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  1. Electrokate

    Electrokate's 55 and 50

    Palau green nephthea: That one can be bright green if you have a lot of actinics, but I don't. Montipora confusa: This one also should be bright green but I had it in a nano for a while for quarantine where it only had one very old pc bulb for light. Sometimes it looks like it will have a...
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    Electrokate's 55 and 50

    Thanks Krish! I love reading your thread... except that part about the jellyfish and fire coral. I hear ya on the tight clothing, I hate clothes. One of the selling points to living in the tropics is the lack of shoes which I especially hate, plus long pants. I like minimalist loose dresses...
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    Electrokate's 55 and 50

    The 55 is more of a traditional system. I wanted a sand bed, sump, and in tank overflow instead of a J tube type. Also wanted greater flow and to keep the rocks from touching the sides and bottom. When I first set it up I was in a hurry but built some simple platforms from PVC pipe fittings and...
  4. Electrokate

    Electrokate's 55 and 50

    Hi, I have 2 tanks for the showcase though one is pretty primitive and I probably will aggravate some people with my unorthodox methods. I had a debacle with my last "big" tank, a 93.5 gallon acrylic job that looked and acted like a coffin. When I had it with that I swapped with Tony near me...
  5. Electrokate

    What does everyone do?

    Thanks Gaby, you want some? (: Kate
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    What does everyone do?

    I am a kept woman. I huck fancy guppies on aquabid. I have a bad back but I garden. I breed small colorful freshwater fish called killies and handpick their eggs out of yarn tassles that hang in their tanks, pack them in peat, and then sell them on aquabid and mail them out labeled as "aquarium...
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    Sally's bullet proof (fact or fiction) & substrate ?

    Hi, I have done things similar to what Garf is suggesting. I don't think they put many fish in those setups, do they? Mostly just algae eaters? I had sand not quite 3 inches so it wasn't a "deep sand bed" with lots of liverock, hardy inverts, and lower lighting than normal-power compact 50/50...
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    Let's See Some Zoos!

    Hey, you just score some blue zo's or are those in someone else's tank? Kate
  9. Electrokate

    EU Smashes Acrylic Cartel

    Hmmm. I think you are right! Heard you got another one? Kate
  10. Electrokate

    EU Smashes Acrylic Cartel

    And then just check out the resumes of the guys at the head of the government and what stock their families hold. How many politicians throughout history have been able to keep their fingers out of the till? I don't think it is too much of a stretch to expect any less from the current admin even...
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    Any marine people in Hawaii

    I read about those clams too, am glad to hear they were returned. That was just so sad. Things are looking a bit more dodgy now about the whole deal, I am going to visit anyways and check it out but am leery of it being an unstable situation that will just leave us dead broke and isolated...
  12. Electrokate

    Any marine people in Hawaii

    Thanks, if you could check with Charles Delbeek that would be great, if the license is not too much I will get it but otherwise... FOWLR. The site with the local farmed liverock is great, so I think it will work out either way. If legal reef tanks are rare there and I can't sell online then I...
  13. Electrokate

    Any marine people in Hawaii

    I am not going to go illegal here, I already have all the coral I want right here in my living room and don't want new stuff... Palau green nephthya, zoanthids and purple people eaters and plating orange montis make me happy enough, am planning on signing up as a volunteer at the Waikiki...
  14. Electrokate

    Any marine people in Hawaii

    Thanks, that is awesome! I was going to take my amazon parrot which is listed as legal as long as she tests free of west nile and undergoes 7 days quarantine at a vet office. Didn't figure on taking fish. I was already mostly buying CB or net caught fish from Hawaii so there is no point in...
  15. Electrokate

    Let's See Some Zoos!

    Hey Gaby, Did you do any dosing of Joe's juice when they melted down? Anything else you can remember? I see they catch and eat any and everything that drifts by so dosing Joes Juice is going to be tricky with them. I still don't know what would make the polyps change color. I think the...
  16. Electrokate

    Power out

    Supposedly the big problem in an outage is lack of oxygen. The powerhead is good for flow but more critical would be fitting a venturi on it. A good air pump can put out a lot more with 4 watts than that would. Still, every time we have an outage our 30 minute rated battery backups don't even...
  17. Electrokate

    Any marine people in Hawaii

    Hi, Thanks Krish! Yeah, this might take the wind out of our sales for the trip your way though of course they are not the same. Hey, you can visit us! (: I am thinking of going to the U there for marine science or botany, will check both out. Back in 89 I dropped out of the U of MN because...
  18. Electrokate

    Let's See Some Zoos!

    Actually the purple was from PC only since I didn't have the VHO's on most of the last couple weeks, tank got too hot. The PC bulbs are 50/50's from Hello Lights, the brand they sell called "Tru". Kate
  19. Electrokate

    Power out

    A guy I know said his tank was out for 8 days and he kept his reef alive with the battery powered air pumps. They are quite powerful and I like them a lot, not too noisy either. Also good if you have a large fish or bucket of stuff to transport. Far as partners who don't like your hobbies, it...
  20. Electrokate

    Let's See Some Zoos!

    This is what I was talking about, why I find it odd that people "name" zoanthid color morphs and also why it gets my goat that some coral are better and some worse looking in my tanks. Course it's always better to have a killer looking people eater than a killer looking green zoanthid! (: I am...
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