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Plate coral; and goodbye to a great supplier
Topic Started: Jul 6 2012, 08:25 AM (269 Views)
Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
One of the best marine aquarium supplies company in the midwest is closing the retail part of the operation for good and the last day of operation is tomorrow.

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From the website: http://midwestcoralfarms.com/

Midwest Coral Farms
1546 Old Deerfield Road
Highland Park, IL 60035

To Our Amazing Customers

If you would have asked us three years ago where we thought we would be today, our answer would not be "sitting here writing our customers a Thank You letter" because we were closing our doors for good. Then again, without our wonderful customers support, we would not have been able to become what we have in the last three years.

You have all stood by us through rumors on the blogs, to the changing of our labor, to the fence coming down. Because of your support and understanding, you helped us grow into one of the best retail stores around and allowed us to provide you with the two best things we can, amazing customer service and amazing product.

It is with heartfelt sadness, that today, we are writing to tell you goodbye. As of July 7th, Midwest Coral Farms is closing its retail doors for good. As some of you may or may not know, we have been operating a separate wholesale facility next to MCF and we have decided to keep our focus on that. We hope that we will continue to be able to serve you with our great product through a selection of your local fish stores.

We will have some amazing deals on fish, corals, inverts and dry goods. We will also be selling the fish out of the display tanks as well as the Wally, as long as we can catch them.

We know that this is a huge shock and we can't wait to see how this all turns out, especially on the blogs. We are grateful that our customers helped us get to where we are today. Without you we would have just been an ordinary LFS, instead we were extraordinary and in the next chapter of our business venture we are taking that same approach.

We will miss you all! Our paths will cross again one day, it will just be in the form of a special piece of coral at a LFS you have not visited for a while because you were loyal to MCF!

Hours of Operation:
Thursday, July 5th 9am to 5pm
Friday, July 6th 12pm to 6pm
Saturday, July 7th 11am to 4pm


The Midwest's Premier Coral Source
Thank You and Goodbye


We drove down to Highland Park yesterday morning and spent our "average fireworks budget" on new corals and said goodbye to our absolute favorite store for such things.

I picked up 8 items including this plate coral or fungia. reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungia

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As I find time I will take some more photos of the other corals.
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Mikhailoh
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I may have to have a salt water tank. Always wanted one.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Mark
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It does take weekly maintenance. You can get away with longer periods but you risk upsetting the balance of the environment. Daily or every other day water top-offs of water are a must to replace the water loss due to evaporation. Otherwise your salinity will go up as the water evaporates. Salt does not evaporate. So I use 1-2 Gallons of freshwater (RO/DI H2O) for top offs. My 75 gallon looses about 1 - 1.5 gallons per day.

I do weekly (roughly) 10%-15% water changes with RO/DI water mixed with the proper amount of Reef Salt. This involves siphoning out 10-15 gallons of water and replacing with the salt water that was mixed the day before.
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