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it's too hot to sleep.

They probably want the nass's shell. :( I like astreas, nass's, and of course, nerites which have really pretty shells. I have all of them and find that they do a good job.

ahem. noob here. can someone explain why these are such a hot commodity? (scratch)

Who told you that bleach won't kill it? Unless they plated the treated water onto media and looked under a microscope for dinoflagellate then I think they're full of bologne or used the bleach incorrectly. Most disinfectants are just variants of bleach; outside the body, bleach can kill all sorts of parasites/bacteria and even viruses like HIV- you just have to know how to use it. Treat with at least 10% bleach solution over night and you've got a squeaky clean tank. My only worry is that you may not be able to rinse it all off and that will affect your next inhabitant. Anyway, that was my spiel. Personally, I would bleach everything with 20% solution, leave your tank and heater for overnight, maybe run your powerhead and filter. Then, whenever you have the time (the longer it sits in solution, the better) rinse really really really really really well with tap water (until you don't feel that slime layer) and then DI (or in this case, RO) water. This way, you won't have to spend money on anything not readily available. or use vinegar. whatever. i'm done talking. :p

(nutty) c'mon guys. With over 200 miles of coastline in Oregon, you're telling me you have to pick the most well known beaches? (laugh) i went to the Devil's Punch Bowl 15 minutes north of Newport when it got to 104 in Corvallis. Hardly anyone there. It was a fantastic 65 degrees all day and low tide at 4:45 meant I got to climbs rocks with slimey seaweed and check out the sea anemones, hermits, crabs and snails! It was awesome. Then again, when I got home, i freaked out when my tank was at 84 degrees......

how about the one-shoulder shrug? (laugh) well, if we females didn't say those things then we'd be males and everyone would be homosexual thus ending our species. (scary) (naner)

LOVE the ricordia garden you got going there, especially the pink yumas! That's awesome that you're going to upgrade to a 90g but will we still see you at nano-reef.com? What is nanocheeks gonna do without your help on the tank?!

haha. I'm a regular at nano-reef.com. I checked out your tank and it looks good. Are you going to transfer it to the west coast when you move? By September I'm sure I'll have some frags I'll be willing to trade... (fingers)

Coool. I do water changes about once a week or more if anything starts acting funny. I only did more water changes on that first week that I had onyx and he started swimming more strangely than usual. Is that saddleback I see in your tank the only inhabitant? I'm hoping to add another small fish. Maybe a neon goby or a damsel. My system seems pretty stable...I haven't been testing much lately but I find that as long as I do water changes on a regular basis and keep an eye on the corals and the fish there really is no need to test much.

hey GroYurOwn, thanks for the compliments. I love my onyx clownfish too! I got him for $23 and someone offered me a $100 for him! Your tank looks awesome. I hope mine will look as nice as that one day. Is that a clam or crocea I see in there in the middle???

ya, I do have a lot of LR! I'm trying to disperse the flow from the aquaclear so it's stacked up. Also, I love getting LR and finding new stuff! I'm weird like that. Any ideas on getting the flow to mix a bit better? I'm tinkering with a maxijet 900 powerhead right now and i'm thinking it will be too much flow if i add it...

Thanks for the kind words everyone! Reefin': I've had my Onyx clownfish for about two weeks now. impur: I am using a 2x40 CurrentUSA Orbit light on a 10 gallon. I have an aquaclear 110 fuge where I keep a DSB, LR, cheato and my heater. I have a mxi jet 900 coming in the mail but I think it might be *too* much flow. current inhabitants include: 1 Onyx clownfish 1 emerald crab recently molted and now gigantic one green bubble tip anemone in the process of TLC from being bleached 4 nass and 1 MIA nass 4 blue legged hermits but I think I used to have 5 (empty shells turned out to be not so empty) 2 astreas 4 ceriths 2 nerites green star polyp pinkish star polyp a ricordia I can't find orange and yellow zoas frogspawn small galaxea something that looks like it could be dendros? anyway, i'll post more pics later.

My tank has been up for about 1 month. GSP from Palani: yellow polyps also from Palani: just moved Star Polyps: My Onyx and his bleached anemone (looking better since this picture was taken): Frogspawn and zoas (just moved too) in the back right from Joel at Waves: FTS: