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    Pre-order the new illustrated Book of Coral Propagation!

    cheers, Jon... yes indeed... please send me an email (to either addy on the contact button at readingtrees.com The addy not printed here for fear of spam and webcrwlers of the future :D) To all... MD is hyping early indeed (good call Jobiwan). The reviews are of version one I presume and no one...
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    ID bright orange and blue crab please

    A clearer image might help with the ID but the result is the same... almost without exception, form follows function. Crabs have sturdy claws for a reason... they are opportunistic and omnivorous in most cases (read: carbs are almost never reef aquarium safe) Your specimen is lovely. I'd...
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    Pre-order the new illustrated Book of Coral Propagation!

    cheers, my friend... thanks for the inquiry :) I haven't heard anything different regarding the (literally) slow boat from China (Hong Kong actually). The proposed docking was Oct 29th and that has not changed yet. After they clear customs, I can field them and begin shipping them out (actually...
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    Elegance

    your particle size is likely just fine although if it were mine Id go smaller still (mysis sized bits maximum). Larger food items ar emore likely to get carried, sloughed or stolen away.
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    Fuzzy Mushrooms

    silversides are too large... and quite unnatural. The FMs like anemones fed the same will usually regurgitate the oversized prey after the lights go out at night. Mysis are more like the larger end of natural plankton they would get on the reef (ala amphipods)
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    Pre-order the new illustrated Book of Coral Propagation!

    I haven't had a chance to make an update on the website yet (been traveling for pics for the mag/work... nearly 90K miles by air this year!) my apologies for the delay my friends... the new edition of BOCP1 was upgraded to hardcover at no extra charge to the pre-order folks... but the changes...
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    Elegance

    LPS often bail from their skeletons from attrition. Most folks do not target feed these corals near daily like they need. Whats worse... the less you feed them, the more they "grow" (polyp extension) in an attempt to capture more light to compensate for the lack of food. The stretching also...
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    hard coral, not sure of species

    youmust look at images of the skeleton... comparing skeleton to skeleton. Tissue covered Hydnophora looks nothing like its corallum. Please trust me on this. See the works of Veron or Woods for pics of skeletons. Perhaps your local merchants have these books on their shelves. Great books to...
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    My Toadstool is about to drop a baby frag

    do try a cocktail toothpick (just impale the frag into a piece of rock... pre-drilled better yet). Rubber bands are a poor way to attach Alcyoniid frags as you've noticed (it increases chances of infection too for the larger stifled surface area of the band versus the pinhole impalement of a pick)
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    hard coral, not sure of species

    still tough to say... though you should see fluorescence under actinic light only if there is any tissue alive at all. For fun FL gear, do check out the equipment at www.nightsea.com (you can see larvae and coral polyps with this gear weeks/monthsbefore the weaker aquarium actinics will let you...
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    Urchin spawning stress related?

    Curt... you are delightfully quirky like the rest of us, my friend :)
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    axial fragging question

    heehee... sorry I missed this post earlier. What a hoot :) I'm looking forward to getting back to PSAS too, my friend :)
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    ? re: target feeding

    if Dendrophyllia... then yes, feed each mouth like its Dendrophylliid kin - Duncanopsammia & Tubastrea (so-called sun coral)
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    Chilli Coral

    they must be mounted upside down for long term success... they need very strong water flow (30X tank turnover minimum)... they often get GHA after they have been starving for some weeks... they need fed near daily and thankfully will eat large foods (rotifers or copepods ideally... but fresh...
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    Cocoa Worm (Protula bispiralis)

    the larger filter feeding worms are indeed very difficult to keep long term. I have most only seen them alive in captivity in tanks that were very large (hundreds of gallons) and/or had very heavy fishloads. I wold almost never recommend them for a garden reef aquarium. But iof you will...
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    Fragging mushrooms..need help!

    do be very careful about tearing any cnidarians... its just as likely to invite and infection (that can spread to healthy corals) as propagate.
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    My Toadstool is about to drop a baby frag

    very nice, branchlet dropping. A sign of maturity (not a stress induced reproductive strategy like others we see). Kudos :)
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    x-max tree worm rock, bisma rock....

    Centropyge are nor wholly reef safe. Probably a good 4 in 10 nibble something desirable (corals/inverts) in the typical reef aquarium.
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    Urchin spawning stress related?

    nope :) not at all... nor do epitokes occur in aquaria much at all.
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    Coral I.D

    I cant be certain from the panned out image my friend... please do look closely at your specimen and compare it to the images of Faviids and like "closed brain" families for starters in the coral/invert gallery (see hotlink at the top of this page)
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