Achilles Tang
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please try to be more descriptive with your topic. It's very annoying not just for me but everyone else. You want help quick... this is something to consider. thanks!
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I tink da mod is 2 busy to entertain..Hahaha.. Well i tink its childish to even start this thread...
Ya, the mod is too busy to entertain.
But i am keeping eye on the atmosphere here... sh*t-stirrers will have their accounts suspended.
I do not intervene in personal differences or disputes.... it is really not my responsibility. There is always the smalls claims court or the high court.
Why can't everyone be open and honest to one another during deals? sigh....
"People are people so why should it be.. you and I should get along so awfully.. "
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A new, environmentally friendly coating that protects metals against corrosion in seawater has been developed by a team of researchers from England. They recently described how they had encapsulated spores from a bacterium into a sol-gel coating which then protected an aluminium alloy from microbial corrosion.
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Omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils can improve meat quality and reducing methane emissions in cows. Methane given off by farm animals is a major contribution to greenhouse gas levels. Researchers report that by including 2 percent fish oil in the diet of cattle they achieved a reduction in the amount of methane released by the animals.
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New research has shown that crabs not only suffer pain but that they retain a memory of it. The study looked at the reactions of hermit crabs to small electric shocks.
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Ants and bees have long been recognized as tireless workers, but now new research suggests they behave like model citizens too. Unlike herds of bison or shoals of fish -- where individuals may appear to be team players but actually behave according to their own interests -- some animals, including ants and bees, really do have the best interests of the group at heart.
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The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a new study.
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For the first time, engineers have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals -- in this case, fish.
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Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago (the same one that led to the extinction of thousands of species of flora and fauna, including dinosaurs). Today, those same features characterize large predatory bony fishes, such as tuna and billfishes, that are currently in decline and at risk of extinction themselves. The hardest hit species are consistently big predators.
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Seemingly dead cells perform a surprising task in the lens of a fish eye. Every morning and evening they change the lens?s capacity to refract light in order to enhance color perception during the day and night vision when it?s dark.
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Children of baby boomers aren't the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study documents how larval dispersal connects marine fish populations in a network of marine protected areas -- information that is critical for fisheries managers.
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Biologists have discovered that the shell lengths of snails in the northwest Atlantic Ocean -- an important member of the Atlantic food chain -- have increased by 22.6 percent over the past century.
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The origin of the neurotoxin azaspiracid has finally been identified after a search for more than a decade. The azaspiracid toxin group can cause severe poisoning in human consumers of mussels after being enriched in the shellfish tissues. Scientists now report that a tiny algal species, the dinoflagellate Azadinium spinosum, is responsible.
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The fish species Astyanax fasciatus cannot see, but their unique technique for sensing their environment and the movement of water around them with gel-covered hairs that extend from their bodies may inspire a new generation of sensors that perform better than current active sonar.
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Among zebrafish, the eyes have it. Inside them is a mosaic of light-sensitive cells whose structure and functions are nearly identical to those of humans. There, biologists discovered a gene mutation that determines if the cells develop as rods (the photoreceptors responsible for dim-light vision) or as cones (the photoreceptors needed for color vision).
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Deep-sea corals from about 400 meters off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands are much older than once believed and some may be the oldest living marine organisms known to man. Researchers have determined that two groups of Hawaiian deep-sea corals are far older than previously recorded.
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The genetic toolkit animals use to build fins and limbs is the same one that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks. Also, the skeleton of any animal appendage is probably patterned by the developmental genetic program that regulates the formation of shark gills. This finding is consistent with an old theory, often discounted in textbooks, that fins and (later) limbs evolved from the gills of an extinct vertebrate.
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Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is largely responsible for recent global warming and the rise in sea levels. However scientists have found that this same increase in carbon dioxide may ironically counterbalance some of its negative effects on one of the planet's most valuable ecosystems -- wetlands.
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A new report based on 40 years of data shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message about the state of the environment. The report also shows that investment in conservation works, exemplified by the remarkable recoveries of waterfowl after more than 30 million acres of wetlands were restored and managed.
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These fishes are found everywhere on our shores.... east coast parkway, changi, labrador... easily caught by hand. I used to catch them while swimming on the beaches.
The juvenile catfish is quite cool when young... they school and feed in a ball.... but they will get much bigger and then you have to return them back to the sea.
The halfbeak will also grow quick long. Not sure about its diet but I think they will go after large zooplankton and baby fry.
The monos are similar... they are fragile at this stage... they may not last too long but if they do.. they can stay with you to adulthood.
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Hurdia victoria was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal. Now, researchers reveal it to be just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal that has an important story to tell about the origin of the largest group of living animals, the arthropods.
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When coral colonies meet one another on the reef, they have two options: merge into a single colony or reject each other and aggressively compete for space. Marine scientists have now found a gene that may help to decide that fate.
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By combining data from 48 studies of coral reefs from around the Caribbean, researchers have found that fish densities that have been stable for decades have given way to significant declines since 1995.
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Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle. That's just what one would expect from a new analysis of body sizes across all orders of animal life recently conducted by researchers.
Reality check
in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby
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Want an opinion?
It's an expensive hobby. No denying it.
Dun go down the slippery slope unless you have deep pockets.
Either you end up killing your livestock or yourself for 'wasting' money.
These are extraordinary times and priorities have to be made. Save up your money for better things and use that to improve your studies/work/business opportunities. When you are richer and the world isn't dead yet... i am sure you can enter the hobby with passion and stability.