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Keep asking those questions Jimmy that the rest of us are only thinking....

I think you asked a very fair question Jimmy. You could ask my missus and she could oblige but it would have to come served in a lettuce leaf... I am sure your prayers will be answered even with a brother like Brian!

Internet???? its just that the pigeons have trouble flying in the dark! :evil: You would think that with all the money Telecom is making and paying their employees that they would able to provide a decent line service to their poor customers trying to make an honest buck so they can buy some more fish to recycle back into the ocean and make the pacific economy go around...

Darn - my typing was too slow... :oops:

I bet you a fruitcake to a blue mushroom that the feather dusters disappear when it does start to feel like eating!

Yup, bonus points to Cookie for observation. On closer inspection the strands do come from underneath the leather. It initially gave the illusion of coming from the leather itself as it usually emerges from underneath one of the 'folds'.

Whats been the best weapon in your fight against aptasia? (other than persistence?)

Cool...I think...well at least I'm not the only one just imagining them! :lol:

No, had enough slime to recognise slime now! These are definitely threadlike - got the old/new digital camera working better so will have to get a picture. It can put it out, sometimes two or three of them, about 5 to 6 cms within a few seconds and pull it in again just as quick. In cloud terms it looks like a very long 'mares tail' !

Thoughts of a newbie... One of my leathers puts out very fine 'fishing lines' (like long piece of silk with small threads off it) - most often at night. (Don't say looking for fresh water! ) Anybody else has this? What are they/what do they 'do'? Other corals can expel their zooxanthellae in strands - could Xenia?

Yup - agreed. Do you know how many swing arms are getting used every day? I guess my conclusion would be that if we are going to 'rely' on a swing arm or similar get it benchmarked with something like a refractrometer and get it checked regularly (I'm making a case for how 'cheap' refractromters end up being aren't I?!!!?) Salinity is a big fundamental to get wrong...and perhaps keep getting wrong...

A sharing...from a newbie! I have been quite happily mixing my SW and doing other such stuff using a swing arm type hydrometer. I wasn't happy with the 'non-performance' of some of my introduced livestock so bought another swing-arm to check against the first - it read 0.005 different! (higher). 'Checking' with a floating hydrometer gave a (recalibrated) measure in between! Eeeek! Time to go down to our local SW shop and get them to test with their refractomter. It said my SW was 0.004 higher than what I was aiming for. So over the last couple of days I have been gradually diluting my tank down aiming for a 'real' 1.024. (0.001 a day) I am hoping it will stop the fishies blinking so much. :oops: Another lesson for a newbie...don't believe anything...

Cool. Thanks for all that feedback. I knew there was a reason for feeding all those bludgers (greeblies) for the last few months. The CBB loves lights out time cause its 'bugs out time' and time for it to really have fun poking around the rocks!

I'll get it for ya Jimmy. All ya gotta do is pay Chimera a little bit of extra money for the rock it has its toes dug into...!

Hey Reef, Any clues as to what tips them over? ie what we should do to keep them happy and alive? :-?

Yup, musta been one of Reef's imports... Still looking great - once I 'wean' it off just shrimp we will all be happy!

You've seen one aye 'Jimmy' and Brian....(he writes with fingers and toes crossed).

Hmmm...starting understand why some go the fish way and some go the coral way...anywhere in the middle and someone is likely to get hurt!

Thanks Brian. James - make sure its one of the 'drop it in the tank and forget it' variety. I'm still trying to get leathers to grow properly....

Do the decent thing and buy your anemone a clown. That way no other fish will get near enough to the anemone's mouth to get swallowed! What would slappers be like without his "brown girl" to keep him content? - like a ship without a sail, a flower without a bee, a painter without a paint brush...

For every hard luck story there's a good luck story! (its just that good luck stories are kept under the mattress) One day when I get a big tank...I would love to have a big fish like a regal angel. Yup, they all be different but, I thought they are pretty 'hard' on corals?!!? Cookie - What kind of corals can co-exist with a regal angel? :-?

Word of the day - catharsis. For some of us this is achieved through our neat SW tanks - others its through this website. Sometimes both! Its having a release from the crap life throws at you whether this is enjoying something like neat SW fish, venting your spleen on a forum, or sharing both of the previous with others...

Ain't got it yet - the old owner has to replumb his house first (to accommodate his NEW skimmer) I'm still playing with my old one!

I'm thinking...one day when I get brave enough...to frag my ricordia you saw. You can have a piece come brave day!

Hello fishy friends Glad to see you didn't lose any of your 'competitive' spirit over Christmas! Just to ask a general skimmer question (if there is such a thing) once you get your skimmer 'tuned in' and a constant flow of water through the sump its in, should it need adjusting after that? eg what about when, over time, its a good little skimmer and reduces the protein available, won't it affect the way it performs? :-? (How much show we stop playing with it once its going 'right'?) From a newbie skimmerer....