and it was not attractive. I have been Reef keeping for
about 5 or 6 years and as much as I enjoy this hobby, I have been getting
really discouraged by the algae problem, I tried chemicals, removing by
hand, water changes, nothing seemed to work and only my hardiest
mushrooms and polyps would survive, all of my corals would get choked
out. I am totally re-enthused about reef-keeping now, the hermits and
snails have already cleared out a ton of algae, I am seeing things in my
tank that I forgot I had and it has only been two days. Thank you so
much for such an inspiring and helpful web site and for offering such
great deals and also for being so helpful on the phone when I was
ordering, it was all so easy. I can't wait to order some corals!!!
Thanks again,
Cheryl Ellison |
From: "John A. Ferris"
To:
Subject: WOW!
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:21:41 -0500
Just a note to let you know how pleased I am about my recent order and
in doing business (it doesn't seem like business - it's too much fun) with
you guys in general. This time I received acroporas, mushrooms, zooanthids,
neat star polyps & some really cool pavonas! What an amazing variety
of shapes, habits & colors. I took your advice some months back and
let the "janitors" clean out what had been for years a fish only tank (with
a lot of rock). The tank looks amazing now and there is only one fish in
it.
Thanks Again,
John A. Ferris
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We have made some free GREEN WATER and Rotifers that you can use to grow
your own Zooplankton and Phytoplankton. It is fun to set up two plastic
buckets outside where they can receive morning of late afternoon light.
You can fill the buckets with water from your reef, and this is a great
reason to do that water change you have been wanting to do. These cultures
are free if you ask for them when you place an order for Reef JanitorsTM
or Corals. Please ask for this free gift so we can send it with your order.
Call Leonel at 800-600-6163.
If you have purchased GARF corals in the past and you would like to
assist in the symbiont DNA research GARF will be ready to trade rare SPS
corals for fragments of SPS corals from your systems. By comparing the
symbionts in your corals with the symbionts in the corals still at GARF
we will be able to learn how corals adapt to changes. If you're interested
in participating in this research please e-mail me at LeRoy @ garf.org
leroy@garf.org
NEW PAGE DECEMBER 6,
NEW GIANT
MUSHROOM IMAGE
Christian Saint-Onge's e-mail about mushroom propagation
We recieved these nice e-mails about the JanitorsTM and
GrungeTM
Nice letters like this make my day!
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
Date: 22 Aug 2000 13:46:02 +0000
From: "Mark DeFrancisco"
To: leroy@garf.org
Subject: THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
Hello Leroy,
I just had to write you to thank you for everything that you and your
staff have done to help me create such a beautiful reef tank. Let me start
by saying that I would never have done business with any internet company
in the past. I am very careful about how my money is spent. YOUR BEAUTIFUL
PICTURES ON THE WEB SITE CONVINCED ME TO GIVE YOU A TRY. BOY AM I GLAD
I DID!
I started out by purchasing some garf grunge and reef janitors. The
janitors have completely cleaned my tank and are busy working every day.
I had an algae bloom that I could not control, and now, in only a few weeks,
it is not only gone, but the tank is spotless!
The grunge is the most beautiful substrate I have ever seen! I have
found numerous little corals and sponges growing in my tank, and I am experiencing
a coraline algae bloom much faster than thought possible. Also, every experienced
reef keeper that has seen my tank wants to know what the heck is that?
Being used to seeing plain sand or crushed coral, they are delighted and
mystified by the beauty! It has also added a level of stability and overall
health to my tank that is amazing!
Next, as you know, I have ordered a few shipments of corals from you.
I can't believe how fast they grow, and how beautiful they are! This is
of course in addition to the rare species that you offer. Never in a million
years could I have found the rare and different corals you have sent me.
The pet shop, or reef "experts" would never have most of these beautiful
rarities!
As a matter of fact, my local coral supplier has seen my tank and he
cannot believe his eyes! He has told me that with over thirty years in
the reef aquarium business, never has he seen such a beautiful tank! The
"show" tank in his store is very pale by comparison!
I have told him that thanks to some real professionals in Idaho, this
type of tank could be a reality for anyone! I am sure he will order from
you soon, as he is most jealous of my aquarium, and has to have some for
his own!
I will send you some pictures very soon. I am sure that you will agree,
this is truly a beautiful, healthy, thriving, 90 gallon reef aquarium.
I owe most of it to you and your staff!
From grunge, janitors, magic reef dust, and your help in recommending
food and additives, everything I followed from what you have suggested
has helped my tank achieve more goals than I ever expected! THANKS AGAIN
FOR EVERYTHING! I CANNOT WAIT TO RECEIVE MY NEXT ORDER, VERY SOON!
Mark Defrancisco
Trenton, New Jersey |
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
janitors from you. I had been reading as much as I could on your wonderful
website and
decided that I needed to get some. I have a 20gl tank with 5 chunks
of live rock in it about
the size of a large grapefruit. I was having trouble with a diatom
algea bloom when I made
my order. Those little guys had that tank almost completely clean in
about a week. I no
longer have to clean the glass myself. Thanks !!!
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
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Delivered-To: leroy@garf.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:16:06 -0700
From: Shannon
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: leroy@garf.org
Subject: many, many thanks
I wanted to let you know how thankful I am for your hair algae janitor
crew.
I experienced a severe algae problem in my 45 gallon mixed reef in late
1998. I battled the
algae for about 7 months trying blue-legged hermit, Sally Lightfoots,
frequent water
changes, and suctioning. While these methods kept the algae from progressing
past a certain
point, it did nothing to alleviate the problem.
My boyfriend heard about GARF from a bulletin board and suggested I
take a look.
This was a real reef-saver.
After removing the blue-legged hermits, I had your crew shipped to my
office and took an
early lunch when the livestock arrived. I followed all of your suggestions
and began to see a
difference within a month. The tank that had become a chore is now
my pride and joy.
I am working part time in my LFS and am the "go-to" person for our customers
with hair
algae problems. I always refer them to GARF and am completely honest
when I tell them that your janitors were the only thing that worked.
Once again, many thanks for the great service and for getting my tank
turned around.
Shannon Baxter
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