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dshnarw

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  1. 5 years is a typical lifespan for a wild Klein's.
  2. I used quartz boulders that I pulled from a local creek and washed off as a base, then covered them with granite cobbles that I collected from beaches in Maine. Most landscaping places should have similar river rock.
  3. While power outages aren't a huge concern in your area, I'd still recommend having a couple of bottles with ice in the freezer at all times, just in case. Your biggest concern will always be temperature, so that will at least buy you time in the event and, if you don't already keep your freezer full all the time, it'll save you money on the energy bill anyway. Steve's tank was always incredible...though I think his advice was often a bit "alarmist", so I'd take some of his concerns with a grain of salt. I'd be happy to help out however I can, if you have questions. It's a good time to get into coldwater stuff - the info is out there, and the livestock is becoming somewhat available.
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    No problem. One of my favorite corals that doesn't show up too often. Treat it like your average LPS, love meaty foods and sinking pellets when the feeders are out. If it's H. clavator, it will stay attached to the rock, any other species of Halomitra, and it will eventually fall onto the sand bed like a plate coral. If you ever decide to get rid of it, I'd love first shot - I lost a nice one many years ago and haven't found another:
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    Either Halomitra sp. or Lithophyllon sp. Can you get a shot of the side and how it's attached?
  6. I agree with this lighting combo. I use it on my tank, like it quite a bit. Blue + is a combo of blue color with actinic. You'll get the same colors popping as the actinic, but with a bright blue color to balance out the coral + and purple +. The aquablue just looks white to me, so you'd still get some of the purple/pink color, and the coral fluorescence would feel a bit washed out.
  7. Well, if you say it looks like a sea spider and you didn't see claws, I'd go with sea spider as an initial guess. Time to lure it out for some glamor shots, though, because we're all just taking shots in the dark right now
  8. If the name isn't registered as a trademark and vendor X doesn't mark it as a trademark, vendor Y won't get in trouble. If it is trademarked (an issue which, to my knowledge, hasn't occurred in the hobby so far), then vendor Y can probably use the "functional use" exemption, though I'm not a lawyer, so... The issue you've probably seen is when people create a coral name using an already trademarked name - "Jedi" in "Jedi Mind Trick" montipora for example, which could present some issues.
  9. Hobbyist names are much more precise when they're done well (and a good deal of the time, they aren't). If I said "Protopalythoa" you know what general polyp I'm talking about, but saying "Nuclear Green", "Purple Death", or "Captain America" gives you 3 very precise images of Protopalythoa - very different in color and pattern, but all the same species within the Protopalythoa genus. Scolymia gives you a picture of a donut-shaped large polyp. "Bleeding Heart" Scolymia means it's green with some red-orange stripes radiating from the center. Of course, if the OP shows us the picture in this thread, we give him two different names as an example of hobbyist naming not being done well.
  10. If a person is asking you about a particular coral, it generally implies that they like the look of it. Besides, we do the exact same things with acros, montis, chalices, favias, even mushrooms now. We see it in captive bred clowns and all the patterns available for them. Flower hybridizers do the same thing, but with better organization An extremely naive viewpoint when it comes to this hobby. Not only are we terrible as a group at getting the scientific name correct to start with (assuming that the species we're looking at has even been described) but it also does absolutely nothing to alleviate the issue of trying to find specific color/pattern variations within a particular species, especially with zoanthids where, scientifically speaking, color and oral disc patterns are meaningless.
  11. And there's the problem with zoanthid names...no one can keep them straight Those were named ring of fire about 10 years ago by a friend, lost favor over time, and have come back with a new name which also refers to a different old-school zoanthid (white splash with or without a contrasting color mouth).
  12. Frankly, I was more worried for the bug than about the bug
  13. Thanks Tricia! I sure hope you're REALLY patient...it's gonna be a while with as small as it is right now
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