Piero

anyone? anyone have these breeding? they often breed in captivity. I'd like to avoid buying them from wild caught sources.

yes they can decide to eat coral tissue in addition to alga...do people not know this?

I need to give in to some peppermint shrimp for Aptasia control in the prop system. Anyone seen or have any?

I get the impression that salt creep is mostly a product of poorly constructed/designed systems. I know that's why I deal with it on my prop system. I would guess that a really well designed system like Steve W's has minimal if any creep at all. plumbing leaks and bursting bubbles I'd think are the biggest sources...idunno. I'd avoid reintroducing it....deposits can pick up all sorts of particulate matter.

open letter of request to MAC on Indo/Phil Today, an open letter of request to MAC on Indo/Phil from Ferdinand Cruz. Apparently the trade reform issue is as bad as it has ever been. It appears that MAC certification is still a joke. http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=109621

http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=108485

confirmed. they also eat fungia sp. I've witnessed them actively ingesting several sources of LPS tissue now.

up up up you go.

pics bumpity bump!

mmm...choice.

Foster & Smith at Target now and RDO forum is poppin' about it. Interesting discussion. link

Monti I believe Upscales has the Monti in stock.

At the risk of repeating others: We all know the special risks with reef shipping and must do our due diligence with every transaction. We must document with pictures, we must contact people immediately. No excuse for no pictures in this hobby...I wouldn't dream of even ordering anything online if I couldn't take a picture of it immediately if it's DOA. People have pictures to show-off stuff at the drop of a hat, but when it's inconvenient the camera is unavailable? I used to ship boxes daily, and in the few circumstances when there was a loss during shipping, I ate it - no problem. But customers always provided timely, accurate documentation without questions. Most went overboard in their documentation efforts. Some even insisted on sending me the skeletons on their dime. I never had an unresolvable issue, but if this particular situation had happened to me as the seller, I'd probably feel duped, and would likely not take that customer's business again.

make an offer I guess...

it's 3/8' thick I believe. Whatever is standard for the Tricons at Upscales. nope, not drilled for a loop, yes, built-in center overflow. This is a standard 4x2x2 Tricon tank and cabinet you see often with buffed edges, seaswirl cutouts, furniture grade cabninet. Upscales has them in showroom if you want to check them out.

TANK: 120g 4x2x2 TRICON, rounded corners light oak high-q stand/cabinet and hood ------------------------------------- $550 OBO ($1200-$1300 retail new) PC RETRO LIGHTS: Four(4) Custom Sealife 96w PC kits bulb, reflector, endcap, cord, ballast, etc. --------------------------------------- $45 each OBO ($80-$100 retail new) TWO (2) variable speed IceCap Fans w/temp probes ------------------------------------------- $20 each OBO ($45 retail new) Dolphin Ampmaster 3000 Pump ----------------------------------------------- $125 OBO ($250-$300 retail new) IMAGES:

bump teklights, 4x2x2 tricon etc...

keeping the salt buckets, sorry. Yes still have 3' and 4' Teklights. Inquire via email or PM me. I got lucky and checked the thread this time but not planning on checking here. If I get around to it I might repost stuff individually at some point.

up you go...

found it: reefphotos.org

can't knock photobucket for simplicity, that makes sense. I didn't realize that you can also host video...again a hosting solution, whereas youtube like flickr seems to be a hosting option with heavy emphasis on community building. Definitely more of a 'different tool for different needs' situation than I originally thought.

well i used PM so as not to hijack the thread...makes sense...but now two inquiries. so... Among other things, Flickr is a lightweight standards-based app with an API for integration with other apps like google maps. It is a web 2.0 application in every sense of the term. In the photography and web developer/designer communities, Flickr is largely considered to be in a class above advertising bandwidth business models like photobucket and image shack. Pro shooters can still be found using pbase and other pro-suited archive apps though, in addition to Flickr. Other interesting options like Picasa's albums are surfacing only recently. I'm dying for a desktop picase client for OS X. But I agree that: "Flickr is a site for sharing _your_ photographs. Sites like ImageShack/photobucket are largely about having some other sucker host that cute image you found on some other forum, with a kitten aiming a sniper rifle. They're different markets: Flickr is a photo community. ImageShack is an adverts-for-bandwidth trade." "Photobucket is set up to be a pageview generating factory. You get a pageview when you upload, another when you display your image another when you generate the HTML code to paste into MySpace and then their "recommended" code links you from a thumbnail back to their servers for another pageview every time someone request an image." I develop the front ends of web applications and design user experiences and know image pros, so I tend to appreciate these apps on a different level than a casual user, and I tend to follow the lead of those whose work I admire and whose experience is greater than my own. You could say it's also a personal matter of taste. I view photobucket as the proverbial 'myspace' of photo sharing apps. In fact myspace is buying photobucket. good comparison here though i think. Author's conclusion: "There’s a reason why Photobucket has been a bigger but less talked about site than Flickr; it’s much more useful for simple, quiet image hosting, while Flickr has the Web 2.0 flare, but you can’t just upload a bunch of images on it and hotlink them on your web site to save on bandwidth costs. This difference will still make the decision for many users, but when you compare these two sites head to head, Flickr currently offers more, especially when it comes to sharing and social networking. " In short, I think from an average 'reefkeeping forum user' perspective, flickr can be thought of as an image sharing community, and photobucket/imageshack are remote image hosting solutions. apples and oranges really, despite the similar things that an be done with both apps. actually, now that I think of it frags.org has a reefkeeping-specific image hosting solution now. Anyone tried it?

better options, imo: flickr picase albums

well, head on over to the Industry Forum and ask him yourself. He's a marine biologist with the IMA I believe. The forum is for people in the industry and they are always looking for more contributors to the discussion. Go ahead and chime in. link