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02/16/2007, 11:20 PM
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Took a few macro images the other day during my inspection for red bugs after the treatment was completed. A few of them were worth posting about:
 
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02/17/2007, 12:39 AM
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02/17/2007, 12:47 AM
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Need to give a special thank you to Tedu for hooking me up with an OEM clone of the Sensaphone. A device that can monitor high and low temperatures (room or water), electrical status, audio status (detect other alarms). Has a voice synthesizer to tell you current conditions. I haven't tested it yet, but it will also have the ability to call multiple numbers and via speech tell you what it has detected which is pretty nice. Looking forward to getting this device hooked up with a few sensors.
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02/17/2007, 01:24 AM
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02/17/2007, 01:27 AM
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Here's an updated picture of the baby snails I have growing in the overflow chambers. Last month the largest one I could find was 1/16 of an inch. These are about 1/8 to 3/16 inch:
 Melev - Sure look pretty close to the little ones you posted in your thread.
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02/17/2007, 01:45 AM
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OK, last picture for tonight:
 Pretty neat how some of the polyps are only half populated with zooanthellae. This is one of the quick growing branches where zooanthellae growth lags behind a little.
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02/17/2007, 01:48 AM
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Yours seem to come to a point, where mine are round like a bb or tiny tiny marble.
The ones above are rather close to the kind that eat zoanthids though. http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...01#post5245201
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02/17/2007, 02:16 AM
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 I'm pretty sure they are off-spring of the tiger trochus that I talked about spawining a few weeks ago -- to small to be sure though. I have a picture of an even larger one sitting on top of my Vortech: 
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02/17/2007, 10:53 PM
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02/17/2007, 10:59 PM
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02/17/2007, 11:17 PM
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02/17/2007, 11:52 PM
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One of my clams which I've had for about 8 months now. I have to try and get a good picture of this from above. It is a deep blue with turquoise stripes from above.
 Orange Montipora Capricornis is known for being a rapid grower. The picture below is from May 2006.  This is it now, 9 months later. And honestly it has grown significantly in the past week since I took the picture.  As pictured above is 10 inches across, 10 inches front to back and about 6 inches from the bottom to the top. This orange montipora was grown out from a frag in my previous tank. I gave a frag to my father to grow in his reef tank, and I got a frag from his when setting up this tank. I've had this species in my family since 2001. When I took down my last tank it had to be bashed up to fit into two 5 gallon buckets.
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02/18/2007, 01:02 AM
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I found a decent picture showing red bugs which I took just before my treatments to use as a comparison. Used it for a page on my site documenting some of the issues I had with them.
 It's been several weeks since the three treatments, no sign of any of them still.
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03/19/2007, 09:31 PM
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I was going to have some Angle fish shipped to me from MarineCenter for my birthday, but the order was cancelled day before shipping --out of stock. I was interested in Japanese Swallowtail Genicanthus melanospilos and Watanabe's Angelfish Genicanthus watanabei with Lamarck's Angelfish Genicanthus sp. as a backup.
I had to delay the order a week to get passed the below zero temperatures... sold out by the time I could take shipment. Anyone keeping any of these? From what I hear these are ideal reef safe Zooplankton feeding, passive and stay small (under 4 to 5 inches). I've only spoken to one person who has had two of them and they were ideal tank mates.
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03/19/2007, 09:33 PM
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Took a few pictures from above looking down. Nothing special, but good enough to show.
 
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03/27/2007, 11:38 PM
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Purchased the two angel fish I was interested in. Got a few tips from local reefers who spotting them at a LFS.
First is a Japanese Swallowtail Genicanthus melanospilos. Very nice specimen a little larger than I wanted at about 6 inches in size from nose to streamer tip (long tail). It currently has the female/juvenile color pattern but I can see faint markings of the typical vertical stripes shown by a male. These stripes are the reason its sometimes called Zebra Angel. Bold. Eating well so far. The second one is a Lamarck Angel Genicanthus lamarck sometimes called Freckletail Lyretail Angelfish. Another nice specimen, nice colors. More blue than I've typically seen with these. In the area of about 4 inches long. Its a little on the shy side, darts around quickly. Appears to be eating, but not positive yet.
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03/29/2007, 09:30 PM
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The two angel fish are eating very well. Everything I offer they seem to be eating. To my surprise they are already eating Spirulina flake, Sprung's red SeaVeggies flakes and even various pellet foods.
Anyone have a recommendation for a naturally buoyant pellet food I can use with an automated feeder? I have some pellets for ORA which sink like rocks to the bottom. Flakes I tried stay on the water surface and go down the overflows. Need something in the middle.
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03/29/2007, 09:35 PM
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The Pink Birds nest coral has really been growing very well over the past 6 months. This was it about 3 weeks after being added:
 This is it now, six months later: 
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03/30/2007, 12:13 AM
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Rich, the Formula One and Formula Two pellets drift around a bit. I buy the smallest kind. If you do use an automated feeder, have it dispense into a feeding ring or a plastic cup mounted on the edge of the tank. The bottom of the cup should be removed, and the base should be submerged slightly. That way any food floating will have to saturate to begin dropping below.
Typically fish will recognize the feeding time and as they peck in that area they'll cause the food to fall more quickly.
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