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  1. TWallace

    Berghia Nudi questions

    returnofsid, what kind of wrasses have you kept them with? I've got a berghia order coming Thursday and I have a red coris wrasse. I know that he may eat them, but he's not nocturnal. I'm hoping the berghias will just hide inside the rocks during the day and then hunt at night while the wrasse...
  2. TWallace

    Anyone heard of a black ocellaris and a standard ocellaris pairing up?

    If you get both of them as juveniles, there's a good chance of them pairing off, as long as they're the same species. I doubt if any of the mutant disfigurations ORA has thrust upon the world will cause any challenge in creating pairs, so long as they're the same species. I got my perculas both...
  3. TWallace

    Anyone heard of a black ocellaris and a standard ocellaris pairing up?

    They are the same species, not opposites.
  4. TWallace

    Ora'S new clown fish

    The domino variety looks fairly nice. Definitely nicer than the platinum, snowflake and picasso varieties, which I've always found to be hideous compared to the natural percula and ocellaris clowns.
  5. TWallace

    Love hate relationship!

    My male percula clown bites me occasionally, but only if I put my hand near their home (toadstool leather). Interestingly, the female has never bitten me, and I've had these clowns together for almost 4 years now. They have never laid eggs yet. I sometimes use a net with my left hand to position...
  6. TWallace

    Little white creatures!!!!!!

    Looks like a hydroid. I had one once, went away on its own. I've heard they can become a plague. They're sort of like aiptasia in that they'll sting everything that touches them.
  7. TWallace

    Just got green Goniopora

    No, you can use whatever image you want for the background, along with the font you want as well. It just doesn't let you customize the layout as much as I'd like, or have the sig do different things based on the values in your xml. You can see a list of Reef Chat sigs here...
  8. TWallace

    Just got green Goniopora

    Also, I noticed that Reef Chat sigs all have the tank stats listed left to right in rows. I don't know if you can alter that, but I listed mine top to bottom in a single column, which lets me place the image content at right without making the text unreadable when overlayed on top of the image...
  9. TWallace

    Just got green Goniopora

    Well, since I run the webserver that serves the image, I can make it do things like show a random picture, change colors of fonts based on their values, move the text around exactly where I want it, call out DA for their defective salinity probes, etc. My salinity probe has been broken for about...
  10. TWallace

    Just got green Goniopora

    It's a Reef Keeper Lite with the NET module. I run a web server that reads the XML file created by the Reef Keeper, and creates the sig image from that file. I've been having trouble with my router lately though, and it's been disconnecting all wireless devices, so occasionally the sig may not...
  11. TWallace

    Just got green Goniopora

    It will likely open up to the size listed when you bought it. I bought mine from Barrier Reef about 3 years ago. In the store, the tentacles were only about half an inch long. After about 6 weeks in my tank, they slowly opened up to their normal size of about 3-4 inches long. Depending on the...
  12. TWallace

    getting a large green goniopora.

    Here's a great interview with the guy who used to run goniopora.org: http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/resources.asp?show=353. I don't know why goniopora.org is no longer running, but it's been gone for months. It was a fantastic resource for this genus of coral.
  13. TWallace

    getting a large green goniopora.

    It depends on the species. There's around 25 of them, some difficult to impossible to keep, some easy. I've had one for about 3 years now, and it's apparently one of the easy ones to keep. Unfortunately it's very difficult to tell which species you have without looking at the skeleton, as many...
  14. TWallace

    Killing unwanted pests (mojitos, Antapseseseses)

    You can get a syringe at any pharmacy. Just ask for an insulin syringe. However, you really don't need the needle and it will actually make it much harder if not impossible to dispense kalk paste than a syringe without the needle. I use a syringe from an old Salifert test kit for mine.
  15. TWallace

    Which controller to buy?

    FYI Digital Aquatics is working on a Tunze controller module. Also, their NET module now works on the Reef Keeper Lite (used to only work on the Elite). I have a RKL with NET module. I wrote an application to parse the XML from the NET module and generate the image in my sig, but most people use...
  16. TWallace

    STN anyone know the things to check/adjust?

    I had something similar happen to me last summer that lasted into early winter. It started with a heat spike in Seattle, resulting in my tank reaching 85 or 86 degrees. Not long after, I accidentally over dosed alk supplement. A couple of weeks later, the STN started on some acros, always from...
  17. TWallace

    Snail reference chart

    In my experience, bumblebee snails are most definitely nocturnal, but the chart doesn't indicate that. Skawt, astrea snails work best for me on glass cleaning, though they still leave something to be desired. Turbos work well, too, but due to their size, they can be destructive.
  18. TWallace

    New HD camcorder.

    Try shooting at tank level, with the camera lens parallel to the tank glass. Will result in much less distortion.
  19. TWallace

    Midas and Canary Blenny

    Their picture of a normal midas doesn't look like a midas to me (possibly canary). The dorsal fin has a different shape. Their golden midas pic looks just like mine. True midas blennies have a blue ring around the eyes. Blue Zoo's normal midas looks like this which Live Aquaria calls a Canary...
  20. TWallace

    Midas and Canary Blenny

    Canary blennies are brighter yellow and solid color (no other color highlights). Canary blennies also have a poisonous bite, though I don't think they're very dangerous to aquarium owners. Just something to consider if you have kids. Probably no more dangerous than a bee sting. Midas blennies...
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