KingFish

Not too sure about CBS killing crabs but it may just make mincemeat out of your Blood Shrimp. With the shrimps about, you'll have them eating the bait in your trap before the crabs can get to it. Nothing beats a small pointy object and a good torch light in hand scouring the rocks for peskies.

You need the balls to handle that gun in the heat of battle ... RPG!!!!! Rapid (??????) Genitalia ...

Hardly , its more a case of it overtaking your rocks and in some cases binding them together. It'll smother Coralline when it covers them and that is about it. I have bits of green and purple which I allow them to grow with pruning. Adds a little more colour to an otherwise majority red and purple rocks. Its up to you ...

Here is the link to My Hamster Forum. If you need any help let me know, my wife is a regular hamster nut there she'll point you to the better breeders. But try to resist the dark side of the Long Hair Syrian hamster keeping, the equivalent of SPS here

There's always opportunity for another visit Tanzy, u mean double WoW ...

Caulerpa Webbiana is as close as we can get to ID this macroalgae. It grows TOO fast, and without pruning can overtake your refugium. You got any more shots of your Golden Butterfly? I know someone who has a fetish for it but is too lazy to set up his tank and his expensive equipment lying about. Maybe your pic can give him a nice prod in the ######...

In Pic 5, it should be a colonial sponge which spreads very quickly given the right conditions, namely an abundance of phytoplankton. It is not that bad except when it grows in plague proportions.

These are homegrown anyway. Do observe sanitisation procedures, or you might be introducing parasites and what-nots into your tank. AT is acting like a giddy schoolgirl coz of a particular event during Sat's outing. Stay tune for Tanzy's codeword of the day ...

Thanks for the response AT needs to tempt 60, and Barracuda has a new tank to stock

Enough for two shares. They have been 'sanitised' in a 15mins freshwater soak to rid of any undesirables. If you feel obligated, you can always pledge not to consume any Shark Fins this Chinese New Year

Nice to meet you guys too Those jugs give 'Happy Hour' a whole new meaning ...

Somehow a moth found a letter to be the perfect place to lay her eggs and whaddyaknow ... manage to catch them as they hatch

Are the sneakers standard issue?

Run a search on Yellowpages to get the result ... they even provide you with a map. Otherwise ...

Just got back from ML: Beauuuutiful looking Orchid Dottyback (Pseudochromis Fridmani) Bicolour Fangblenny (Plagiotremus laudandus) ~ all feeding well on Henry's gourmet Ricordeas (still on sale)

Holy Cow-Wow ... 60ppm Guess I'll have to forgo my dream of owning a Fox coral as well. It doubling its size in a month will rob me of my other dream coral, a Leather. Man, on second thoughts, I think I better convert my LPS tank to a FO, maybe no Live Rock, else the Coralline will worl into a scroll and pop out of water.

Nah, I'm not too concerned about the skunks, more to update the forum members that there are none left at T95.

Hi Roidan, DeepBlue & myself were there about an hour ago and there were no Cleaner Shrimps (Lysmata Amboinensis). There are however, a lot of Camel Shrimps (Rhynchocinetes Durbanensis)and Coral Banded Shrimps (Stenopus Hispidus.

I find the movie thoroughly draggy with the whole Hobbit gay-ish thingy ... get over it already ... The scene with the Rohan calvary fighting the war elephants looks suspiciously like when the rebel fighters were fighting the AT-ATs from Star Wars. The line used by Aragon in his conversation with Gandalf, 'What does your heart tells you?' also sounds strangely familiar ... anyone care to guess?

You can change your water once your NO2 is zero and NO3 is on the rise. Recommended Procedure: 1) Open Gate Valve completely 2) Open Air Valve completely 3) Close Gate valve in half turns, giving it a minute or so for the foam to stabilise, until the internal water level is slightly above the internal platform. 4) Close the air valve in minute adjustments to achieve desirable bubble size Do not add any water conditioner to prevent skimmer overactivity, and keep salinity above 1.020. Get this adjustments done, then post pics of the results. Remove the coral chips and you will increase the total water volume. That should give the tank better fault tolerance.

Yo man, I can bring my fishes over. Tee off at 0800hrs, any other fish wanna join the flight? Anyways, phosphate are still going to be introduced through feeding nonetheless. I think someone mentioned the levels from our water is quite minute, unless your pipes are really bad. Tried increasing the photoperiod of your fuge and put it into overdrive? Swipe some distilled water from the lab and use it as topup for a while? Massive water change for a massive tank by a massive man?

I thought so , no big matter, see what kind of fuge photoperiod suits your system / needs. First thing first, what are your water parameters? If your NO2 is zero and NO3 is starting to climb, suggest doing a 50% or more, water change. That means 50% of your total water volume. It should lower your NO3 and give you a buffer for your system to catch up. Assuming you mean water change in general, it not only export a good deal of nutrients, but also restore the ionic balance of the water. Its a cheaper and safer option for both new and experience hobbyists. To achieve zero nitrate is quite a task, but it takes great discipline and a well established filter bed to achieve that. Depending on what kind of system you intend to keep and set a benchmark to achieve. That big bag of coral chips is almost definately going to stand in your way.

Are your lights on 24/7? Diatom & cyano are taking hold, but at least its taking up some nutrients, you can siphon it out during your water change. Your Chaetomorpha looks like its turning sexual. The Webbiana, as expected, are doing ok. Suggest you leave the lighting as 01x36w for the moment, changing the lighting scheme will encourage further nuisance growth. Glad you have not rushed to stock your tank Let the excess 'fuel' burn out and build up your LRs Keep us updated and GOOD LUCK!!!

... though its the festive seasons, we should try to be a little more sensitive and constructive in our posts ... Anyway, Vince, sorry to hear about your boxfish. I hope for your sake you removed the poor fish as I've heard the degenerating tissues may release the toxin. Bubbles are known to take fleshy food such as mysis or shrimp meat, at least that is what I feed mine. The death of the boxfish can be due to many reasons, poor health, bad water conditions, et cetera. Or, considering its size, it may simply be stung of the bubble and snared by its tentacle.

nicholasloh, perhaps a picture will help.