Padrino
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I'm not sure if we need welding but we definitely need lasers
NO for the last time, i can't get you sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.
Coral Tank from Canada (1350gal Display Tank)
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NO for the last time, i can't get you sharks with laser beams attached to their heads.
nineball
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Peter, your commitment to excellence and your quality really shines through in this thread. This is a great honor to read here on Reef Central
Thanks Dave, I feel like a kid who just got an 'A' on his report card. Thanks to Reef Central for the opportunity to bring such a great community together. Hopefully some good will come out of this that will carry on into the future for others. I'm also hoping that the result of all this collaboration will be a happy, healthy and productive reef environment in my home. Sorry, our home.........our Bentley.........OK Mr. Wilson?
Peter
venom550pm
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When can i borrow "our" Bentley? :dance:
nineball
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Like that request was unexpected...................
as soon as gas hits 25 cents a gallon!!!!!
:celeb3:
Peter
Rybren
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nineball
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GREAT! Until you realize its only the first semester in a twelve semester program...............Looong loooong way to go yet............But the second chiller is in town so things definitely get pretty crazy over the next few days.
Peter
You're not trying hard enough. Simply reading though this build requires extraordinary commitment, sharks with laser beams should be easy by comparison :spin2:
Country/Territory US$/L(regular 95) US$/gal
Venezuela (Caracas) 0.05 0.19
When should I swing by for my turn in the Bentley?
nineball
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Around 4 pm this afternoon Steve, just bring a couple of hundred gallons of that refined and processed fuel for our remake of Easy Rider on four wheels.
Peter
nineball
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Actually Sparhawk, you may be on to something here. We should post your name as a tour guide, someone who has actually read this stuff. We can give you a uniform with a Reef Central veterans pin.
Seriously, if you have really read all this stuff Sparhawk, thank you. Please stick around. An informed community is a better community. There is a ton more coming in the next week. More on the fish room............opening the next chapter on aquascaping and then a revisit to the discussion on water movement and flow management to optimize coral health and happiness.
Peter
Mr Wilson and Peter,
I think I see a series of books here:
Beginners guide
Medium guide
Advanced guide
Fish
Corals etc.
Diseases
Equipment
Feeding
etc...
Haven't seen anything along these lines anywhere and with your knowledge and experience and input from everyone on this forum - guaranteed best sellers.....
I have been enjoying the humor and substance of this thread immensely.
Attached pic of hermit crab eating my Picasso Trigger the other morning - not sure if the crab caught the guy during the night or found him dead - no way of knowing.,
Rodd
This brings back memories. When I first started my "quest to saying the coral reef," i had one of these. I loved it, until I bought a conde and he just kept on messing with it, for a looooooooooooooooong time. I got so mad, because I was a rookie and didn't know better :spin2:, I took him out and chucked him outside my third story window (fellow reefers please don't be mad
). After that my carpet algae took off. My sand went from being a "pretty white" to a horrible brown. I regretted the day I tossed him. I looked all over for a hermit like him, but the LFS I got him from never carried one in that same size and I couldn't find another similar to him. :hmm4: I guess you can say that was one of my rookie mistakes. 
mr.wilson
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Thank you Hugo Chavez. Now we can fill up Peter's neighbour's boat for the gentleman's night out. I'll start molding the fish food into golfballs for our floating driving range.
Wolverine
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I had one in my first tank as well. It would attack my niger trigger when the trigger would go into the rock to sleep. The niger got it back at molting time.
mr.wilson
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Hermit crabs are public enemy number one. They kill snails then assume their identity. Even the most law abiding tiny blue leg hermits can still manage to damage the reef by knocking corals over. I have seen "reef safe" scarlet hermits cut open anemones to get at the freshly eaten food inside. I don't bother with them anymore. Emerald crabs and snails (Mexican Turbos & nassarius) are an efficient silent army of reef janitors. I don't think cowries do much but they are cool when you see them a few times a year
I'm starting a new paragraph before I mention fighting conchs, as they are in a league of their own. For those that aren't familiar with them, they look like a missing link in evolution, part snail/part crab with an elehant trunk-like mouth. Despite the ominous name, they are not only reef safe, but very efficient cleaners and sand sifters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6u5OH0Mxs4
Urchins knock stuff over, collector urchins move frags, long spine urchins eat coraline and sting Capn Hylinur.
I like sand stars but some (like Bob Fenner) say they deplete beneficial organisms in the sand. Serpent stars and crown of thorns starfish are efficient detrivores and sand sifters. Blue linkias and red fromia starfish are really pretty, but they don't work as hard as their sand dwelling cousins.
Anemone shrimp and anemone crabs are fun to watch, and the shrimp eats parasites. Cleaner shrimp and blood/fire shrimp are good fish doctors (parasite pickers) but they are shy, particularly blood/fire shrimp. Camel shrimp are not reef safe and often sold as "dancing shrimp". Peppermint shrimp are good parasite pickers (eaters) as well as their welcomed apatite for parasitic anemones like aiptasia and majano. Harlequin shrimp are beautiful but they are specialized feeders, eating only eat urchin and starfish legs (ciliate).
