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BTW, if you are going into Nikon, take a look at Capture NX ver 2. It is a very powerful image editor that is much simpler to master than any of the Adobe products. You can download a 30 day trial at the Nikon web site. It is great for recoloring, relighting or retouching images, but it won't...

Quote: Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 Thanks. I think I am going to go with the d5100. It's a newer model and I know that pretty much every single lens that I am looking at for it already comes with an auto focus motor. I can get a pretty good deal on it on the internet - and in fact, I...

Sorry for the late entry to this thread, but I just found it. I use a Nikon D80, and for tank photography an 80 mm macro Nikkor lens. Using a longer lens like the 80 mm (105 would be even better) allows me to do close up photos without getting too close to the subject, which is important for...

i know number 12 is rectangular trigger fish marked as piccaso I agree, but the next closest was a Picasso, which was one of the choices.

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As long as a supplement does not make a specific claim, they are free to be marketed without any scientific basis behind them. Typically, they will say that the product "supports prostate health", or whatever organ. Such a claim is so completely vague that it is impossible to disprove-so, off...

I ran a generac 5500 (6250 surge) during Sandy for 12 days. I powered a 220 gallon tank, all pumps and tank heaters and skimmer, my gas furnace and hot water heater and 1 light circuit on each floor as well as the refrigerator and microwave in the kitchen. I didn't use all that at once, but I...

You might want to talk some more to your neighbor. He is correct that crime rates declined in states that adopted concealed carry laws. However, rates also dropped comparably in states that have maintained strict gun control laws. In fact, nobody really understands why this drop in crime has...

If you have live rock in your 40, just move it into the new tank and it is instantly cycled for the bioload you currently have. You should add additional rock (live or base is fine), and should plan on only gradually increasing the bioload in the new tank for a while, but there should be no...

The big question is "which of your triggers will snap first and kill everything else?" I'm betting on the clown trigger, although the huma huma could go first. This is a dangerous situation, and I wouldn't be surprised if the triggers snapped before they got too big to house in a 90 gallon tank.

Hi sall, I'm new here, don't even have a fancy nickname yet :-) I always thought that the bio wheels were good as they were supposed to create the biological needs for your tank?? I was always taught that you never even washed them, you just shake them clean in actual water from that tank, to...

Congratulations, and welcome to the hobby! You will find lots of very well informed and helpful people here. One of them has posted a guide to salt water aquaria. Read that, and everything else you can find. As for your specific questions: 1. Lights - since you are planning on corals, the more...

All of this (previous 13 pages) is very nice, but meaningless because the opinions given represent the unattainable. Some want to eliminate gun ownership entirely - not gonna happen in our lifetimes. Others would like to have unfettered gun access in the belief that an armed citizenry is safer...

Ocean Nutrition now makes a line called RDF (or RFD, my dyslexia is kicking in) of both Formula 1 and 2. They produce larger pieces, so the cloud isn't so bad. It still isn't the size that a good sized angel or tang wants. I feed my tangs Hikari Mega-Algae because it does thaw into larger pieces.

I am a great believer in bleach. We use it in my cell culture lab to sanitize all surfaces, and pretty much nothing survives bleach. After treatment (let the tank soak for a day in the bleach solution), and after extensive rinsing soak the tank in water that contains excess chlorine...

Beth gave me this same advice at least 3 years ago, and the fish is doing fine today. Just seconding Beth's advice

I notice that none of the foods you are feeding contains sponge, which is a nutritional requirement for large angelfish. I feed pretty much the same mix of foods you are using, except that twice a week I give my emperor Ocean Nutrition Marine Angel mix, which contains some sponge. They don't...

Take a look online for copepod culture methods. It can be as simple as a 3 liter coke bottle and an airstone. You can raise large numbers of pods in such a system and harvest them for your mandarin. But - do not count on your specimen eating frozen foods. Even the Ora-derived fish are...

It is very important that you replace evaporated water with reverse osmosis deionized water (RODI). Tap water has a variety of toxins that, at drinking water concentrations, are not a problem. However, as the water evaporates from your tank it leaves these toxins behind. You then replace the...

I have never had any luck with the jar method for feeding mandarins. In my tank the jar turned out to be a way to get all of the hermits and most of my snails into one place,and the mandarin then has to fight through the crowd. I have an Ora mandarin, and it eats Nutramar prawn roe only. I...