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HI laws says you can catch fish (i.e. fish, eels, hermits, etc) for personal use, but not for resale. Given the low number, I felt comfortable. I was actually challenged by TSA, but given I read the Fish and Wild Life laws there, they let me go. But had to check my stuff in due to the fluid regulation. But you cannot take live rocks, algae that are holdfast, and corals. So I brought home eels.

My son asked me if I bought a snowflake eel for my tank. Ummm.. no son, I have many small fishes (i.e. mandarin, anthias, etc.), Fire shrimp, hermit crabs and other inverts. Why would I buy an eel for my tank... so I went to take a look and sure enough, a snowflake eel is swimming around in the tank. He's about 6" long and about the size of a #2 pencil. I remember catching one and bring one home from Maui when I was there last August. But didn't see if after the end of August. So what are the chances the eel could survive a recirc pump (Dolphin 4000), since that's the only way it can get into the main tank from the holding tank that I had a snowflake and a spotted white mouth quarantine... well permanent home for now. And do Snowflake eels grow fast? The one I caught from Maui was about 4" long. Now the snowflake is twice the size of the white mouth eel.

If there are lots of deep scratches like I did from a sea urchin, I used 400 - 12000 grit wet sand paper and used a square sander to resurface my tank. My sander is a 3 prong type so I had it plugged into a GFCI outlet. Just in case I drop the [language filter] thing, as I was working with water too. Then finished up with Novus #3, #2 and acrylic polisher as the final step. The tank will never look like it was brand new, but good enough where you have to know what a new tank looks like to see the difference.

Joel, which bar? But I have used Novus #3 and #2 on my entire tank, inside and out and does a nice job. If there's lots of scratches, get a wheel buffer, unless you want to work on your arms. Good luck.

wow.. just logged in! Speed is back to normal... excellent work guys!

Kev, the sites have problem. I click on it and it comes right up. You see the problem is, I don't get a chance to go clean my tank before I sit down and read the posts. So that's a big problem. Please slow it down. (clap)(laugh)

Beth, get a PC.. must be a MAC issue. just kidding. What ISP is hosting the server or servers? I keep hearing ISP's the issue. That's like saying that coral is sting my other corals. Can you help?

Hey Shaun, I have always had the tank running. Had the tank crashed and lost all my sps and other corals about 3 years ago when PDX was hit with 12"+ snow. I was in the middle of moving and had to put the fish and corals in my prop tanks and long story short, power went out and my top off water filled the lost water with fresh water. :( So basically having been starting over and over again. I setup the tank, get busy, then tank goes south, and get it back, get busy... a never ending circle. But have the tank up again. Tim told me that you stopped by. He's been my main source as he is closest to me. Jim

hey Shaun, good seeing you back in this hobby. Sure you don't want to start up a shop again? You did start me in SPS! For those that didn't know Shaun when he owned Waves. He was one of the few stores that carried the best selection of SPS in the early days of SPS.

wow... TMI TMI TMI!!!!

Let me know if the orange plate is still available. I work in Hillsboro so can stop by to pick it up. Thanks Jim

Hey Jenni, it's been a while and happy to see you back in town and back into the hobby. Will have to catch up again! Jim

I've seen the work by Davy Jones and looks very clean. Also like his cabinets too.

Alex, do you have enough for 25?

Kim, are you putting another order in? At $4 bucks a pop, I like to be put down for 25. Let me know if I'm not too late.

I thought last time when Mike restarted the server box, it sped up again. And now is slow. If that's the case, it might be a hardware issue, low on memory, virus, etc. Guess something to do with the server and not the ISP. Just my 2 cents.

Looks like they are going to be at SEA MAX in July. Wonder if they will have a show price... think I'll be waiting until July to change out my lights.

That's Tim for ya. And thanks for the gem last night. Looks great in my tank.

That's a nice place and location. I have stayed there many times. Just in case they fill up, are you going to get other hotels near by? The Maxwell Hotel was nice too. Close to Seattle Center area.

I have enough for a gallon bag. I prefer them as they don't go asexual in the tank and can throw them out as they grow too much. I'm tossing them tonight, but can bag them up for you.

I have a bunch of cheatos that I'm tossing. If you want it, I can bag it up.

no.. you need to have your iTouch connected to the internet. Then using the Safari on your iTouch, navigate to the jailbreak site. I haven't tried this yet, but it will jailbreak your iTouch from the site.

try this site from you iTouch Safari http://www.jailbreakme.com/faq.html Only works with 4.0.1 right now.

Bought a MacBook Pro over the summer and still use my PC exclusively. I can navigate faster and easier on Windows. Plus my Netbook is lighter, smaller and easier to take it around.

Only if you can drive it to Portland for me. Sheesh... the drama here