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  1. xdave

    What do Clown fish eggs look like?

    Try using search, or maybe just look, theres a thread titled "clown fish egg pics" right on the page you just posted on.
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    When do our fishes reach full size?

    I use 1" per 5 gallons of tank water, no one fish to exceed 50% of the smallest horizontal measurement. I don't count the sump water, it does matter filtration wise but not space wise for the fish.
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    What type of fish am I?

    Yep, Black juvi.
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    Perfecto tanks???

    Perfecto is better than Allglass. I handled the returns for a distributor and 10x as many Allglass tanks came back due to leaks and pressure fractures. I never saw a Perfecto center brace break due to stress, they were always either broken by the customer leaning on it or having something...
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    Fish Survival Statisitcs

    Yes, spraying an extremely deadly poison over a delicate reef damages it. :thinking:
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    When do our fishes reach full size?

    The larger a fishes max size, the longer it takes to reach it. This is a rough guide and will vary by species but; if a fishes max size is 1/3 to 1/2 the smallest horizontal tank dimension (in your 90 that would be about 6"-9") they will probably hit 90% of how big they will get in there within...
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    gasping fish

    Do you mean he looks like he's yawning? If so, your salinity may be higher than he's used to.
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    Fish Survival Statisitcs

    Remember, tank raised and bred are 2 different things. Tank raised could be almost any fish. The wild lavae are collected and then raised in captivity. Besides clownfish, pigmy angels, cardinals, and a lot of gobies can be tank bred. Quite a few invert are tank bred as well. There is also...
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    Fish Survival Statisitcs

    The species does make a difference, so I'll start at the beginning and look at fish as a whole. This does not apply to Hawaii or Australia. They squirt a barrel of cyanide over a reef, fish float up and they grab the ones that are still breathing. Thats about 10%-40%. They take them to a...
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    Next covention???

    Heres the site MACNA 07
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    Fish yawn??

    That's expelling salt from the gills. It's normal unless they start doing it a lot, then you need to check your salininty.
  12. xdave

    Fraggers?? In NE Ohio??

    Cleveland club has them all the timeC-SEA The 11th anual All Ohio Frag Swap is in Columbus this weekend.Swap You guys need to join a club
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    clown eating anenome?

    He's doing it because he knows it can eat him. PT's and clowns are not a good mix. One of them should go.
  14. xdave

    New Tank But Need Filter Advice

    One thing about having a refugium, no matter how you use it, it's extra water. The more water in a system the easier it is to keep stable. As ophiura said, there are a lot of ways to use one, so as you decide to go a different way you don't have to change everything.
  15. xdave

    how to treat tank for broken thermometer

    Definately try to get all the little balls out, they're usually lead.
  16. xdave

    My LFS has SEVEN different types of Live Rock...

    That actually started in Florida shortly after the banned collecting it. The best LR I ever saw was from the Gulf of Mexico. This is 30lb of the $3/lb stuff after 1 month in the aquarium. (not the Christmas treerock, also cultured)
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    Morish Idol vs. Heniochus Butterfly

    You're not just killing 1 Idol, you're responsible for the hundreds of Idols that die when the lfs replaces him. The percentage of them that surive capture and shipping is less than 5% of Henis.
  18. xdave

    Flame or coral beauty???

    Lemon peels are much less hardy than flames and CB's.
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    My LFS has SEVEN different types of Live Rock...

    Unlike the rest of the list, the cultured Fiji is not strip mined natural resources. If better means one isn't responsible for destroying our planets reefs, than yep, the cultured Fiji is definately better.
  20. xdave

    painting tank

    Fish adjust their color to the surroundings, the lighter the tank, the paler the fish.
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