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  1. xdave

    Urchin or not to Urchin????

    I had a black longspine in a fowlr, with one anemone. I never had any algae in my tank. I loved him with all my heart
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    The good LFS thread.

    Exotic Aquatics are pretty good stores. they train their people pretty well. They are a bit pricey, but as we say about the cheap places, you get what you pay for.
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    Coral Banded Shrimp w/other Shrimp & Crabs?

    I see a distinct difference between those 2 post. One says 'mine was a bully" and the other "mine aren't bullies". :thinking:
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    need help... moving soon!!!

    Dont try to move the tank with any water in it. They twist very easily, it doesn't take much to loosen a seal.
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    need help... moving soon!!!

    If you treat everything that filters your water as if it were alive then you probably wont have to recycle. What are you using as filtration? If its just LR with ph's for circulation, just keep the LR and substrate wet and at temp. If you have anything else as far as biological filtration...
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    aiptsia! good or bad

    Sure, but they'll eat them again.
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    Coral Prop Vid by Eric Borneman

    You could use winrar and split it in half. Split into 157286400 bytes If someone would host this long enough for me to download it, I could split the video itself and upload the parts. 310 MB may be a little big for some peoples connection anyway.
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    Coral Prop Vid by Eric Borneman

    Sombody should zip that wmv and upload it to Rapidshare Free file hosting then post the download link It has to be under 300 MB
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    PEACOCK MANTIS hitchiker in my REEF!!!

    They sound like this: Our father, who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come... oh wait , sorry, thats a praying mantis
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    Lonely Clown Fish

    In the wild they live in a community revolving around a host anemone. There is a dominate female, her mate, and other fish that get picked on and dont mature. If the large male dies the female picks a new mate from the immature group, if the dominate female dies, the male turns into a female and...
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    seahorse question?

    Now that you mention it, dont they have the ability to change color like a chameleon?
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    Humu Trigger in a reef?

    All triggers are Huma Huma? The fish commonly and mitakenly refered to as huma Huma by lfs is Rhinecanthus aculeatus, actual common name Humuhumunukunuku apua, translates as 'fish with the needle and nose of a pig". The fish that actually has the official common name of simply Humahuma is...
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    PEACOCK MANTIS hitchiker in my REEF!!!

    Originally Posted by yupi1982 hey XDAVE & STANLEE have a question for you two guys !! I want to buy A PFO PULSE START 400 W MH Ballast but I dont know if they will run an XM 10k :help: i know they drive Radium bulbs but dont know if is gonna toste my XM bulb ???? any thoughts guys :thinking...
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    1 gallon salt tank??

    Mine had a ugf, i put loose biochem beads under it. there was a little lr in it too. I had to put plastic wrap over the top because the salinity would change really fast from evap.
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    seahorse question?

    How about newly hatched brine, within 24 hours of hatch? did you know that Marie Antoinette kept seahorses? She had a unique and effective water quality control system, servants to bring her fresh ocean water everyday. Don't ask me why I know that, i couldn't tell ya.
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    PEACOCK MANTIS hitchiker in my REEF!!!

    I saw a video (discover channel i think) a huge clown trigger was trying to grab a mantis. It missed on the first pass and the mantis landed facing away from the trigger. When the trigger aproached to look at him, The mantis swam through the triggers head. Ya really have to get them on the first...
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    Shipping fish

    The Tang and Lion need to be triple bagged very tightly. Beautiful Tang btw.
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    royal gramma okay?

    Why didnt you just put him in something smaller?
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    Show fish for tank

    Hmmm... i thought same genus tangs should be added toghether, and different genus ones should be added seperately as you would with any other 2 different genus'.
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    my cleaner shrimp molted

    Please post some video. Not for me, one of my cleaner shrimps is having a bachelor party this weekend . ***) ***) ***) ***) ***)
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