So, what did everyone score on Boxing Day?

[fishytime]

I know there was a shopping list thread before boxing day.....just curious if everyone stuck to their lists or ended up with a little more than what was on their lists???:twised:


I ended up with three small yellow tangs for the tank when it gets set up in Edmonton (Lauries gonna babysit them for me til then) and I picked up a Lyretail hawkfish ( http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+34+203&pcatid=203 ) for Laurie......fairly tame:biggrin:


so show off what you-all got:wink::mrgreen:

[Coralgurl]

A mystery wrasse and 10 snails. Just decided I should have grabbed a uv sterilizer but just thought of it now....not a big shopping day for me!

[Lance]

Nice score on the Hawkfish Doug. Feed that guy well as he has a big mouth!
I didn't buy much today but I did order another Osmolator.

[ScubaSteve]

6" acro colony. Still trying to ID but it's either A. Granulosa or a. Elegens. Nice white with purple tips!

[Nano]

My Wife and I gt a few pails of Reef crystals and Ordered some wood on sale at home depot for our stand lol. and a bunch of maternity clothes!

[cale262]

2 more Ecotech Radions, a couple team Canada jerseys to wear to the WJC games...I actually had quite the extensive list but after spending almost an hour just trying to navigate through the traffic in south Edmonton common this morning, I came to the quick conclusion that sitting in front of my tank today was a better option than shopping.

[fishytime]

Nice score on the Hawkfish Doug. Feed that guy well as he has a big mouth!

its going in Lauries tank and so, believe me it will be WELL fed:razz:

[lpsreefer]

I had to work at ten so I couldn't do much shopping I did manage to get 9 boxs of reef salt and 3 io salt boxes, 2 new heaters, and new t5 bulbs. Would have liked to get more or even check out more stores.

[intarsiabox]

Salt, skimmer and substrate for my new tank. Sadly I had to miss out on a lot of really good deals on livestock as they wouldn't live very long in my waterless tank.

[Seamazter]

I got wet hands and salt stained sleeves.

[The Grizz]

Luckily a buddy grabbed me 2 boxes of Reef Crystals & 20 Mexican Turbo Snails for me in Edmonton. :biggrin:

[Lampshade]

picked up a bunch of replacement hardware(PH probe, refractometer, etc), salt, food, snails, shrimp... typical boxing day stuff. Then picked up a duncan coral for my wife, and a red planet frag for me... can't wait for this thing to grow, I can almost see it growing already if I look REALLY close. lol.

[MKLKT]

- Red/white coco worm
- 3" tuxedo urchin
- Bunch of hermits & peppermint shrimp
- 4" golden poci colony with its very own purple and orange poci/acro crab

6-12 mos worth of frozen food, seaweed

[Lance]

its going in Lauries tank and so, believe me it will be WELL fed:razz:


Hehe. I'm so glad you each have your own tank. A fish person and a coral person simply won't work in one tank:

Doug: "Damn it Laurie, you're poisoning my corals with all that fish food! It's a bloody nitrate factory!"

Laurie:[I] "If you had it your way Dougie Dear, I'd have only three skinny little fish in the tank!"

[fishytime]

I got wet hands and salt stained sleeves.

:lol:that makes two of us.....it was crazy busy most of the day

[fishytime]

Hehe. I'm so glad you each have your own tank. A fish person and a coral person simply won't work in one tank:

Doug: "Damn it Laurie, you're poisoning my corals with all that fish food! It's a bloody nitrate factory!"

Laurie:[I] "If you had it your way Dougie Dear, I'd have only three skinny little fish in the tank!"

:lol:you nailed it man!......I told her I would HAVE to set up my own tank when I get there.....no ifs, ands, or buts about it:mrgreen:.....mind you my tank now has quite a few skinny fish in it

[dsaundry]

Pretty nice day today, A leopard wrasse, a watchman goby, a niger trigger afew additives and a nice day with my son, lunch at the Mongolie Grill, the fish are great but spending some dad/son time was really the best, He has his own life so when we get together without the spouses it is always a blast.:biggrin:

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Worked at an LFS in Burnaby all day to help out my friend Robert and the boss, Ron. Ended up bagging most of the fish and corals I wanted for other people, but that just made it by far my least expensive Boxing Day in over a decade.

Picked up some nice corals beforehand (some from the LFS & some from local reefers), including a neon green Aussie favia, Aussie red brain, Med. Squamosa, Aussie gold wall anchor, huge green open brain and some nice frogspawn. So Boxing Day was cheap but the week before was not:redface:

[MMAX]

GHL dosing pump. The best part was I didn't have to leave the house but now I have to find time to get to Red Coral to pick it up.

