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Yeah, from what I heard not all berghia spp. eat aptasia.

Yeah Andy, soaking your flakes, pellets, frozen, and especially freeze dried food is another "vessel" you could use as well.

It is mostly used for enrichment of live rotifers and/or baby brine for feeding to fry. Unless you find a vessel (ie. rotifer, artemia) for transport to the polyp or mouth (of a fish) it is just wisked away in the water. Hopefully something will absorb it through its skin.

I believe that berghia is just a genus name with several species under it. It looks like the shape of a berghia, but different coloration that the pictures that I've seen. Did you just get that Yenna?

I heard that Seahorse has some, but I'm not sure. I am also looking for aptaisa eating nudis as well. I might want to order some as well.

wow those are some kick a$$ pics. NIce

I think you have to go to the Honda store where they sell dirt bikes and quads and stuff.

Is it that stuff that is made by Mark Weiss? If it is, it contains animal by-products which are not digestable by corals. For all we know it could be dehydrated cow pies!

Sounds good. I guess I can start hacking today!

Here you go Miles.

Hey guys, I went to Salem today so I decided to talk to Jason at Coral Reef Pet Center. He has agreed to donate some left over wood to build my stands. I think he has all the wood I need, and then some. So I'll be good to go. I've just got off the phone with my friend who works at Miller Paint in Corvallis, and he has agreed to give me some mismatched paint and some brushes. I've got a lot of left over screws and a drill so I was wondering if I could borrow a chop saw and a skill saw from someone to cut up the wood to size? I was wondering if anyone could drill two pieces of non-tempered glass for 1.5" bulkheads? I also need 1.5" bulkheads, one for each system. Here are some pics of the stuff I've been working on: The tank that Joel donated. This is it after some elbow grease. Here are some powerheads donated by Woody. The brown rectangles standing next to the door are the glass frag tanks from Ryan at Advanced Aquarium. Does anyone have any 100% silicon so I can build these tanks? If not I'll go to Bi-Mart to get the tubes of silicon. How many do you think I would need? I think I'm going to attempt to glue these tanks together during the break. This is my little pile that I've got ready for Hatfield. This is pretty much the essentials. LOL. I'll be coming up to Portland tomarrow (Sunday) so I can talk to more LFS's and to meet up with people who will be helping me on this project. So CHECK YOUR PM'S PEOPLE. Thank you everyone who has helped and are going to help.

What shop is this?

See, in my tank I have anthias so I MUST feed them several times a day. I also dose phyto and live zooplankton. I have tried Joe's Juice twice, with no flow so it sits on top of them. No Luck. I've tried pepermints, not interested. I've tried a copperband butterfly, no success. I'm desperate and the only other way that I know of are these nudi's. HELP!

I'll take one, or two.

Hey Miles, I fragged mine's with a hammer and chisel. And everyone of them survived, even the half polyps! I have Curtis to attest to that because I traded him 4 half cut polyps and they have all formed to full sized polyps and multiplying. I can frag some up for you and let them sit in my tank for a couple of weeks. Would be interested in the duncan polyp and some other stuff, depending on frag size. I can post some pics later.

I think Jordan needs some Selcon for feeding his rotifers which are fed to the fry. HINT, HINT, Joel.

Hey guys, thanks a lot. I'll let you know when I'll come over once finals are done so I can take a look at my schedule. Good News! Randy Reed from Reed Mariculture has offered to help provide all of my microplankton needs. I just got to talk to them about the details. This project is surely coming together, I just got to take care of business (finals) before I 100% dedicate myself to this. Once Friday is over, I'll get a hold of everyone. Thanks again.

Yes, as part of the parasite's life cycle they fall off from the fish and enter the sand/substrate. This is where they start producing offspring and after a couple of weeks they release all of thier offspring into the water and infecting fish.

Hey Jordan, I'll try some.

Thanks Rich, I know Patrick at Saltwater Fanta-Seas said that he might donate a 250w MH, if he can find it. I've also got one too, so just one more 250w MH and I'll be golden on lighting. Ryan at Advanced Aquarium is donating 2 workhorse ballasts as well, so if anyone has some flouresent stuff laying around... I'll be busy till Friday afternoon since I've got finals wed-fri, so life will be a little crazy.

That would be awesome Bob and Bob. I'll take you up on that stuff Lowman Bob. I'll let you know the next time I'll be up in Portland. 180Bob, I'll have to rummage through the box of PVC parts and use the mj1200's. I'm going to see if I can mod them. I know Coker has a mj mod he's willing to lend me, all I have to do is find another one.

Man Dennis, you make it sound like this is a disease. The way I look at it is that this is my treatment for DAILY LIFE.

If your tank is not heavily stocked then the potential will be greater w/o use of ozone. If you have an overcrowded and/or overstocked tank that uses a lot of O2 then the redox potential will be lower due to all of the organisms using up (breathing) O2. You should check the redox potential at night when there is little or no O2 being produced, so that would be the time for the lowest redox potential.

Hello everyone, I am Jansen and I am an undergraduate here at OSU. This spring term I will be going to Hatfield Marine Science Center for some classes as well as a research project. It is titled Recovery from bleaching in cnidarian montipora spp. and hydnopora spp.: How animal nutrition affects recovery time. In other words, does feeding corals from their polyps help with survival and recovery time after bleaching? Right now I am asking support for this project since I am unfunded. I am asking members, non-members, sponsors, as well as non-sponsors to help provide me with the supplies that I need. Today I went to Saltwater Fanta-Seas, Seahorse, (talked to the owner of) Cichlids and Salt, Waves, and Advanced Aquarium and they have all agreed to help me with one thing or another. Unfortunatly I didn't go to every sponsor today since time and operation hours were permiting. I will go to see them the next time I'll be up in Portland. Or they could respond to this tread with a donation if they wish. So as of right now I've got two 60 gallon? glass frag tanks from Ryan at Advance Aquarium. Joel at Waves has donated a 40 gallon? very well used tank that I'll be using a sump for one of the systems. And Woody at Seahorse has donated random powerheads as well as committing to donate some DT's oyster eggs for feeding. As of right now this is all that I've got in my possession and other members and businesses have committed to other things as well. If you are sure you can donate some supplies, just post them here on this thread so everyone can see what else can be donated. I'll take pictures so everyone can see what I've got and how this project is going to turn out. This is a list of things that I could use: Lighting: 250 watt MH's or 175 MH's need 4 sets. As well as atinics and/or daylights, whatever anyone wants to give me (t-5's, VHO's, PC's). Reflectors 2 X return pumps rated for around 600 gph (submersible or external) heaters Skimmers rated for a minimum of 125 Wood for making stands and canopys ect...(screws, brackets, and so on). Paint (preferably white) Plumbing Parts (PVC pieces, bulkheads, hangover-the-top returns, ect.) filter socks? test kits? supplements? Sacrifice Large montipora species (capriocornis, digitata), and thin branching hydnopora that I can get a minimum of 20 nubbins (scientific word for frags). 10 in each group (fed and starved). I don't care what it is, just as long as I can use it. Beggers can't be choosers, if you know what I mean. Thanks everyone.

Tomorrow Sunday, 2PM at Saltwater Fanta-Seas. You don't have to be a club member to attend, you just don't get all of the benifits and ability to be a part of raffles. That's all.