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Echinoderm: EarthBound

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Current Goal: 

Design and curate multiple cartoon fish to circle around the structure in both Photoshop and 3dsMax. 

Primary Animations: Regal Tang, Yellow Tang, Emperor Angelfish, Clownfish

Secondary Animations: Anemone, Crabs, StarFish, Shells, Seaweed 

Use Color Wheel of Fish: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

Submit to Contest: https://decentraland.org/blog/platform/creator-contest-faq

Background Resources:

Basics: https://dclplazas.com/build-on-decentraland/

Examples: https://dclplazas.com/build-on-decentraland/decentraland-games/

Tutorial: http://www.polygonalmind.com/blog

9 minutes ago, CrabbyCrabs said:

You could temp fix by glueing new acrylic over the damaged area to reinforce it until it can be repaired correctly or replaced.

Unsure on the gallons, but why don't you drain it and replace the piece? I'm sure on this forum, if you post pictures of the drained tank you can find someone to help.

6 hours ago, Tyler E said:

Last night my daughter broke a glowstick went all over the house woke up this morning to glowstick on the fishtank and it did this

Have no other tank its a 50 gal mixed reef 

 

Lay it on me how long do i have if not long who wants to buy some live stock

Isn't there ways to fix acrylic?

6 hours ago, Sailingeric said:

How would a glow stick cause cracking a tank??  I think most glow sticks are non toxic and is mostly hydrogen peroxide.

Also, depends on the plastic, since H₂O₂ can do damage to some.

His name is boots.

On 1/30/2019 at 1:56 PM, pdxmonkeyboy said:

unfortunately no, I am many things but an artist i am certainly not.

maybe i could throw in some dead acros in there? Or a tang with Ich?

No, wait, i got it....how could i draw a picture of a guy that spends $100 a year in your store asking for a "deal"?

But being serious, all you need is a picture of Jorge with no shirt on...BOOM!

Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
 

On 1/30/2019 at 6:26 PM, spectra said:

Not if it has Victorias Secret on one side and a tap room on the other.............just saying

The discrepancies of our demographics to "like" a post is both present and hilarious.

I think bringing @Jorge to the next event, might just please everyone. 

^

I've thought about going and removing the Photobucket sign, but it's a nice touch

Let's see some more photos. 

Also, you could attempt to compete with the world's best pets: 

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Marine Aquarium Society.

Make yourself at home. 

Namaste. 

9 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said:

For the record, the rules you listed state:

        This months subject:

        Let's see some photo's of your favorite pet.

Also for the record, my photo submission was taken by my wife.

I also posted mine prior to you changing the rules saying: • Pic has to be taken by you

It also said: Let's see some photo's with your favorite pet. It can be a land or water dweller.

No worries. 

Also, I said the photo had to be taken by a friend or family member. 

Reminds me of this thread: 

I swore I wrote, Photo with favorite pet.

Eh, I'll change it to: photo of favorite pet.

Here are the rules:

Let's see some photo's of your favorite pet. It can be a land or water dweller.

Deadline:

March 1st, 11:59 pm

Voting Closes:

11:59 pm February 8th, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07798-9

Respect.

Cuttlefish and Corals - I don't believe it, till I see a cuttlefish.

On 1/28/2019 at 4:32 PM, TheClark said:

Interesting!

I would want to establish a baseline on known successful tanks I have personally seen.  The best of the best.  So that there was something to compare the results to.  Because the thing is, I have no idea what I would do with the results otherwise without something to compare against.

 

As stated in the article, having a backed database of all strains is critical to evaluating the quality of a micro-biome. 

Evaluating Methods for Studying Microbial Biodiversity

As mentioned above, nearly all of the publications addressing the evaluation of methods for studying microbial biodiversity (theme Methods) focused on evaluating laboratory methods for characterizing microorganisms or their DNA. Nevertheless, we could distinguish between methods that were evaluated based on environmental samples and those that were evaluated based on strains from collections. For the former, we noted whether multiple independent samples were employed in the study, and for the latter, we noted whether an independent collection of strains was used to validate the method (Fig. 2). Among the 94 publications analyzed under this theme, 85% were based on environmental samples (aliquots of water or soil, for example) and the remainder were based on strains from collections to evaluate methods of characterization. For the studies employing environmental samples, about 75% exploited multiple samples as the basis for evaluating the method. In the other 25% of studies, the evaluation of the method was based on only a single environmental sample. None of the studies employing strains from laboratories or national collections validated their conclusion with results from a second independent collection of strains. In some cases, independent collections have been combined to determine the genetic diversity within a given species. Tamplin et al. (259) used two laboratory collections (53 environmental and 78 clinical isolates) to determine the genetic variability within Vibrio vulnificus.

https://mmbr.asm.org/content/66/4/592

Also, isn't there flaws with this? Don't they have to assemble the DNA fragments from a single colony using PCR? Won't the most competitive plated species out compete the others?

3 hours ago, EMeyer said:

Hi everyone,

Researchers analyze the microbial communities of animals or aquariums using DNA sequencing.

If you, as a hobbyist, had access to a service that could measure the microbiome in your tank: what question would you be most curious in asking, with this test?

We have some serious reef keeping expertise on this forum and I'm curious to hear your perspective on applications for a test like this. Thanks for any insights you can share.

-Eli

What shouldn't we have in our aquarium.