[christyf5]

New mh bulbs and some filter socks have maxed out the last room on my cc. Hooefully there will be some salt sales locally in the new year as there wasnt any room for that.

[ALang]

Got a MP40W es for Xmas!!!!!:biggrin::biggrin:
The I lucked out at Red Coral Edm for the door-crasher of another MP40W es!!!!!:mrgreen: (thanks, Steve, I NEVER was fast enough for these great deals in the past!)
A mystery wrasse and SPS frags, and new anemone I am trying to grow out for my clowns (to replace the gigantic condy that they have right now).
Lots of salt from Blue World (plus assorted pre-christmas sale to beat the crowd).
Another batch of salt for an out-of-town friend...man, he'd better have gotten us some awesome corals in Calgary!

WOW. A great Christmas.

[MarkoD]

Boxes of salt, vertex in250 skimmer, frags, and LEDs for refugium.

[BMW Rider]

Didn't have time to get into the store, but managed to catch the online deal for a Vertex illumina 260 36" LED light unit from Red Coral Online. :biggrin:

Watch for my MH/VHO light setup in the ads soon

[mark]

6 pails of IO so good for a bit

[MarkoD]

6 pails of IO so good for a bit

pails or boxes?

how much were the pails?

[fishoholic]

Hehe. I'm so glad you each have your own tank. A fish person and a coral person simply won't work in one tank:

Doug: "Damn it Laurie, you're poisoning my corals with all that fish food! It's a bloody nitrate factory!"

Laurie:[I] "If you had it your way Dougie Dear, I'd have only three skinny little fish in the tank!"

:pound: So true!

:lol:you nailed it man!......I told her I would HAVE to set up my own tank when I get there.....no ifs, ands, or buts about it:mrgreen:.....mind you my tank now has quite a few skinny fish in it

You didn't have to tell me, I know I can't keep coral alive (because of overfeeding and highish nitrates and nippy angels) so there's no way I want to be responsible for your corals. Much easier for you to have your own tank :biggrin:

I got 12 boxes of IO salt, easyblade replacement blades, Rio nano skimmer filters, and some fish.

Got up really early to be the first to get a bluespot jawfish (which I did make it there before anyone else) but unfortunately none of them looked very good so I passed and I got a yasha goby pistol shrimp pair instead.

They also had a gorgeous line spot flasher wrasse that took major will power to pass up. I passed because my mystery wrasse would most likely chase it out of the tank :sad:
http://www.qualitymarine.com/Graphics/ItemsLarge/1337477.jpg

Also got a super fat Caribbean pipefish and a freckled hawkfish. I'll post pic's
of the yasha and the pipefish in the 34g tank journal right away and when I get a pic of Mr. freckles (he's in the fowlr) I'll post a pic of him.

[mark]

pails or boxes?

how much were the pails?

with discount $39 for the pails

[MarkoD]

with discount $39 for the pails

Where was that?

[BlueWorldAquatic]

If you need salt we have lots in stock still

I scored spending time with family that was all in town together from all over the world for my uncles 80th B-day on Boxing Day!

I beat you all on deals. :biggrin:

[lastlight]

I got 10x reward points at BRS lol... maybe not as sexy as some of the other deals and scores here :lol:

[Coleus]

went to couple stores but came home empty handed :-( but wife is happy

[Parker]

Not a damn thing :( but that's my own doing. I'd rather pay a bit extra than have to deal with the crowds..

[Delphinus]

Not a damn thing :( but that's my own doing. I'd rather pay a bit extra than have to deal with the crowds..

Ditto. Did hit up Red Coral in the afternoon after the rush was all done and picked up an urchin but I was wanting to do that anyhow this week so I'm not sure that counts.

Made the mistake of going to McDonalds for lunch (the kids were wanting it and WTH it's the holidays) and the one we went to shared the parking lot with FutureShop and a bunch of other stores... Holy mackerel what a gong show that was just getting in and out.

