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The best is wild copperband and racoon bf. Copperband is always my first choice, those aiptasia will be gone in no time. If you have mojano also then you need wild racoon bf.

You can also use peppermint shrimp. Put the shrimp in a net and quickly flip the net with shrimp to the back rock work and leave it there while you feed the trigger. The shrimp will come out to the rock work and trigger will not bother them. If you just throw the shrimp into the tank the trigger would take it as food.

Have you thought of using Wild Copperband or Racoon Bf? they are very effective in removing aiptasia and mojano.

Also to further the discussion, a few concerns has been raised from fish breeding. 1. Genetic Handicap In the wild many individual fish as the sources of egg and sperm and with breeding limited number of brood stock only. 2. Natural resources piracy. Countries with natural resources along the amazon river brought this issue in one of the cites meeting. Their argument is that commercial fish breeding of amazon aquarium freshwater species in Florida and South East Asia Countries causing the already poor people loosing their income from the local resources. These people has no alternative income other than collecting freshwater aquarium fish. In Indonesia and Philippines a lot of reef got destroyed by bom fishing for food fish. The aquarium industry in both countries providing alternative income to these bom fishermen to collect aquarium fish and coral. They get proper training to collect marine fish without the use of cyanide. Again the advance of marine aquaculture threatening the fisherman income and the worst case scenario they will be back to bom fishing. In Bali I have seen government program of breeding panther grouper, the goverment selling to the fisherman 1/2" fingerlings so they can grow them to sell to aquarium trade and selling bigger size baby panther grouper for ocean rearing by fisherman to sell in the fish market later as human consumption. This mutual benefit has spread over to several different species of clownfish and cardinalfish It doesn't matter in which side of fence one standing, there is always pro and con. Finding a mutual benefit for both to coexist at the same time sharing common goal of sustainability sometimes hardly look upon.

No exact science in shipping, just common sense. It is something that you have to do it often to master. Live fish and coral seller / vendor will be reluctant to share the knowledge because it is consider trade secret. When I first started shipping I learned from shipments came in to me. I just observed how the shipment were packed and follow what work the best. Some common sense: - Double / Triple bags - Use quality bags that can be secure for no leak. Zip Lock bag is not for shipping long distance. - Use heat / ice pack when necessary during extreme temp. - Do not ship when temp in the teens, heat pack wont help much and has its limitation - Use cooler box or Styrofoam liner with cardboard box outer. - Box will tumble in UPS/FEDEX conveyor belt, securing the inside may minimize damage. How to get cheaper shipping? The only answer is volume. Vendor shipping rate from UPS/FedEx is base on dollar value of shipping volume. UPS vendor shipping rate is base on weekly performance and FedEx vendor shipping rate base on quarterly performance. Both UPS and FedEx require aquatic animal shipping certification before you can ship live fish or coral. Sales Rep from both company can guide you through the process. Any third party shipping company to use? Plenty, but again your rate will depend on your dollar volume of shipping regularly. You will not see immediate lower rate before shipping often for a few months. Do I need to buy insurance? No insurance for Live Animal Shipment. Shipping live animal with FedEx / UPS / Airlines pretty much as is. Where to buy shipping supplies? Uline or local companies.

I thought all done yesterday...lol

You should be fine replacing with Royal Blue because none of china diodes are bin so even when it is stated violet / uv you will get closer to RB spectrum anyway. Put some thermal grease when replacing diodes.

GB Thunder God GB Spiked Gatorade

I have metallic green colony 4" diameter for 35.00

https://www.planetzoa.com/products/pz-stratocaster-palys-2

Which line of Stratocaster are you looking to purchase? A few lineage out there. I may have PZ Stratocaster for 100.00 a polyp, that is local and no shipping.

Make your design a 3 channel instead of 2 channel. You need to separate true uv or violet from white otherwise you will be wasting uv / violet if set in the same channel as white. Because when you dim white you also will dim uv / violet in that channel, you may want to run uv / violet at 100% all the time not dim most of the time. Plus UV / Violet maximum drive is at 700ma and white can be up to 1.5amp on XP-G2, they are not suppose to be set up in one channel. It will be better to do 1:1 ratio of CW and WW and you will not need red & green diodes anymore. You will get all the green, yellow, orange and red spectrum from WW diode and casting more natural spectrum than single red or green diode does. Your overall spectrum will be more like 12K with the ratio of white and RB as per rapidled recommendation. You need 2:1 (RB:CW) to be able to pull closer to 20K spectrum. Since you plan to control the fixture it will better to be able to pull closer to 20K and you can adjust / dimming to make it more white. You will find out that most corals other than sps will not take white spectrum easily, the main cause of bleaching in aquarium are too much white led and tank temperature. You have 10 RB per channel, you can go up to 14RB per channel and run it at 1amp, the same for white channel, you can have 14 diodes also per string at 1amp. Instead adding 4 RB I would suggest adding 4 Blue / 470nm, blue & RB can be set in one channel. You can add RB to your white channel to complete the 14 diodes per string. This additional of RB act as supplemental so will be OK to put them in one string as white. This particular rapidled set up is an old school and old design / layout. I build like this layout over 5 years ago and will give you more white crisp look of the tank with less color pop. Daniel's reefi incoporated current design lay out with separate channels for each type of diodes for better control of overall spectrum posibility via control adjustment. You can achieve the same control capability with your diy if you are adding Storm or Bluefish controller, these are programmable and open source program available that you can download for free. Theclark is very experience programming this type of controller.

Add this algae powder, Astaxanthin powder to feed recipe to improve fish color

Nice selection Jeff! Hurry up to take advantage of this sale before I clean up Jeff's sps rack...

I am with reefnjunkie, too many black silicone being used now days, I doubted if color of sealent will make a diff in strength. Black silicone is more expensive and may be more less available, I think this is more like cost decision rather than strength issue. Joel @ Wave will know more about this subject since he worked with black silicone building his own glass tank quite a few during his time at Wave. I hope he will chime in to share his experience.

Very nicely done Troy! PM me if you want to come to pick up your GB frag

The idea of sustainability in the reefing trade is an excellent approach. Unfortunately this video was produced by a group of industry hater to round up donation for their own gain. This group is hoping that people would spread the video and this false representation will gain traction. The group been harassing fish collectors by pursuing them in the collecting site when taking video. Hawaii has one of the best conservation that taking into consideration both natural resources, tourism industry, and fisherman / fish collectors. Only select area of reefs around Hawaii islands can be collected for aquarium industry and the state taking record of total take and mortality. So far the state of Hawaii has been satisfied that conservation policy working and fish collection for aquarium will continue.

***** I'll sweeten the deal, when it hit 300.00 I'll throw in a frag of this GB Out Of The Park Acro *****

Son, it is a single polyp of spartan acro :-)

That one is Juggerhawk, you know Mohawk X Juggernaut...lol

Congrats Scott!

It is stated in the video that need to do this in well ventilated open area because of toxic fume in the process.

Scott / Spectra is the winner, a well deserve prize for a great help to the reefer community here. Congrats Scott!!! https://www.facebook.com/goldenbasket/videos?ref=page_internal

Thank you all for a great event! Really appreciate all the help. Surely looking forward to next year.