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I held my flower urchin on numerous occassions..never got stung before..I think you got to like squeeze it real hard before it can sting.

I feel that its risky..you won't know what you will be introducing into your tank. Imagine if its the larvae of a mantis shrimp...or worse..you end up with an outbreak of isopods. Best you go for the frozen zooplankton. It's safer.

Hmmm..posted a new topic in this section for you and Chinmo. I think the transition might be due to the nutritional composition of artemia, which means these probably have be enriched more compared to rotifers. Might be due to the origin of the artemia eggs too...get the ones from Great Salt Lake...the most nutritious! Stock them up during Aquarama.

As usual, too early for me to sleep. Had an interesting practical on enriching artemia and rotifers using microencapsulated diets. This should be more efficient than just feeding them with Selco as after all oil floats. Should be able to improve survival rates of marine larvae. Materials you need - 2% gelatin solution - 2% acacia solution - enrichment formulations like Selco, cod liver oil, squid oil, maybe some spirulina power (I will explain my choice on this later) Basically the solutions need to be kept at 40 degrees celcius before mixing if not they might harden upon cooling down. An equal volume of gelation solution is mixed with an equal volume of acacia solution. This mixture is then put into a food blender. Enrichment solutions are dumped in too. The mixture is blended for 1 min at maximum speed. The mixture is poured into a beaker and stirred either manually or using a magnetic stirrer. This prevents the oil from the enrichment solutions from floating to the surface. Add dilute HCl drop-wise to this solution slowly till pH reaches 3.9. Gelatin then becomes positively charged and it will be attracted to negatively charged acacia. Such attraction can only occur around foreign particles. leave the mixtures stirring while performing pH changes. After pH reaches 3.9 let it mix for 2-3 minutes before adjusting the pH up to 9.3. Dilute NaOH is then added drop-wise till pH goes up to 9.3. This removes excess gelatin-acacia coating around the microcapsule. Without this step, microcapsules might be too large with excess gelatin-acacia coating. The mixture is then diluted 50% to prevent the mixture from hardening too much and it is then cooled in the fridge for 10 mins. Examine under a microscope to see if you have successfully encapsulated your enrichment formulations. If your enrichment formulation is hard to see due to transparency, it might be good to do a test run with a lipid dye added. If it is done successfully, this solution can then be used to enrich rotifers or artemia. As mentioned above..I suggested spirulina as it is high in protein. Other enrichment diets are composed mostly of lipids and hardly protein, if any. Enrichment of artemia using such enrichment diets alone like DHA Selco will lead to increase in DHA content of artemia over time. However, protein content of artemia will decline. If spirulina can't be encapsulated, a good alternative would be to feed the microencapsulated lipids, together with ultrafine spirulina powder to live feeds. Golden pearls might work too, as I have seen them to be rather high in protein content. Main thing is to enrich live feeds with both lipids and proteins. This might give better survival rates compared to just enriching artemia or rotifers in oil solutions which might not be that efficient. Haha feeling sleepy..hope some guys try this out! *looks at Chinmo..for your Reidi fries!* *looks at marinebetta..for your percula fries!*

No wonder you were asking me about copepods..now I know.. Anyway, did you experience "surface death" of the larvae? Since majority of them died during metamorphosis stage it might be due to insufficient enrichment of diets. What enrichment method did you use? I might be able to give 1 cent of possible improvements. Anyway..nice broodstock. I seen a pair of jet black perculas down here..but at around aus $130++ it seemed

Another. salinity_storage_enrichment.pdf

As requested. Cheers~ intensivecultivation.pdf

Search net for scientific papers. Alot of useful information like harvesting techniques and stocking density.

Sandbeds don't need light to work.

Get a hood customized with a lock. Problem solved.

Since when did men wear lacy lingerie? *thinks of the scene in "Little Nicky"*

It's mucus coat is damaged. Not sure what are the causes for your case..but as I've worked in aquariums before, normally such symptoms are associated with overdosage of antichlorine. There is a brand which is known to be extremely strong and must not be overdosed..initials are O.F. Some fish are more sensitive to others. Clownfish are quite sensitive fish.

You can easily raise these yourself if you dedicate some shallow tanks be it glass or rubbermaid tubs. Feed lots of phyto, moistened fishfood, keep your water quality high and have circulation, and provide alot of surface area in the form of bioballs or ceramic rings. The benthic species of amphipods and copepods can be seeded to the tank from liverock. Addition of silicates via untreated tapwater or via an additional source will lead to proliferation of diatoms, which will be feasted on by copepods.

Baldurs gate 2 is real addictive. You can play either a bad person (what i did) or play the good guy. Hahaa...especially fun when slaying dragons. Another rpg is fallout..I remember playing fallout 2..much to the horror of my friends i completed the game without using a car. Or if you prefer some mind challenging games..try www.the-reincarnation.com Been around for years..used to be called archmage but I have since retired since I made it into the hall of fame.

I find grade 2-3 more suitable if you want a proliferating harpacticoid copepod population. These are epibenthic detritivores and population is directly correlated to surface area made available for them to reproduce.

Reminds me of my working place at pet safari..my colleague went to entertain 2 "chiobus" who turned out to be transvertites.

Deep sea "Dumbo"

Angels eat gobies?!

Nudibranch.

Hmm..not many people adopt close loop systems here..Guess you will have very good water circulation.

http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/aquarium_fish_1.html Here bro...the appearance of spots at only certain time of the day has got to do with their life cycle.

If the spots disappear and reappear it just means that ich is spreading. http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/aquarium_fish_1.html From understanding cryptocaryon irritans to the life cycle and to potential treatments.

wow..din know my article created so much hoo haa..anyway..different people interpret things differently so let's just move on... rustee...I have yet to meet up with you! Your school of marine biology is like just next school of aquaculture! Give me a pm man..I'm residing in town area.

Whoever buries pratas??? Just placing them upright on the sand will do..there is no need to bury the whole base......

Hopefully we will see something like this in Singapore. But I guess it will take another 10 years to have something like that written up by the way things are going. Oh well for fellow reptile lovers, continue dreaming.