Went online and checked out a few prices on a few items I could think of at a few places and found that for the few things I was mildly interested in were less than 10% off. For example I looked up an iPad at one place and the discount was something like $15 off. .... I'm not sure that's even worth getting out of bed for. :lol:

[Reef Pilot]

Most years, Best Buy, Future Shop or Visions get a bunch of my money on Boxing Day. Not this year, it all went to J&L and a couple of the other LFS's. And I think TVs and computers were a lot cheaper, too....<sigh>

[gregzz4]

Not a damn thing :( but that's my own doing. I'd rather pay a bit extra than have to deal with the crowds..
I ordered my stuff from J&L Online and will pick it up later this week

Select sand, Bunch of IO salt, Base rock, Test kits, Osmolator, RKL L1, Gloves, Milwaukee pH pen, Books, Plumbing stuff and other niggly things

Tank is getting closer :smile:

[Doug]

I drove 9 hrs. in a snowstorm, pushing snow with my Focas and then sheet ice to top it off the last part.

[christyf5]

I drove 9 hrs. in a snowstorm, pushing snow with my Focas and then sheet ice to top it off the last part.

uphill all the way? :wink:

[Delphinus]

:lol:

[Snappy]

I just picked up a couple of fish. It has been a busy week for me as well.

[The Grizz]

I drove 9 hrs. in a snowstorm, pushing snow with my Focas and then sheet ice to top it off the last part.

uphill all the way? :wink:

In both directions :twised:

[lee9]

Box of Reef Crystals, chili coral, pagoda cup, purple monti, T5 bulbs and a $500 gift certificate which will be used for a Deltec MC500 skimmer.

[saltwatermaniac]

I picked up a cute little multicolor angel.

[Jackie]

Emerald Crab, XL $7

[Doug]

uphill all the way? :wink:

There are no hills here. :smile:

[fishoholic]

Most years, Best Buy, Future Shop or Visions get a bunch of my money on Boxing Day. Not this year, it all went to J&L and a couple of the other LFS's. And I think TVs and computers were a lot cheaper, too....<sigh>

So true! I could of bought a sony 46" LCD flat screen tv for $100 less then what I paid for all my salt :neutral:

[reefgirl189]

Some new MH bulbs
10 snails and a peppermint shrimp to start my clean up crew.
Also got a couple soft corals, a radiocative zoa frag and a "delightful paly" just for something to look at and hopefuly fill out some of the empty space in the tank.

What I wanted was some new powerheads but sadly Santa didn't bring any.

[blacknife]

Nothing. I was on call and nothing online grabbed my interest, perhaps i will get lucky this week

[parkinsn]

I hit up Dave at Concept, thanks again;

1- Radion w/ haning kit
1- Vertex 100Gpd RO/DI
1- Bubble Magus NAC7

JL order for;

Miscellaneous power heads, heaters, food ect.

Pretty good haul this year.

A little sump design and I should be back up and running soon :biggrin: Stay tuned for the build thread to come.

[MKLKT]

So true! I could of bought a sony 46" LCD flat screen tv for $100 less then what I paid for all my salt :neutral:

Other than TVs this year was really weak for boxing day sales. I got way more and better electronics in the month leading up to Christmas and there were no lineups. A few places in Canada had Black Friday deals which was awesome because the prices were good but there was no rush to deal with. I spent $300 @ J&L and $25 for a new mouthguard for hockey, that was the extent of boxing day, haha.

Personally it feels like true "boxing day" disappeared along with A&B Sound.

[ponokareefer]

I managed to pick up an 8" squamosa today on a Boxing Week sale. It is covered in purple mushrooms and green paly's. I was't planning on getting another clam, but just couldn't resist.

[Delphinus]

I think that's going to need a picture... get to it! :p (Sounds awesome BTW :) )

[fishytime]

I agree squared..... Hard to resist the lure of the clam(BAs Etown had a bunch that I passed on)....and that does call for a pic

[gregzz4]

Personally it feels like true "boxing day" disappeared along with A&B Sound.

Hear hear !!!

Only $300 huh ?
I wish. I dropped over $800 just @ J&L, and I still have to buy a tank :wink:

[patd]

Well - I spent a few bucks this year....

Got 6 new Giesemann T5's, some additives and supplements and yup, some livestock too.
I'll switch to pictorial view for the livestock:

New arrivals include the Sarcophyton, Favites and the declivis:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/384593_10151084663020314_679950313_22180765_931330 711_n.jpg

Well....Ok, the sun coral and little red star I acutally got a couple of weeks earlier but I thought I'd share anyhow
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/378937_10151047823170314_679950313_22006350_186058 8556_n.jpg

and another one of the declivis, just cause I love him so much :biggrin:
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/378846_10151084663380314_679950313_22180768_645886 212_n.jpg

Sorry the pics are not the greatest...learning how to take aquarium photos is just one more challenge I'm working on

Cheers
PatD

[Delphinus]

*gasp* !! :eek: :cool: Tres cool!!!!

