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Old 06/21/2007, 02:27 PM
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article on herpes virus killing reefs
pretty interesting

http://www.livescience.com/environme...es_corals.html
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Old 06/21/2007, 02:56 PM
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Old 06/21/2007, 03:01 PM
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lol..
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Old 06/21/2007, 04:37 PM
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Dude! then how do you manage to keep your reef alive TomConk!? I mean you are a walking bio-reactor/petri dish just on the verge of of infectious explosion!
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Old 06/21/2007, 05:19 PM
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All the alcohol I drink will kill any virus....No Herpes here....
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Old 06/21/2007, 05:34 PM
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TomConk, come by tonight for some anti-herpes meds (heinekens) and some frag mounting material.
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Old 06/21/2007, 05:46 PM
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A little bird told me tom "alcohol doses" his tank by breathing into it................
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Old 06/21/2007, 06:20 PM
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TomConk, come by tonight for some anti-herpes meds (heinekens) and some frag mounting material.
Dude Im there....

Steveohh - you know it! It helps color up the SPS
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Old 06/21/2007, 08:00 PM
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I wonder if dosing a reef environment with Valtrex would help...hehehehe

That's just insane
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Old 06/21/2007, 08:22 PM
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I wonder if dosing a reef environment with Valtrex would help...hehehehe

That's just insane
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Old 06/22/2007, 10:06 AM
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It helps color up the SPS
It's funny how there's a direct correlation between how nice my colors are and how close I am to the bottom of the bottle.....
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Old 06/22/2007, 11:23 AM
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Im gonna make sure next time I buy LR or livestock to ask if its herpes free, and im gonna have to start wearing condoms on my hands to aquascape
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Old 06/22/2007, 03:06 PM
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Im gonna make sure next time I buy LR or livestock to ask if its herpes free, and im gonna have to start wearing condoms on my hands to aquascape
You mean you practice unprotected aquascaping????? OMG...
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Old 06/22/2007, 06:44 PM
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this is why you always wear protection !
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Old 06/23/2007, 01:56 AM
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dude, you need to put some pics on here... i took some but they came out horrible. oh, polyps are already out and the zoa's ended up being eagle eyes.
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