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Jeffreyg

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  1. Have four maxi jets two 1200s and a 900 and 400 wysiwyg all work good maybe for some DIY I don't know they came with a bio cube I got and I'm not ever going to use them $1
  2. Ya but any way you look at it your taking fish from billions of gallons of water and sticking it in a little glass box to stare at it so whatever way u look at it I guess of course 200 gallons might seem like a lot but seeing they come from the ocean unless your buying tank raised fish .. It's pretty much a whatever you have to tell yourself .
  3. Lol that's awesome ... Hearty little guy that was !!
  4. Ya I told her to make a DIY up flow algae scrubber lmao
  5. On the other hand look at petsmart they only carry freshwater because the owners a huge environmentalist and doesn't think it's ok ...
  6. There not allowed to use anything but a protien skimmer not anything the lady at my local petco is pretty knowledgable about salt water and told me they can't even use carbon and she had to fight to get her skimmer fixed .. There going for the all natural outlook I guess idk .. When I go there its like going to the pound I wanna take them all home with me cause the look sad ...
  7. Yup some of the best things in life are either green or pink
  8. Good thing he wasn't carpet jerky that always sucks . Glad u found him . I once had a cleaner wrasse go missing for a good month . I stopped looking I figured the bristle worms and crabs made short work of him then I was cleaning my closet and found that the little guy surfed all the way in there he must have shot out like a marlin idk but he was jerky for sure ..
  9. Common means cheap . Good thing that's my favorite color ... Lol ..
  10. I like green it glows .. Sounds lame but my favorites the green slimer! My girl is into pink not a big surprise so I'm looking for pinks to keep her happy lol ..
  11. I had some peppermints do the same thing now I make sure they get feed . I spied on em with a red light . I guess they don't see that spectrum so if you want to find out for sure if its them add one even its a crappy party bulb for a few nights .. I know that after I target feed my lps even if its hours after I can see them trying to get at the meat . Little scavengers .
  12. Jeffreyg

    Jbj ?

    I'd do what Toby said and stab that bad boy you will find out ..
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    Jbj ?

    I honestly have no clue it was free . So I didn't ask many ?s lol . I just knew that plastic had to come out .... They should just make one that's already predrilled since they sell the little nifty stands idk just a thought as we all know more water less issues . Yup no problem . .
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    Jbj ?

    Ya but mine is for sure glass . .. I wished it was acrylic ! Wouldn't have took a half hour to drill it .
  15. I like the rock work !! How many pounds is that ?
  16. That's what I said as well .
  17. It was a full dinner plate now it's like a medium sized dinner plate at least 8 inches across
  18. Ya that's crazy so from dookie brown and grey to that is a big difference ! That's pretty sweet !
  19. That would be sweet if it morphed from dookie brown too red with orange tips ...
  20. As for now it is brownish red there's some orange on the tips looks kinda neat and ya it was the size of a plate and receding so we took the saw to it and cut off what was dying now it's already starting to heal where it was cut . Still the size of a smaller plate ..
  21. I saved its life lol it was headed to the trash can If anybody has a heart for not so prettys let me know you can pick it up
  22. It's from tropical fish hobbyist magazine tfh .
  23. One of the most common corals offered to reef aquarists is the open brain coral Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, and for as long as I’ve been in the hobby, I’ve seen occasionally offered specimens of a different open brain coral called “wellsophyllia,” a.k.a. the Pacific rose coral. However, as it turns out, this less common open brain, which has long been given the name Wellsophyllia radiata, is actually just a form of T. geoffroyi. Yep, they’re really the same species, and this month I’ll explain how two corals have become one, and give you some care and shopping tips for them/it. A Tale of Two Corals First of all, the “regular” open brain, which has always been called T. geoffroyi, has a skeleton that usually has a cone-shaped base, which typically develops into something of a figure-eight shape as they get bigger. These most commonly come in various mixes of fluorescent shades of green and red, with some being almost entirely green, others being almost entirely red, and many that are something in between. When it comes to common names, specimens that are predominantly green are accordingly called green open brains, while those that are predominantly red are called red open brains. Still, they can sometimes come in other forms, being perfectly round to very elongated, and may even have more of a clover-leaf or convoluted shape with several prominent lobes. They can also come in shades and mixes of brownish, pinkish, or even bluish colors, as well. So you can see that there can actually be a good deal of variability in their appearances. Likewise, wellsophyllia also typically comes in a range of greens and reds. However, they’re always distinctly round in form and have a flattened bottom rather than a cone-shaped one. While I couldn’t tell you where I got this information from anymore, at some point in the past it was thought that W. radiata also lived on/was collected from hard bottoms in deeper waters, while T. geoffroyi lived in shallower, soft-bottomed environments. Thus, it was thought that the two corals were not just separate species, but were actually members of two separate genera, Trachyphyllia and Wellsophyllia. This idea went away though, as coral experts eventually decided that these apparently different corals really weren’t that different after all, and that’s how Wellsophyllia radiata became Trachyphyllia geoffroyi. If you look in older coral books you’ll find both of them, but you’ll no longer find W. radiata in coral biology/identification books such as Veron (2000). On top of that, it has also been observed that both of these corals are sometimes found living side by side in the same environment, and that there’s a continuum of shapes that spans the variety of forms exhibited by the “regular” open brains and the round ones that were always called wellsophyllia (Borneman, 2002). So, for a few years now they’ve all been called Trachyphyllia geoffroyi and are apparently nothing more than different-looking forms of the same coral, which are referred to as morphotypes (morph means “shape” or “form”). However, I still see occasional specimens being offered at a retail shops or online that are called wellsophyllia anyway.
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