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Thanks Buzz. Just an idea here - but if PM's were possible, I don't think people would use them to ignore others pleas for help, rather, I think they would enhance the community by enabling private conversations rather than public debate of a topic, and would help reduce the amount of OT...

Doing a little direct comparison work here, by taking information off of both www.moissanite.com and from www.va-graff.com: From www.van-graff.com: The Van Graff CZ: hardness: 8.77 Mohs (scale of 1-10) refraction: 2.24 dispersion: 0.060 From www.moissanite.com: Moissanite: hardness: 9.25 Mohs...

The moissanites I've seen are far more clear than even the highest quality diamond. The green and yellow stones I've seen are actually attempts to synthetically manufacture a diamond in a lab. Most synthesized attempts at re-creating a diamond are either yellow or brown in color. Yellow...

My mistake - PM's are disabled for some reason on this BBS. There are no "fake" diamonds that are as close to the properties of a diamond as moissanite is. The synthetic diamonds made in labs are all colored. Diamondique (the QVC brand) "diamonds" are not as hard as moissanite and do not have...

Why is it that PM's are not available on this board? I can use a buddy list, but that doesn't do me much good if I can't send PM's, IMHO? Just wondering what the deali-o is. Thanks.

To my knowledge, people who make my shoes aren't subjected to daily bodily cavity searches, prohibited from seeing their families for months at a time, only allowed to have conjugal visits from prostitutues (which has promoted the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS in diamond mining camps), among many...

fishkiller - It was created in a lab by Charles and Covard, but was originally discovered on meteorites, as stated on the website. The naturally occurring moissanite are far too small for use here.

I'm actually an Aerospace Engineering major, but materials science is a necessity for any engineering degree here. I appreciate tradition, although I believe the tradition was the circle - not the stone in the middle of it. I respect your opinion and your right to spend your money how you feel...

fishkiller - I respect your opinion, but I believe you have been somewhat misinformed by the clever marketing strategies employed by DeBeers (which controls 85% of the worlds diamonds). Diamonds are the hardest substance that occurs naturally. But, they incinerate at rather low temps compared...

I have a girlfriend who wants a ring - but she doesn't want a diamond because she did her final research project on diamonds and how they treat the people there is just horrendous. So she wants a mauzenite (spelling??) ring. It looks like a diamond, sparkles even more than a diamond, is almost...

Rook - I've never heard of air bubbles damaging a fish. Many fish live in fore-reef areas where air bubbles in the water column are very common. I have heard of air bubbles not being good for some inverts - sponges in particular. I agree with a slower acclimation time for starfish. Four hours...

Just a bit of advice - make sure you can ventilate the room properly, or you could run into some serious moisture problems with all the evaporation from a tank that large. I'd look into some sort of an air exchanger to continually keep the humidity low. Depending on the climate you live in, you...

Looks like a black Claarki to me. Definitely not a Saddleback or a black perc. Clark's Clownfish - Amphiprion clarkii The Clarkii Clownfish is also a highly popular aquarium species. They are sometimes sold under the name of "Sebae" clowns, which is actually the species name of a very different...

1/4" is more than 1mm. 1/4" is actually 6.35 mm. Not that that's a whole lot of distance, but it's 6.35 times deeper than 1! Good luck!

The only one I've read to stay away from was Coral Life. And I also have personal experience to stay away from Coral Life. Using Kent. (which the rep at the store told me is the same thing as IO, just with Kent's additives mixed in)

I had a couple hitchhiker mushrooms that lived through a new tank cycle. They have since split and are forming a nice little colony.

Well, I don't need a link for terrorism that just affects the US. Terrorism is a global problem, and as the leader of the free world, it is, IMO, our responsibility to do what we can to ensure terrorism doesn't happen anywhere. A policy of isolation is not what's best for the US, or anyone...

If I read your posts right Broncofish - we should all do nothing and hope no one else attacks us? That strategy just isn't acceptable to me. And I hope it isn't acceptable to not only America, but to the rest of the world assembly. My idea is this - prioritize and deal with them. Afghanistan...

Um, all that says is they want to INVESTIGATE Israel. And I have yet to find any evidence of ANY Palenstinian claim that they are doing anything other than rooting out terrorists. That arguement/debate has been going on for a long time, and nothing has come of it. Sad, but no one has accused...

Your tank - your choice, I guess. I'll bet your LFS loves when you walk in the door - they just know you are going to be back over and over to replace all the fish the undualte will kill. Why not just buy a Queen Trigger while you are at it? But I like the tank. And I like the fish. Which is...