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I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't see any of your pictures

My linkDrifting Fish Larvae Allow Marine Reserves to Rebuild Fisheries Cool sounding study. Hopefully this helps designating reserves a little easier. I didn't realize yellow tangs grazed so far, anyone ever tried keeping them in a 1/2 mile diameter tank?!?

Wow, I guess they're just really sensitive to light levels as my lights are pretty weak. Cool, good to know, thanks guys!

Just wondering if my purple death polyps (bought from atlantic sea farms) are typical or wierd. The new ones are a nice deep purple, but as they get older they seem to change to more of a gold color. You can see the youngest ones on the bottom are purple, and the older ones on top look...less purple. Maybe it's my lights (55-watt PC)? Has anyone else seen this? no flash: with flash:

are you sure your temperature is accurate? 80 is okay but towards the high end, if the temp is much higher than 80 you could start to have some problems. Do you feel any tingling when you put your hand in the tank? Maybe the burning smell is some electrical thing starting to go bad (a heater maybe?). your nitrate levels don't seem too high so I wouldn't think your filtration is the problem, plus I think that's usually a more gradual decline.

If I could offer one bit of advice from having just moved my 24 gallon tank is to be really patient setting the tank back up. I was too exhausted the day of the move to set the tank up so I let everything sit in it's respective buckets/coolers/bags until the following day. Everything had aeration and heaters so I figured it was as good as having them in the tank (...well, almost) but no light. Anyway, the day after the move was pretty hectic too but I managed to steal some time to get the tank set back up that evening. I was pretty impatient and I just grabbed stuff out of the coolers/buckets and put it into the tank. All the corals did fine, but my fish and shrimp were dead the next morning from the stress. Not sure if it was a temp shock with all the new water, or the new water itself, or what but...just be patient and make sure everything is where you want it before tossing livestock in there. It's probably worth re-acclimating your inverts to the new tank after the rocks and water are in actually. Good luck!

will fire shrimp mate the same way as cleaner shrimp if you put 2 or more in the same tank? it seems like they should but has anyone seen it happen?

whoa, that's pretty awesome. I'd love to try getting it for you!

sounds pretty cool, I would give it a try!

Here's my attempt at a decent picture in my tank with a Sony Cybershot DSC-W80. Red shrooms and orange zoas...it's fallish Thanks for taking some initiative on this Rob

wow...nice jack hammerin' I wonder how many people on the board can say they needed a jack-hammer to install a tank...impressive

I think they're called paradise zoas, is that your frag? Selling any?

yeah, nature is pretty amazing when people start to figure out how things really work. Go science!

Scientists Turn Snails Into Slug-Like Creatures

Hey Dave, how much per polyp for the blue hornets? Thanks, Nick

I got a red firefish from there a few weeks ago, it's been nice and healthy. The stock was pretty thin when I stopped by, of coarse they said "our shipment didn't come this week"... I thought the prices were decent though.

Do any of the LFSs in MD sell loc-line pieces? I was hoping to add a few pieces to my return and spread the flow out a little better. Thanks! Nick

it looks pretty darn impressive already though! certainly a lot of work, keep the updates coming, they're great DIY tips.

roozen's has one listed on it's site

So what's the going price for a mated pair of ORA blue mandarins? How much for a pair of green spotted mandarins?

Thanks for the help guys, good ideas!

Hey Everyone, I don't like keeping a lid on my tank during the warm months, but I think I want to add a firefish, so I need something to prevent it from carpet surfing. I'd like to get some kind of netting that doesn't block light, and still lets the evaporative cooling do it's thing. Any ideas what to use and where to get it? I only have a 24-gal aquapod, so I don't need much material. Thanks! Nick

I used to work in a lab with a lot of nice dissecting scopes. I took these pictures of a peanut worm when I was very new and didn't know they were nice critters. The pics are pretty cool, but I feel bad about ripping it out of my tank.

So a plate growing site is a spot on rock where plate corals just keep growing from? It's like a little refuge where come of the plate cells never really leave? I've never heard of this before, then again I don't know anything about plate corals. I kinda like my zoanthids and hope they don't get too damaged. Think I can feed the plate till it gets a little bigger, then remove it? I guess another one will grow there eventually, but not very often. As the plate grows it would probably do more damage to it's neighbors too. Alternatively I could not feed it and I suppose it just wouldn't grow and shouldn't affect the zoas too much. One of these options seem better than the other? I guess I could just leave it alone too and see what happens, the zoas will just grow further away...that's probably the best option

yeah, I wonder how it sprouted up there...pretty cool!