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    Sun coral growth

    I saw a small piece of that red/orange tubestra 2 weeks ago. It was like 5 polyps and they wanted like $100 for it. They claimed it is some rare variation. I forget where they say it originated from. I certainly wouldn't pay anywhere near that. If you can get a decent price on a piece it...
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    shark idea

    I can't answer many of those questions, but as I said above the eggs pretty well developed sell for $35-$45 around me. and the eggs are about 3-4" long and the shark will be in a U shape inside so the shark is 4-5" long. As far as a fish eating the egg or newly hatched shark it would have to...
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    shark idea

    Yeah the shark eggs are common for sale by me for about $35 usually. The sharks are developed enough that you can see them in the eggs moving around. You mentioned angels. Most angels love to eat corals and sponges especially, IME. I had a Koran angel in my reef for a while ( 6 months) and...
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    power headed

    A sabae was my first thing in my tank years ago. Found it in a powerhead one morning. My had damage to the foot and it made it a few weeks but it obviously had an infection that slowly spread. Just keep an eye on it. I too gave up on anenomes pretty quick. I only have a rock anenome now...
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    Sun coral growth

    After looking at the pic and confirming that this is what I have I attempted to do a count of the settled larvae. I have at least 150 settled larvae, and since they are mainly up in the rock pile there is probably a lot more. This is just what I can see from the side of my tank. One of my...
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    Sun coral growth

    Thank you. So I am not crazy. Well at least not in this instance.
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    Critique my setup please

    Thank you again everyone. I have only the Pavona that is SPS really and it is doing great. I tried a piece of Acro a while back and it died (One of my few casualties) I was figuring that my water just wasn't clean enough, but now I'm not sure. Maybe it was killed by softie chemical warfare...
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    New tank setup question

    The 10 gal is full I am starting up the 47 and taking down the 10. The reason I am using so little live rock is because it is not going to be a reef tank, I just want to give the fish some hiding spots. This may be confusing as I mentioned the sun coral but that is all there is going to be in...
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    Sun coral growth

    After giving it closer inspection this morning I have about 20 more new sun polyps on near by rocks to the mother colony. The are not in contact with the sun coral but all within 5" of the colony. The new polyps are spread over about 5 rocks, and even an old snail shell that was underneath it...
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    bristle worms

    I had heard that they kill clams, but I am guessing this is just another bad rumor. I used to have a couple but haven't seen any in over 2 years. I think my six line wrasse along with my starving crab overpopulation wiped them out.
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    Lobo Brain question

    I've looked at all the ID pictures on here, and looked up all the stuff you mentioned at various other sites. After viewing them all I am going to have to stick with it being a lobo. It does have "teeth" all around the edges as you mentioned. My digital camera seems to be broken?!?, but if I...
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    New tank setup question

    I am setting up a tank for my dad next weekend and have a question. When I set up my tank I bought an established tank and moved it water and all, so I started stocking it 48 hours later and had no problems, so I am not very informed on the normal start up cycle. It is a 47 gal hex. I will be...
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    Critique my setup please

    Thank you for all the responses. First off regarding the skimmer. I unfortunately just bought this one in Aug as the old one burnt out. It was the same model and lasted 8 years. Oddly Red Sea hasn't made any changes as the new one was identical to the old one. But when it comes time to...
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    Critique my setup please

    Understood. Thank you. I am on the high side as far as feeding goes so that probably compounds that problem. I stir up as much of the bottom as I can biweekly, but I think I will add more substrate as per your suggestion as I do not like the bare bottom look.
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    Most Common Mistake you see....Please add one and move on so all can share..

    Yeah those GFCI outlets are awesome. I had a freshwater bait tank in my garage this summer with crayfish and minnows and such. The tank had an old strip light on it and will I was pulling out some crayfish the I hit the light and the "guts" of the light fell out of the frame and into the tank...
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    Critique my setup please

    I'm just looking for any weaknesses the resident experts might see with my setup, and then I have 1 or 2 specific questions based on my setup. I'm not exactly new to the hobby, but I am finding that until now I had received a pretty large amount of bad info. Tank 75 gal with about 1" in of...
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    Sun coral growth

    Will sun polyps grow onto another rock?? I have had one instance with an SPS (pavona) where it grew right onto antoher rock. I thought only softies did that?? My sun coral was covering about half the rock it came on(about 25 polyps) and now has about 20 new tiny polyps on the other side of the...
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    CHEck out my new live stock

    Well I wholly agree that it is ideal to research a piece before buying it, both for the safety of the speciman as well as your pocketbook. There's also those exceptional cases where a piece just isn't really viable to keep in captivity but the industry keeps importing them. Those are the...
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    My tank from the seventees

    I found one of those metal corner, slate bottom tanks you are talking about in my Grams basement a few years back. I imagine its still there. It was actually pretty cool.
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    My tank from the seventees

    Just an FYI. Metal Halide became commercially available from GE at the '64 world's fair.
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