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Model and possibly link to exact unit would be great

Just to be sure jmanrow......i would like to clarify that my post (and use of the word "silly")was not at all aimed directly at you or your post. I apologize for writing it in such a way that could be interpreted as such. Was not my intention. : ) I was just stating my opinion in reference to some of the many "rules" to this hobby that have far too many variables to simply attach a number to.

:( sorry to hear of your troubles. Good luck on pulling through

Ill take that DVD player if i can pick it up at the borneman meeting. Can paypal now if needed

I think the whole "pounds per gallon" needed for fish is just as silly a notion as the "lbs of rock" needed per gallon in our reef tanks. I always get a kick out of it when you hear people say they have 200 lbs of rock in their 80 gallon tank in order to get maximum biological filtration. First of all if you can even fit 200 lbs of rock in your 80 gallon tank......your rock is dense worthless crap and or stacked WAY too tightly together so there is now way you are even getting flow through it making it essentially worthless. Good light porous rock and flow through it.........I think you can do a much better job with less than more. As far as the fish thing.......its all equipment, husbandry practices, and set up. If you can feed them and get the nutrients out, you can keep as many fish in there as you like. There is no magic number based on gallons to tank size. A guy with a well planned, high flow BB tank with a huge skimmer will be able to keep a lot more fish than a guy whos tank ha low and or poorly planned flow and mediocre skimming and husbandry pratices. There are obviously some fish that simply need tanks of a certain size to be happy and healthy. But we arent talking about that here i dont think.

Id say peanut worm too. Very cool pattern on him. Id put him back in your tank And name him.............

Agree with michael. Bristleworms are harmless scavengers. their population in your tank will be directly relevant to how much excess nutrients you have in your system for them to feed on. If something is dead or near dead.......they will be all over it though willing to bet those snails were dead before the worms ever touched them. Welcome to the club

Holly, have you seen the video of the mantis taking on the blue ring octopus?? Gets the upper hand on one of the most dangerous animals in the ocean............. http://www.reefcentral.com/vid/bluering .

Ive never had any little fan worms vacate when FW dipping anything. I wouldnt guarantee it or anything though. ; ) I wont guarantee that the eunicid will come out either.......but more than likely he will. Its a fairly easy way to usually erradicate things if the rock can easily be removed. I will guarantee that it wont cause any die of to speak of or cause a cycle though. Any sponges are toast. The rock can go back in the tank just fine regardless. usually if you try to pluck those worms out you will just rip them in half and wont really be rid of him. I ripped one of mine in half a couple of times before i finally got him.

If you can without too much trouble take the rock you see him in out of the tank.....i would wait until you saw him to confirm hes there and give the rock a freshwater dip. He should come out and your shrooms will be fine. Ive had a couple of them inthe past as well. A far cry from steves at a couple feet long.............i actually thought they were pretty big until i saw his. lol fwiw....both of the ones i found were a medium green color...........not blackish like steves or brandons.

150 tons of acrylic. WOW. I wonder how much James would charge for that?? lol

Thats awesome. I Love it when they do that. Ive never had any but used to know a guy who did.

Hi Bobby. Good to hear from you......sorry to hear about your accident but if you rode home.....sounds like it coulda been a lot worse. Look forward to your new tank you inevitably will set up

This entire argument is silly. Everybody knows the earth is really only 6000 years old and dinosaurs never existed. (rock2)

Ive got a few shotguns.........dont know if that makes me a collector though...lol. More so rifles and handguns. My great grandpas 12g Remington "old Bessie" is the cream of the crop as far as my shotguns go. One of the first semis made.

Thats crazy. Thats one of those tricks that even with a trick aquarium...........i dont get how it could be done. Anybody know??

not if you prime and glue it right it wont. I.E. full coverage of both like you always should

Being completely cured, and being inert and safe for use in our aquarium are two different things If you have the time to wait.....it is of course best to do so........im just letting you know it isnt dangerous if you dont

30 minutes and you are fine. The primer completely evaporates in about a minute, and the glue is completely inert in about 10. the smell is enough to make you freak out, but i guarantee you it wont hurt anything. Ive done it countless times, along with many other people no issues ever

On both of my shillers i make a simple closed loop from the return pump-chiller-back to sump. No extra pump needed. Just T off the return line with a 1/2" ball valve to control how much flow i give the chillers

12 hours MH on my 225 DSB tank 12 hours actinics, 8 hours MH on my 90 BB tank. FWIW......it took me a while on my BB set up to get the happy place going on the MH photoperiod. I had it down to as little as 4 at one point.

This simply isnt true if we are talking about ocean going steelhead or salmon. I didnt read all of this thread, so if we are talking about landlocked fish raised in a pen, then nothing im about to say is releveant. BUT, if we are talking about hatchery fish caught in the ocean or the columbia, keep in mind that these fish still made the same 3-4 year journey on their own, and side by side taste comparison, i guarantee you that nobody could tell the difference in flavor. As far as the genetics of it, that is the bad thing. The hatchery fish ARE genetically weaker, and them spawing with native fish is not a good thing. Although it happens far less than one might think. On this note keep in mind that native fish spawn within feet of where they were born. The hatchery fish on the other hand only know the smell of the water and are basically lost, simply going upstream until they find a place to spawn, many instances not even in the river system that they were intended for. I knwo the the water we refer to as the "holy water" on the deschutes, the place wehre all the natives spawn, you will NEVER catch a hatchery fish in these holes with the natives becasue the natives run them out. Im basing this on 25 years and many thousands of steelhead and salmon caught. The hatchery fish simply do not hang out on the native reds. The hatchery fish DO however spawn, and their offspring askews the numbers to show more wild numbers, which is not the same or as strong of genetics as the true native fish.