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    Fish are smarter than us

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    Data always had trouble with poetry, didn't he? :rolleyes:

     

    No, he was just imitating Sebastian's Jamaican accent. ;)

    Besides, I always thought "Ode to Spot" was pretty good, even if it didn't quite fit the sonnet form exactly.

     

    Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature,

    an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature?

    Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses

    contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.

     

    I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,

    a singular development of cat communications

    that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection

    for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.

     

    A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;

    you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.

    And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,

    it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

     

    O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display

    connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.

    And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,

    I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

    Why I love this hobby

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    I mean is it me, look at how cool some of this stuff is. You can have a dog, and well, it's a dog. OK everybody has a dog. (I don't) or you can have a cat although I don't know why anyone would have a cat. (I don't have one and never will) My Daughter has one for about a year and I don't think I ever saw the thing. I have no idea what color it is, how many legs it has, nothing, it's a cat. It's name is probably, cat. Maybe Felix, I have no idea.

    But fish are so cool. How many different types of cats are there? 4, 7? Who knows, and more importantly. Who cares. It's a cat.

    But fish. OMG, there are thousands, and they don't poop in a stinky litterbox, they don't spit up those disquesting hair balls or scratch the furnature (although they sometimes leak on it). When they die, you flush it and go buy another one. Even catfish are cooler than cats. Hech, amphipods are cooler than cats. OK, so I don't like cats, don't hate me. I know a lot of people have cats. I don't know why. But a lot of people don't know why I have fish. They just don't get it.

    If you have a dog or cat, you give it some food and water and forget about it. But fish, have a life. Well for me they do. Yes, I know, I am weird.

    But I do have multitudes of friends, some since grammar school but of course none of them have fish. They all have dogs and cats.

    My wife has a cousin and quite a few years ago we went to their house for dinner and they have this big cat. It could have been a lion but they said it was just a house cat. It was on top of this high piece of furnature starring at us. Her cousin said not to make any sudden moves or the cat will attach you. I mean, Really. Would you have an animal that may attack you if you make a sudden move? I can run back and forth in front of my tank for as long as 15 minutes and not one of my clown gobies will make a move towards me.

    My neighbor is going on vacation and she wants me to feed her dog. I hate that dog and I am scared to death of it. Whenever I walk up to her door, it growls, barks, jumps up and down and scratches curses in the glass door referencing me. She says he is playing. Like Duh, Playing. I get the horrors when I go there and now I have to play with this thing.

    Anyway. Fish are so interesting and cool. just look at these guys. Try and get a cat that looks like this. ...

     

    :lol: :lol: If you ever get tired of keeping aquariums, I think you may have a career in stand-up comedy. :clap:

     

    The first pipefish "what're you lookin' at" shot is priceless.

    Building LEDs to get T5 growth.

    in Do It Yourself

    There is no doubt about it that T5s have the best growth out of any of the different types of light. I believe that the reasons for this would be the wide range of spectrums possible with different bulb combinations mixed with the coverage made possible by not being limited to a single point of light. ... I'll post a picture of the LED layout but the goal is to get a lot of colors in the center and then have 50:50 white:blue on the outsides with narrow optics, hitting the corals from the front and rear. ...

     

    Wow! One thing occurs to me -- given the way you are setting this up, you could treat each C-channel as a separate "T-5 bulb" and adjust your LED mix accordingly. Since the T-5 spectra are available online, you could theoretically build your LEDs to match whatever combination you currently use (X Blue Plus, Y Fiji Purple, Z Super Actinic, etc). Maybe that's what you are doing, but I thought I'd mention it. This should be quite the rig when you're done!

    how high does your rockwork go?

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    I have a very hard time with aquascaping, and what I have now I've been very happy with it. I guess I'm probably going to have to change it :(

     

    Given what you're saying here, why don't you keep what you have until you can actually see it in the new tank? You may decide the height is OK after all. If not, and aesthetics permitting, perhaps you could just add a couple "peaks" to the current arrangement and thus keep it mostly the same.

    Puffer not eating

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    You should seriously consider taking water samples and maybe a fish to Dr. Torres at Pender. Call and ask her what she may need to make a diagnosis of what could be going on in your DT.

     

    I am considering doing just that. The puffer, though, is not from that tank, which is why I was less concerned that it was suffering from the same issue as the tang I just lost.

     

    That having been said, an update on a positive note: after loitering mostly at or near the bottom of the hospital tank for the last couple of days, the puffer is now up near the surface where he usually spends his time. Even more encouraging, he just ate several krill. :clap: I will keep monitoring but I am hopeful the worst is over. As previously suggested, it may have been nothing more than the "Thanksgiving effect." Thanks everyone!

    Puffer not eating

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    He just may have stuffed himself ... I've had fish overeat and then not eat for a week....

     

    I'm hoping that's all it is. The good news is that his breathing is back to normal. Still, I wish I knew if and to what extent I should be concerned.

    Puffer not eating

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    is he succumbing to the same issue you had with your other fish? how long have you had him?

     

    No, he was in a different tank so there's no reason he should be having the same problem. We've had him since just before Christmas

     

    Mine acts like that once in awhile but he never turns down chopped up shrimp

     

    He normally gets krill, Jan's food, Ocean Nutrition Formula One cubes, and chopped up shrimp. Right now he's not eating any of them. Now, it was shrimp he gorged himself on.

    Puffer not eating

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    So a couple of nights ago the little guy packed himself to the gills (pun semi-intended); I'd say he looked about 11 months pregnant. I came down the next morning to find him more or less sitting still on the bottom of the tank and breathing hard. After observing him for awhile and noting he didn't/couldn't "gain any altitude" I moved him to a hospital tank. He has no visible signs of any disease, and now is swimming pretty much normally. He just isn't eating - which is highly atypical for the little guy. His mouth clearly opens wide, at least for him, so it isn't like his teeth have grown together. How worried do I need to be, and where should I go from here? Thanks.

    What eats green hair algae best?

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    +1 for Mexican turbos. I've on occasion lost ceriths and nassarius to hermits, but never a turbo; I think the size differential has something to do with it (i.e., the turbo shell would be an order of magnitude too large for the hermits to use).

    No, Not the Tang!

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    Update - although the tang was looking better yesterday evening, it had expired by the time I got home from work today. :sad:

     

    My wife was wondering, though, if perhaps there were lingering toxins from the dinoflagellates that took out most of my other fish in that tank last month (late February). I thought things had stabilized, but perhaps I was premature. Potentially neither one was enough to take it down individually but the combination was too much. Any thoughts?

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