Where did you score that little piece of awesomeness?

I love declivis (I'm a total butterfly nut really, but these are in my "top 5" if not "top 3").

[patd]

*gasp* !! :eek: :cool: Tres cool!!!!

Where did you score that little piece of awesomeness?

I love declivis (I'm a total butterfly nut really, but these are in my "top 5" if not "top 3").

Thanks
J&L - 30% off on boxing day
Actually they had quite a few butterfly fish in stock....collare, rafflesii, falcula, auriga, CBB, longnose....
They had 3 declivis...but one had a small wound and was not looking so good.
Mine is feeding great on mysis and pellets and so far not harassing any of my corals. I'm keeping my fingers crossed he maintains his manners.

Cheers,
PatD

[RyanJ]

Loved JL's deals!!! Got 2 energy bar 8's, probe module 1, ph probe and a few other little thing and 50 Mexican turbos from kevin! This city was on fire!!! And visions had some kick ass deals on speakers too!

[bignose]

Nothing! :lol:

[Delphinus]

Aw man, that's one thing about J&L, they take the N&N page offline for the holidays so us out-of-towners have no idea what's in store. 3 declivis! Geeez, I'd have been badly tempted too had I known.

Be careful though, with butterflies they can be model citizens for a very long time and then suddenly decide to start picking at stuff. I was watching my pyramid's (supposedly reef-safe butterflies, har har) pick at my gigantea carpets earlier this week. The female clown was defending her anemone though, and the interest seems to have waned since.

[blacknife]

Any edm stores have good sales on still? Finnaly got let out of jail...

I mean not on call heh

[fishytime]

Any edm stores have good sales on still? Finnaly got let out of jail...

I mean not on call heh

both Big Als and Red Coral are having boxing week sales ATM......not sure of the others tho

[ponokareefer]

I think that's going to need a picture... get to it! :p (Sounds awesome BTW :) )

I'll take one after the weekend as the mushrooms are still trying to get used to the LED's.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/SeaHorse_Fanatic/DSC_0109.jpg

Felicia's new seahorses from J&L (Boxing Day special - picked up yesterday after setting up her RSM).

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/SeaHorse_Fanatic/DSC_0104.jpg

Lousy pic but here's the Blue Flasher wrasse and Ornate Leopard Wrasse I picked up for the seahorse tank as a compatible tank-mate. All four tank mates are already eating mysis.

[SeanPrest]

juv Emperor angle, elegance coral, nice zoo rock, green bubble tip(traded for frags), frogspawn, bubble coral (in my sons tank), 3 anthias(daughters tank) and for me a lawnmower blenny as my lunar wrasse eats any shelled critters i put in for alge cleanup. all in three

[ponokareefer]

Lousy pic but here's the Blue Flasher wrasse and Ornate Leopard Wrasse I picked up for the seahorse tank as a compatible tank-mate. All four tank mates are already eating mysis.

Wrasse's in with seahorse's? Never heard of that being good. Don't they eat the food before the seahorse's can get to it?

[DanG]

2 boxes of salt that was on sale at my LFS, 24GB of ram for my computer and some extra bits to help me get my tank running properly after my move.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Wrasse's in with seahorse's? Never heard of that being good. Don't they eat the food before the seahorse's can get to it?

The flasher wrasse is a delicate eater. The seahorses are actually very aggressive eaters, which is surprising but they chase down the mysis and not just hang out waiting for the food to drift over to them. I wouldn't put a fairy wrasse in there, though, because they are very aggressive eaters compared to leopards and flashers.

I've kept seahorses (almost all were wild caughts that I trained to eat mysis before the CITES ban) since 1984.

I also have 2 other sw tanks to put any fish that don't work out with the seahorse, but so far, the ponies are fattening up very nicely. Very impressed with their feeding response considering in the shop (J&L), they were less aggressive feeders.

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/tankmates/tankmates.shtml

Here's an article about what are good tankmates, can work, and shouldn't go into a seahorse tank. I've have Flashers and Leopard wrasses in my other tanks and they are very good citizens.

Anthony

[ponokareefer]

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http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w116/ponokareefer/P1000834.jpg

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[globaldesigns]

Hmmm... On Boxing Day I scored:

1.) a pound of great bacon and 6 or so churros
2.) too many alcholic drinks to even be able to count
3.) Sun Sun Sun

HEHE, I felt left out, as I was away on holidays, some great scores were found I see.