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  1. eelski

    Putting Faces to the Names

    ...took forever to scroll thru all that.. Thanks to everyone here for the help getting started. And all the peeps in the service, we all appreciate u's!
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    Damsel Tank..LOL

    i try to keep damsels for my fimbriated eel to eat. sometimes they go down quickly, sometimes weeks. i put 2 in over a week ago. the dumbest slowest one ever is still surviving.
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    about my eel

    this one happens to be the slowest and dumbest damsel yet. huge eyes tho. maybe those eyes are keeping him alive.......
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    about my eel

    My fimbriated eel, Lee, gets fed live food alot. plenty of damsels and chromis. frozen silversides also. right now there is a yellow damsel of some kind that has been in there over a week. the neon damsel just got ate after a week. a couple days ago he went a little nuts. i happened to...
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    chances that eel ate trigger

    my yellowhead ate my coral beauty. i put two damsels in for her to eat. woke up the next morning, was minus one damsel and my ( large I would say ) coral beauty. eel is was prolly 12 inches at the time. that little meal put an inch or 2 on her overnight.
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    skimmer and LFS ?

    i am about to purchase a skimmer. problem is ... LFS wants $140 for the one i want, drs foster and smith catalog has the same one for $86. i am all about keeping my money local, but that is almost half price. is the Xtra $$ worth the the knowledge i will gain from LFS. they really havent...
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    @ ?? parasite??

    yes they are white and hard. can they grow real large? like 1/4 inch?
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    @ ?? parasite??

    i have a bunch of little dudes on the glass and on some of my LR. they look like little "@"'s. they need to be scraped off and they are kinda tuff to get off. the tank has been running about 4 months now. i got about 35 lbs of rock, about 20 of it was LR from LFS. what are these and will...
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    that eel is a a pain in my BEEP

    my eel dont really mess with anyone. although she did eat a coral beauty i thought was too big. i got a large foxface and a juvie picasso trigger also. and a cleaner shrimp that loves the eel.
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    my 55

    i got a fimbriated moray - 13 to 14 inches. figure she will get 2 feet minimum. juvie picasso trigger. medium to large foxface ( which will be leaving the tank soon (he was refugee from a friend)). cleaner shrimp that has molted 6 times at least in 2 months. 2 turbo snails. 2 blue leg...
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    My new 125G FOWLR project

    glad i read this. i got a yellowhead eel, juvie picasso trigger, and a medium to large foxface. i wanted to get rid of the foxface. now i will. i will try and trade it for crabs and snails. how do crabs, snails, and starfish and such figure into the "inch of fish per gallon" equation? and...
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    how do u measure an eel?

    i was lucky enuf to have her line up for me on the end of the tank. head in one corner tail curled slightly around the other. so pretty darn close to 13 inches. i'd say she was 9 inches when i brought her home. i took some video that is ok with my cell phone. i will try and put it on my...
  13. eelski

    Phsycotic Foxface

    mine does it also, colors get all crazy - all black sometimes. u ever saw a film like stuff come off him?? its happened a couple times. it dont stay in tank long. i was wondering if that was poison shedding or something?
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    how do u measure an eel?

    i would like to know how big my eel is. other than a tape against the glass, is there a better way?
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    yellowhead eel

    i bought 5 lbs of sand. made room for it. put it in place. made a new and improved 2BR with a waterbed installed. a new yellowtail damsel for her to eat. last one took about 10 days, and followed it right up with my coral beauty. baby picasso doin dandy. Lee chases it once in a while...
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    yellowhead eel

    what if i did some rearranging? like moving as much CC to one end as i can, then doing the sand on the other, and putting the 2 BR back together on top of the sand? also, Lee will not eat small pieces of squid. should i try larger pieces?
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    yellowhead eel

    I was looking for some help on what to feed her. any suggestions?? that is crushed coral with some colored pebbles mixed in. she flings em all over when excavating under something. i have rearranged the tank often, adding new rock whenever i can. i thought about mixing in like 10 lbs of...
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    yellowhead eel

    ;-)
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    yellowhead eel

    this took some work. i will try again sober....
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