Sea cucumbers are good detrivores and sand sifters but they can release toxins when they die. The red and black ones from Florida seem to be the most hardy and least toxic. The synapta maculata (medusa cucumber) is fun to watch but should be kept in a species tank on its own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_RQ2ohalo
Sally lightfoot and arrow crabs are trouble (coral pickers), as well as most other crabs.
Anyone else care to mention their favourites? Allstars only please
I'm starting a new paragraph before I mention fighting conchs, as they are in a league of their own. For those that aren't familiar with them, they look like a missing link in evolution, part snail/part crab with an elehant trunk-like mouth. Despite the ominous name, they are not only reef safe, but very efficient cleaners and sand sifters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6u5OH0Mxs4
Urchins knock stuff over, collector urchins move frags, long spine urchins eat coraline and sting Capn Hylinur.
I like sand stars but some (like Bob Fenner) say they deplete beneficial organisms in the sand. Serpent stars and crown of thorns starfish are efficient detrivores and sand sifters. Blue linkias and red fromia starfish are really pretty, but they don't work as hard as their sand dwelling cousins.
Anemone shrimp and anemone crabs are fun to watch, and the shrimp eats parasites. Cleaner shrimp and blood/fire shrimp are good fish doctors (parasite pickers) but they are shy, particularly blood/fire shrimp. Camel shrimp are not reef safe and often sold as "dancing shrimp". Peppermint shrimp are good parasite pickers (eaters) as well as their welcomed apatite for parasitic anemones like aiptasia and majano. Harlequin shrimp are beautiful but they are specialized feeders, eating only eat urchin and starfish legs (ciliate).
Sea cucumbers are good detrivores and sand sifters but they can release toxins when they die. The red and black ones from Florida seem to be the most hardy and least toxic. The synapta maculata (medusa cucumber) is fun to watch but should be kept in a species tank on its own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_RQ2ohalo
Sally lightfoot and arrow crabs are trouble (coral pickers), as well as most other crabs.
Anyone else care to mention their favourites? Allstars only please
I've limited my clean up crew to serpent stars, very hardy and great for eating anything that dies. I've had turbo snails that die under rocks and rot, various shrimp that are fun to watch but poor janitors, various crabs that always end up to be trouble with eating fish or knocking stuff over, I have to try fighting conchs though (thanks Mr. Wilson)
I like my turbo snails that come out at night They are huge and keep the rock spit-shine clean. The other snails worth getting are the trochus grazers because they are workhorses, don't get as big as turbos, but are long-lived (7 years).
I also like fighting conch and for folks with larger tanks, the queen conch. Cucumbers are good at keeping the sand turned over as well. The pink and black ones from Hawaii are gorgeous.
Don't forget the little stuff either, I am a big fan of detritivore kits from www.inlandaquatics.com and www.ipsf.com These kits contain mysis shrimp, gammarus shrimp, amphipods, copepods, bristleworms, spaghetti worms, strombus grazers (small snails that reproduce), stomatella varia (cap snails that reproduce), chitons, mini-stars, mini-brittle stars and other goodies.
Also, I am not a fan of hermit crabs as they will grow and kill snails. I do have a few as they are fun to watch and I have enough snails to not have to worry much, plus I feed heavily.
They are huge and keep the rock spit-shine clean. The other snails worth getting are the trochus grazers because they are workhorses, don't get as big as turbos, but are long-lived (7 years).I also like fighting conch and for folks with larger tanks, the queen conch. Cucumbers are good at keeping the sand turned over as well. The pink and black ones from Hawaii are gorgeous.
Don't forget the little stuff either, I am a big fan of detritivore kits from www.inlandaquatics.com and www.ipsf.com These kits contain mysis shrimp, gammarus shrimp, amphipods, copepods, bristleworms, spaghetti worms, strombus grazers (small snails that reproduce), stomatella varia (cap snails that reproduce), chitons, mini-stars, mini-brittle stars and other goodies.
Also, I am not a fan of hermit crabs as they will grow and kill snails. I do have a few as they are fun to watch and I have enough snails to not have to worry much, plus I feed heavily.
Aquarist007
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Which book was that. I have a copy right on my desk of "Reef Invertebrates" I doubt it was that one??
mr.wilson
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No, this one...
"It has come to my attention that a former friend, pet-fish content producer has elected to steal from me by having printed and selling a work we co-authored"¦ a "œfourth printing" of Reef Invertebrates. I did not agree to this pressing nor to the cheesy ads promoting Anthony's "˜zine et al. added to this edition. I ask that you not purchase this illegal edition and eschew doing business with Mr. Calfo period."
Bob Fenner http://www.wetwebmedia.com/AqBizSubWebIndex/crookslvstk.htm
Does the book on your desk have a an autograph written to my daughter Stella? I leant mine out to someone a few years ago and it never came back.
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