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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWWt...eature=related Penn and Teller are great.

White polyps or very colorful polyps is a good indication that it's non-photosynthetic. Very hard to maintain long term. Just keep a routine schedule and hopefully it will adapt to the schedule. It will probably need some seriously heavy feeding though.

They can still change colors for a little while after dying, and it does sound like it was probably dead when you made this post. If things weren't going right and it seemed stressed out in the first place, taking it out of the tank again surely caused that much more stress. The best thing you...

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What color are the polyps? Most likely non-photosynthetic as stated. Needs LOTS of phyto/zooplankton/marine snow/etc after lights out. Might put some on a drip overnight.

Cool. Keep taking pics over the next several months so we can see their growth.

Originally Posted by Jmick You can believe that if you wish but we all know that anything with LE will be $$$$. Well, when you put a lot of effort into creating corals that are hardy and fast growing and very colorful, and don't require harvesting another colony out of the ocean...

If you snap it instead of cut it, it will grow new points in different directions. Been doing quite a bit of fragging technique research lately.

Originally Posted by scrombus2 Yes, I'm aware of the "no competitive links" rule, but since this forum doesn't have a mantis-specific thread, I figured "no harm, no foul". You'd think so, but they usually delete my links to TONMO when I direct someone there for octopus or cuttelfish...

It's cycling all over again like they said. Find a temporary home for the remaining livestock until it stabilizes.

Just about. Maybe one more small fish. Just go with one of the smaller wrasses, like a six-line.

Dig her up.

Or you could just check out this link, it's by Dr. Roy Caldwell, the same dude that does Mantis ID's on --. It takes effort, I konw. Originally Posted by TexasMetal Dig through this. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthrop...html#directory PS: not supposed to point people in the direction of...

Could also be mysis shrimp.

Originally Posted by Aztec Reef Quote: Originally Posted by TexasMetal whether, tonmo.com, and octopus is a greek word so no reason to pluralize in Latin. < Actually, There are three plural forms of the word octopus. They include octopi, optopuses, and octopodes. All three have the word octo...

Agreed. Patience is the most important practice in this hobby. Congratulations! Welcome to your new addiction.

Originally Posted by 1journeyman Experimenting is fine provided you have a back up plan. Otherwise it is irresponsible aquarium keeping. We are dealing with living creatures. Too often people do something they know can't be done and use the excue that they are "experimenting"... Yup. However...

Experimentation is absolutely necessary. If it isn't broke, don't fix it... but by all means improve on it. Unfortunately though a lot of people take liberty in being ignorant and doing ignorant things regardless of the good information and solutions out there that were developed through...

And no, you don't need to add anything to the water after it's been processed. Just salt mix unless it's for topoff.

If you're not worried about the ethics involved in CARING for animals you definitely aren't fit to care for an octopus or a leech for that matter. Torturing fish in order serve your own selfish desire to speed up the cycling process by a few days is just crap.