Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Amazon to begin: Going back on topic.

Hi Tim,

Many thanks for adding more very knowledgable incite into this out-of-state
taxation issue, as a tax consultant. I hadn't taken the opportunity to
read your message until after I replied to Donna's and Larry's posts, but now
that I did, I note your message coincides with what I was trying to get
across. I'm not 100% sure that everything I wrote was completely accurate, but
it's the gist of what I know as a sometimes out-of-state buyer of merchandise
bought in other surrounding states. Almost looks as though you're saying
that this whole issue revolves around whether one buy's "on line" no matter
where one's residence is, rather than buying via a "phone order" with one's
residence being the deciding factor. Some outfits will try anything when a
new venue of placing orders enters into the picture. Perhaps going back to
the placing of phone orders might be the prudent thing to do. barring taking
these companies to court with all the red tape involved.

As for your using a common sump for your two tanks, there absolutely no
reason this can't very successfully be done. It's done all the time by
hobbyist having large fish rooms housing many tanks. It's very common for these
hobbyist to plumb up to 30, 40 or more tanks to one large sump, as a
recirculating filtration system employed by all these aquariums. One major drawback
in all this though, is that if one tank develops a disease in it, it's very
likely it could spread to another tank. While a U/V unit in line can
greatly reduce (perhaps even eliminate) most diseases -- with pristine water free
of pathogens, there's no further stimuli for the fishes' immune systems to
continue in a high state of activity, resulting in the immunities to disease
to become next to non-existant. Then, whenever introducing a fish carrying
(but immune to) a disease is placed with these fishes, even after a lengthy
quarantine period, the resident fishes will contract the carried disease as
a very decimating issue. I can recommend using your common sump --
especially as you've been maintaining your fishes without problems up until now, and
appear more than knowledgable enough to do so -- but would warn against
the use of a U/V unit.

Ray</HTML>