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Will forreal b meeting us with his dead chalice? Just trying to help the thread back to his topic. Sorry about his chalice, but what a fantastic pic of the aggressor he took! So you're on Integral9 and all WAMAS members. According to Integral9, he's performing for the burned, smoked and warring coral karaoke night at the Dieing Cat on Fried day. Anyone else have any good pics of fried or warring corals to submit as candidates for Integral9's creative karaoke dirges at the Dieing Cat?

Excerpt from a NOAA sponsored coral list serve regarding publication of coral restoration survey results that may be of interest to some here: ------------ Dear Coral List, A couple years ago, we sent out a project questionnaire and survey to coral restoration practitioners to gather collective information on the techniques, methodologies, results, challenges and recommendations regarding the propagation and restoration of threatened acroporid species in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. We received survey responses from 60+ practitioners and subsequently turned that information into a review paper that was recently published, and is currently this month's feature in the Bulletin of Marine Science. See the link below. http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/bms/ On behalf of myself and my co-authors (Stephanie Schopmeyer and Diego Lirman) we would like to sincerely thank all of the participants for filling out the survey and/or sending us their project information that made this review paper possible. Thank you, Chelsey Young -----

Hopefully your peppermints were smarter than ours and are just hiding out from your new shrimp.

A couple years ago, when we had a sebae anemone, we added several peppermints. Bear in mind, we've had skunk cleaners that have done fine with any type of anemone we've tried, maxi mini carpets, sebae and rose bubble tip; however, when we added peppermints, they seemed magnetized to the sebae. For full day, we tried to chase those shrimps away from the sebae, and they would just migrate back as if they were in a trance and magnetized to the sebae. Maybe they thought it looked like a jumbo aptaisia.... We even managed to pull one of the stupid little guys out, but it went hypnotically right back in. Apparently the peppermints must have thought sebae looked like a monster tenderloin dinner and couldn't resist the seeming buffet. Alas, the sebae made very quick desserts out of every last one of those would be diners.

Ditto on liking Mogurnda's wife before even meeting her. Many tangs for your hilarious post, Ray (& cool tang video update u sent too, btw), and Happy Halloween to all of you funny clowns on this thread.

What kind of growth rate do you typically see on your acans? Love the rainbow ones.

Pretty amazing. Look forward to seeing the next round of pics and I also would like to hear how long each of those big colonies took to grow as large and fantastic as you have grown them. Thanks for sharing your inspirational results with us.

Like your improvisation, Integral. Does WAMAS ever have karaoke nights? Coral conflicts are so interesting (and helpful to know about in advance). I was really surprised that our rainbow monti is growing over both prodigous neighboring algae and a montipora digitata that kills whatever else any digitata pieces may fall on. Hope more people will post and contribute their experiences and/or pics with their coral's contests for space/light/etc. to this topic. Anyone know of any databases, especially illustrated databases, anywhere that predict which coral will win out over a competitor and under what conditions? Cheers.

Had a frogspawn and brain bleach out a rainbow montipora. After figured it out and moved them, rainbow monti recovered. Now the rainbow monti is plating itself over a montipora digitata. Oddly enough, if the digitata breaks and pieces fall on other corals, it kills them or sections it touches of just about everything any broken piece has accidentally fallen on. Frogspawn & > rainbow montipora > montipora digitata > almost any coral its fallen on Brain > rainbow montipora > montipora digitata > scrolling montipora, shrooms and favites So brain takes the rainbow, the rainbow takes the digitata, the digitata takes amost anything including favites ....The chalice stands alone. The chalice stands alone. High ho the dairio...

Hollywood Stinger AKA (Hollywood Stunner) chalice

Very informative, cool sponge article. Thanks for sharing the link.

We also have purchased from reefcleaners a few times with good experiences. Received bunch of extra snails and couple extra tiny blue hermits when we bought a good bunch from them in single purchase. They have good prices too.

There are also videos on YouTube illustrating how to build your own solar panels for pretty cheap. There are do it yourself kits/instruction sets for purchase that people we know have implemented and saved a ton. We ran a power strip with air and blowers from an inverter off car battery, one hour on next hour off. When it started to drain car battery, we purchased extra car battery from Sears with warranty. Battery ran out about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, so we switched back to manually aerating tank 'till Sears opened later Sunday. Took the depleted battery back asking if we could possibly get a recharge from Sears, and they just replaced battery under the warranty. We then bought a second car battery too. Hubby plans to eventually build solar panels, much like Bill, to recharge the 2 car batteries and supplement our power on an ongoing basis.... Aquarium One is selling batter powered aerators for around $30 each. Someone mentioned that you can probably also find battery operated aerators cheaper in Target or Walmart sold for aerating minnows, fyi....